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by ef4 13y ago
But that's a one-time mental cost. There's also the mental cost of navigating among all that commented code every single time you need to read that piece of source.
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by ef4 13y ago
The things that are frustrating about writing an Ember app are the things that are frustrating about Javascript in general. Those "set" and "get" calls are a great example: they're an unfortunately necessary workaro
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by ef4 13y ago
> Have you ever had a reason to read just part of a book? Of course I have. Any time I've picked up a reference book, textbook, or anthology. books != novels
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by ef4 13y ago
True, but that's just a question of density. There are books written in English that are so dense that they too need to be decoded.
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by ef4 13y ago
Asking people what they've read "just for the heck of it" is the wrong question, because code is not linear , so it's extremely ungainly to read without purpose. But as soon as the skilled code reader has a purpose in m
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by ef4 13y ago
To the extent that near-future cellular data connections are good enough for most things, they introduce a lot of additional choice. Instead of just cable, DSL, or satellite, you can also throw three or more cellular networks into competiti
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by ef4 13y ago
That doesn't address the major obstacle I see when trying to introduce programming to beginners. Finding smart people who can think abstractly isn't actually that hard -- lots of people can do it. But those people won't becom
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by ef4 13y ago
That's not really it. You don't need a degree to play professional sports, and some of the most talented players skip directly into professional leagues without finishing college. But college is where they have the best chance of
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by ef4 13y ago
> For some reason most people throw out principles we follow in other languages such as... composability just for SQL This is because the most common API for accessing databases is wrong and doesn't support composition. Imagine desi
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by ef4 13y ago
I have worked with a very large number of programmers of wildly different skills and technical cultures, and never once have I seen someone harming themselves by trying to overuse a shell. It has always been the reverse: people wasting hour
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by ef4 13y ago
While the cultural observations are all true, the class he's using as an example just seems really poorly planned. It's not hard at all to motivate why programming is different from all those alternatives. The instructors just pic
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by ef4 13y ago
If you have friends or coworkers who are native speakers, ask them to please correct you when you say something that isn't perfectly fluent. Otherwise most people will ignore your mistakes, rather than risk insulting you.
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by ef4 13y ago
You're misunderstanding. There's no hand coalescing in Ember, and there's no duplicate work. If you change your models a thousand times in a row, you still get one redraw, fully automatically. The same holds for dependent com
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by ef4 13y ago
> "Get help setting up your development and production environments. In English, this means set up where you write your code and where you see the results of it. Setting this up is the biggest pain for us non-technical people. In
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by ef4 13y ago
Tying your cause to "anti-tech" is a great way to doom yourself to irrelevance. The vast majority of people won't ever side with you. We techies know we can have tech and freedom too, and that the fight is over good tech, not
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by ef4 13y ago
Every debt is a promise that should be held. But in a bankruptcy that's not possible, so it only becomes a question of which promises will be broken and by how much.
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by ef4 13y ago
I also make mobile medical software. When we evaluated potential tablets three years ago, all the available android tablets were pretty terrible. Especially since we wanted to prevent long-term lock-in by writing most of our application as
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by ef4 13y ago
Google has become self-aware and is quietly assembling its robot army.
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by ef4 13y ago
I'm going to disagree and point out that all the horror stories always include people also breaking the regular old cardinal rules of investing. Whether or not they're friends & families has very little to do with it. Don&#x
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by ef4 13y ago
Maybe there are some families where a parent funding their child's business is in it "strictly for the money", but I've never seen one. Why would you believe that parents who would selflessly spend $100k+ on college with
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by ef4 13y ago
All tech's impact is societal. That's the point of tech. And Snowden's technical ability was instrumental to what he did. So I think he fits quite nicely into the category.
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by ef4 13y ago
> Even if they are beneficial to the affected populations, can we call that philanthropy? This is just silly zero-sum thinking. Obviously ending world poverty is hugely beneficial to anyone who can sell things to those newly enriched p
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by ef4 13y ago
That's not just a soundbite, it's a measurable fact. Even when we include the horrors of the world wars, the 20th century had fewer per-capita battle deaths (both civilian and military) than the centuries before it. The same tre
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by ef4 13y ago
In addition to the other reasons given, there's a reliability problem in relying on an ever-growing chain of incremental backups: you can only recover your latest state if every increment in the chain is uncorrupted. I would much rat
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by ef4 13y ago
We've already been through waves of technology even more dislocating than the one you describe. If you told a farmer in 1813 that, in the future, less than 5% of the population would be needed to grow all the food, he would assume that
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by ef4 13y ago
For something that actually matters to me, I'll work with a designer on the core visual concept, meaning usually the logo, color palette, and overall feel. Once I have that, I feel competent staying within the given parameters to put t
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by ef4 13y ago
> "Human Free Will makes everything unpredictable!" Well in practice it currently does. That's not to say that in principle we won't eventually develop a real quantitative science of human behavior -- but it's go
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by ef4 13y ago
> data to validate it. You've accidentally illustrated the disconnect. Because the fundamental disagreement between the Austrians and the more mainstream academic schools of thought is epistemological. Data can only settle differenc
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by ef4 13y ago
Consistent with this, too: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334356/larry-page-wants-t...
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by ef4 13y ago
Actually the experience so far with drone pilots shows that they get PTSD at the same rate as combat pilots who were physically there. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/us/drone-pilots-found-to-g...

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