ericHosick

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by ericHosick 11y ago
> In the end private property is indeed theft, more exactly the imposition of someone's moral values over the other's by intrinsic force (if you "steal" you might go to prison or worst). What you're pointing out
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by ericHosick 11y ago
It seems like they've done all of this at a surprisingly low cost. 1 million assembly hours at 370 million project cost = 370 Euros/hour (assembly + management overhead costs).
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by ericHosick 11y ago
but only because he admitted he knew little about the subject matter...
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by ericHosick 11y ago
The root cause problem is entities that have a monopoly on defining what is initiation of violence. This incentives the criminalization of non-violent acts which provide both financial and political advantages.
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by ericHosick 11y ago
This is cool because one of the most difficult things to do in these types of systems is represent context of a program at any given time: especially when most programs maintain their context using the stack (plus quite a few other abstract
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by ericHosick 11y ago
I sometimes think (maybe hope) that the purpose of sending Voyager into deep space is to, some day, give someone an excuse to make a quick detour to pick it up and bring it home.
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by ericHosick 11y ago
I'm a US citizen (ông Tây) who lived in Saigon (legally) for ~12 years (2001-13) and spent time in Ha Noi and all I can say is that Saigon and Ha Noi are really different. It seemed that people who loved Ha Noi did not care for Saigon
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by ericHosick 11y ago
To put this in perspective, as of 11/2014, the aggregated computing power of the top 500 supercomputers is 308.9 Petaflops ( http://www.top500.org/ ).
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by ericHosick 12y ago
It would be really helpful when presenting at Events. A lot of events record the presenters screen and the presenter but expect the presenter to stand in one spot so they don't need a cameraman. So, it does not work very well to point
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by ericHosick 12y ago
Line numbers are really helpful when presenting code at an event, in a meeting, etc.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
The distance between geosynchronous orbit and low earth orbit is huge. One is ~22,236 miles and the other is 99 miles to 2,000 miles.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
Would you have time to chat, perhaps an hour, on language design? Email address is on my blog which is in my ycom bio.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> because the road is no longer predictable It will never be fully predictable: people make mistakes. It is always safer and better to assume that someone will do something unpredictable like run a red light. It could even be because of
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by ericHosick 12y ago
You could stick it in /dist/index.js. You could also make /dist/index.min.js.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> The criticism about allowing routes to repeat in the express array shows that even after doing all this work, the Netflix team still doesn’t understand how express works. Wouldn't a better solution, in this context, be to aggregat
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by ericHosick 12y ago
People seem to greatly undervalue the importance of aligning incentives with desired outcomes.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
How similar is this to Flow Based Programming by Paul Morrison?
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> Critical thinking and problem solving do not require programming with control flow Ya bad choice of words. Control flow requires critical thinking and problem solving (but critical thinking and problem solving is not always about contr
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by ericHosick 12y ago
Ok, I see what you are saying now. I really agree that there is no difference really between programs and databases. It really is "how should we model, query and update our data." So, ya, the question is "How do you pass info
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> 'Visual language' is a very overloaded term and All great points and I agree with them. > Pretty much the only hierarchical example that comes to mind is Scratch. I tend to lean towards Sean's post: https:/&#x2F
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> but it does have hierarchy defined by callee/caller relationships. If you have any kind of hierarchy at all in your program execution (even if its just rules being used to for other rules...), you can leverage that as a "scop
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> You can't parametrise a function using only global scoping. So then we ended up with both a stack and this global table lookup thing. Exactly. So, just write your functions so they don't use parameters (expect for persistence
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by ericHosick 12y ago
The way we do scoping now is to rely on the programming language which is basically the stack. But we can implement our own scoping mechanisms based on the domain we are developing a program in. For example, Eve mentioned that they were loo
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by ericHosick 12y ago
The context of the discussion is the representation of state within an executing program. Xml database, key-value-store, relational databases, csv files, etc. are all ways of persisting. These are very different disciplines with very differ
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by ericHosick 12y ago
They are going for a visual language, and visual languages are inherently hierarchal. The goal is to easily represent context of any part of a program in a visual way. Trying to map source-code that stores a lot of it's context on the
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by ericHosick 12y ago
>Passing cursors quickly became tedious when trying to change code. If a function suddenly needed access to IO the cursor had to be passed down through every function above it in the callstack. This is the function-calling train issue an
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I tried the Language Identification service ( http://ibmlaser.mybluemix.net/liddemo.html ), put in Vietnamese from wikipedia and "en-US" returned. I did sign up. Note that in incognito mode, I have access to that li
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JavaScript and Homoiconicity: Source-code That Is a Data-Structure(blog.interfacevision.com)
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by ericHosick 12y ago
Ya. Exactly. I like that term.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
"JavaScript can be the native format of your data" I don't think developers appreciate how amazing this feature is in a language. Code should be a data-structure giving you all the benefits of data-structures including persis

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