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by fab13n 17y ago
The incentives are different between spam comment blogs and e-mail spam. Spam primarily sells shitty stuff for unsophisticated people: if you're bright enough to obfuscate your address, even with [AT] ... [DOT], chances to sell you herbal V
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by fab13n 17y ago
> [...] then really you're using "the invisible hand of the market" to enact the change you desire. It seems to me that many people revering the "invisible hand of market" imply that there's no point acting to cause a social change: the
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by fab13n 17y ago
> The "use government" route is fraught with moral hazard and unintended consequences. Actually, "use government" to fight pointless bureaucracy sounds at best as a joke.
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by fab13n 17y ago
Automation frees people from doing something productive, not from working. If we (as a society) leave them alone, they'll just clutter around their formally useful job, and become banking middle manager or something similar, which moves a l
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by fab13n 17y ago
What he's observing is that his jobs--the ones given to outsourcing companies--have diverged from the ones taken by companies in Western wealthier countries. It ought to be so: if Americans and Indians were competing for the same jobs, the
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by fab13n 18y ago
I think we're far away from our capacity in terms of hours per day, but not in terms of average output per day: being actively working much more ours a day would be mostly countered by the lowering of hourly productivity. Here's a Very Bad
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by fab13n 18y ago
This attitude ("It's good enough for me, I don't care anymore about the learning curve's steepness, and I'm indifferent/enthused that my language is only accessible to a tiny minority") captures the CL spirit quite well. It also explains wh
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by fab13n 18y ago
Reactions on a couple of secondary points: First, there's a huge drawback in the "reward accordingly to the value you produce" paradigm: you can't punish people accordingly to the value they destroy. So if you estimate that an operation has
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by fab13n 18y ago
Anecdotal evidence of teaching Scheme as a first language in a French university shows that it's rather easy to learn, provided that there isn't too much to be unlearned by the audience. Mind you, on 2nd semester they had to learn some Visu
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by fab13n 19y ago
The "elite" (politicians, rock / sports / business stars...) are indeed known for either fucking their secretaries / fans / interns / homosexual toilet mates, or divorcing every couple of years, depending on their professional constraints.
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by fab13n 19y ago
This is not specifically web-app oriented, but: <plug>Lua lovers on YNews might be interested by metalua [ http://metalua.luaforge.net ].</plug>
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by fab13n 19y ago
I've been using it a lot, and I really love it. It's the only language I've used in which I found static types to be worth it (I don't count C, as its type system is badly broken, and iss only there to counter some of the language's runtime
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by fab13n 19y ago
The cond macro, for example. It had all those gratuitous parentheses [...] I wouldn't be surprised if someone had already discovered the Arc trick of collapsing if and cond into one operator That's done among others by metalua. In AST vie
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by fab13n 19y ago
> it's not an accident that some of the ugliest websites [...] are also the most popular. It just indicates that our sense of beauty is broken. Or more accurately, hasn't adapted for web pages evaluation yet. My guess is that we use, to