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by foobar_ 7y ago
Can virtualisation solve this ? Is it possible to have a virtualised environment like Qubes but for programs ?
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by foobar_ 7y ago
The point is to see innocence in the scapegoat. They are the victim in some sense of the mad justice of the mobs. Mexicans are scapegoats. Muslims are scapegoats. Rich jews are scapegoats. Let's take the "grabbing by the pussy&quo
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by foobar_ 7y ago
Social media has sadly exasperated the effects. Everyone is a target! Every time I see a person being lynched, I can't help but see the mechanism in action. This affects both the sexes, I would say Katie Bouman is the most recent scape
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by foobar_ 7y ago
> That's not true, you can always have a "send_message(string id)". Few people do it because you lose static type safety. And some languages, like C# and Scala, have dynamic types that allows for the "method_missing&q
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by foobar_ 7y ago
Girard is the greatest philosopher since Nietzsche. His analysis on mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism is deeply disturbing and convincing. The #metoo movement is full of scapegoats.
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by foobar_ 8y ago
> Management perceives programmers as non-conforming misfits who happen to hold the key to the corporate technology This is true. The rest of the page goes on to state how programmers are faddish, sloppy and lazy psuedo-intellectual pira
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Honestly the only counter argument I can think of is stored procedures, which can get quite hairy. I would still say that stored procedures are still a better hell than ORM. The situation is so bad, I would actually like learn more about fa
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by foobar_ 8y ago
GraalVM has a ployglot feature thingy that allows you to use Python/Ruby,Js .. with Java. This is apparently faster than microservices. About a few years back ... A non-programmer friend asked me, why don't programmers use a sing
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Agile Project Forecasting – The Monte Carlo Method(scrumage.com)
2 points by foobar_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by foobar_ 8y ago
#NoProcess seems ideal for small competent teams. We need to get out of the estimation hell for normal projects.
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Agile is dead. As a subculture the muggles and sociopaths have taken over Agile. I think #NoEstimates is the next cool thing.
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A Brief History of Agile(jacobobryant.com)
3 points by foobar_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Yup. Rewrites are tricky but doable. I think the best way to rewrite is to do it inside out, sorta like DNA replication or gradually move things into micro services of sorts. Porting however is more difficult IMO, like rewriting everything
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by foobar_ 8y ago
How would you handle B-, C and D people ?
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Every 15-20 years everything changes, the new generation ditches the old, repeating the same mistakes nth time but making some progress.
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Sometimes I think bookmarking in pointless. I have way too many ~10k and to find the right one I go back to googling. Now If I had a way to capture my entire browsing history it would be interesting I guess.
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Atheists living openly in 13 countries risk the death penalty. All 13 countries are Muslim majority. Islam has troubling relationships with women and art. Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussain is the most important muslim, yet 99% of th
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by foobar_ 8y ago
I made a mistake of mentioning Common Lisp in the same line. Common Lisp has pointers (cons) as well. Hylang doesn't have goto, as Python doesn't have it. Well you can always implement a goto by having 1. A list made of lambdas. L
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by foobar_ 8y ago
You know many programmers are the 1% of the internet, in a way. I think almost every programmer has an adblocker. I've been browsing without an adblocker for a while. I really recommend it. You will see scam after scam after scam ... A
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The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell(theatlantic.com)
28 points by foobar_ 8y ago|5 comments
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by foobar_ 8y ago
I have not used CL. I was horrified by the loop macro infact because I jumped from C to CL. I definitely made a stupid mistake of clubbing CL with scheme and clojure but in those languages they avoid these imperative features. I have made o
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Call me cynical ... historians, writers and the movies seem to fabricate things up to keep people in a dream. At this point I'm pretty certain there are no "heroes" who "save" the world like Mission Impossible.
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Now look at the 10,000 other scams going on. Wait why are they still ... going on. 1 down 9,999 more to go right ? Let's get them frauds! Oh ... wait it doesn't work that way right. We just spent all our energy on one, who has tim
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by foobar_ 8y ago
This almost reads like a plot from a movie. This seriously couldn't have happened. I don't believe it. It's easy to mythologise people who are dead.
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by foobar_ 8y ago
I still stand by my claim. It was blown way out of proportion. I think there are plenty of companies that did far worse that we don't hold equally accountable for. I hope she gets a second run after this mess.
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by foobar_ 8y ago
This is how it looks in Hylang because it maps onto Python semantics. (for [element (range 1 10)] (print element) (if (= element 5) (break))) I prefer this over Common Lisp because it looks shamelessly imperative.
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Travis is not exactly kicked out. Uber had lot of things wrong when it first started out. Uber was shit for highways when it first started out. When was phone anonymisation introduced ? What if Uber was halted completely with the first st
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by foobar_ 8y ago
Having started with C at college and then moving onto Common Lisp on my own was a massive headscratch when I first started. I abandoned lisp after that. Common Lisp has tagbody and go of course ... but there is so much shame around it. Why
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by foobar_ 8y ago
There's people doing that all over the place. There's people getting funded on all sorts of crap. Why don't we get them all and make documentaries on them ? Is Silicon Valley better than Wall Street ? I doubt it. People are s
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by foobar_ 8y ago
I make no shame of it. I am an imperative programmer at heart. Hy is beautifully imperative. return/if/while/break/continue actually work in Hylang. Common Lisp doesn't have these. Scheme purists won't let you

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