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by fpig 9y ago
I don't understand what you're arguing against, which part of my comment do you consider incorrect?
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by fpig 9y ago
Yelling that correlation is not causation 1000 times is ignorant when the effectiveness of a method depends only on correlation, and does not depend on the existence of a causal link. And in the case of filtering, that is the case. Think sc
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by fpig 9y ago
That's correct on all counts except it's also irrelevant whether the variable is a choice or not.
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by fpig 9y ago
No, I do not make any such assumption. And I already covered for which purposes the "underlying cause" matters and for which it doesn't.
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by fpig 9y ago
I disagree completely. Why does it matter whether it's just correlation or causation? Let's imagine that being black was actually what caused black people to commit more crimes and this was scientifically proven, how does this mak
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by fpig 9y ago
Yeah it's pretty similar except mine was not interesting to watch as it works :D
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by fpig 9y ago
Yeah but the cases I had in mind, I probably coded correctly. The cases I forgot about are more likely to cause problems (weird cases in both data and especially timing / concurrency handling).
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by fpig 9y ago
But exactly these tests tend to be the useless ones that just pass and don't find bugs. On 2 separate occasions I had an app with extensive unit tests that seemed to work fine but also seemed to have strange rare bugs. Both times I wro
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by fpig 9y ago
I don't understand what is fuzzy about it - Deutsche Welle might be a state actor but the US intelligence agencies apparently don't consider it hostile/dangerous to the US. This argument basically comes down to the childish &
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by fpig 9y ago
Of course the technology wasn't all invented from scratch in that period, but it was when a lot of things progressed just enough to generate massive markets which pulled a lot of money into the system.
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by fpig 9y ago
Why do you assume people will get less under UBI than they do now? As everyone gets UBI, at first glance it might seem that the poor will get a smaller piece of the cake, but in reality a person with a good income will just give it back thr
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by fpig 9y ago
What is the difference between that and me gambling away my salary? It's not like I will get welfare because I gambled away all my money.
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by fpig 9y ago
What do you mean by safety nets? If you mean economic need-based programs, so something like "if you earn less than X, you get Y for free", UBI generally assumes the elimination of all such programs, so yes, it does assume cutting
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by fpig 9y ago
I agree, but IMO that is a people problem, not a platform problem. I'd say there are 2 often conflicting goals in UX: 1. Make something as intuitive and easy to use as possible for someone seeing it for the first time 2. Make something
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by fpig 9y ago
But for work you probably want a more powerful computer... So for us devs it would mostly be for non-work stuff. And then you have the problem that you'd have to carry around external hardware with you or find places that offer it for
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by fpig 9y ago
Where did you get the idea that I said we should skip anything or that there should be "expectations" for self-study? I have an issue with someone dismissing thousands of hours of invested effort as "having an opportunity&quo
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by fpig 9y ago
Nah my parents are barely computer-literate even today. I found QBASIC that came with DOS when I was like 10 which had the source code for 2 simple games and decided I wanted to learn how to make stuff like that. A few years later I read ab
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by fpig 9y ago
You actually managed to change my mind and I now agree C isn't a good first language. Mixing C with data structures / algorithms in the very first programming course is probably not a good idea for the reasons you mention. Althoug
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by fpig 9y ago
I guess I have no idea what I'm talking about here as I honestly don't know anything about teaching and my own experience is atypical (around 8 years programming by the time I started college). So my comment is basically noise I g
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by fpig 9y ago
This is always brought up when "difficulty" of C for teaching is discussed but it will basically never be an issue in a programming college course. It is a problem that doesn't exist.
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by fpig 9y ago
I thought this would be for kids, I don't see the point of a simplified language for college students. However, if they as someone said use it in a compiler-writing course, for that purpose it makes sense to have a simplified language.
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by fpig 9y ago
I agree his explanation of purposefully under-optimizing doesn't make sense, however let me try to rephrase it in a way I agree with: Paying someone to do something for you is as an investment. If you have no understanding of what you&
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by fpig 9y ago
You always have the same amount of time, regardless of your net-worth, so the richer you are, the more valuable time becomes relative to a dollar. I think a lot of us non-rich guys know this, too. When I was young and had no money, it was h
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by fpig 9y ago
I think what you don't understand in my post is that I am saying POs should grasp those things. I just don't see the reasoning behind hiring someone who is non-technical for such a position. And the answer to "why should th
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by fpig 9y ago
True, however I'd say this is a problem with having an incompetent person in charge, not a problem with the process. I've had the experience you describe but also the opposite experience where people understood the need to rework
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by fpig 9y ago
Very few people harm others because they're simply "evil", this type of cartoon evil is not really common if it even exists. Harming others for selfish reasons is practically the definition of "evil" in the real wor
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by fpig 9y ago
If he was sexually assaulted and they're banning him to cover their own ass, that's way worse than victim blaming as it suggests they are aware the victim is not at fault yet they punish the victim anyway. An economic incentive do
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by fpig 9y ago
Wait so are you saying UWP apps can now access the machine they're running on in a sane manner (so, limited only by the privileges of the user who ran the app, without additional limitations enforced by the platform itself)? Because th
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by fpig 9y ago
Why would an OS built around Office be more useful than Windows 10 is currently? If Microsoft released an update tomorrow that made it into an OS based around Office the user base would riot. "How to prevent windows from updating"
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by fpig 9y ago
They couldn't have done that because these technologies are not exactly for the same things and don't have the same features. Silverlight was mainly for apps embedded in the browser. It was very limited compared to WPF and not mea

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