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by gambler 8y ago
I think the class is more about analyzing data: https://callingbull.org/
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by gambler 8y ago
>"Calling Bullshit is not dedicated to teaching students that Fox News promotes “fake news” or that National Enquirer headlines are fallacious." Oh, the irony. An article about college class that teaches people to spot bad in
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by gambler 8y ago
>In python, it is not uncommon to import a library like `numpy` which will easily clock in 20+ MB for one library. Why don't people care about python dependency bloat? Because some random Joe Schmoe can't replace numpy with a
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by gambler 8y ago
The reason people still care about Unix pipes is because you can take a bunch of arbitrary commands and string them together in a way that produces some useful results. Moreover, you can configure each pipe to do different things depending
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by gambler 8y ago
Let me just point out some ideas that seem to have been forgotten: - The idea that machines can exchange live objects, which can bring their "friends" along. (Before anyone says something about this not working - this is very simi
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by gambler 8y ago
In 1997 at OOPSLA Alan Kay said "every object on the internet should have a URL". The response at that time (and many years afterward) could be generally described as smugnorant mockery. A bunch of smart-asses decided that "i
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by gambler 8y ago
The point isn't what you can do as a user. The point is that Google adds more and more hurdles to running a website without plugging into the CA chain. CA chain is centralized. Plus, it requires you to have a domain name. DNS is also c
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by gambler 8y ago
>I am getting fed up with Google trying to steer how the web should be. Already changed to Firefox. Here is a reply from Mozilla representative in that very thread: "I would be very happy to push in this direction, limited by the
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by gambler 8y ago
That's how I read it as well. Boiling the frogs.
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by gambler 8y ago
Clever. This means users won't be able to easily download software from websites not plugged into CA tree. One more step towards eradicating the ability of people to independently host websites altogether. Increasingly, I see that the
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by gambler 8y ago
WASM makes some sense in the browser, but what horrifies me about it is that it is going the way of Electron. The usual pattern: 1. Instead of figuring out how to do things well in the native space, developers hack something together from
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by gambler 8y ago
It's an order-of-magnitude estimation. Turbo Tax offers multiple products with different prices. Even if you plug in more exact numbers and use the cheapest product you get a hefty sum of 9 billion (150M individual returns * $60). IRS
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by gambler 8y ago
If your system doesn't have anything to gracefully handle inter-component communication without coding custom adapters and introducing new dependencies, all your "reusable" components will become a legacy mess in 2-5 years.
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by gambler 8y ago
>the government needs to collect and verify all information anyway. That's a great point. IRS already has most of the information and infrastructure to fill out your taxes. Third-party solutions have to build large chunks of the
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by gambler 8y ago
>The question I have is whether a government provided automatic filing would actually be cheaper (or more effective) than say, Turbotax. The question is valid, but the numbers do not add up. TT asks ~$50 for federal return. If everyone
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by gambler 8y ago
Just for historic record: Google finally started showing a link to the original pastebin page and it is the first result. I suspect it's because someone submitted the page to HN, which shows as the second result now. ( https:/&#x2
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by gambler 8y ago
Sounds plausible. No matter what they say, Google "stickies" some searches to IPs, even when you're not logged in and clear all cookies. This is one of the reasons I started using a VPN.
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by gambler 8y ago
Not on my version of Google. But for me it started showing this as top result: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22the+java+way%22+paste... No information is available for this page. Learn why I tested this on different b
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by gambler 8y ago
>The way their algorithm most likely deals with this is a mixture of domain rank + tenure... how long has this copy of this article existed on this domain, and can we be sure this is the original copy? This rationalization doesn't
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by gambler 8y ago
This has been been happening for years and getting increasingly worse. But it's not just old websites. I think it's certain types of content. Here is one specific example out of dozens I've seen. There is a short satirical ra
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by gambler 8y ago
>A method call is really just a synchronous message. There is an important distinction. Messages are interpreted, at runtime. Which means you can do certain kinds of metaprogramming without getting outside of the normal tools of the la
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by gambler 8y ago
>Hiding data in magic objects just doesn't work. Works fine for billions of web pages that run JavaScript.
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by gambler 8y ago
l_t covered it pretty well. >And I still don't see how message passing is a higher level paradigm than functional programming. Speaking practically, I see a lot of modern technologies that converge (very slowly) on the same ideas
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by gambler 8y ago
Most Alan Kay's presentations I've seen were worth watching. Tons of great ideas in each. They really improved how I reason about systems. There is this famous talk from OOPSLA 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by gambler 8y ago
Pharo SmallTalk is getting some steam right now and worth checking out. Elixir is pretty cool. But I don't think either are the holy grail of OOP. I would really like to see some OOP language that implements James Reed's reference
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by gambler 8y ago
Too late for editing. Here is what I wanted to add: Low-level code correctness is overrated. With some experience it's trivial to achieve even in a crappy language like Java. Nothing except horrible syntax stops you from writing "
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by gambler 8y ago
Sorry, but you're just validating my stereotype of a typical OOP critic. OOP != Java. >OOP is great if all you are doing is OO and if your solution to a problem is running a simulation (what OOP was invented for). Most problems mo
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by gambler 8y ago
>The thing you need to look at if you’re using say, a dynamic language, or object oriented design, is that in the long term, what is the language and mindset of “objects” with dynamic dispatch providing you apart from an endless stream
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by gambler 8y ago
>Most in fact are looking to these tools e.g. React, Spark, Kafka etc because so many other engineers are using them with success. This is not a real criteria for choosing anything. You can say the exact same thing about ASP.NET WebFor
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by gambler 8y ago
Same here, but I can tell you from experience with group interviews that while we're definitely not alone, we're probably in the minority.

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