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by geophile 2y ago
I (an American -- don't blame me, I voted for Harris) traveled to New Brunswick a few years ago. Went to a pub in St. Johns and ordered a burger, medium rare. The waitress informed me that they can't do that. By law, for public he
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by geophile 2y ago
Orchestration tier. Oy. So something goes wrong, and you need to back out an update to one of your microservices. But that back-out attempt goes wrong. Or happens after real-world actions have been based on that update you need to back out.
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by geophile 2y ago
That is a good point. But there is something else going on in addition. Music is a much smaller cultural force than it was in the 60s and 70s. Then it was arguably the core of all the social changes. That hasn’t been true since then. Instea
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by geophile 2y ago
I am a boomer, and I think that these two things are true: 1) The stuff that happens in your teens is special because of your age. That may well explain why I think The Beatles (and the music of that era) was so special. 2) The music from t
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by geophile 2y ago
1964 and The Beatles didn't just mark a change in music. It marked a change in entertainment in general. An episode of This American Life shows this beautifully: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/281/transcript , lo
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by geophile 2y ago
I first read parts of vol 1 in 1975, in my undergrad data structure and algorithm class. And then again in 1980 for my PhD comprehensive exams. That book is highly used. I found a pristine copy a few years in a pile of books on the sidewalk
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by geophile 2y ago
This is one of the main themes of Stand on Zanzibar. A legendary sci-fi novel, if you’ve never heard of it.
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by geophile 2y ago
So, maybe a much, much more impressive version of Clever Hans? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans ) This is not to detract from the AIs accomplishment at all. If it read the scientist's prior work, then com
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by geophile 2y ago
> Should theta/R have getters is entirely up to your API decisions But it often isn't. The blog post starts out talking about how that field -> getter/setter pattern is very widespread, and tools (JavaBeans tools for ex
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by geophile 2y ago
To answer a few sibling responses: The point is that mechanically maintaining get/set methods for each field is completely at odds with encapsulation. To continue the example, sure, go ahead, have any or all of get/setX, get/
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by geophile 2y ago
This misses the main problem with get/set methods. In OO othodoxy, you aren't supposed to make state public, because it violates encapsulation. If you want to modify your Point object to use polar coordinates instead of cartesian,
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by geophile 2y ago
Too little too late. I was in Florence in the mid 80s. It was a beautiful ancient Tuscan city, with plenty of tourists, but it seemed authentic. I went again last year, and vast areas have turned into a glitzy shopping mall, with many inter
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by geophile 2y ago
Minor tweaks in ergonomics, both times. 1) Using a laptop at a desk with no peripherals. Fix was to raise the screen, sit up straight, and get an external keyboard and mouse. 2) Stopped using one of the sleek Apple mice from years ago, the
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by geophile 2y ago
I think it goes beyond that. An algebra has operators that take objects of some type as input and yield objects of the same type as output. E.g. arithmetic (numbers in, numbers out), and relational algebra (tables in, tables out).
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by geophile 2y ago
Do you mean "public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { ... } }"? Or the ridiculous Spring abstractions that many people insist on? The former is a minor nuisance, easily filled in by an IDE. The latter is
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by geophile 2y ago
I wrote a comment echoing this point, about the coexistence of FP and OOP. This ties to the article's point about finding an algebra. Once you have an algebra, you have the basis for implementing a lot of your application in the functi
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by geophile 2y ago
After more than 25 years in the industry, and 10 years of retirement, I agree with pretty much everything on this list. A few things that struck me: - Don't get too fundamentalist about OO or functional programming. Each has its place.
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by geophile 2y ago
How does it compare to the salad preparation scene in Eraserhead?
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by geophile 2y ago
Gentle intro: Rabbits, on youtube.
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by geophile 2y ago
The author completely misunderstands what Fuck You Money is. It represents the amount of money you need to leave the rat race and do whatever you want -- the ability to say Fuck You to your boss, your investors, whoever it is that is contro
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by geophile 2y ago
This is a very specific and popular subset of the DSL point: Let's just invent a language L that is better than horrible standard language X but translates to X. Imagine the vast cubicle farms of X programmers who will throw off their
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by geophile 2y ago
Marcel ( https://www.marceltheshell.org ) is a modern shell that I wrote. I'm looking for help, mostly with development and porting.
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Looking for help with marcel (open source modern shell)(marceltheshell.org)
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by geophile 2y ago
Yes, and at the same time, companies start hiring employees that shouldn’t be trusted. Neither one causes the other, both occur as companies mature. I’ve seen this as startups mature. One very vivid recollection: we had a very strong and ti
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by geophile 2y ago
I am 67, and equestria is mostly correct. I still get great satisfaction from my tech career, but sure, friends and family matter more. This story involves some work I did that did not bring me satisfaction. I worked at my first consumer-
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by geophile 2y ago
How does this differ from what Nasuni offers?
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by geophile 2y ago
I think it is quite simple to characterize MOBAs curation process. First, it has to be bad, in an ambition-vastly-exceeds-talent kind of way. Second (per MOBA rules) there is a price limit on each acquisition. It used to be $5, but may have
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by geophile 2y ago
I love MOBA. The art is quite spectacularly awful. But what really makes the museum so wonderful are the blurbs on display with each piece of art. They are written in the style of Very Serious art museums (the art is "exploring" s
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by geophile 2y ago
Get off my lawn.
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by geophile 2y ago
You kids. Stop it with the crappy audio formats. What next, 8-track? I bought hundreds of records in my younger days, when that was the only choice. I bought good equipment (subject to a student's budget), to get good sound, and not de

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