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by gloob 17y ago
There's something vaguely saddening about the fact that the "you suck" post has twice as many upvotes as the highest-rated post actually answering the question.
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by gloob 17y ago
My first impression is that the author is on treacherous philosophical ground. He seems distrustful of "group morality" (incidentally, I would argue that morality is inherently a function of groups) yet claims more sociopaths is a "good" t
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by gloob 17y ago
Would you advocate flagging all posts about global warming, period? Or just about skepticism? All of them. Would you advocate flagging all posts about science, or just scientific matters that are controversial? Neither. Just the ones t
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm not really certain, since I didn't vote you down, but I suspect that whoever did didn't find is offensive so much as they found it unfunny.
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm twenty years old; I was in elementary school slightly less than a decade ago. I'm reasonably sure I almost never had 4 hours of homework a week, much less 4 hours a day. So the options that present themselves to me are: 1) my teac
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by gloob 17y ago
I believe that hills were created by chaos and chance. Doesn't mean we're incapable of constructing ramps.
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by gloob 17y ago
Peak oil... religious fanatics... pollution... nuclear war... an out of control climate... gigantic tsunamis... nuclear fallout... disease... rising sea levels.... Peak Oil would be the end of the world in the same way that the cod crisis
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by gloob 17y ago
The commenter you responded to wasn't being amused by the author's time management skills (or lack thereof). He was amused by the author's emotional state. So, no, they aren't being hypocritical about it.
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by gloob 17y ago
Achieving a higher degree of abstraction, more straightforward availability of system resources to programmers, higher levels of code reuse. Present-day system programmers seem to be able to build decent enough operating systems and the l
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by gloob 17y ago
I don't see why arbitrary pointer operations are necessary anymore for memory management and the other things. I think this is something left over from the days when we had to squeeze every iota of performance out of machines. Squeezing o
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by gloob 17y ago
Cheering against the Yankees would be a waste of time if the Yankees literally won all the time. It would increase people's interest in the game the same way that a trick coin increases people's interest in betting on coin flips.
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by gloob 17y ago
The tough part is finding a tidy syntax for representing said bidirectional cyclic graphs. A programming language with support for arbitrary graph literals would make me happy.
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by gloob 17y ago
In real life, virtually no one uses true ad hominem. No on says, "he is a jerk, therefore he's wrong." In my book, using insults and connotative (negative) language rather than strictly denotative is on the ad hominem scale. It is absolute
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by gloob 17y ago
Think of it this way: if Microsoft had done the same 10 years ago, they would have immediately been sued for abuse of monopolistic position. And that's the difference: Microsoft had a monopolistic position. Open-source doesn't, so much.
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by gloob 17y ago
I'd fire someone who presented me code from the IOCCC ( http://www.ioccc.org/ ) as well. That's entirely beside the point. The point of code like this is that it is short - other things can and will be sacrificed. Edit: It's like complain
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by gloob 17y ago
What's more, if there's one group of programmers who should be worried about doing things The Right Way, it's library writers.
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by gloob 17y ago
Value is derived from demand and supply. I suspect that the post you are responding to disagrees with this (at least hypothetically). They contend that value is a more-or-less innate quality that the skilled are best at recognizing. Sta
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by gloob 17y ago
The software on the DVD is a physical property of the DVD, if you look at a low enough level. Repurposing the item based on that physical property, than than (e.g.) it's shape or weight, is the same thing, in principle.
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by gloob 17y ago
Brackets make macros easy, because they make the abstract syntax tree blatant. Make it less blatant, and macros will become much more difficult to write. Given the options of i) macros are easy to write, and ii) Python-style indentation r
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by gloob 17y ago
Experimental evidence suggests that people want to use Visual Basic and Windows, actually. Although the language stats may have changed since the last time I looked at them, I'm reasonably certain at least Windows is still on top. Make of
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by gloob 17y ago
Better to generalize from one data point than to generalize from none.
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by gloob 17y ago
Why do we need a law to tell us that browsers are allowed to do what they already do, out of curiosity? Or is this just politicians doing their thing?
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by gloob 17y ago
Indeed. Work hard enough, and your own unsalaried labour might even be able to make you poor. Much better for everyone involved.
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by gloob 17y ago
Apologies if I came across as being judgemental about it - I'm not, really. My personality doesn't suit the military, and I'm lucky enough to be able to find employment elsewhere, but obviously there are people for whom one or both of thos
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by gloob 17y ago
Milgram's experiment, provided it is correct, demonstrates that people like to pretend they are not responsible for their own actions. This result is orthogonal to the question of who is responsible ( not who we want to think is responsib
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm rather the other way around; I've never really understood why some people see them as being meaningfully distinct. For example: would we make the same distinction between the bureaucrats and policymakers in China, and the programmers wh
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by gloob 17y ago
You might want to re-read your definition. It says that karma is "that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect", not that it "is cause and effect". In much the same way, my causing a person to become dead and my being a dead per
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by gloob 17y ago
Well, if you're looking for features that Python was the first language to have, then I don't think Python has any "Python things". Garbage collection is still Pythonic, nonetheless.
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by gloob 17y ago
Intriguing. Mind if I inquire about your thoughts on transistors, another Bell Labs creation?
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by gloob 17y ago
I hate it when people do this. I don't really mind people breaking language for the purpose of amusement, but this doesn't fall into that category - it's somewhere closer to breaking language for the sake of breaking language, and I don't

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