gloob

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by gloob 17y ago
Culture. Obviously the generalization will be lossy - not all Ruby devs are the stereotypical super-ninja-rockstars, nor are all Java devs preoccupied with building the Leaning Tower of Layered Abstractions, but still. Culture matters.
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by gloob 17y ago
It reminds me of those Powerthirst videos on YouTube.
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by gloob 17y ago
The fact that a single, first-person consciousness exists is entirely objective. To the best of my knowledge, there is no scientific way to go about verifying the consciousness of others; despite this (and despite the traditional "lack of
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by gloob 17y ago
Almost any secular belief can be spun in a way so that believers stop questioning their faith. Religion has rather little to do with it.
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by gloob 17y ago
Without the juvenile, mocking undertones, I don't think there would have been an article.
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by gloob 17y ago
Putting aside any ethical qualms that people might have regarding growing humans for the purpose of extending one's own life, a rather more immediate issue springs to mind (although I will concede I may just be putting my ignorance of the s
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by gloob 17y ago
If events like these help get more women involved and participating in the industry or community, then more power to them. It certainly beats not doing anything to attract minorities. A cynical person could say that we already have minori
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by gloob 17y ago
I'll agree that it's not a hack - that doesn't, in my mind, preclude it from being hacking. They're two different things. For me, anyway, playing with giant data sets does not fall into the first group, but does fall into the second. That
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by gloob 17y ago
They do type checking. Edit: The first hit on Google for "ruby type checking" is a post about adding it to Ruby, which would suggest to me that it's not already in there. Apologies for my ignorance on the matter.
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by gloob 17y ago
Indeed. I am horrified when I see our neighbours to the south fail to cast their eyes to this barren wasteland devoid of people who are not blond-haired, blue-eyed, heterosexual white Protestants. If only the Canadian government had not s
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by gloob 17y ago
"God told us to" isn't logic unless God is first proven. Not really. This, for example, is a perfectly logical argument: All burritos are Platonists. Batman is a burrito. Therefore, Batman is a Platonist. It does not require e
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by gloob 17y ago
Depends. There are a couple of ways the sentence could be interpreted. One, of course, is the way that you are looking at it - that the statement "has no way of making money" is equivalent to the statement "could not possibly make money e
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by gloob 17y ago
This is rather off on a tangent, but it's rather entertaining watching people try and discuss the nature of Anonymous. I don't think there are any two people who have exactly the same perspective on the thing. They almost always end up co
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by gloob 17y ago
can only lead to a wider variety of ideas in the memepool That's rather a weakish argument, I would think. I suspect that people coming from different cultures would be far more likely to think differently about things than someone who c
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by gloob 17y ago
From a developer certifier.
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by gloob 17y ago
Empirical study is a tad tricky in a field where experimentation would probably be considered wildly unethical and you wouldn't be able to set up a control anyway.
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by gloob 17y ago
what do you do with those hundreds, who can no longer create any wealth a machine can't do better? The snarky answer would be "wait for the revolution". However, more realistically, the odds of rebellion would depend on whether or not so
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by gloob 17y ago
Enlighten me, pray. What does it say about Bill Gates?
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by gloob 17y ago
In this case, I suspect that downvoting means that people think you're being snarky about something that is blatantly awesome. Dunno though, as I wasn't one of them.
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by gloob 17y ago
My attitude has generally been that if a person is sufficiently passionate about being unhappy that they can even do it when surrounded by the unadulterated opulence that is normal life for a middle-class citizen of a first-world country, I
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by gloob 17y ago
But, like you alluded to, even within humans, there is a vast range of conscious capabilities. I'm not entirely certain that that is what was being alluded to (although feel free to correct me if I'm wildly off base). Some branches of ph
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by gloob 17y ago
Depending on how pure the language is, /variables/ can be immutable. Nonetheless, the standard, default, run-of-the-mill variables that most programmers will run into most of the time are not. Same goes for closures.
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by gloob 17y ago
That said, I doubt the attacks perpetuated by 4chan are the wrong place to start searching if what you're looking for is intelligent attempts to crack the system. They are among the truest supporters of the rule to "When in doubt, use brut
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by gloob 17y ago
That's a total strawman. Not really. It's probably not a terribly popular sentiment on a site for web-based hacker startups, but there are plenty of jobs that actually require some sort of meaningful education. Most of the medical syste
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by gloob 17y ago
I don't want my open heart surgery to be performed by a dropout, no matter how passionate and relentlessly resourceful they might be.
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by gloob 17y ago
Kaiser Wilhelm II spent a fair chunk of his life chewing on that particular nut, if I remember correctly. It ended rather unfortunately, though.
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by gloob 17y ago
Jack the Ripper was a pioneer in the field, don't'cha know.
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by gloob 17y ago
Canada has much stricter gun laws than the US. The impression I received from the post I was responding to was that the poster was suggesting a positive correlation between the general level of fearfulness in a population and the strictnes
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by gloob 17y ago
How about getting to know your problem domain in depth instead? If I had wanted to be a biologist, or a businessman, or a banker, I would have become one of those things. My domain is computers, and computers are what I am interested in.
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by gloob 17y ago
An intriguing hypothesis. It would seem sensible to suppose then that Canadians are a people so paralyzed with fear that all their children are homeschooled and they communicate with each other only over the Internet, looking at the gun la

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