gnaritas

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by gnaritas 10y ago
True, but those are all enhancements that will come to VR, not themselves new mediums.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> you use behavior for that, not nature. I'll use whatever I choose to use when I'm making my point. You don't get to define my choice of differentiation. > Also, nature is not the same word as natural... That's ju
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Your definition of human nature includes anything humans do as natural which is a completely useless definition of natural. Natural, to have any real meaning, means not man made; mans culture is man made, our religions are man made, these
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Ok, better to just say that, but I still don't agree. > Do we perform any action that is not "in our nature"? Of course we do, much of culture isn't in our nature, but is learned. Advanced mathmatics isn't in ou
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Of course there are always ways to improve, but when duplication reaches a certain level, people just stop changing things because they can't keep up with the bugs it produces or the changes it forces all over the place. Anything can
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> saying "something is in our nature" doesn't justify it or explain it It doesn't justify it, never claimed it did, but it most certainly does explain it.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Clever and elegant architecture will always beat clever programming. And clever elegant architecture and clever programming will beat either alone. It's not an either or situation, you want them all.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> It's hard to anticipate future requirements. It's not about that, it's about keeping what you do nimble enough to always be ready for change when it comes. That means not having duplication in the system, having things
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Slavery is still very much alive, it's just no longer publicly supported. Saying something is in our nature doesn't justify it, it's merely an explanation why something still is. As long as resources are scarce, man will fig
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> I wonder why the interviewee is so confident that the world will always be a place of conflict. It always has been. > I can think of no rational, or no necessary, reason why multiple conflicting powers should exist based on the lin
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> There have been similar studies showing that shorter/uglier people tend to get hired less than their taller/better looking counterparts This is a red herring, this is not relevant to a discussion about racism. That other for
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by gnaritas 10y ago
No one said it was, but in this use case it's far superior to hand written loops. Virtually all modern programming languages have a functional collections API precisely because of this advantage. If you're still writing loops by
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> No, why would you? Because he's a better programmer than you are, and he knows it. > It's just a loop. There are many kinds of common patterns in loops, abstracting them into resuable higher order functions, aka a collecti
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Do you agree that have had quite a few miraculous people in our history as a nation? Many founding fathers, presidents, judges, military service members, and the like have chose what is best for the long-term at the expense of themselv
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> His point is strong No, merely slightly less racist than yours, which is basically don't act differently than white people or you're an animal. News flash, white isn't the only culture there is and speaking differently
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by gnaritas 10y ago
You keep saying "we", you mean "you". Not everyone thinks that way.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Humans have a knack for selfishness and war, it's more likely there will be much needless suffering and death along any path to an eventual solution to those problems, which will likely be a solution that most suffer under.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Utterly missing the point, goodbye.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Even hedge funds aren't zero sum. They receive dividends on the investments they hold which is a return that is not zero sum. Once again, that depends on the trade, short term trades don't make their money from dividends, but
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Efficient essentially means random.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> While inflation was adjusted for it was not accurately adjusted for as it ignored taxes. If your returns are 10% and inflation is 10% you get taxed on that 10% and lose money. And if you'd just put the money in a mattress you&#x27
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That depends on how you generate it. When apple builds wealth, not zero sum; when a hedge fund builds wealth; zero sum. 40% of our economy is financial services now, there's a lot of zero sum wealth creation going on.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> News jobs are already being created. Not fast enough to replace the abolished ones, and most of those new jobs are knowledge work, which can't scale as there's a IQ floor that will stop most people from being able to work the
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by gnaritas 10y ago
No, we aren't, since objects are the proper way in this case to reduce cognitive load. This notion that all the code has to be in one method to be understood is symptomatic of programmers who don't know how to factor correctly th
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Not everyone defines themselves by what pays the bills, plenty of artists do menial jobs to make ends meet. How they pay their bills is a bad measure of who/what they are, you shouldn't reject someone's self definition becaus
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by gnaritas 10y ago
State can be stored in instance variables as well, and should be if many small functions share them, it's what objects are for.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Only among the inexperienced. Skilled people use both as needed, even at the same time. You can keep the complex SQL in a view and map the view with the ORM. ORM's are far too valuable to ever hand write all that SQL and SQL is far to
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> We're going to be close to 11 billion by the end of the century. Aren't you the optimist.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Because it's marketed to parents and governments as "skills for the future" or "necessary for a modern workforce". It is, you can get both of those things because programming teaches you how to really think, an
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by gnaritas 10y ago
You only think you have, you've just tanked your economy and weakened your power in the world, it's really not a good thing and your young people are smart enough to see it.

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