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by gordaco 12y ago
I find the premise offensive. It's exactly the same as evolution-denying creationists: the idea that something is so complex that it couldn't be created by evolution because that would imply some degree of randomness, or whatever
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by gordaco 12y ago
More than that, we have a lot of narcissism-enhancing, or at least narcissism-displaying, tools. In the form of social networks.
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by gordaco 12y ago
Yes, the usual nitpick about tax-funded services applies here. It's not actually free, as in it doesn't come from the sky, but if you pay your taxes you're covered, which means that A) you WILL have the service when you need
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by gordaco 12y ago
Thanks. Quite a surprising finding. That article links to another one from the NY times [1], with this interesting line: The researchers found that from age 20 to 56, obese people racked up the most expensive health costs. But because both
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by gordaco 12y ago
I don't think I buy it, do you have some references? There are a lot of nonfatal chronic illneses derived from obesity, alcohol consumption and tobacco. My biggests problem with this point are not related with the veracity of his impli
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by gordaco 12y ago
Honestly, I find some of these points quite disturbing. And a lot of them are not a matter of technology. 13. Keep track of where everybody in my team is physically right now. I don't want to work with you, ever. 40 hours a week are
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by gordaco 12y ago
Well yeah, it might not be as exciting as webapps, but that's the difference between a job and a hobby. If your daily job includes exactly the kind of craftsmanship you could spend years doing happily, that's great; but if your jo
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by gordaco 12y ago
I thought this was about James Harrison [1], "also known as the Man with the golden arm" according to wikipedia. He has donated plasma more than 1000 times. Somehow, talking about blood donations is one of the few things that help
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by gordaco 12y ago
I came here to say exactly the same. Maybe you could add a radio button, or better, try to get geographical information from the IP and display the units accordingly (but don't forget about the other two countries that still use the im
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by gordaco 12y ago
Indeed; I've been thinking the same for a lot of time. The way the economy is treated in most media and political speech, even here in Europe, is almost machiavellian: everything is about the economy, nothing actually matters except it
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by gordaco 12y ago
"Because there is basically no type system that fights against you, you are unrestricted in what you can do, which allows you to implement very nice APIs." If you feel like the type system fights against you, chances are that yo
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by gordaco 12y ago
Thank you for understanding this. I wish more people did. I guess that most people don't know what a mental illness can be.
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by gordaco 12y ago
You can check F. Vico's publications here: http://geb.uma.es/fjv/publications . The most related would be [1], [2] and [3], especially [2]. As for the code, I don't think any of it is public, but I'm not
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by gordaco 12y ago
Iamus and Melomics! I worked in that project. The music we generated was, actually, not very original, nor did it have much quality; but it was varied enough. One of my coworkers said that we could have defined ourselves as the greatest ele
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by gordaco 12y ago
I guess that the situation is even harsher when there is more than one foetus.
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by gordaco 12y ago
Interestingly, there was a game related to Chrono Trigger that was distributed by Satellaview: Radical Dreamers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Dreamers ). I found funny that the article doesn't mention it, a
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by gordaco 12y ago
To me that X is the amount needed to just survive, maybe a little more. Right now I'm working far more that I'd like, that is, making far more money than I need, since I'm far from being a big spender but I love having time f
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by gordaco 12y ago
I agree SO much with all this. "Working 40 hours a week is a waste of my life" is also how I feel, but a lot of people will inevitably call you lazy. And yes, it's very infuriating that part-time jobs don't pay enough to
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by gordaco 12y ago
Calm down! Nobody in the industry knows everything about everything :). It's OK that you feel a little overwhelmed, because there is so much to learn. At your age, you can take your time, learn a little of everything, discover what is
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by gordaco 12y ago
I used to have that passion, when I was young (I'm 29 now, so not very young for the tech world, although not old either). And to be honest, it was the 40+ work week what killed it. I never liked specialization, so to me it makes a lot
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by gordaco 12y ago
I came to say exactly this. 50 hours is completely crazy, and if you're doing it often, you should look for another place ASAP. Fuck, 40 hours is already on the verge of being crazy if your job is intellectually demanding. I've wo
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by gordaco 12y ago
This is a distorted variation on Goodhart's law [1], although in a non-economical environment. In other words, poorly thought incentives generate poor behaviour (this is not the core of Goodhart's law, but rather a common conseque
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by gordaco 12y ago
I would say that it's my right to have the guarantee that there is no hydrochloric acid in a hygiene product, especially one that can get near sensible parts of the body like your face and your eyes. Sane adults can blame someone when
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by gordaco 12y ago
The article looked to me like very obvious PR. This article[1] from pg has been linked like a million times, but it's as relevant as it was the first time. > Trend articles like this are almost always the work of PR firms. Once you
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by gordaco 12y ago
I still use google, but I try to avoid it when there is a better alternative. Nowadays the search engine is almost the only thing I use. I also have a gmail account that has devolved into a spam sink used to register in websites I intend to
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by gordaco 12y ago
Well, to me this is yet another reason to not use Glass.
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by gordaco 12y ago
Ok, let's see... this is a draft and I don't have a compiler here, so I may write something wrong, but it would be something like this. Assuming that you don't want to use simply a translation table, and you really need diffe
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by gordaco 12y ago
(EDIT: Funny, I made the same mistake as kyrra, thinking it was Java. At least my last line still applies...) The true solution, that doesn't involve using a new language, is to include the data for the switch inside each of each eleme
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by gordaco 12y ago
From the article, under "open questions": Generics over values. It is persistent irritant that generics do not work over primitive types today. With value types, this irritation will increase dramatically; not being able to descr
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by gordaco 12y ago
>>I feel liberated by not having a strong type system restricting my options. >If you feel restricted by a type system, you're using it wrong. A type system is a useful tool, not an impediment. It only prevents you from doing

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