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691.
by goto11 5y ago
The government of Denmark does not publish standards for salaries, if that is what you are suggesting.
692.
by goto11 5y ago
An employment implies a contract between employer and worker. The right to strike may or may not be allowed in the contract depending on the negotiating power of the employee, just like the conditions under which the employee can be fired
693.
by goto11 5y ago
In Denmark, the government does not decide wages in the private sector. The conflict was between McDonalds, a private business, and the labor unions.
694.
by goto11 5y ago
> Religions make truth claims. Yeah, but typically of a nature which cannot be proven right or wrong. E.g. how could anyone prove that Jesus was or wasn't the "Incarnate Logos"? It is impossible since it is a purely metaph
695.
by goto11 5y ago
Empirical science makes no assumptions like that. Empirical science cannot say anything meaningful about things which does not affect reality in some way, however indirectly.
696.
by goto11 5y ago
Perhaps, but that is beside the point when discussing religion, since religions does not say their claims are purely "subjective experiences". Rather they tend to be adamant they are objective truths bigger than any individual. A
697.
by goto11 5y ago
Better analogy: Science tries to understand the game and where it comes from. Religion claims that some guy talked to the game developer, and therefore we all have to obey everything he says.
698.
by goto11 5y ago
Apparently an ancient saint which used the decimal system.
699.
by goto11 5y ago
> They are trying to peek at the true nature of reality. That would be science. Religion is a set of rituals, values, traditions, beliefs, institutions and power structures which claim to have a supernatural justification. Since the supe
700.
by goto11 5y ago
What you describe is currying.
701.
by goto11 5y ago
I'm not sure the first part is contrarian, since everybody loves to complain about web standards. It also seem a widespread fallacy among developers that you can fix all problems in an technology stack by scrapping everything and start
702.
by goto11 5y ago
"Legacy system" has negative connotations among developers, but really it just means a system which works and have been working for a long time.
703.
by goto11 5y ago
Sure there is huge potential for progress, but Brooks have not argued otherwise. He just states there will not be a single invention which will increase productivity 10x across the board. Just as an example, a lot of developer time is spe
704.
by goto11 5y ago
Software developers are not as smart as they think. The most disastrous technical decisions I have seen have all come from developers, not from clueless non-technical managers. Things like "lets rewrite everything in foo-language, this
705.
by goto11 5y ago
Sinclair was probably as important in Europe as Apple II was in the US.
706.
by goto11 5y ago
Sinclair made computers which a kid like me, not from a rich family, could afford. Yeah the computers were of cheap quality with a crappy keyboard - but he changed home computers from being a plaything for the rich to be available to everyb
707.
by goto11 5y ago
Since you talk about objects with properties, I assume you are thinking about serializing an object graph to XML. I agree the element/attribute distinction and mixed content is not very useful in this context. JSON or similar is fine f
708.
by goto11 5y ago
I take it you are not a fan of Scheme and Racket?
709.
by goto11 5y ago
That racial categories and the criteria for deciding which category an individual belongs to depends on history, traditions and politics. There is no objective criteria to decide what constitutes a "race".
710.
by goto11 5y ago
A lot of the angst around "social construct" is because people think "X is is a social construct" means "X is imaginary" or "X can be whatever you want it to be". Just as an example, legislation and t
711.
by goto11 5y ago
Silverlight was intended as a Flash killer. What Microsoft didn't predict was that Flash itself (and any plug-in based alternative) would be killed by the iPhone. I think Microsoft's strategy in the early 2000's was to use th
712.
by goto11 5y ago
Given the movie was a major box office hit and critically acclaimed, I suspect the producers knew what they were doing. Just don't expect historical accuracy from a Hollywood movie. Cleopatra didn't look like Elizabeth Taylor ei
713.
by goto11 5y ago
The problem with Java applets was not the use of bytecode or a VM. The problem was that it was slow to start so you looked at a grey rectangle for a long time before anything happened. Flash was much snappier, which is why it won out over J
714.
by goto11 5y ago
> and Douglas Crockford insight on that JS has closure and function as first class citizen That is not an "insight". Anyone who had written an event handler in JavaScript would already know that.
715.
by goto11 5y ago
XML is great for its intended purpose - structured text with metadata. For other purposes like configuration files or rpc, the element/attribute distinction is superfluous and just lead to overly verbose syntax. Unfortunately the hype
716.
by goto11 5y ago
It was two separate products with separate origins. Macromedia had Shockwave and then they purchased Flash (which was called Splash then) and branded it Shockwave Flash. Shockwave was somewhat similar to Flash, but it was developed for the
717.
by goto11 5y ago
CRUD is about state, but typically the mutable state is in the database, not the application layer.
718.
by goto11 5y ago
Both race and ethnicity are cultural categories. Example: Barack Obama is considered black in the US even though he has a white mother. This is a consequence of American culture, the historical "one drop" rule.
719.
by goto11 5y ago
“Race is a social construct” does not mean that inheritable biological differences between groups people does not exist. It means that the categories we use to classify people into races are cultural. For example the "black" and
720.
by goto11 5y ago
Intuitive just mean familiar. A programming language is intuitive if it is similar to another language you are already familiar with.

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