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by grav1tas 16y ago
Useful and enjoyable. The idea that there has to be top-tier publications on a language for it to be on Wikipedia will leave us with a lot of boring Wikipedia topics.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
If the problem is pollution of the main lists of programming language articles by entries that Mr. Monsanto considers to be inappropriate for listing...wouldn't an appropriate compromise be removing them from these programming languages lis
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I may be wrong, but hasn't this article already come up on HN before? Maybe I've just seen it before, it's not new.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
The Fed may have surpassed China as the largest buyer of debt, but it may not be the largest holder. Where do you think all the money in the Social Security trust fund went, eh? Hint: It's somewhere in the blue part of the pie ;-) http:/
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Is it really the case that the demand is so high or that supply is kept artificially low by tradesmen apprenticeship programs? I thought that was the point of the trades...to reduce competition by decreasing the number of competitors. Tho
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by grav1tas 16y ago
That's incorrect. They hold 20% of US Debt held by foreign countries. In the total scheme of things I think it amounts to somewhere between 6-9% of the total US debt.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by grav1tas 16y ago
For fairness sake, I with the author would note the version of the C compiler they used. Otherwise saying PyPy is faster than C is like saying "my 2010 Toyota Prius is faster than a car in a carefully crafted example". Sorry to sound like
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I agree. I dove into Haskell without doing any of the prior, and it was like running into a brick wall. However, persistence paid off in my case, but I do wonder how I would have handled it if I would have spent time with OCaml beforehand
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by grav1tas 16y ago
It appears to be using the data from KCK. If it's pulling the population data from there it might be a safe bet that everything else is from KCK, too. That being said, regardless, I think the entire bit about KC being ranked up near San F
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by grav1tas 16y ago
What would be cool on top of this is if they figured in mortgage prices, the average home upkeep costs for a certain area, insurance prices, and property taxes (whew, it'd be hard) to determine if you're flat out better of renting or buying
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Nice "Sid Meier's: Alpha Centauri" video game quotation. I don't see how "Pravin Lal's" sentiment applies here. Apple is probably just doing this to improve the bottom line on warranties by preventing people who lack the knowhow/desire to
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I agree, especially on the part about law. "Legalese" is like natural language programming. It's very well structured, but very hard to parse for people not in the know (like myself). I think writing solid contracts is very much like wri
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I had to reread your first sentence quite a few times. You're saying that software engineers in total have had more of an effect on society than lawyers or law enforcement officers? If this is really what you're saying, I think that you a
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I found it sort of silly in both articles that they make a universal qualification, but then follow up their reasoning based on more or less anecdotal, personal evidence. Whether you're Chinese or American, it doesn't make you superior at
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I'm not sure about the loans you get to go to law school, or the loans he got, but I was under the impression that student loans are something that you can't get out of if you declare bankruptcy, just like alimony or something like that. A
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by grav1tas 16y ago
> Hint: whenever a bank invents a product, the main idea usually revolves around them getting a cut. Replace "bank" with "just about anybody" and you have a winner.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
This sounds like a pretty expensive toy to me. It seems like chemical irritants (ex tear gas) would be more effective, and cheaper? I suppose you could get gas masks, but those might be harder to come by than oh, say, a 2x4 to hold in fro
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by grav1tas 16y ago
My first sentence was sarcasm. I indeed did look it up to verify its meaning and to determine that it was what I wanted to say, even though the term was not unfamiliar to me.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Yes, that was my point and I wasn't being serious with the first sentence. Sorry if my sarcasm was too straight-faced.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Laissez-faire capitalism at work! No really, can somebody explain why institutions like this are allowed to have such advantages over their competition? This seems like it would be an easy political target FROM ALL SIDES of the aisle. "B
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by grav1tas 16y ago
There was a Frontline documentary (I think it was them) detailing this risk and it coming to a head in a smaller community where too many people were skipping vaccinations and the herd immunity was significantly diminished. It was a really
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by grav1tas 16y ago
The mortgage crises all but crushed any confidence I had left in the major players in the American (and probably the global) financial system. Any BS that Goldman is trying to pull is just more of the same. Anything to make a quick buck.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Agreed, it's limbo really. Those who choose to 'pirate' 'abandonwares' assume the risk (however large or small) of being hit with a lawsuit. Though, I think that quantifying damages of a non-distributed copy written work might not be very
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by grav1tas 16y ago
"If a copyright holder doesn't effectively exist like in this scenario" I was surmising a scenario where one did not exist to point out an issue with the parent post. Of course this situation would almost never occur in reality.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
IANAL. If a copyright holder doesn't effectively exist like in this scenario, how can they charge you with copyright infringement? If a work is out of print and not findable, and the copyright holder is gone, how would you know that the wo
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Can we end the myth that using superlatives somehow adds credence to a contrarian standpoint? I can't speak for anybody else, but if I see an article titled "Ideas are Worthless", I just won't read it. That said: Use discretion, crunch th
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by grav1tas 16y ago
While I don't feel like contesting the first few points, because I feel like they might be close to accurate, but your point after 5 is loaded and misleading. I feel you have cherry picked your numbers out of your own source. Here is a co
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by grav1tas 16y ago
As a guy, I sorta find the idea of getting married to a women who is also well educated totally awesome. Two solid sources of income are definitely better than one, if only for protection against catastrophic situations, but having nice th
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by grav1tas 16y ago
As skeptical as I am about adhering to a specific language for teaching programming, quotes like this smack so badly of curmudgeon-ism (yes, I know who Dijkstra is) that I can't take them seriously. I learned on BASIC (and LOGO) as a young

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