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by hugh3 15y ago
Programming is becoming more complicated over time. The increase in complexity will offset the increased availability of basic literacy Is it? Python will do in a few lines what would take forty lines in Fortran. I was programming for the
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by hugh3 15y ago
So a PhD in education educates me about to educate others about education?
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by hugh3 15y ago
I didn't mind these folks so much. They're doing it rough, but they're working hard at taking care of their kids, at least they're not trying to blame someone else for their problems. I'm sure these folks will end up fine. The folks who are
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by hugh3 15y ago
This Robert Heinlein quote is perhaps overplayed, but I'm gonna paste it in here anyway in case someone hasn't heard it or just needs a reminder: "Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm
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by hugh3 15y ago
When did the future turn into a game of Survivor? I don't know, but the past turned into a game of Survivor roughly four billion years ago. If it hadn't, we never would have developed cell membranes, let alone multicellularity. I'm not
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by hugh3 15y ago
A PhD in education. What is one supposed to do with a PhD in education anyway? Surely not become a teacher?
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by hugh3 15y ago
The real question, I think, is when did news.ycombinator turn into reddit/r/politics?
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by hugh3 15y ago
The thing about arguing about real-world economic problems based on incredibly loose analogies with completely made-up situations is that you can use it to argue for almost anything. But a made-up situation like this rarely bears any resemb
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by hugh3 15y ago
Oh purlheez. It's not a "lie". I don't know about you, but my career is based entirely on my university degree(s). And not because of the piece of paper, either, because of the crapload of stuff I learned at university which I never would
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by hugh3 15y ago
I really don't think you understand how advertising works. I prescribe four seasons of Mad Men. (It's streaming on Netflix right now, y'know!) geeks like me who aren't significantly influenced by traditional advertising Do you really be
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by hugh3 15y ago
I am firmly of the belief that until we abandon the false and forced analogies and treat digital data and IP as something new, something that requires us to work out ethics and moral of afresh, we'll be stuck in this rut of old business mo
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by hugh3 15y ago
I suspect that most people's idea of the way to learn to code is pretty similar to the way they themselves learned to code. Once again it's Bucheit's Law: Advice = limited experience + massive overgeneralization Speaking of which, I need
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by hugh3 15y ago
I dislike headlines like this. It's phrased as a challenge, or almost an accusation. Why are you accusing me of not knowing what it's like to be jobless, Mister Theatlantic? You don't even know me! And what does it turn out to be that I d
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by hugh3 15y ago
I love hipmunk for flights, but I'm less in love with the UI for hotels. I find it more confusing, and less easy to see what's good value. So if that's where they're really making their money then maybe they need to adapt it a bit. I can se
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by hugh3 15y ago
I used to use Southwest a lot until I started discovering the joys of having status on an old-school carrier. If you fly less than 25,000 miles a year then Southwest is great, but if you fly more (and especially if you get up to 50 or 100K
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by hugh3 15y ago
#1 We do our best to mitigate this. Unfortunately, it's also the nature of the business. Availability is constantly changing. It's not just changing inventory though, I've had the same experience repeatedly over multiple days. hipmunk q
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by hugh3 15y ago
Of course you can turn while falling. Hell, you can turn without air. It's a rocket Ah, but then you're no longer falling. You're not even "falling with style".
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by hugh3 15y ago
True, though good writing isn't just about good prose and putting well-chosen words in an appropriate order, it's also about more macro-level structure and tension and pacing and characterization.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Polymorphism is an abstraction technique whose goal is substitutability. "Car extends Vehicle" is useful if other kinds of Vehicles can be substituted for cars. "That's great", thinks the student, "I'll keep that in mind on the offchance
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by hugh3 15y ago
Personally I'd add the code to "TrackedObject" rather than "Duck" just in case we ever wanted to track geese or cormorants. I don't get the impression that the person who wrote this ever had to seriously teach software development to softw
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm sorry, I had assumed that the onus of proof lay with the person making the original (and countrary-to-popular-belief-and-best-available-statistics) claim that unemployment was still increasing. Participation, of course, is a tricky beas
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by hugh3 15y ago
Perhaps the issue is that, like so many science fiction authors, his ideas are interesting but his actual writing, characters and dialogue have nothing in particular to recommend them. In short story form, the ideas come and go quickly enou
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by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed. While there's always some one-star reviews no matter how good the thing being reviewed might be, the best guide is just to read them and see whether they sound like rational complaints from sensible people. If the one-star reviews
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by hugh3 15y ago
Do you have any more reliable data that would contradict this data and support your own assertion that unemployment is actually increasing?
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by hugh3 15y ago
In addition to this, I recommend A Perfect Vacuum and Imaginary Magnitude , which both fall into the category of "books of reviews of books that don't exist". I've never been able to get into his novels, though. Mind you I'm not really a
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not actually so. Unemployment has fallen from 10.1% to 9.2% since its peak in October 2009. Businesses aren't rehiring fast, but they are rehiring. Oh, and it's not the highest since the Great Depression either -- there was a spike to 10.8%
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by hugh3 15y ago
But what says ICBM tech can't be adapted to simply turn slightly while re-entering? Mostly the letter "B" for "ballistic". You can turn while flying. You can't turn while falling. You can stick out a little control vane to try to change c
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yes, but he's "arguing against it" by reshaping it into a ridiculously extreme and self-evidently-false form. It's an intellectually dishonest and particularly annoying (yet extremely common) way to argue.
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by hugh3 15y ago
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA the inflation-adjusted budget of NASA over its entire history from 1958 to 2011 is less than $800 billion. That is significantly less than the cost of... several single large init
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by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed, the whole article comes off as strawman-ish. Nobody [to first approximation * ] ever says something like "I mean, seriously? Scientists?! What have they ever done for me?" because, well, that attitude is quickly discredited by a m

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