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by hxa7241 17y ago
It is not until half way through that one realises . . . > "The only non-standard challenge presented by this project is the need to develop screen-scraping regular expressions for individual online communities that are run on custom so
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by hxa7241 17y ago
The principle is to commend something that is improveable and controllable. That can be refined by adding information: encouraging the best/most-effective activities.
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by hxa7241 17y ago
This depends rather on what the purpose of scoring is. If it is to filter one's reading, there is an inherent contradiction: * the reader wants some filtering, so they can just read the good stuff * the filtering is done by the readers, whi
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by hxa7241 17y ago
I must concede there are indeed implementation difficulties in my revolutionary plan. Chinese(Mandarin?)/Spanish/English seems reasonable; I suppose it could be introduced over several decades. But aren't there serious formal deficiencies w
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by hxa7241 17y ago
I can't help thinking this takes the wrong direction entirely. The real solution is to make human languages mono -lingual!
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by hxa7241 17y ago
It is not an interesting point. It is merely a literary 'trick'. It is just unconscious use of the rhetorical form 'paradox': it says something apparently nonsensical in order to capture attention, perhaps to express a related truth. The wa
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by hxa7241 17y ago
That all seems reasonable, but Apple has a powerful brand at the moment. That must be factored-in too.
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by hxa7241 17y ago
> it thrives to be I think you mean: "it strives to be"
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by hxa7241 17y ago
It is strange that people who work with an entirely logical medium -- software developers -- continually want to pretend they are 'artists', 'craftspeople', 'artisans', 'writers', 'performers' even. It is some kind of delusion. If you desig
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by hxa7241 17y ago
Advertisers are paying on the expectation of return. And that expectation is based entirely on contingency. They have no claim at all on the public's co-operation. Have they paid the public to watch the ads? No. They merely expect that th
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by hxa7241 17y ago
As far as comment-scores are used to filter one's reading, there is an inherent contradiction in the system: * the reader wants some filtering, so they can just read the good stuff * the filtering is done by the readers, which requires they
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by hxa7241 17y ago
The difference is that the thinking process has become more 'externalised'. Ideas or structures are produced not so much by mental action, but by the mechanisms of external tools and representations. Instead of items being put together by k
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by hxa7241 17y ago
Software is rather good actually. Only a small percent of any of it is faulty. It could be improved but it is largely not considered worth it. Civil engineering is not as perfect as often supposed. There are plenty of defects from barely no
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by hxa7241 18y ago
Print? Isn't that the strange old medieval analogue technology? Do people still do that?
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by hxa7241 18y ago
'Nullable types' doesn't seem something to be proud about: it goes in the wrong direction. Much better to enable removing null, like Scala and OCaml.
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by hxa7241 18y ago
That's fine, and you have every right to do so. I will then use the 'adblock detected popup message'-blocker.
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by hxa7241 18y ago
Total elimination is not plausible, but de-skilling certainly is. It is already happening. Anywhere a technique becomes standardised, reuse then simplifies programming. For example: relational databases -- developers don't have to create da
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by hxa7241 18y ago
Their FAQ item says the data is stored encrypted.
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by hxa7241 18y ago
'National security reasons'? More like they don't want info being seen by the public, due to the Presidential Records Act.
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by hxa7241 18y ago
By my reckoning, that makes Ruby 1.9/Yarv the same kind of speed as Python. (At the slow end of the scale, but nothing to be ashamed of any more.)
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by hxa7241 18y ago
> Good God. You actually used the word "epicures" to describe "people who like a lightweight, multi-featured browser." That's taking things a little too far. yes, that is it. it was silly. maybe not quite obviously silly enough though.
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by hxa7241 18y ago
(the apple dictionary being the 'New Oxford American Dictionary', just to be clear)
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by hxa7241 18y ago
from the apple dictionary: USAGE 1 Hoi is the Greek word for the, and the phrase hoi polloi means ‘the many.’ This has led some traditionalists to insist that hoi polloi should not be used in English with the, since that would be to state t
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by hxa7241 18y ago
If only the future was as obvious now as it used to be in the old days...
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by hxa7241 18y ago
Opera shouldn't be hyped. It is not for the hoi-polloi, it is for the select few, the connoisseurs, the epicures of software nourishment.
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by hxa7241 18y ago
OCaml: can't split modules/packages/namespaces across files (I can't remember exactly, but that is the gist)
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by hxa7241 18y ago
Lua: array indexing starting at 1 (and interoperating with C is one of the main purposes of the language)
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by hxa7241 18y ago
This is a dichotomy. Complexity is really many choices and detailed control. The real barrier to simplicity is reaching a firm decision. You either have flexibility or simplicity. Once the larger community decides what it wants, and how to
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by hxa7241 18y ago
Pay is not proportional to personal performance. For a sporting example, try sprinting: the fastest runners are only 2 or 3 times faster than I am, but might be paid millions. Musicians are not paid proportionately to some independent measu
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by hxa7241 18y ago
Although: these cycles are fragmented, and overlap a lot, and it is only really possible to see what happened in retrospect.

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