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by innguest 12y ago
> Sorry, but UML provides enough definition to accurately describe any process... Which is the opposite of sketching , which means (in drawing) to loosely define the basic shapes of something before accurately describing things with &
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by innguest 12y ago
I want to subscribe to your newsletter where you write things you shouldn't write. I'm glad you wrote this. I'm not alone!
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by innguest 12y ago
Thank you for the apt metaphor. I often struggle with explaining how I feel about this but you nailed it. We spend too much time getting these tiny pieces to connect correctly, and more often than not they're misaligned slightly or in
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by innguest 12y ago
Yes, I feel exactly the same. I ride the rollercoaster of depression and the impostor syndrome is definitely there. Most of what I do is mired in incidental complexities that have little to do with the task at hand. Programming in itself is
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by innguest 12y ago
Look at the system this gang you call "government" has created. They tell you you rule the country, but you have to tell them what you want, through these voting things. Then they ignore those voting things and just do as they ple
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by innguest 12y ago
So if a family is kidnapped and the kidnappers establish a system where the family members can leave one by one if they can win at the challenges the kidnappers come up with, and one of the family members has a few ideas of how to break fre
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by innguest 12y ago
You are totally deluded if you think that way. I used to refute this sort of sophism when I was 12. Let me paint you a picture. Imagine all there is is the town you live in with your local community. All of a sudden a gang comes in and dema
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by innguest 12y ago
Advertisers will use this to try and sell you more targeted products, so their advertising costs go down and they can be profitable longer, improve their products, sell more, etc. You should worry about how governments will use this data.
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by innguest 12y ago
> It's having an organized todo list that's been prioritized. So... defragmentation? :)
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by innguest 12y ago
Funny we've both been seduced away from arts by programming. :) Best of luck to you.
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by innguest 12y ago
You make an excellent point. I also want to mention that while it's awful that there are victims of pedophilia, there are hundreds of thousands of times more victims of spanking, which is child abuse just the same, but not a peep about
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by innguest 12y ago
If you want to refute you will have to do better than just show up; you could start by explaining why do we have so many shops using Java and .Net and now Rails (which makes it possible for Ruby programmers to be fungible for managers) and
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by innguest 12y ago
Thanks for writing this. HN is full of touchy-feely folks, hence the downvotes. For many, it's hard to look past tone. They react emotionally. Sure, maybe your grammar could be better or maybe if we forced everyone to have perfect gram
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by innguest 12y ago
> You can't create art that way. (Well, you can, but it will be bad art.) There's a group of people called Commercial Artists that would disagree with you and laugh at your ad hominem.
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by innguest 12y ago
Common Lisp, C and C++ did not contribute to the field in the enormous way that Scheme, Haskell and Smalltalk did. They're sheeple languages (made with the worker in mind) to control employees, and not languages to empower and liberate
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by innguest 12y ago
Thanks for sharing this candidly. It motivates me (an incredibly lazy person) to put something together at least.
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by innguest 12y ago
Why must their new mandated wages be higher than the minimum wage? We already have the minimum wage, and I assume that's what it's for? Are hospitality workers better than other minimum wage workers?
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by innguest 12y ago
You forgot the most important number! Weight: 25 lbs / 11.3 kg. I have an electric skateboard (Yuneec eGo) that weighs only 14 lbs and I still don't take it from place to place because I don't want to carry it. Think of car
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by innguest 12y ago
I like the metaphor and think it's on point. It's as if you found a way to make cash appear from nowhere. It would be hard to find a reason to work for money. Same deal with Scheme. It lets you do anything, easily, but it makes it
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by innguest 12y ago
Great point and wonderful way to show how copyrights harms everyone. It's the epitome of selfishness to create something and not allow others to look at it and copy it when there is no loss to the creator. The expectation of profit fro
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by innguest 12y ago
You mean getting used to other programmers' idiosyncrasies and deciphering them? You will dissuade them from ever taking up this profession with that attitude. I was attracted to this because of the opportunity to create things, not be
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by innguest 12y ago
I agree with everything you said here; I particularly agree with the part where you say that after knowing Scheme and Haskell everything else becomes easy and boring. Does it ever. Makes me question why I got into programming now that I see
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by innguest 12y ago
Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/
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by innguest 12y ago
Please downvote the solution above as it incentivizes transparency, public scrutiny and more choice, while creating a more targeted product with guaranteed success (since it's been paid for and returned profits in advance of its making
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by innguest 12y ago
Along with other outliers like Smalltalk and Scheme, neatly grouped together under "experimental languages". Cf. SQL, a language that from the beginning had its industry in mind.
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by innguest 12y ago
> Imagine that I worked for them and you were about to torrent this film, exactly what is it you would want me to do for you that would change your mind? Alright, let's brainstorm. How about movie companies put up several movie idea
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by innguest 12y ago
OP is saying this will get no press because there's no fear tactics appealing to the public. In other words the OP is saying that without a villain in this story that people can bring into their lives and feel the fear/pride/
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by innguest 12y ago
> [...] when exactly should the police gear up to disperse a crowd? While it's actively rioting? I already pay taxes, do I have to give the government solutions to all problems in society in a silver platter too? Why don't they
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by innguest 12y ago
But the police have no duty to protect anyone: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=...
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by innguest 12y ago
You're right, there should have been a regulatory agency that US Radium could bribe or lobby so that they could avoid paying any damages to the victims at all. /s

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