jack9

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by jack9 11y ago
> He's quite silent about the hardware aspect Probably because it's not software.
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> Quorum is already weaker than most of what I presented in terms of empirical weight Saying you have presented empirical weight, is not compelling when you haven't and, frankly, can't. It's telling that the rest of your p
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> That's a silly definition of free because it's too narrow It's broader than "this is an ad this is not" when looking at "content", so fix your definition to the level of specificity you are comfortabl
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by jack9 11y ago
> If your websites serve ads then by definition your content isn't free It's still free. You choose to access an API, whatever that may be. You don't get to decide what the format is and you don't get to decide what t
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by jack9 11y ago
When they say "wrote in Bash" more than likely they used Bash to script together existing unix tools, than used Bash to do some algorithm that couldn't be done as code-efficiently in java.
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by jack9 11y ago
It's not quite that simple. He doesn't directly addresses every interpretation. REST ( http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Efielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_ar... ) HTTP REST ( http://cafe.elharo.com&#x
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by jack9 11y ago
> Electronic voting machines are inherently unsafe. Nothing about a voting machine is inherently unsafe (for any purpose of the word), or we wouldn't use machines ubiquitously. They are both safe and reliable. Software is difficult
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by jack9 11y ago
> Can you imagine the horror? About the same as something falls from the sky and crushes a child. Unlikely enough that I don't waste my time thinking about it. The self-driving cars are more cautious than in all situations and cease
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by jack9 11y ago
They do affect it in a meaningful way. They don't depart because it would tank sectors.
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Isn't that similar to Mexico?
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by jack9 11y ago
> The science of developing robust software is great and pretty consistent going back decades varying mostly in specific tools and tactics Nope (since uh-huh/nuh-uh is the starting point you've taken). Most science is BAD SCIEN
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by jack9 11y ago
I'm sure you don't like lots of things. The hand drawn stuff is very readable. The demo work is all machine generated.
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There's no progression between invitro gender selection and genetic design? Wat? One's more sophisticated and an inexorable movement toward turning raw chemicals into manufactured organic machines (specifically humans).
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by jack9 11y ago
geezip is fun to say. Until there's a catchy name for "crosszip"/xz/whatever, I think we're preaching to the wrong choir. There's a human element in toolchains. Address it.
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by jack9 11y ago
Having spent more than three years of my life writing tooling to deal with such a vendors APIs, I wish people would stick more closely to the pattern of error messages in 200 responses. The application stack is not the webserver and I don&#
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This is why I found the whole "missing women of China" story so pointlessly ignorant. Practices of gender selection, cultured bananas (currently being wiped out by a fungus), GMO foods, etc are not a scourge. There's nothing
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That's a matter of perspective. Inconsistency is not objective and Lua has PLENTY of warts (46 max upvalues?)
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by jack9 11y ago
No amount of testimonials will change my mind about this being a terrible idea...at least not in that format (1 driver, x observers). I'd be willing to try, 1 driver, 1 projector, X people with laptops. Break down project into tasks, a
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by jack9 11y ago
> It's the job of police to actively investigate crimes. In the US, this is not true. The police, at large, are there to control a situation and assign blame. Investigation is to those ends.
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Is it a problem that people commission unethical things? If it was a danger to human life, I'd have to drop an anonymous note to a newspaper and regulatory body or two.
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by jack9 11y ago
> when you specify as much as possible in syntax, the code is easier to maintain That's not true of all cases. Most importantly, the number of abstractions that are baked into the language are a combination of workarounds (rather th
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by jack9 11y ago
I have always objected when software was designed against my own ethics. I was never forced out, I just got another job or worked on another project. Every developer asks the question "why" am I making this. Only developers who ca
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by jack9 11y ago
You can tool for anything. It's a matter of tool coverage. If there are things that circumvent the tooling, that doesn't diminish the tool. It will tend to push programmers not to use those features though (see Aspect Oriented Jav
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by jack9 11y ago
Why do we never hear about programmers ethically challenging the auto makers when they clearly know about these flaws? It's akin to working on medical devices. Where is the incentive to not make lethal mistakes?
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> why such new ones would emerge, People create languages all the time. Some languages (like PHP) were just created for problems that the creators had, not for some overriding empirical reason. Dynamic languages also tend to be easier to
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I would say Java (the native syntax) is over engineered. The runtime is a beautiful thing.
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He grouped them by dynamic ones (the scripting languages) and the statically typed ones.
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> The land is 2km wide, of course the Turkish fighter didn't have time to notice the intrusion, They can see the planes on radar and warn them to stay away from Turkish airspace at any time. Even if they haven't crossed into &q
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by jack9 11y ago
> non-traded sectors (e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook, online dating) where we've gained massive utility that is not tracked in GDP. The GDP is overestimated (but not because of the non-traded sectors). Remember 2013 when the fed needed to
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by jack9 11y ago
Why does it suck? With genetic engineering looming, this is literally unimportant. There are no "missing" women. There are humans who have enforced gender selection. This is neither good nor bad empirically, without qualifying wha

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