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by jbooth 13y ago
But they were involved, and the reasons for that were entirely political. Those congressmen and President Bush didn't give a crap about the dispute at hand, and they didn't have deep feelings about the jurisprudence. It was enti
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by jbooth 13y ago
Whether federal reserve policy is blowing up a software bubble has more to do with who gets the money than with the fact that money is being printed. Hyperinflation's been around the corner for 5 years now. Obviously the doomsayers (a
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by jbooth 13y ago
Fair enough.. if you're talking about a giant class hierarchy with lots of mutable state, then I tend to agree that it doesn't usually lead to good software (although things like java's collections library and the outputstre
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by jbooth 13y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but I thought that it should be decided by the county/state court who's jurisdiction it was in. I know nothing about power-of-attorney disputes, and way less about the particulars of this case tha
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by jbooth 13y ago
Take a look at some OOP C code sometime. Oh, C doesn't have objects? Sorry, I meant a my_struct{} and a bunch of my_struct_op(struct, otherargs) functions. You seem to be pretty emotionally invested in FP vs any other programming par
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by jbooth 13y ago
You've actually changed my mind here. My original contention was that the only reason someone would care about a power-of-attorney dispute over someone they had never heard of and had been in a coma for 15 years was religious. You&#x2
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by jbooth 13y ago
"It's hard to transverse them, or to merge them, or often even to look up a list of keys." That's exactly what I'm arguing against in my comment on making your important structs/objects and their relationships
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by jbooth 13y ago
The key phrase was "culture of life". For George W. Bush and the congressmen who passed the ridiculous legislation at the time, that was what it was all about. If you want to claim that that's an entirely secular political v
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by jbooth 13y ago
So we're not talking about the religious motivations of the bazillion people who never even met the woman anymore? We're attempting to impugn the husband's motives by implying he wanted her dead so he could date someone else
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by jbooth 13y ago
To my mind, it's an argument for explicit definition of data structures (from me, not Linus). It seems to me that structs and/or objects do that pretty well. I'm not sure what you're talking about with 'opaque obje
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, but it's their frickin daughter. I think we can give the two of them a pass for having a hard time letting go.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm folding "crass political appeal to the religious rubes" under religion for that particular case. EDIT: Her parents obviously had different motivations than religion. The 10,000,000 politicians and talking heads? Either
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by jbooth 13y ago
OO itself is just syntactical sugar for standard C structs with functions taking them as args. Substitute in "self" for an additional first argument and you've got FP with types and structs.
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by jbooth 13y ago
"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." -- Linus If your data structures don't exist outside of your functional code acting on them, it's hard to reas
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by jbooth 13y ago
I take it you don't remember the Terry Schiavo thing?
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by jbooth 13y ago
It doesn't take paternalistic assertions of black male incompetence to notice that the environment people come from shapes their options and eventually their decisions. Greenwich connecticut produces more stockbrokers than the marcy p
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's a public policy issue. The guy in the example, from what we know, isn't a threat to society or involved in any crimes. He's working. Yet the system's on him so tightly that a single paperwork slipup from him and
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by jbooth 13y ago
Because that would create an endless stream of negative blog posts as the bleeding edge changes and breaks these people's software. It doesn't matter if they should have known better, it's still negative press, I wouldn&#x27
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by jbooth 13y ago
Are you porting string processing routines to OpenCL? The grid model of GPU computing seems to be a bit of a mismatch with the jagged-edge model of a bunch of variably-sized records in 2 1TB files that I want to join on in my typical hadoo
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by jbooth 13y ago
Napster's been dead for over 10 years, and music sharing, while rampant, is far enough underground that the music companies are making a ton of cash selling digital music.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I was just taking a drive-by shot. It was jbooth's axiom of comment sniping, not jbooth's axiom of carefully reasoned article analysis. Regardless of the guy's politics, strictly speaking, you can't fight the law with t
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by jbooth 13y ago
jbooth's axiom of internet comment sniping: Anyone who accuses an article of being (insert ideological label) actually has a much harder ideological bias in the opposite direction.
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by jbooth 13y ago
If we're being honest, it's some % split between the "feature not a bug" case that you outline and credentialing to remove potential competition. Nurses can (and do) do about 75% of the work a doctor does, same with para
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by jbooth 13y ago
I think the logic goes along the lines of "better safe than sorry". They can make do fine without email, they have really smart people with good memories that can make this all happen in non-record-producing conversations, so why
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're going to say that the way nation-states deal with each other proves some sort of inviolable human rights? Have you read much history?
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by jbooth 13y ago
If I remember correctly, that was around when they released blackberry storm and had a real shot at being a triumvirate along with iOS and Android.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Totally different. Google has mindshare and a seemingly-insurmountable lead, but they do not have a monopoly on internet search results. I could put up the worlds crappiest search engine next weekend and theoretically be 'competing&#
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by jbooth 13y ago
I agree that in Amazon's business it's hard or impossible to establish monopoly pricing practices. That does not mean there's no such thing as a non-government enforced monopoly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, I thought while typing it "C# prob has this already" but couldn't be bothered to check.
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by jbooth 13y ago
LOL, I'm sure 2 days from the right guy are all that's required here.

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