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721.
by jbooth 13y ago
It's actually the opposite. All of the regulations preventing it from going to some guy's buddy mean that only bloated, f'd up bureaucracies can clear the hurdles to land the gig. And in the end, it still helps to have some
722.
by jbooth 13y ago
It was a personal argument but it was aimed at a lack of perspective, and not knowing what he doesn't know (a chronic failing of youth, and I'm young myself), rather than an attempt to insult him for it's own sake. As you&#x
723.
by jbooth 13y ago
Well, personally, if I'm using C, it's typically for a very narrowly defined, performance-sensitive problem. Both times I've done this in the last couple years, I found myself doing a couple big mallocs at the start and then
724.
by jbooth 13y ago
I kinda see it more as "we're using an unrealistic workload to emphasize the per-malloc overhead". A program that was written to minimize and batch allocations wouldn't be as demonstrative.
725.
by jbooth 13y ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure it costs us money to shut down the government, what with all the disruptions. Less efficient.
726.
by jbooth 13y ago
That's gotta be about the least justifiable statement in political-economic commentating history.
727.
by jbooth 13y ago
One facet of the 'shutdown' is that they're not authorized to hand out federal money to states anymore. The states and municipalities are feeling it for every day that this stupid theatre persists.
728.
by jbooth 13y ago
He doesn't care, probably. You're just some kid who can't/won't program in anything besides javascript (of all languages). Nobody owes you an explanation of why that's limiting. I'm surprised he indulge
729.
by jbooth 13y ago
He's not only less connected, but a loudmouth, too. You can't have people just piping off, saying whatever they want.. what kind of example does that set?
730.
by jbooth 13y ago
You sound quite a bit less open minded than the old fogey you're responding to.
731.
by jbooth 13y ago
"pushing to limit civilian gun rights" is sort of willfully deceptive, as it implies gun-grabbing where most liberals just want registration along the same level as a driver's license. At least you acknowledged that it'
732.
by jbooth 13y ago
Subject to debate, and everyone's gonna want to think that their "side" is the most enlightened... (end disclaimer) I think a lot of liberals see conservatives as authoritarian in that they support the police/military p
733.
by jbooth 13y ago
Not to nitpick, but the byzantine empire, seat of orthodox christianity for its first 1000 years, condoned slavery: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674036116
734.
by jbooth 13y ago
My usual take on these things is it's more about money and what you can get away with locally than the character of the religions themselves. Lots of very christian Americans had very christian outlooks on slavery being legal in the 18
735.
by jbooth 13y ago
This post comes across like you're incredibly ideologically invested in Scala. I'd suggest that 'the future of computing' in any dimension will take a lot more from practicality and a lot less from theory or ideology. S
736.
by jbooth 13y ago
I'm not enough of an expert on Clojure or Lisp to answer (my lisp knowledge is extrapolated from scheme in college). I believe that Rich Hickey said that having special notation for vectors (and for maps, I remember now) was about, bas
737.
by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, a good rule of thumb is that if something was specified by a JSR, it's probably shit to work with because of all the competing corporate agendas that went into it.
738.
by jbooth 13y ago
Type inference is great, and is part of why I consider Scala to be "one step forward, 2 steps back" rather than just a total loss. As far as the rest, we'll just have to disagree, I stated up front that it was an opinion :)
739.
by jbooth 13y ago
It's got some differences, notably a vector type with square [] brackets that is differentiated from homoiconic function calls in normal (), and also some hacky stuff with (recur) that they had to do to deal with the JVM's lack of
740.
by jbooth 13y ago
Java fills a particular niche (code with an emphasis on readability) which is not addressed by Groovy or Clojure and arguably not addressed by Scala. I'd say Go is the biggest competition for that niche as a language, although it&#x27
741.
by jbooth 13y ago
If you assume that every single CRA loan defaulted, and that every failed loan in the entire housing market was a CRA loan (both assertions are far from true), then the CRA would be responsible for a multiple billion dollar problem. Maybe.
742.
by jbooth 13y ago
Sure, we've got the j. edgar hoover era and everything going along with that, but that's a case of individualized, nominally illegal wiretapping. Now we're talking about broad-based wiretapping with entire buildings dedicate
743.
by jbooth 13y ago
Actually, two things are new: 1) The ability to store/process data on the scale to monitor an entire population. 2) The US government's assertion that it has the right to do this. It's not new under the sun, but it's
744.
by jbooth 13y ago
Seriously. We've got a generation of journalists who grew up reading about Woodward and Bernstein, went to j-school full of idealism and wound up being a bunch of boot-licking cronies, trying to get their access.
745.
by jbooth 13y ago
As a society we very specifically said in Nuremberg that "just following orders" is not an excuse.
746.
by jbooth 13y ago
We have a lot more information at our fingertips these days, and 25% of the country is convinced that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. I feel like we're just running the cycle on this one, someone should put up a countdown to the next E
747.
by jbooth 13y ago
You're right actually, my fault. I was overreacting to other comments on the thread that were all butthurt about being picked on as a kid.
748.
by jbooth 13y ago
If someone's identifiable as autism SPECTRUM based on their eye movements at 1, maybe they'd still be better served to hang out with other kids and be the 'weird kid', learn how to work with other kids while maybe being
749.
by jbooth 13y ago
Well, if we're being honest, this isn't particularly capitalist of Google. It's an idealist, good-intentions-and-ego-driven play. Yes, they want to capture some of the value that they eventually might create but they are no
750.
by jbooth 13y ago
I also disagree with the parent poster but you absolutely do not either "believe in capitalism, or you don't". The only pure capitalist societies are anarchist hellholes. Among nice societies, capitalism is implemented all s

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