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by jbooth 13y ago
The thing I really don't understand is the persistent meme that companies have some obligation to their shareholders above and beyond their obligation to their employees, common ethics or the spirit of the law. It's practically an
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by jbooth 13y ago
We didn't throw the Dixie chicks in jail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot I mean, the US has tons of problems and what's really disturbing are the trend lines -- seems like liberty peaked somewhere in
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'd call it "avoids reporting stories that hurt their funding partner" more than "pushing the agenda" personally. Very subjective opinion, though.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's both. The news isn't pushing a particular agenda, they'll take anything that pushes people's buttons and grabs their eyeballs, whether it's this or another missing white girl.
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by jbooth 13y ago
That wasn't what he said, though, was it? If you assume he meant inflation adjusted dollars, what he said was objectively correct. You can draw your own conclusions.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Honestly, I'm kind of happy that there's at least one person who knows the difference between HTML and TCP/IP helping to shape the conversation now.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It is actually difficult to find talent, though. The fact that idiots are claiming this for the wrong reasons doesn't mean that smart people can't also think so for the right reasons.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, don't work for those companies. There's plenty of companies around that actively discourage hero coding by anybody (aside from exceptional circumstances) because it illustrates a deeper flaw in their system.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Good to know that I'm not missing out on anything :)
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'd never work at EA, either. Although they're the other side of the same economics, because young nerds who don't know any better and like video games will work there for less than an average tech firm, and less still than
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by jbooth 13y ago
How about paying a market wage, instead of offering a "free lunch" to people that cannot negotiate. Who can't negotiate? It's your fault if you can't/won't negotiate. I'd posit that the reason fina
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm really having no problem seeing the situation as portrayed unfolding in a large bureaucracy. 1) Some dude adds pressure cooker to the dumb keywords list that's never found a valid lead, right after the only incidence in histo
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by jbooth 13y ago
Why would 'less government' be less complex law or less abuse of it? 'Less government' typically means spending less money on government employees, when you hear it from libertarians. Paper's cheap, word are free,
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by jbooth 13y ago
Sure, the crazy symbolic operator overloading and a bunch of libraries that encourage you do do things like a :=: b and have it mean something. Also, there's something about the net sum of the type system where it feels like there are
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by jbooth 13y ago
A lot of people (myself included) see Scala as being one step forward, two steps back. Some good features, and then a whole bunch of poorly thought out, wankerish features that can only serve to screw up your code base if some developer ge
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by jbooth 13y ago
Thanks
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by jbooth 13y ago
I remember back in the 90s, the CDA was seen as an outrage by the internet savvy. Now it's our last line of defense? What the hell happened?
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yet LISP has much less traction in the real world than it does in academia.
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by jbooth 13y ago
If my goal is to get across the floor, I'd prefer a brisk walk.
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's fine, you're just in a tiny minority. Code-as-data is actually a win that you can't get from procedural languages, which is why I brought it up. It makes solutions to complex configuration spaces possible that aren&#x
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, I read the clojure book back in like 2009 and used it a little. I thought it had a lot of neat ideas but when it comes to just getting a job done, if it's not a problem where pure functional programming brings a lot of value (th
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by jbooth 13y ago
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/01/10/evidenc... It's a he said, she said, of course.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Being president of a large country pretty much guarantees you've had to lie and cheat at least a little bit to get there. For one random example (not being a huge student of 21st century Russia), he promised Bush that he wasn't ar
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by jbooth 13y ago
Immutability's great, I pass around Callables of final variables in Java all the time to accomplish CSP and immutability. That's not to say you can only have immutability, though, we're humans here and capable of reasoning
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by jbooth 13y ago
Communicating sequential processes is pretty thought out, I haven't used much Erlang but I was under the impression it uses a similar model to go (green threads, message passing between them). Can you explain what you mean by 'mor
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by jbooth 13y ago
As a veteran Java programmer, I like that Go is a handicapped Java. Please force all of my coworkers to use delegation rather than implementation inheritance and make CSP-style concurrency easier to code than synchronized-style.
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're saying that the type system has something to do with functional programming. I'm saying that if Scheme, LISP and Haskell are all functional languages, obviously the type system is besides the point -- they're radically
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by jbooth 13y ago
#golang-nuts on freenode. The effective go document is pretty good for basics, especially concurrency.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'd go a step further and say that controlling side effects, as a consequence of pure-functional design, is a bigger part of FP than any given type system. But hey, what do I know, I just did the SICP exercises a decade ago and forgot
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by jbooth 13y ago
That sounds like it's actually a complaint about strong typing -- if everything's the same type, you can do that now by passing around first class functions.

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