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by jbrechtel 14y ago
No he doesn't mention it from what I recall. The data discussed is broader (and more longitudinal) than that trend. Personally I'd guess the birth rate there is a direct result of the church's push for more children, but I don't really kno
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
This talk by Hans Rosling makes a pretty reasonable case for decoupling the notion of religion and birth rates. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hans_rosling_religions_and_...
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
I didn't mean to imply that video game programmers were stupid... :) I was saying it seems more likely to me that any random developer making a stupid mistake like this seems more likely than a company having real motivation to create this
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
Since we have no additional evidence to select between the two options, do you really think that malice is simpler than stupidity?
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
None of those things compile to Objective-C. They each provide a runtime for C#, Javascript and Ruby respectively with bindings to the underlying Objective-C apis. And they each do it in a different way, with different levels of layers be
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
I can understand this reasoning, but is it really the case? In practice does anyone actually stick to HTC or Motorola because of their skins? I know that the feedback I usually hear has a huge selection bias in this regard (almost all tech
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
Does it have to be blind or random though? A path finding algorithm is clearly teleological, but also has false starts. That doesn't make it 'blind' or 'random'.
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
Definitely agreed about the lack of evidence for teleology among evolution, but I don't think false starts, extinct species, etc... are counter evidence to teleology really. They'd just be evidence of an imperfect process attempting to rea
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
Wasn't there? There were a number of functions he didn't port. He ended up with a subset of OpenGL 1.3. Maybe that subset wasn't worth the effort?
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
Depends on what it is you're testing. You could be testing a vhost setup, in which case different ports or paths wouldn't suffice for testing. More specifically you could be an application's behavior when given different vhosts. Make sen
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
Nice. I didn't realize you could parameterize the conditionals so I did this (bumps into walls): while (true) do if(wall ahead) then turn left else move forward turn left if(wall ahead) turn right
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
Scala (and likely Ruby) have a very specific reason for doing this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_access_principle It does put more onus on the API implementer to be careful about hiding non-trivial work, like you say.
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
I hear this argument a lot but I just don't get it. In almost every case the time spent doing those things (queueing for gas or fixing someone's PC) could, or better yet, would not have otherwise been spent making >$30/hour.
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
Really? The Twitter app on Android is a webview as well and it also sucks.
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
What are you looking for with an Android REPL? Asking because this is something I might be interested in building. Feel free to take the conversation to email (@gmail) or twitter (@jbrechtel) if you'd rather limit the off-topic discussion
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree. There are bad programming languages. Brainfuck is a good example. I don't mean that as a joke, but only as proof that programming languages can be objectively bad. As an extension of that I'd say that language
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
You could achieve the same sharing you can with C# via MonoTouch (iOS) and MonoDroid (Android).
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by jbrechtel 14y ago
"I know, I know- you need to go with the native languages for the best experience." What about doing this improves the experience?
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Seems like without SSL there are still several scenarios where a webservice over HTTPS is more appropriate?
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Are you saying you see no evolutionary purpose for consciousness? This is a (very short) interesting book on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Red-Consciousness-Behavior-Init...
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Why would sugared destructuring not make sense in C#? Or first class events and delegates?
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Crazy. I could have (honestly) written this exact same post, timeline and all.
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Standups are good for both surfacing as well as identifying problems (e.g. things that don't appear to be problems). Standups aside, sure, ssync information is good. However, it's not nearly as rich as face to face communication. I'm not s
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Arbitrary schedule and bad habits about wasting time on stupid problems aside, I'd agree that a standup for a well functioning, co-located dev team is largely going to be redundant. The most value I've found in standups are when you have a
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
I'm not sure I get what your point is? Sounds like they did a good job estimating but would give in to pressure to arbitrarily change their estimates? How does that conflict with aharrison's point that estimates/plans are poor in most fie
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Daniel Kahneman talks about the planning fallacy as well as many other biases and faulty heuristics we use when making decisions and predictions in "Thinking Fast and Slow" http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Arrays are not sequences in Scala. They are Java arrays, not Scala sequences.
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
.........and the sad thing is now everyone will buy it.
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
It sounds like you're suggesting apathy instead? To say it's a moot issue because there are technical work arounds is pretty naive. I seriously doubt any major browser would ship with a work around to this...I don't know why you assume the
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by jbrechtel 15y ago
Not using the side by side format, sorry. http://www.nevercertain.com/2011/08/17/scala-ruby-rosetta.ht...

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