jernfrost

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by jernfrost 8y ago
This is Trump's boy. He helped him get in power. In some ways Trump might have done a good things, because the Saudi needed a bit more crazy guy on the top for the west to finally wake up about what a terrible place Saudi Arabia is. Th
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by jernfrost 8y ago
In some ways and some ways not. Making a global change is much harder in a dynamic language. However static languages by their very nature tie the code together more tightly. It is much easier to decouple something in a dynamic language. Th
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by jernfrost 8y ago
As an iOS developer I so hated getting into Objective-C code written by Java developers. They really don't get the principle of dynamic languages and they are too fond of making shitloads of classes for everything.
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Is this made as a cluster of independent programs or is this actually a monolith, where you can access all functionality from some python method or class?
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by jernfrost 8y ago
While I may personally prefer statically typed language for large code bases, I think people greatly exaggerate the problems of maintaining large code bases in dynamic languages. Python projects such has NumPy, SciPy and Pandas are several
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I think the key to safety for bikers in the Netherlands is simply the sheer number of them. When you visit the Netherlands. Within 15 minutes you have gotten used to scanning for bikers everywhere. There are so many of them and they come so
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Loved a BeOS when it came out but is not the whole concept outdated now? C++ all over the place seems like a bad idea for enabling the usage of other languages as C++ is terrible at interoping with anything. Multi threading all over the pla
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I rewrote a commerical app to Swift and saw a lot of advantages. The rewrite uncovered a number of bugs due to the stricter type checking, and general strictness (no unitialized variables e.g). It also allowed us to get more people involved
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by jernfrost 8y ago
It is not much in other languages because those languages are old. A lot of the Swift features have been in more academic functional languages for a long time. However it has taken time for the mainstream languages to adopt these ideas. The
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I would have been interesting to hear more about ideas for how to feed the fish. I think a lot of the fish feed today is from land based agriculture which is not very sustainable. There has been experiments with using bio reactors to grow a
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by jernfrost 8y ago
That is what the future of any food production is. Organic and traditional food production is terrible for the environment because it consumes far too much land. We are destroying far too much wildlife to produce food using traditional meth
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I think one has to be fair about what sort of asshole Linus is. He is not like Steve Jobs, Balmer and Gates who could be vindictive and get personal. For Linus it is more about being far too blunt. But you can clearly see Linus himself bein
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by jernfrost 8y ago
It is a controlled platform which has pros and cons. The Apple way gives more security, privacy and better user experience. The downside is higher prices, less flexbility, reduced choices. One of the reasons I can stomach it is that while A
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by jernfrost 8y ago
There is a financial incentive to NOT share data because there is a demand in the market for privacy. Apple can pursue this market because they charge for hardware. Google had no way of making money on privacy because they don’t sell a phys
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I write in many different languages, but I would say this kind of thing depends a lot on the type of language. With Go, e.g. I would not spend much time on this, because it is such a plain language. You just accept there is no fancy way of
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I think you are drawing the wrong conclusions from history because you are conflating platforms and companies. People think about the PC as successful because the platform is so big. Yet for the company that created the PC it was a failure.
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Shows the problem of capitalism. Eventually it all ends up as a big pozi scheme where it is all about artifically inflating bubbles and make sure you are the not the last one out when it bursts. Afterwards tax payers can pickup the bill. I
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by jernfrost 8y ago
It should be like in Finland where fines are tied to your income. Poor people get small fines, rich people get big fines. That is the most logical as a fine is supoosed to be a deterrent and it does not deter if you are super rich. It is al
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Interesting, given that I've read that Americans were far better at mass production than the Germans. My impression is that Germans engineered their hardware better than Americans but they were not as good at mass producing it fast. So
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Thanks that is extremely interesting info. I have noticed when talking to Americans and reading about American manufacturing, I get the sense that workers are not expected to be particularly skilled and that production is designed with that
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by jernfrost 8y ago
What would be the Chinese incentive to lie about this? How hard is it to check the validity of their claims?
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Ugh... as if we didn't have enough environmental problems already to deal with. It seems like a very tricky problem to solve. Plastic is such a wonderful material with so many important applications it is impossible to imagine a modern
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Agree, GDP is a terrible metric. However it is useful if you combine it with other measures. Like when you look at GDP and visit a country, you see there is a strong correlation. One thing I’ve found difficult is comparing the US to e.g. Eu
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by jernfrost 8y ago
These mistakes don’t just run from native language to foreign language. Any time you know more than one language you will end up screwing up the other in some way. I am a native Norwegian speaker and it annoys me how many things we say in N
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I don’t use Julia for speed but because it is so easy to use and powerful. Haskell e.g. is very powerful and elegant but time consuming and hard to learn. LISP is easy to learn and powerful but has kind of clunky syntax. Ruby has quite nice
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Much less. Having lived multiple places I got to day the heavy bureaucracy of the US system is apparently immediately when you interact with it. Some of it has to do with common law. Common law means a lot of stuff always has to be spelled
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I said MOST free market. I never claimed it operated under ideal conditions. The fact is still though that most other health care systems in the west are considerably LESS market oriented than the US. A more free market oriented approach th
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Reading the denials of these people about the problem reminds me of the emperors new clothes. They don’t see what is plain to see for anyone with half an open mind. This insane growth of bureaucrats is particular to the US health care syste
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I wonder if China will be forced to encourage immigration. Illegal immigration is apparently already growing rapidly. Companies can’t find workers anymore so they start smuggling in people to do the job At some point this illegal stream wil
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Agree that we need to lower the population but this is best done gradually. A sharp demographic shift cause a lot of instability and problems. With too dramatic shift you can’t take care of old people anymore. People will reject essentially

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