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by jgwil2 6y ago
> You may live in a democracy, but we don’t. France is not a democracy?
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Billions of Day-Old Chicks Are Shredded, Gassed, and Suffocated(theatlantic.com)
4 points by jgwil2 6y ago|7 comments
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Unclear why he's complaining about the non-existent complaining. No comment here is whining about the format except in jest. The comment you replied to is doing exactly what he suggests: using software to make it readable as a blog for
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by jgwil2 6y ago
No one said that at all. Quite the opposite actually: the suggestion was to prevent those who would endanger children from doing so, so that the children might carry on with their lives without fear.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
OP didn't say any traffic violation should result in revocation of license, just reckless driving. At least where I live, that's a specific violation that is well beyond any violation that might come from following normal traffic
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by jgwil2 6y ago
From the perspective of a salesperson, does it matter who gets offended, or for what reason? They lose the sale either way.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
When you write software, you should only change a default value for a good reason. This was...not that. I agree that the outrage can sometimes seem out of proportion to the change itself, but I can also understand why people who write softw
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by jgwil2 6y ago
More charitable reading would be that they don't want to offend potential customers. I mean, I guess that can be seen as "cashing in," but then all good customer service could be dismissed in the same fashion.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think the author was motivated by intellectual curiosity rather than money. Thankfully he was enthusiastic enough about it to share it with the rest of us.
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Saving the West’s most iconic cactus from climate change(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by jgwil2 6y ago|0 comments
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Pretty sure that example comes from the first edition. #lang sicp is made to work with the second edition I assume.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
This article would benefit greatly from some code samples.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Good for them. We really need to nip this "contractor" trend in the bud before it comes for us all.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
You don't know what documentaries are for Americans. You may have been exposed to some garbage (there's plenty out there produced all over the world) but it's just plain ignorant to assume the small sample you have seen is re
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Both wander and lust are also English words, albeit with slightly different shades of meaning, so it should be comprehensible to a non-German speaker who has never encountered it before, whereas Kummerspeck would not be.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
From the client's point of view that may be true; abstraction should be the process of pushing complexity down. But in this case I think we're talking about code that has inadvertently introduced unnecessary complexity in an attem
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I would guess that it's mainly a question of experience. When you have smart kids fresh out of school, they are going to be eager to use every tool in their toolbox. Eventually (hopefully) they will develop the wisdom to know when to d
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think the writing metaphor is a good one; we are writing source code for other humans to read after all.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think people can be good programmers and poor software architects at the same time. Sounds like that's what has happened in this case: brilliant abstractions that are misused and result in a buggy product and less productive team.
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What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’?(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 6y ago|1 comments
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I guess the moral is only spend time and effort on stuff that can be reused for multiple job candidacies, like a resume, website, or side project.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Okay, so a car can do two things not one thing: race and commute. A computer is obviously still a much more flexible machine. Furthermore, as the description of the assessment mentions, "The reasoning strategies that underlie computati
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Yeah... because they have computers inside them.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Hmm, I would say that cars and computers are pretty different in that a computer is a programmable machine. A car can only do one thing; a computer can do many things. If you don't know how to program, you are confined to using only th
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by jgwil2 6y ago
More information on the assessment a couple clicks away[0]: > ICILS 2018 assesses two dimensions of an individual's skills with information communications technologies. The first dimension, computer and information literacy, focuses
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Humanity Is Flushing Away One of Life’s Essential Elements(theatlantic.com)
28 points by jgwil2 6y ago|0 comments
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I would add that I like Michael Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation . It provides an introduction that explains a lot of the mathematical concepts and notation, which is helpful for self-study. Covers all the material m
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by jgwil2 6y ago
> the better-than-average people move on, and the worse-than-average people stick around. Is there any evidence for that? The "better-than-average" have to work somewhere , so why should we assume that they change jobs more of
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Superstar Cities Are in Trouble(theatlantic.com)
3 points by jgwil2 6y ago|1 comments
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I promise you that Homebrew is operating "at scale." Considering that Google hires many kids straight out of school who have never built any significant real-world software at all, I think this hypothesis is highly unlikely.

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