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by jholman 9y ago
Interesting how it falsely characterizes the US as currently having human spaceflight capabilities.
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by jholman 9y ago
R.I.P.
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by jholman 9y ago
Overall, I appreciate and respect your thoughts about the relationship between the aspirations of XP, your experiences with XP, and XP-as-a-written-document (c.f. the pointing hand vs the things pointed at). Thank you for sharing them. An
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by jholman 9y ago
Oh, man, I didn't even read the byline, and didn't guess that the Polly in Dear Polly is Polly Esther. Damn I miss her Suck column.
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by jholman 9y ago
Hmn, Helix means I'm probably going to stop work on the project I started this week. :) I shall need some tool to ensure that I replace it with something equally virtuous. Oh, look, Helix!
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by jholman 9y ago
The claim has never been that it had no advantages. The claim has always been that, although agriculture is a dominant strategy at the cultural level (obviously, from history!), it allegedly involves a less pleasant life experience for the
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by jholman 9y ago
I'm honestly curious why you would infer that I think it's likely there are likely no genetic differences. I said nothing of the kind.
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by jholman 9y ago
Do we have any evidence at all that any of the behaviour differences between populations are genetic? I'm not well-educated in this area, but I'm aware of no such evidence. Educate me? As far as I can tell (again, in my relative
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by jholman 9y ago
Which Canadian schools have software engineering degrees which are vocational? Note that my degree is from a well-reputed Canadian school that has a "software engineering specialization", and as far as I can tell (though I did not
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by jholman 9y ago
That essay was incredible, thank you.
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by jholman 9y ago
I agree strongly with (1). Jeff is brilliant, and wise, and his writing is terrific. I wish him success. (And yeah, this article is spot-on, as always.) But there's a problem with (2): his games are fucking terrible (for context, I&#
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by jholman 9y ago
What makes a C++/Rust/etc vector distinct from an array is that it's resizable. That is its defining property. On the other hand, a mathematical vector is not a resizable thing: a vector in R² is of a fundamentally differe
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by jholman 9y ago
What's a "front page"?
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by jholman 9y ago
#4 (REST) should not be on this list. There are (at least) three senses of "REST" in use in the development world, and none of them are important in an API. The first is the original definition, laid out in Fielding's thesis.
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by jholman 9y ago
That's weird, because I press it all the time with one hand. I don't even reliably use the same hand. Does your keyboard not have an Alt key to the right of the space-bar?
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by jholman 9y ago
The parts of the article you linked that are about how Card is sooooo right-wing, and so pro-facist, are pretty... insubstantial? I'm attempting to write obliquely to limit spoiler effect. But yeah, of course #2/#3 is the reason
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by jholman 9y ago
I haven't dug incredibly deeply into Card's political statements outside of his fiction, so unlike my other comments in this thread, I'm shooting from the hip here, but... My read is that Card (like a few other Mormon SF writ
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by jholman 9y ago
Sure, I won't over-read into it, I'll just actually read it. For example, I won't make the mistake you made, of claiming that voting is only for the military. It might be one of your favourite works ever, but you might not h
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by jholman 9y ago
Regarding Card, yeah. I mean, I'd word it differently from you, but I think we agree. The Ender's Game series collectively are constantly looking at fascistic themes. And these are invariably brought up for the purpose of lookin
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by jholman 9y ago
Obligatory complaint about the mis-representation of Heinlein. This is an author who also wrote a (glowing) book about anarcho-syndicalists liberating their prison colony from corporatists colonialists (that'd be MiaHM). Does it get m
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by jholman 9y ago
The Guidelines don't support any of this theorizing. Reddit's "reddiquette" has a rule like the one you suggest for HN. I think the fact that this rule has failed to show up in the published Guidelines, after a decade o
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by jholman 9y ago
> I thought HN meant downvote for irrelevance, not for disagreement. That's what comments are for. Why do you believe those things?
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by jholman 9y ago
> The agile manifesto was in fact drafted by software developers Really? When I look at the list of authors of the Agile Manifesto, I recognize several names as belonging to people who have made a career out of coaching and advising.
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by jholman 9y ago
There was an AI made of dust Whose poetry gained it man's trust. If is follows ought, It'll do what they thought; In the end we all do what we must. (from the game)
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by jholman 9y ago
I think Eloquent JS is a fan fruckin tastic book, overall. BUT, I have one quibble (about the first edition; I haven't looked at the second). Its preface and first few chapters sort of present itself as a book intended to teach the ab
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by jholman 9y ago
Several months of uptime with native linux, or with Crouton? My crouton-using Pixel shuts itself down if I don't use it for 24h, even without low battery. So I press that button combo about once a week. It's definitely a mild pa
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by jholman 9y ago
Typing this from a first-gen Chromebook Pixel, which is my primary machine for hobby programming (I don't currently code professionally, and I have a beast of a Wintel desktop for gaming). It's lightweight, build quality is good,
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by jholman 9y ago
I had to chuckle. On the one hand, this comment is brilliant, because it's a concise piece of esoteric information. High signal-to-noise! And even though I won't remember the details, I suspect that next time I have a use for th
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by jholman 9y ago
> - Use CRISPR to create hypoallergenic cats Shut up and take my money.
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by jholman 9y ago
I disagree that this is common the world of software, and I disagree that the WP article that you linked makes that claim. I humbly suggest that you might benefit from reading that article more carefully.

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