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by jholman 9y ago
That's interesting. Regarding HW vs SW, I think the exact opposite. I always thought Kinect Tango and other HW-dependent solutions were a fad, and SW-only on ubiquitous cheap sensors is the right solution. SW keeps getting cheaper, f
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by jholman 9y ago
Usually GMs put in a lot of time. In some cases, one or two hours of prep per hour of game time. In some cases, 20 or 100 hours of prep per hour of game time. And then they usually do a very bad job of most or all of the things you mentio
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by jholman 9y ago
20% of the planet? How do you figure?
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by jholman 9y ago
I attempted to make my previous comment neutral about the correctness of your claims; it was intended to be a refutation of tptacek's comment. And I apologize for oversimplifying your assertion to be about "coding in your spare t
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by jholman 9y ago
I just wrote the following response to the child comment that you deleted. So here's my response, in case it's useful to you: -------------- That is totally not what "is/ought distinction" is about, at all. Perhap
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by jholman 9y ago
I think that's very close to what gyardley argued. First paragraph is a claim that people who code in their spare time are liabilities rather than assets. Second paragraph is a claim that the tech industry as a whole should recognize
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by jholman 9y ago
I was, in my head, betting against you (regarding your prediction of flagging). You win, though.
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by jholman 9y ago
There is a difference, yes. But neither of those is what Douhat says, so why are you bringing it up? From TFA: "Women bear children; men do not". There is no other mention of this gender difference. Why on earth would you bring
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by jholman 9y ago
Respectfully, it very much appears that you do not understand the is/ought distinction. But I assume that you know yourself better than we strangers do. Given that, to most of us, the is/ought distinction makes the sentence &quot
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by jholman 9y ago
It is indeed an interesting piece. And have you read Alexander Scott's piece on how mistaken Grant is about the actual state of science? http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
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by jholman 9y ago
My understanding is that "ISRU" normally stands for "In Situ Resource Utilization", which can include mining asteroids (if your locale is 'asteroid belt'), but also includes using fuel that can be generated fro
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by jholman 9y ago
Absolutely. The guts of the factory function should usually involve an object literal. Or in some cases, Object.create. (If we're talking about Java, then obviously you have to have `new` somewhere, which is just one of the many shor
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by jholman 9y ago
You're right, of course, except that the entire design of `this` in Javascript is carefully tuned to make #2 easier and more frequent than #1. And we all gleefully exploit it when writing `[].slice.call(arguments)`. I think it's
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by jholman 9y ago
I absolutely agree. As a related side rant, the `new` keyword, or equivalent, makes great sense in a manual-memory-management language like C, and it's an offense to sanity in a language like Java or Javascript. Factory functions shou
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by jholman 9y ago
When you say "looks like an error", did you try running it? I assume you have a web browser handy. All the examples in that section both look correct to me, and run as I'd expect in the JS environment I have closest-to-hand.
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by jholman 9y ago
Okay, what the hell. I googled "washington post amazon" and immediately found TWO news articles from the last 3 days, both critical of Amazon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/birkenstock-
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by jholman 9y ago
100 times more energy would result in heat dissipation problems. The stock human body runs at roughly 100W, the brain runs at around 20W or 25W. So it'd probably be worth it to upgrade a brain at your ratio, but I'd need confide
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by jholman 9y ago
... one?
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by jholman 9y ago
Did you just claim that "reify" and "transduce" are "at least not entirely unfamiliar" to typical English speakers? Really?
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by jholman 9y ago
Yes, precisely. I'm very interested in theory (by the standards of non-academics). I'm very interested in pragmatic type systems. I've spent a few hundred hours on trying to learn type theory, in the mathematical sense. Th
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by jholman 9y ago
Not even close. Just off the top of my head, Roger Wilco is 5 years older, and TeamSpeak is also older than Skype.
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by jholman 9y ago
In practice it means "HTTP, plus certain conventions about Method and Path that David Heinemeier Hansson happens to like". I still cannot figure out why anyone would ever want to meet such a standard, other than to trick the ignor
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by jholman 9y ago
I agree with all of the major points of your comment, but I have a quibble: > Rails was designed at a time before angular brought the SPA into fashion I dunno that Angular is the relevant point here. Rails (late 2005? I think?) post
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by jholman 9y ago
ES7 was finalized a year ago. Everything except IE 11 supports all of it. You meant ES2017. HTH
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by jholman 9y ago
Work for whatever you want to live for, live for whatever you want to live for. If someone chooses to live to work, bully for them. I know you weren't being a jerk, so on some level my response is unfair, but I think that a life of se
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by jholman 9y ago
I strongly agree. Natural keys are an ivory-tower pattern, and a software-development anti-pattern.
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by jholman 9y ago
There's nothing RESTful about using more than 2 HTTP verbs (GET for SAFE endpoints, and POST for UNSAFE ones). (Mind you, REST does require that you obey the semantics of HTTP for the verbs that you do use, standard or non-standard).
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by jholman 9y ago
Good engineering requires good bean-counting. Figuring out what you can do with infinite resources is not good engineering (except perhaps when funded by DARPA). As any good civil engineer knows... “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands
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by jholman 9y ago
> but I know that the one on MDN works and I won't hit any unexpected edge case MDN is a wiki. People who want to contribute documentation or examples do so. Sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they're suffering from D
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by jholman 9y ago
Slavery doesn't mean "unjust forced submission", it means "forced submission". There was slavery before 16th C Atlantic triangular slave trading, there's legal and illegal slavery, and maybe there's ethic

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