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by jlarocco 6y ago
I think the article is drawing the wrong conclusions. In every example given, the problem isn't "too much efficiency", but failing to plan for unlikely situations. Making something inefficient doesn't magically increase
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by jlarocco 6y ago
This is 100% anecdote, but IME agile doesn't work well enough to warrant "waterfall shaming" like this. So far, in 25 years of software development, the best track record I've personally seen for on time and on budget wa
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by jlarocco 6y ago
That's not a good analogy, though. What's the car equivalent of a ransomware app that pretends to be a video game? And, now that I think about it, I don't even know what the equivalent of "driving into a river" wou
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I agree with you in principle, but disagree in practice. For every person who knows what they're doing and can trust themselves, there are 1000 who will install malware and other crap and end up at an Apple store getting it fixed, and
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> Uber argues it is a technology company first, and drives/delivers second, whereas the judge argues the opposite. That argument reminds me of the George Costanza quote, "It's not lying, if you believe it." Regardle
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by jlarocco 6y ago
IMO, this thread is a great example of why Mozilla and Firefox are becoming irrelevant. Potential users are saying, "Here are things I want in Firefox," and a Firefox/Mozilla advocate is telling them that's not what they
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> It is surprisingly difficult to make synchronisation work between two devices that might run different hard- and firmware and even potentially software versions. Cloud based APIs as middleware is soo much easier in comparison. Even if
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by jlarocco 6y ago
MIT OCW has videos of their Finance Theory class online, and it's fantastic. The professor, Andrew Lo, is a great lecturer, and explains everything really well. Doesn't cover everything you're looking for, but it'd be
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Facebook had net income over $60 billion dollars in the 5 years that lawsuit was going on. At that rate they can continue violating people's rights indefinitely, so I really don't see the difference.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
First of all, that assumes serving ads is somehow better than spreading communist ideals. I'm skeptical, and I doubt there are convincing arguments for either side that don't rely on people's personal preferences. Second, yo
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Yeah, not to defend Tik-Tok, China, or spyware in general, but it's ironic that nobody has a problem with Google, Facebook, and other American companies tracking everything people do, but when a Chinese company starts doing it, it&#x27
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Speak for yourself. Web development is more or less part of the advertising industry now, but huge parts of "tech" aren't working on the web or with advertising.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Well that's disappointing. It seemed like they had cool products, and it's too bad to see it bought up by an advertising/spyware company with a history of killing products.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Their focus on monetizing everybody with advertising hurt their products in the long run. It's like they develop products just enough to get people using them so they can squeeze out some more meta-data and connect the dots back to a G
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I think it's great. It's about time they started using more of the available screen space. If I want a tiny view I'll shrink the window. Since this seems to be such a contentious issue, I wonder why they didn't keep th
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> One interesting question I think is outstanding - from parsing the video carefully, it seems to me that devs are going to want ARM linux virtualized, vs AMD64. I’m not highly conversant with ARM linux, but in my mind I imagine it’s sti
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Just to add a bit to that, since not many people know this part... Joe Armstrong and S.R. Virding wrote a case study chapter for the book, "Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming," and it has a section explaining the history
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I'm also curious about this, and what "real world" Prolog actually look like. On one hand, I think the paradigm really simplifies some things, but then on the other hand, everything else (aka routine programming tasks) seems
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by jlarocco 6y ago
That's a great summary of why social media is a dumpster fire. From buying fake likes down to plain old sleaziness, you seem to have covered all the bases.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I suspect you're probably right, but that example isn't the greatest because Python 3 isn't source compatible with Python 2. The source code text itself isn't even backwards compatible in that case.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Patent trolls don't produce anything that can infringe on a patent, so having a patent portfolio does nothing to protect against them. A patent portfolio helps when a competitor claims their patent is being infringed. A company with a
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> Sure, this might be true for the average user To be fair, that has always been Ubuntu's target market...
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I believe you, but I've better luck with other Debian. Until I started using FreeBSD on my desktop a few months ago, I had run Debian on most of my personal machines for ~15 years, and often on work machines. For the most part, I was
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by jlarocco 6y ago
There's actually an implementation of the same HAMT data structure that Clojure uses available in QuickLisp and on GitHub: https://github.com/danshapero/cl-hamt/ Technically, since the hash-table implementati
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I've never understood why so many people are reluctant to learn Emacs (or Vim), but then don't see any problem with learning a new language specific IDE every few years.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Here's a more or less equivalent implementation in Common Lisp, using alist-hash-table from alexandria: (defun csv-to-maps (csv) (loop for row in (rest csv) collecting (alist-hash-table (mapcar #&#x27
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by jlarocco 6y ago
"nil punning" has been a feature in Lisp since the earliest days, but as far as I know it's only called "nil punning" in the Clojure community. I don't have anything against Clojure (well, I'm a little neg
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I think the problem is less with the statement itself, and more to do with him using it to help justify the Iraq war, where some of the "known knowns" and "unknown unknowns" were actually speculation, exaggerated, or eve
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I agree, and I feel like these guys might not realize the full consequences of what they're asking. On the other hand, with no transparency, it's hard to know what kind of censorship and filtering already goes on. If Facebook rem
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> But in response to the subject of your comment: don't they already do this regardless? Isn't inaction a moral response in itself? I agree, but I think interfering with the communication channel is the wrong response. To me i

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