jnwatson

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by jnwatson 10y ago
I'm curious if some of this is the fact that a lot of senior folks are learning new languages for the first time in a long time. I think we unnecessarily constrain language design if they have to look like everything that came before.
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by jnwatson 10y ago
It isn't PHP-bad, but it isn't a great example of clean, orthogonal design. The only generic data structures being maps, arrays/slices, and channels, is not indicative of a "conceptionally sound" language. Don&#x27
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by jnwatson 10y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but trim doesn't secure delete anything. It merely indicates to the SSD that the sector is unused so that it can reap the underlying NAND location the next time it decides to garbage collect. In
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by jnwatson 10y ago
The problem is that we mandate that hospitals treat the indigent. Without a mandate for everyone to carry insurance, we have one industry footing the bill for what should really be paid by the government. Instead, the indigent have insuranc
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by jnwatson 10y ago
$460 a month is a fantastic rate. Between my employer and myself, we pay $1806 a month for my family of 3. My employer has 3000 employees, so it isn't a weird situation with poor purchasing power. Insurance is expensive.
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by jnwatson 10y ago
2015-2016 rate increase was muted due to insurers still trying to price the market. Rates for 2017 increased significantly, from -3% to 116% depending on the state: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/11/01/Her
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by jnwatson 10y ago
You're about 30 years late. The programming with visual state machines started with Harel and Booch and led to UML (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlaer%E2%80%93Mellor_method#/... ). Executable UML (xUML