jriddycuz

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Artist launches "Corruption Tour" in Czech Republic(m.ceskapozice.cz)
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I hated college. I mean, it's a tiresome task to even attempt to enumerate all the ways in which I feel college failed to live up to the hype they feed you before you go in. And perhaps it's because I went to a big, run-of-the-mill state sc
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
Startup companies can come in all forms, but the phrase "startup company" is often associated with high growth, technology oriented companies. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company This seems to be a reasonably good descriptio
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I would agree that to be counted among your "thousands of examples" of outliers, one would have to be obsessively dedicated. Not everyone wants to be a Newton or a Da Vinci though. And there is nothing wrong with that. FogCreek and 37sig
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
"Let's face it, regular expressions aren't for everyone." Wait, since when aren't they? I would have thought basic regex skills were a baseline shibboleth of a programmer. I even know several non-technical people that are proficient.
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List of software development philosophies(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
Yes, you actually can decide that you're not going to pay content distributors. If you regard IP as an illegitimate idea, then you can act on that.
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I think the meaning becomes clear because this sense of the word is almost always used as an attributive modifier of a pejorative term: e.g., "entitled pricks", "entitled, combative princess." I agree with you that it has a much more specif
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I've seen this before, but it never ceases to amaze me how ridiculous this is.
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
Excellent point. I am near the start of my career (3 years in or so) as a programmer, and I spent much of the first part of that working remotely. Though I enjoyed not having to get dressed and drive in traffic to be at the office by 8am, t
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
Of course there are influential parties in the Valley, but that still doesn't make it one thing. What the OC seems to have reacted against was the reification[1] of the industry into a single thing. Of course you can influence an industry,
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
Excellent point. My dad, who was a journalist for 30 years, always complained about this assumption among his colleagues. Journalists are taught to go talk to the people in charge, and the idea that there is some group in charge of an indus
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
tl;dr: If survey classes actually connected the dots, it would promote intelligent students without challenging them to persevere, and ultimately favor the development of bright but undisciplined generalists. --- While I relate to some of t
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
This is cool, but I think it's a necessity when using macros that the macro code itself be readable. Otherwise, it's very hard for someone else (or yourself later) to come along and figure out what the hell is going on. Although that runQ u
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I think this only furthers the author's point about skepticism-as-an-identity. When you apply the term "real skeptic," you necessarily invoke some form dogma about what skepticism is. This can be avoided by not treating skepticism as an ide
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
You're missing the distinction he is drawing between belief and identity. He is specifically saying that, despite his beliefs lining up with those espoused by most self-professed skeptics, he no longer identifies as one himself, because he
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
The worst of both worlds: Dart fails to provides the advantages of static languages, without compensating by the flexibility of dynamic languages. This was my impression exactly when I first read about Dart. This is the language that Goog
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
What I'm calling for is for economists to drop the pretense and misconception that using empirical methods for studying macroeconomics makes it scientific. And I'm suggesting that being good at math is not useful unless you're using useful
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
Yes, thank you.
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I vehemently disagree. The gap we should be worried about is the reason gap. While I enjoy math tremendously, part of my deep dissatisfaction with economics as a field is its incredible over-reliance on math as a tool for analysis. I'm sp
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I'm glad to hear this as well, and even more glad to hear it today. Despite being medicated, I still struggle to focus on activities which are not intrinsically interesting to me. Even though I want to focus, paying attention to work that i
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
This was the first thing I thought after reading that too. It immediately causes me to assume that the author doesn't know enough about programming to know much at all about its once and future skills.
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I'm confused: doesn't the use of a single local relay to which all clients connect create a single, non-redundant point of failure?
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I'd just like to point out in reference to his Galileo quote that there would still be a need for time zones even if the sun revolved around the earth.
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
Isn't it bad design because it hinders testability, maintainability, and correctness? In general, whether we are talking about procedural, OO, functional, or whatever kind of programming, code is easier to reason about and test and use if
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
I think you'd be surprised. Persistent data structures allow the VM or compiler to determine when things need to be copied. Mutable structures require programmers to worry about copies, so they will make copies when they feel they might be
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
This guy pretty much gets it. Young programmers, particularly talented ones, are going to think that anything enterprise-y is just lame . Working at a startup feels like keeping it real in a kick-ass garage band. Working at SAP feels like
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
And this advantage goes to smaller, leaner companies who are not hobbled by policies handed down from on high about who can and cannot be hired. Laws making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of employment status would only help the or
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The kind of people who are inclined to think across disciplines are the same kind of people that are inclined to look at education an think, "this is bullshit." They may not know why they think this, because it takes some real experience an
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by jriddycuz 15y ago
The problem with this whole argument is that the author assumes that deterministic memory performance is completely necessary. It's certainly nice, but there are so many times when it just doesn't matter. While I agree that Java sucks becau

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