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by kansface 13y ago
Certainly not infinite. There is and always will be a finite amount of computational power; considering thermodynamics alone, we can't continue to increase power usage exponentially or the surface of the earth will be uninhabitable in
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by kansface 13y ago
Behaving in ones best interest to the detriments of society could be quite rewarding for the individual in a number of circumstances- consider competition for food, resources, and mates.
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by kansface 13y ago
Do you know why psychopaths can't beat the test?
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by kansface 13y ago
The op was successful because the analysis was accurate unlike yours. As I stated below, the article more or less claims the author has magical supper powers. He overcomes the great internal struggle (with some help from the great expert) a
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by kansface 13y ago
The entire article is an exercise in self aggrandizement. To me, it reads as if it were written by a 13 year old- the author basically has super powers, but only uses them for good of the world.
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by kansface 13y ago
This is a rather extreme opinion. I find tests to provide less value than they create most of the time. I think regression tests and integration tests are quite valuable. The former are created after the fact, and the later are often so
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by kansface 13y ago
| any misunderstandings are prevented If only this were the case. Comments are frequently wrong- they were either wrong from the beginning, unhelpful, or never updated when code was changed. Whenever I find myself writing a comment, it is
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by kansface 13y ago
People don't work that way. There is quite a bit of discontent or discomfort people will put up with until they are sufficiently motivated to take action. The number of people who are underpaid by 30% and unwilling to look for anothe
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by kansface 13y ago
Federal courts apparently as per the constitution.
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by kansface 13y ago
Google has succeeded in spite of their stupidity in this regard, not because of it.
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by kansface 13y ago
Conversely, if app developers wrote the same code that embedded systems programmers do, we'd never have any apps to use. Its just not worth the trade off- moreover, telling a user to free memory is a losing battle.
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by kansface 13y ago
User state is current captured in a closure in the single process single threaded HN server (running a custom lisp). The solution is to not do that.
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by kansface 13y ago
Sure, but there is reason to believe it is different this time around. We are close to automating away all blue collar jobs outside of the service sector. We are also making inroads in white collar jobs too like law and medicine. At some
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by kansface 13y ago
You missed the point of the article. Ultimately, the universe is unfair. No special insight, ability, breakthrough, or perseverance is sufficient to change that.
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by kansface 13y ago
Sure, but the restrictions are 1. be from Scotland 2. be human In the case of OP, valuation is simply what the market will pay to own the stock of a company. Sometimes it coincides with what any individual will pay, sometimes not. There i
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by kansface 13y ago
What mysterious property is a "true valuation" and how does one measure it?
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by kansface 13y ago
This could never be self sustaining because it would increase the cost of debt (if the debtors could pay, it wouldn't have been sold).
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by kansface 13y ago
> Care in a life-threatening situation (cancer, stroke, heart attack) should be considered a human right ... Health care can not be considered a fundamental right for a couple of reasons. 1. It requires taking more basic rights away from
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by kansface 13y ago
Why wouldn't debtors always default?
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by kansface 13y ago
I could easily imagine gaming this system just like the others via kickbacks or other quid pro quos.
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by kansface 13y ago
my_dict is a dictionary while items() and friends return an iterable. Your proposed change would lead to ambiguity and confusion- what determines how we should iterate (what does it return, when is it done)? How would we define custom ite
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by kansface 13y ago
He is not confused. That was satire.
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by kansface 13y ago
I suppose it depends on what you want to accomplish. Most of the extra baggage could be removed within a month. Fixing other things would be much much harder. For instance, Vim uses an internal byte queue to represent all input. When Vim
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by kansface 13y ago
You may not want to test that assertion :(
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by kansface 13y ago
That 35K wasn't the breaking point (nor close to it).
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by kansface 13y ago
Sure, but lack of hustle/perseverance is probably the biggest factor past the trivially solvable problems.
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by kansface 13y ago
"Liberal arts degrees for everyone!" strikes me about the same as "Engineering degrees for everyone!".
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by kansface 13y ago
Vim is a house of cards. It relies on global state for everything; changing a global variable, calling a function, and changing it back to the original value is a common pattern. Precompiler switches also cause trouble. Nested ifdefs - i
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by kansface 13y ago
Consider the failure rate of startups vs. those of established businesses.
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by kansface 13y ago
Have you read http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb ?

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