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by kemiller 16y ago
But the claim wasn't that having the genome is directly useful, rather that it's a decent approximation of the upper bound on the irreducible complexity.
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by kemiller 16y ago
The genome is the source code for that, too.
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by kemiller 16y ago
This is one of the more intelligent posts I've seen on the topic so far. Thanks. Question: this does mean he can say something like "there exists at least one machine that can do it in 50MB" which gives us a signpost for the size of the pr
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by kemiller 16y ago
People seem to think the hard part of programming is the syntax. Remembering your semicolons and so forth. But logic is logic. If one of these is to succeed, it will be because it has made it easier for more people, or more kinds of peop
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by kemiller 16y ago
I wonder which clean, efficient war we should compare it to.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Revenue flow and number of employees is a measure of power. Ability to impact the lives or others for good or ill. Some people care more about that than the next tier of wealth.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Huh. I just remember the media event where it was introduced them talking about the almost fully-automated factory and how that meant it could be domestic. But if the rest is still made in China I suppose that doesn't make any sense. Mus
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by kemiller 16y ago
I would have sworn that the fancy new unibody cases were manufactured domestically.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Regular expressions are one of the new features in iOS 4. Seems like Apple now wants them to use their own library instead.
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by kemiller 16y ago
So anything that requires changing all the references to the new one is a non-starter. I want something that lets me fix it in-place without going and hacking their source directly. If you could do something like "monkey patch this, but on
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by kemiller 16y ago
I'm not exactly defending monkeypatching. It's better than nothing, and if used judiciously it doesn't have to be especially dangerous. All the rope you need and all that... And, what you're describing is very cool on its own merits. What
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by kemiller 16y ago
Explaining NP-complete to even a technically-educated audience is always tricky. Sometimes a somewhat misleading explanation is still going to get them closer to the important bits than a precise technical definition would. I'd probably wr
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by kemiller 16y ago
One of the more legitimate uses I've found for monkeypatching is fixing bugs in libraries you don't control when the maintainer is for whatever reason unresponsive to your pleas. I.e. replacing someone's broken method despite lack of a pre-
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by kemiller 16y ago
Sacrosanct? No. But still useful. With a real merge, you get a special commit that summarizes what had to be done to complete the merge. That can come in handy, especially with the sort of bugs that creep in during merges. Rebase will
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by kemiller 16y ago
The schemes of schemes thing is very maddening, since I never know which level I'm supposed to work on. The usability is awful. Actions listed alphabetically in the side bar? Including "edit"? Really? We get frequent, intermittent crashe
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by kemiller 16y ago
What sorts of older things did they throw out? And is there not even eventual persistence with VoltDB? Is there a recovery log or some such? Otherwise it seems like serious power event and you're toast.
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by kemiller 16y ago
I'd need to be paid a lot more than that to use JIRA.
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by kemiller 16y ago
The problem is not as pervasive as you might think, though it does happen.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Hi Evan, This is perhaps a silly question, but now that you have a solid base of ruby-in-ruby is there any room to re-optimize certain critical sections (hashes, sockets...) in C? Perhaps using a custom API that preserves most or all of th
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by kemiller 16y ago
I can't comment on the motivations of the maintainers, but in my experience normal merges can handle more conflicts cases smoothly than rebase. Rebase is also controversial because technically it's rewriting history. I think for the speci
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by kemiller 16y ago
Pull with rebase essentially takes all of your local commits and applies each one in turn to the remote head as if each one was a patch. Plain "git pull" doesn't do anything wrong at all, rebase is just a different style. It lets you deal
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by kemiller 17y ago
I dunno, that seems more like a "lighting a joint in front of a police car" kind of thing. An offense that the police might let slide becomes a priority when it's done publicly or obviously.
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by kemiller 17y ago
Facebook is relentlessly and constantly capricious with its API users. This kind of thing is an every day occurrence with them; if they're not doing it on purpose, they're doing it by accident because they don't appear to test their own AP
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by kemiller 17y ago
I suspect Apple had a roadmap for all of these long before WebOS or Android came out. Could the final form have been influenced by those? Unknowable from outside. I'm not sure in what way you think this looks like Palm's solution.
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by kemiller 17y ago
Right, those features totally never occurred to them before Palm and Google did them. Multitasking? Ads? WALLPAPERS! Where DO they come up with these amazing ideas?
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Tic Tac Toe in Haskell, and a cry in the wilderness(torquingwetstrainers.wordpress.com)
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by kemiller 17y ago
There are places that do care. Google, for one. The entire finance industry (look where that got them!). Law, academia. A top degree can make a big difference for the right kind of person, in certain fields. But doing something awesome
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by kemiller 17y ago
They're not. Most of your time is still spent editing text . Or if it isn't, you're not getting enough done. Any deficiencies in semantic understanding (that's what your brain is for, remember?) are made up for by the sheer speed a prof
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by kemiller 17y ago
That was actually a pretty clever solution he came up with. I didn't see the punchline coming.
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by kemiller 17y ago
The BDD reference is not just an analogy, it's what these are for. And it's not about non-programmers maintaining the code. Not at all. It's about a business owner and a programmer sitting together and making executable specs together. I

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