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by kpil 10y ago
I doubt that will happen. There is a distinction between incidental complexity - complex tools and languages - and inherent complexity - the problem itself, it's domain and the emergent properties of it all combined with a Turing comp
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by kpil 10y ago
I argue that the reason it's used outside browsers is primarily that a generation of programmers learned it first - IN a browser. As a language, it has more warts and less features than many other languages, but it also is unimposing
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by kpil 10y ago
It's popular because it's in the browser. Everything else is just Stockholm-syndrome. Nodejs strikes me as an unfortunate consequence of having js in the browser and a drive for reducing the complexity by having the same language
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by kpil 10y ago
Unfortunately, all cars come with a 10.000 page driver's manual since all levers, gadgets and gauges are completely different, and if you look carefully, they probably have spent a lot of time reinventing the wheels for no obvious reas
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by kpil 10y ago
The "unicode" string changes in python 3 is enough for me to avoid it, as they somehow managed to go from broken to brain dead. Mandatory utf-8 strings would had been a reasonably nice solution I think.
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by kpil 10y ago
I feel that i need to balance my remark regarding incompetent UX specialists with stating that for every useless UX specialist, there are at least 10 useless developers. Done.
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by kpil 10y ago
I'm a developer with some interest in UX, design and perhaps most, graphical design and typography. I'm fine with no-coding UX specialists however - I have notice that not being able to code at all while working in a rather &quo
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by kpil 10y ago
True. I think that there is no way to compete against the speed and relative non-complexity you can get from "closed group, trusted 3rd party" solutions. There is so much hype and confusion spread around the issue - as there are s
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by kpil 10y ago
What the actual! I must point out that I am an actual customer, that have paid actual money services delivered, not just a user and someone else's product. I must admit that I have never read more than some random bits of the terms an
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by kpil 10y ago
I blame my phone... Thanks for pointing it out. Of course it's Iain.
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by kpil 10y ago
I have not yet come to terms with the fact that Ian is gone, and there will no more spacecraft names for the rest of my life.
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by kpil 10y ago
I think that the phone companies are struggling to get a grip on the drivers on the market. The rather esoteric needs of a software developer is probably not high up on the marketing department's list of USPs... Plus, that it seems as
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by kpil 10y ago
Yes, but you where not attending to university at the same time. I too think that the article got the timing wrong somehow. But it was probably computers as (and in) pop culture that turned away many that saw computer science as a career pa
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by kpil 10y ago
To what? Gmail is so effortless to use. I've been considering running my own email servers because of things like this (and privacy) but I have never found anything as good.
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by kpil 10y ago
...or Judaism and Christianity ?
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by kpil 10y ago
In Europe, during the 18th and 19th century, the kings and emperors decided that they wanted grand esplanades and straight roads so they could have nice parades, preferably between some nice castles or parks. So they just demolished everyth
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by kpil 10y ago
I had (or might have even) a low 6 digit number, and I think I remember that 5-digit numbers were sold for much more than $200. A few might have been sold for around $5000 or even more. I am not sure though... I just remember that it was an
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by kpil 10y ago
K&R C must surely be too old. It was starting to be old in the early 90s, and I think Linux and GNU where quite progressive in the days. But, hum hum, What is considered non-old-school really modern C? Are there any new non-trivial C pr
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by kpil 10y ago
Eh. Is it clouds or a truck, or a shadow on the road or a moose? A tree besides the road or a cyclist) Hard to tell without really good classifiers. I guess that with a lidar or some kind of 3d perception, you can relax the demands on the c
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by kpil 10y ago
I think average neuron count in the cerebral cortex is good if not better. Some really large animals are outliers, but the EQ score is probably misleading in smaller animals. (Except for birds and fish, but hey...)
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by kpil 10y ago
I watched my dad die and it was obvious. In that case the bloodflow to the brain collapsed due to swelling so it was rather abrupt. Before the body reacted to pain in ways I recognised and even the breathing was somehow 'his' even
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by kpil 10y ago
To nitpick, the Estonian and Latvian Nations have existed for almost 1000 years. The Nation-states are not that old, but there are many young nation-states in Europe.
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by kpil 10y ago
I don't buy the DSL argument, as it's not more suitable for any domain than any other language unless shuffling COBOL specific data structures from a DL/1 database counts as a domain. Interestingly, Lisp is (slightly) older t
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by kpil 10y ago
Ok, this thing with young developers going into grandfather-mode is starting to get old. Acknowledge that it's a hipster thing to use vi and fixed gear bikes, and carry on with your life.
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by kpil 10y ago
That would be computerless computing - seems to a harder problem to solve... P2P was about using non-dedicated computers. It's like the antithesis of the currently marked cloud solutions isn't it?
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by kpil 10y ago
Fred Brooks where spot on in his thoughs regarding essential (as in inherent) complexity. I think that BPEL thankfully died just a couple of years ago, but not thanks to some globally aquired insight but rather because a new batch of develo
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by kpil 10y ago
I think everything you say is true except the jab at java, which is also true, but not all the truth... Besides, during the 90s the idea seemed to be that that the next step after the outsourcing was actually no programmers at all. UML and
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by kpil 10y ago
The mothers of highly intelligent children where at a much higher risk of postnatal depression. The sample size was small, but it could indicate that there is a connection in older ages. I am not sure how much of the measured intelligence i
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by kpil 10y ago
I think we are on the same page here. How about - it's nothing more to it than someone else computer. With all the risks and benefits. If you have the right workload, it is super awesome. If you have a reasonably matching workload and
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by kpil 10y ago
Exactly. The cloud is just someone else's computer. It's a genuine business case, as running a lean and secure server farm is no child's play, but it's also oversold so much that my eyes hurts. Actual serverless computin

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