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by kruhft 13y ago
> Anything that requires you to carry an additional device is doomed to failure. Like our corporate VPN using an RSA dongle?
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by kruhft 13y ago
> As we move from the "low" level to the "high", say from the domain of machine code all the way up to, for instance, a rich, expressive Ruby DSL, the question arises, as it does for all language: have we acquired a surplus of content t
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by kruhft 13y ago
The instructions in the CPU are no different from the statements in the Principia, just finite and physically realized. The instructions are combinations of logic operations, although the logic is now sequential and having state, which I w
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by kruhft 13y ago
Then what does this specifically have to do with programs? All works of substance share such an 'incompleteness' and meaning. We just look to non-programming works as complete in a sense when they are recognized. But such works are consta
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by kruhft 13y ago
You are taking the system of computer and user as a single system, and are no longer talking about just the computer. This will lead to more than electronic reduction in silicon because there is more than electrons and silicon. There are
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by kruhft 13y ago
I would still say no, because such metalogic will still be reducable to a type elevated logic and thus be reducable to 'core rules' operating on a lesser logic. Computability dictates what a computer can be instructed to do, leaving the 'm
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by kruhft 13y ago
Facebook was originally written in PHP. It's true there are awesome specific language tools for your specific problems, that when tied together to create a total solution creates an unmaintainable mess that even the creator doesn't understa
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by kruhft 13y ago
> As we move from the "low" level to the "high", say from the domain of machine code all the way up to, for instance, a rich, expressive Ruby DSL, the question arises, as it does for all language: have we acquired a surplus of content t
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by kruhft 13y ago
The market will never be the best judge of what the most useful language is, but it is a correct judge. 'Best', being a relative term, takes an idividual's ideals into account, 'correct' being what is actual in practice. The Best is chosen
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by kruhft 13y ago
> We are currently in a state of paralysis with respect to educating decision-makers within applied software development because the arguments made for one language or another are small incomparable islands that admit only buzzwords. I
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by kruhft 13y ago
I've been waiting for this to come out. I'm sure it'll be entertaining in some way :)
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by kruhft 13y ago
It's not tight enough to be a real concern, just enough that I can't remove it. I think it's more symbolic than anything...the only reason I made it through school was to get the ring and it's a big part of who I am as a person. Now it is
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by kruhft 13y ago
I guess it could be cut off if I really needed to :) But other than that, no it doesn't come off. You tend to gain weight as you get older, even on your fingers.
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by kruhft 13y ago
After graduation you get the title of EIT (Engineer In Training). After about 4-5 years of professional work you can submit to become a P.Eng. (Professional Engineer) after which you can be called an 'Engineer' at real Engineering companie
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by kruhft 13y ago
There was no option to get an Iron version back when I graduated in '97. The story was the iron ones turned your finger black so they stopped selling them. Still have mine after all these years and it doesn't come off anymore, so I think I
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by kruhft 13y ago
By rational I mean the traditional "by the numbers" type of people, not if the action (or inaction) is a rational choice. Pulling the lever is the obvious choice for the rational type due to loss of less lives, a strictly numeric calculati
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by kruhft 13y ago
I originally heard of the Trolly Problem in an episode of the The Brain Series on Charlie Rose where the guest neroscientists presented that viewpoint. I personally don't belive it, but that was the messaage they were presenting. The serie
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by kruhft 13y ago
But switching requires an action that will cause the death of another. Rational people look for a lower number of deaths and the less rational (emotional) look to avoid action creating the misery of someone else. People that pull the switch
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by kruhft 14y ago
And info: http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/
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by kruhft 14y ago
It meets all of the requirements of the parent post I replied to, plus it even has a pretty decent open source editor. It's internal structure may not be in SQLite format, but it is an extensible tag based chunk format. You shouldn't dism
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by kruhft 14y ago
.XCF
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by kruhft 14y ago
Some people believe in software freedom more than you do.
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by kruhft 14y ago
Code is hard to understand because most programmers only learn how to write it and never take the time to learn how to read it. If you can't read something with ease, it will always be hard to understand.
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by kruhft 14y ago
Because you have to write multiple-value-bind yourself, no &optional and &key parameters, no try/catch or condition system and verious other reasons. Scheme is case sensitive by default though, which I like. It's sort of like asking
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by kruhft 14y ago
Help, I'm feeling repressed!
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by kruhft 14y ago
Vive la Revolution!
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by kruhft 14y ago
"Give Me The Ability To Post On An Internet Message Board About How Displeased I Am About How My Country Is Being Run, or Give Me Death!"
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by kruhft 14y ago
True, risk adjustments can be made to modify those bounds in real markets, unlike with actual lottery tickets where you have no control over the upside and expectation of winning. But the idea is still very similar in it's basic strategy. G
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by kruhft 14y ago
After reading Taleb's books and thinking about his strategy, it's akin to buying lottery tickets. Lots of little losses with a large win on infrequent random events. It sounds more regal when you say "structure the trades to reduce your ex
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by kruhft 14y ago
They can probably only spend them at the company store.

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