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by kscaldef 16y ago
False conclusion. Here's what you did: 1) great languages have (or can have) great tools (per parent) 2) Java has great tools (you seem to be saying implicitly) 3) Therefore, Java is a great language See the problem?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Get a better bank? My online banking allows me to: * transfer money between my accounts (one-time or repeating) * bill pay (electronic or physical check, one-time or repeating) * request a wire transfer * request an electr
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by kscaldef 16y ago
To be clear, I don't have a "web 2.0" bank. The only thing non-traditional about my "bank" is that they are actually a credit union. However, they are able to do pretty much everything I need either online, over the phone, or via mail.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> Why the hell do banks still close on Sundays??? I'm confused. Does your ATM stop working on Sundays? Does your home banking stop working on Sundays? The closest branch of my bank is 3000 miles away. The last time I stepped inside a
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Note that that's not what the author of the article says. "If it looks like nobody is going to ask a question, I get up and ask my prepared question. If someone actually does run to the microphone, I won't try and beat them (unless I have a
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by kscaldef 16y ago
"My brother was hit by a car." "My grandfather was diagnosed with cancer." "The US was robbed of a goal in their match versus Slovenia." "I was spellbound by the movie."
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by kscaldef 16y ago
a) you've presented a false dichotomy between social comfort and programming skills. FWIW, most of the great programmers I've know were quite socially capable. b) If you want to advance as an engineer (of any sort, I would say), social ski
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I disagree, at least based on my personal experience. I suppose I've interviewed at a dozen or so companies over the years and gotten job offers from all but 1. There's almost always something I get asked during an interview where I just
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by kscaldef 16y ago
"And, in fact, they seemed to be the better team against Ghana." Hardly. The US was utterly out-classed in the first half. They didn't push their attacks as hard as the Ghanans, and they couldn't get their defense in place reliably. Thin
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Well, of course, when you assume that the design criteria of Python are the correct ones you reach the conclusion that Python is the preferred language to use. However, even Python fails here. I would say it's "obvious" that you should us
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Yup, my first thought was "that's an unfortunate name".
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Not even just "consumer-facing web startup", but "VC-funded, rapid-growth, consumer-facing web startup looking for an acquisition or IPO".
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Many cities in the US are having serious issues with their sewer infrastructure, so even if they have copious fresh water, dealing with it after use is an issue. Here in Portland, where we have no shortage of water, I still pay more for my
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The cartridge replaces a traditional trap, as the diagrams on the second page explain. If you just have a straight pipe, sewer gases come out, which you really don't want. As far as I know, there is no "processing" of the cartridges; they
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by kscaldef 16y ago
My mother has been a practicing computer scientist for 40 years and doesn't particularly appreciate your stereotypes.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Indeed. And the equivalence in the mind of the author of beards and unkempt is a little strange, particularly given that most of the beards pictured are nicely trimmed. The commentary on John McCarthy is just bizarre (okay, yes, he does k
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I think it is a lot more common in chem and bio for the sort of reasons you say. You have to work on the schedule of the experiment, which isn't always conveniently aligned with an 8-5, M-F schedule. I did theoretical physics at Caltech a
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Fine, but "addictiveness" is a rather loaded word to use (which I understand wasn't your terminology, but is what I'm objecting to in the parent).
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by kscaldef 16y ago
You say it as if a "good job and a regular paycheck" is a bad thing, rather than something that most of the population would be happy to have.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's not really any different from C++ nerds doing the same with the template system.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm not some anti-carb fanatic by any means, but the near complete lack of fruits and vegetables in this diet can't be healthy.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Depends on what you mean by suburbia. Most of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, etc are what I'd think of as "dense suburban". It's generally walkable to restaurants & shopping.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
There's definitely some cherry-picking going on here. The migration patterns for Manhattan don't support the low-tax theory at all.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
When something is being custom-made for you, it's entirely normal to pay at least part of the total up front. I could just as well ask you, why should friends have to provide financing, as you seem to suggest should be the norm?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Where does referring to non-entrepreneurs as "plebians" fit in the list?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
That's not terribly uncommon. PostgreSQL also does not reclaim space from deleted rows until you vacuum. Many hash table implementations also only mark items deleted rather than actually removing them.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I think it's interesting how almost everyone assumes the naked guys on chatroulette are straight.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I was quoting Larry Wall who said that a programming language should "make easy things easy and hard things possible". (Or something close to that... the internet seems a little uncertain on his exact wording.)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I think ActiveRecord has exactly the sort of problems that Linus describes, when you get to large codebases and large teams. For example, what does 'save!' do? Well, it doesn't just update the row in the database; it also runs any validat
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Color me skeptical about this connection. IMO, if you climbed the way most startups operate, you'd probably end up dead.

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