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by kyllo 11y ago
Words have consensus meanings, and when you try to redefine them unilaterally you make it harder to communicate. Strength in this context is defined as the ability to exert physical force (as in Newton's Second Law, force = mass x acce
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by kyllo 11y ago
That's endurance, which is objectively different from strength.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Also, finding new pants that fit. That's been a big time sink for me.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Chinese Customs has started banning a lot of these commodities because of the pollution that recycling them creates. Used tires for example. But apparently it is still somehow profitable to ship them to Vietnam and smuggle them across the
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by kyllo 11y ago
Yes, and ocean carriers' managerial accounting systems may actually assign credit to shipments that help reposition containers from surplus ports to shortage ports. So the actual cost of moving a container from Rotterdam to Shanghai mi
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by kyllo 11y ago
Prison would be safer and more fun.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Exactly. The carriers are happy to get any money at all on the Europe to Asia route, because most of their containers are moving back to Shanghai empty.
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by kyllo 11y ago
They're not totally different between OCaml and Haskell. They're based on the same concept from Category Theory: a mapping of objects and morphisms from one category to another. It's just that Haskell functors are at the type
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by kyllo 11y ago
What do you mean by "without functors?" F# doesn't have a way to define a `map` function that is generalizable to arbitrary data types?
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by kyllo 11y ago
Lisp macros can be thought of as a DSL for creating DSLs. And yes, Lisp can be self-hosted.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Exactly--in a work environment when everyone is fearing for their livelihood, succeeding at performance theatre becomes the primary concern. You need to be a top performer , in both senses of the word--but it's human nature that over
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by kyllo 11y ago
There are only a fixed number of Toyotas. In what universe? In the one I live in, the number of Toyotas is steadily increasing as a function of time.
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by kyllo 11y ago
You need to attempt independent replications of every published claim going forward. Taking this opportunity to plug an open source application that I work on, for cataloging and verifying independent replications, called Curate Science:
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by kyllo 11y ago
1) striking a deal with a partner, 2) tweaking an operational process, 3) improving a customer support script, etc etc etc. Yes these tasks add value, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are, or should be, part of the Product Mana
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by kyllo 11y ago
"Creating value" is everyone's job, not just the product manager's. A software product is defined by its set of features, therefore a product manager's job should be to manage the feature set.
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by kyllo 11y ago
I don't see why people think of a Software Product Manager's job as amorphous or poorly defined. The job description is straightforward: you manage features. You gather information from users/customers and/or sales &
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by kyllo 11y ago
Agreed, but it should also be noted that in practice, families that want to have more than two children are quite rare in urban China today, as they are in most developed countries. Meanwhile, rural families in China have been allowed to ha
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by kyllo 11y ago
You can't hot plug your Chrome app into IE or your iOS app into Android either.
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by kyllo 11y ago
I've written before on this very topic - not building your house / business on other people's platform. How is it possible not to? Do you only write apps for your own OS or browser that you also wrote? How is writing a &quo
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by kyllo 11y ago
That's because actors have a union.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Try the pork next time. Yes, with the skin and fat on it. Or the beef noodle soup.
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by kyllo 11y ago
I think some of it is Rstudio the ide, which shows variables in memory on the side bar, you can click to see them This. Most programming IDEs show the code but hide the data. Excel shows the data but hides the code. RStudio is awesome bec
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by kyllo 11y ago
I work a Fortune 500 company in an industry where FTP and EDI are the norm, and SOAP/XML is considered fancy. Half the time our customers (many of whom are other F500 companies) think that all that stuff is too hard or expensive, and p
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by kyllo 11y ago
That model assumes that the government has absolute power over corporations and that politicians need nothing from corporations. In real life, governments need to negotiate with corporations, because individual politicians need corporate sp
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by kyllo 11y ago
The other design smell with these noun-verbers is they’re almost always singletons. Oh you might not realise they’re singletons, because you’ve cleverly hidden that behind your dependency injection framework: but it’s still a singleton. If
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by kyllo 11y ago
Probably punted because they couldn't decide between 2 or 3.
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by kyllo 11y ago
It's an exciting time for Haskell developers right now, we just got an a awesome new build tool (stack), an incredible new server-side framework (servant) and our compile to JS tool (GHCJS) is improving by leaps and bounds.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Is Shen a production-ready language? Honest question--I'm not sure.
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by kyllo 11y ago
More of a general observation about how arbitrary the type juggling rules and operator overloadings in programming languages are.
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by kyllo 11y ago
You cannot subtract a string Maybe in Javascript you can't, but you sure could design a language where you could subtract strings, if you wanted to. You could treat the strings as two arrays of characters and subtract them. The resul

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