languagewars

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by languagewars 10y ago
There are plenty of studies on telling children they are naturally talented, etc and getting them to stop doing the activity for fear of losing evidence of this trait. Many of the "best programmers" I worked with were unproductive
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by languagewars 10y ago
Your examples are competitive sports and buying up the right stocks, areas with specific rules and no net output to society. If the top player never existed in a second reality, the 2nd player would be called the top player and no social sc
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by languagewars 10y ago
Isn't gross income a bit misleading if they need to buy out larger and larger companies and harvest their products/good-will with an increasing portion of that gross income?
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by languagewars 10y ago
So all US exports should be subject to a 20% tax to make the world great again, right?
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by languagewars 10y ago
Interesting, I've been very happy with pouchdb finagling all these browser DBs into one that matches couchdb on the server side.. I would really have to think about the auth logistics for memcache to switch to a kV store. But that woul
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by languagewars 10y ago
I played with a free online cbt and got much further than their average participant in this study.. I'm not sure if there is any use to cbt for depression, but I would suspect that it would work better in a preventative fashion. I.e. I
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by languagewars 10y ago
Given the population of Zurich, I've always comparing it to Boston to be fair. In that context Zurich is the mix with modern architecture. Boston has done nothing and then a big nothing for my entire life, only in the last 5 years does
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by languagewars 10y ago
Looking at the traditional literary world is where everything becomes obvious to me. To be a good writer you have to hold stubborn opinions until each work is finished or you have too many options and create something confusing, bland, unpa
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by languagewars 10y ago
Hmm, it seems like you are looking at how you should triage an applicant if they let you test them very painfully. I am interested in games I can play where mastery also serves as a potential initial triage and could lead to interesting dis
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by languagewars 10y ago
> Do you work as a sysadmin? If so, how many times did you recover from a broken tty at work? (I mean, is it a number bigger than zero?) Before then I was an sysadmin for a little while, but I don't really see what difference the ro
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by languagewars 10y ago
When I used to work in OS support my actions were optimized for the assumptions of a default minimal install and being able to describe actions to a person of questionable knowledge over the phone and interpret what they would most likely t
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by languagewars 10y ago
No, the same civil rights allow you to start a process to invalidate a tax completely and they are used that way all the time. Civil rights arguments have everything to do with why your laffer curve isnt optimal and we pay higher set rates
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by languagewars 10y ago
> So if I decide that taxes are too high and I present evidence that the tax rate is at the wrong end of the laffer curve I could get my money back? How does that flow from these quotes? To be equivalent, you would need to prove that the
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by languagewars 10y ago
Microsoft has to address the amount of crapware vendors ship and the permissions they have and deffinitely plays some games of chicken with them to try to keep windows market share. While it makes sense to hit the vendors directly to the ex
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by languagewars 10y ago
I think today's equivalent to what I used to do (i.e. playing with an accidental ProDos prompt) is running the browser's developer console (which you most certainly can do on a chromebook) and perhaps running a shell on the RPi. I
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by languagewars 10y ago
I find this a little different than your examples since it is government forcing your actions within the private market, not forcing you to pay for its bundle of services. There is no cost to the system to stop doing this one, it just would
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by languagewars 10y ago
Not exactly, we have all been dumping on Microsoft for having terrible security and they have what essentially boils down to a public health problem for their entire ecosystem. Then, no one knows what they are adding as AV, much like inject
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by languagewars 10y ago
Allowing Sinn Fein to publicly represent the interests of a terrorist group equivalent and necessary. I don't know what is supposed to have changed in Turkey that isn't a direct result of the current government being against the R
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by languagewars 10y ago
I don't disagree that they had some students that would be otherwise difficult to reach as recruits, just that they would have had trouble getting enough money per student given that most of the market has low/no costs in provid
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by languagewars 10y ago
I think they ran into the problem that running the programming competition sites costs a lot less and has little maintenance compared to building and updating the classes. It was doubly difficult since they needed mostly applied classes to
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by languagewars 10y ago
Well, I like the "see also" in that entry.. Do you think they will buy a school or a prison with their graft? Will the 99 other senators who want $32m each be so good as your own? If you want to reduce federal spending and federal
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by languagewars 10y ago
I left out that I meant 2 orders of magnitude in government. Comparing federal spending to what would be waste in a town or county is an example of giving into propaganda steered stupidity as an acceptable norm. I don't disagree that t
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by languagewars 10y ago
> Saying "it's nothing" is a losing argument in every town hall meeting that ever takes place. $32 million is a lot of parks, operations, libraries, and whatever else you like. You have changed the scale by 2 orders of mag
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by languagewars 10y ago
He raped his ex wife then did whatever else and ran a bunch of scams. She gave out what she believed to be classified data in a system she clearly understands. Yet even if neither understands their crimes are crimes they are responsible for
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by languagewars 10y ago
I think a bipartisan effort to arrest both of them before the election is the logical way forward. I want a system where criminals are afraid to run for office.
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by languagewars 10y ago
My impression is that they have the NIH and refuse to use standard LSPP in favor of FLASK. They take this so far that they accept no feedback from the SELinux community. While they may have analyzed all the great reasons not to use every co
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by languagewars 10y ago
While I agree with your overall summary, I find it odd that you skip the issue of whether he had special access/ability or is just just one contractor among a group of essentially all NSA employees and contractors given access to a lib
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by languagewars 10y ago
It seems like it is promoting things that might be expanding JS' reach to other device running the Linux kernel rather than cherry picking projects in the existing common use cases. For example, sponsoring the only node server I'v
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by languagewars 10y ago
Absolutely agree that Python has a weak showing, but Java always had an odd disconnect with the real world too. These languages survive in every field despite relatively odd and impractical infrastructure in most due to the availablity of f
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by languagewars 10y ago
I think JS will do quite well as JS becomes the back end scripting language over time (in place of lua for example.) I don't see a bright future for ruby, I think it had some lead advantage, but RoR/opinionated-design really cut d

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