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by lemmsjid 7y ago
I've followed ORM like/hate flamewars as long as I've been in the industry, and I think I'll be following them for as long as I continue. It's really an interesting and ultimately irresolvable tug of war between ab
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Referential transparency is a handy thing to think about in OOP as well as functional programming. If you provide the same parameters to a function, will you always get the same result? If yes, and if the function is 'pure', e.g
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
It’s interesting how this article is trying to convince us that the NYT’s argument that racism has “touched” every aspect of US history should actually be interpreted as the NYT is asserting that every aspect can solely be viewed through th
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
Having similarly done software in that time period, your reductionist argument flies in the face of my own experience, where there are actually tons of nuance within what you are correctly identifying as typical macro patterns. When I look
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
You’re ignoring an incredible weight of evidence that demonstrates the exploitation of cheap labor through sweatshops, company towns, legislative coercion, and the creation of economic blight. Yes the world economy is growing and lifting pe
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
You aren't addressing the crux of her argument. "Smith underestimated economies of scale. His butcher is now working the night shift on the line in an industrial meatpacking plant." The key point being that early theoreticia
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
I've rarely seen such a one sided representation. How about a less ideologically colored view? Both unions and corporations have histories of violence, lack of efficiency, monopolistic actions, choking off of competition, etc. In fa
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by lemmsjid 7y ago
I am not saying the benefits outweigh the costs, but I think there's huge inroads to be made for high bandwidth communications tools like many-to-many video conferencing, which is tantalizingly close to being fast enough but still a pa
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
I think you're taking that statement quite out of context and extrapolating it into an argument against math and logic. By saying 'binary is bullshit', they are making the argument that gender is a bimodal distribution, and
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
Agreed. I feel that he should engage with the actor model in this article or a subsequent one because it seems to me like the type of abstraction he’s searching for. E.g. where each actor generally performs one type of work, each has a mail
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
Perhaps the principle was updated since the article was written, but the actual (current) description says, "Leaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm t
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
As someone who had a very positive experience at Amazon, but knew people who did not, agreed. In a way, it's better not to think of Amazon as a single company, but as hundreds of startups under an umbrella organization. You cannot ge
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
I think it's less about the leaders of a group than about its members themselves. When I read about the government having access to identification attributes of the general populace, I recall that a focal part of the Nazi attempts to e
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
I believe his sentiment was that you can do too much in C++, so you pick other languages because of restrictions they impose, or features they lack.
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
I think it’s easy to conflate empathy with forgiveness. Empathy is about understanding someone’s viewpoint to the degree that you feel a reflection of their emotions. This requires a mixture of reason and emotionality: reason to bridge the
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
Usually software design debates (such as this one) are not about the state of a software application right now (the 0's and 1's), but about how quickly it can change, how well it can be understood, and how amenable it is to debugg
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
Indeed, I was waiting for the punchline where he reveals a superior alternative (given the fundamental nature of his criticism it needed to be a fundamentally superior concept, to justify the rhetoric, so something that would give you an a-
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by lemmsjid 8y ago
Why is it laughable to consider that, for example, from the perspective of the large slave population at the time of the Revolution, the event was not so much progress as regress, and signified what was possibly an extension of their slaver
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by lemmsjid 9y ago
I think we're thinking of different use cases and therefore talking past one another. My SPARQL usage was not using an rdbms under the covers and was explicitly using RDF data. Querying triple data in SQL would be quite clumsy except i
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by lemmsjid 9y ago
I'm confused. Isn't SPARQL a query language for RDF? I've used SPARQL extensively against triple stores. It's quite handy and pretty easy to pick up once you grok how RDF is structured. I wouldn't even compare i
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by lemmsjid 10y ago
I always hated tipping because I had to have cash on hand. I always appreciated how Lyft lets you leave a tip electronically. Now when I use Uber I make sure I have cash on hand so I can tip the driver. Why? Because I think their rates
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by lemmsjid 10y ago
I'm not sure I would fit in your definition of "you people" if you got to know me, but who knows :). The key is to not believe anyone in particular and look to how patterns have unfolded throughout history. There are few exa
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by lemmsjid 10y ago
The embedded powers will be very happy if Trump succeeds. Fewer regulations will mean freer movement of capital, which has historically been a great boon for the wealthy and powerful. If he manages to double down on coal production, the ens
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by lemmsjid 10y ago
Basic income is very different than traditional communism in that it keeps with the basic capitalist infrastructure. In fact, basic income is much more capitalistic than existing social safety net systems because it maintains the assumption
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by lemmsjid 10y ago
I don't know how to post links, hopefully this works. http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-... http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmin... htt
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by lemmsjid 10y ago
I wouldn't call the act of attempting demographic balance in a field 'stubborn'. History often teaches us that differences between groups are contextual rather than intrinsic. When I say contextual I mean they are often for
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by lemmsjid 10y ago
I've found that learning new technologies from first principles is better than starting with frameworks, unless you're willing to put up with a lot of ambiguity. For example with Javascript I'd start with basic manipulations
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by lemmsjid 10y ago
Same exact scenario here, except a kidney problem. It was a nightmare to get back into coverage and required ultimately working for a large company. Since that happened I've always thought the lack of universal healthcare was a major
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by lemmsjid 11y ago
While I am not one to shy away from a political argument, it's pretty easy to put myself into TypeLevel's shoes. As they say in their blog post, due to the notoriety of the speaker it's almost inevitable that an event about
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by lemmsjid 11y ago
As this title demonstrates, NoSQL is no longer a useful term. (It was useful for a period of time when SQL-based RDBMs systems were quite predominant, so it could be used as a gross differentiator). Now the best way to think about it is th

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