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by lemmsjid 11y ago
Not disagreeing with you, just adding some color. We have a monolithic application (well, an application composed of many libraries that have a dependency tree, but live in the same process) that contains individually deployable services th
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As a parent, I would a thousand times rather my child be a mentally stable barista than a questionably stable Stanford student. In fact, having recently interacted with the Standard undergraduate body, I feel quite sorry for most of them b
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by lemmsjid 11y ago
I appreciate your saying so. If I may be so bold, I believe I have a better frame for interpreting IQ results when it comes to population studies. IQ tests were initially created to assess pupils' readiness to succeed in the French s
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by lemmsjid 11y ago
You should really look into the history of IQ testing. In its infancy (in the United States) it was used to show that Italian Americans and Irish Americans were fundamentally inferior to Anglo Americans, because those populations had lower
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At my company, we operate on very large amounts of data. Let's pretend, though, that we woke up this morning and had a 600mb dataset. We'd still have hundreds of jobs running on that 600mb dataset. Most of them would ideally run
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One discussion that tends to not be had in these types of benchmarks is about memory, resource utilization, and the fact that blocking is a feature. In a typical multi threaded web application scenario, there's usually two main resourc
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It's sad that this particular blog post is getting double the attention because it's not a strong critique of Scala, which, like any good technology, is imminently critique-able. The extant HN thread got much more interesting Sca
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
Yeah, agreed, the other half of things that I didn't mention is that when I do find a good stand-alone community around a technology, that tends to be my go-to place. Especially for free ranging conceptual discussions. What I see more
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I appreciate the author's opinions overall, so this is a nitpick of just one of his core arguments. I think he is inverting the value of certain kinds of questions. To me, Stack Overflow is valuable primarily for the simple answers t
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I believe the milita movement, the source of the second most destructive terrorist attack on U.S. soil in recent history, would beg to disagree. For them, it is the central issue. Oklahoma City was explicitly revenge for the Branch Davidi
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I try to put myself in the shoes of the potential drone targets. I live in Los Angeles, which seems to be the official city of the police helicopter (always followed closely by the news helicopter, because the possibility of violence is en
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Having used the beta, and as a Scala developer on a large multi-module project, this release is a game-changer performance-wise. The memory footprint is a small fraction of what it once was (literally). While memory is not really a big is
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
I'd say a lot of the critiques are fair but quite exaggerated. I work on a large Scala codebase and yes, the compile times for a fresh start across the codebase are very long, but TDD-type loops are very short, because you're gen
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The history of standardized testing and the history of statistics 'proving' that minorities are innately different in some way are inextricably linked. The original intelligence tests 'proved' to the American populace t
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Having read this and the article on autonomous corporations, I suddenly understand that the future of capitalism is extinct humans and very financially well-off computers.
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Count me as one of the unhealthily sympathetic. That said, different people and/or cultures have more or less tolerance for argument. One person's 'spirited debate' can be another's 'flamewar'. Now, pref
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
Agreed. It reminds me of one of the lessons of capitalism--how Henry Ford increased the wages of his workers so that they could buy his cars, thus benefiting them and himself. He did so because he didn't have a sufficiently large bod
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
I really detest that term. The implication is that if you aren't out there doing something then you should just shut up and not be upset. To me that flies in the face of democracy and public discourse--words and opinions do matter. I
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
Just taking the details from the original article, the answer is probably 'quite a bit', and probably without a massive economic impact: * Windows * Air conditioning * Chairs (!!) * Fewer hours and more breaks * Disability and hea
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
You're ignoring the fact of globalization. Corporations and their consumers are getting more and more sophisticated at targeting and exploiting the countries with the worst labor laws. Multi national corporations are getting more sop
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I don't automatically feel outrage when I hear about someone aspiring to work a sewing machine. But when I hear about the conditions, and how many hours are worked, then the outrage comes. After all, with that many hours bent over, s
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
Maybe some people think like that, but prevailing academic feminist thought does not resemble what you're describing. Modern feminism sees gender as a continuity rather than a boundary, and looks at how social gender constructs support
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
While there is a point to be made here, this article does not make it. Or perhaps it goes too far in attempting to make it, to the point where I feel like it might tip people in the wrong direction. The point of the article is taken if: A)
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You're picturing the organization as a single mind and mentality when it's composed of many thousands of people with many motivations and levels of competence. The agents on the ground aren't the same as those who build the
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
Responding to your edit about "a SF startup could've built out an amazing system at a fraction of the price"-- I hear that kind of attitude a lot, I'm not so sure it holds to scrutiny. Tackling the problem of a system th
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
This narrative gets played over and over. People get ahold of public workers' salaries, see that they're getting a decent wage, and get all huffy that those public workers are personally stealing their hard earned taxpayer money.
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I agree that certain axioms can be verified or disproven, but larger questions remain arguable in both science and the humanities (if those can be truly separated). For example, you can verify that a linked list works, or that an operation
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
I dunno, I missed it too. Maybe something to do with the economic use of a personal epiphany? Either way I appreciate your response, and your openness to be wrong.
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I guess a lot of it comes down to quality of instruction. One of my most eye opening experiences as an English major was when I turned an essay about a religious text (honestly I forget which one). The essay used a writing style that inte
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by lemmsjid 13y ago
I'm one of those English majors who pops up in interesting places (in this case, software engineering). After more than a decade in the field, I continue feeling that my degree was excellent preparation for writing code. Allow me some

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