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by lohankin 12y ago
What follows immediately from the principle is that humans are not special among species. We are average. Most of the life on Earth is bacteria life. At least half of bacteria must be more intelligent than we are. Instead of pursuing futile
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by lohankin 12y ago
Ideal unit of software professional (officially: "resource", unofficially: "body"), as seen by employer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfGs2Y5WJ14 BTW, here you can see agile technology in action, too.
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by lohankin 12y ago
If something is called "framework", you can safely ignore it - it's clearly a pile of crap. If the thing is useful, it is called a library. As a corollary, if a language/programming paradigm requires frameworks to work,
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by lohankin 12y ago
The author specifically mentions Angular - probably that was the last straw. I want to tell you: I feel your pain! You are not alone! I've been in the field for almost 35 years, and I think I've seen a lot. But Angular really stan
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by lohankin 12y ago
The beating of web programmers with new languages will continue until morale improves :-) I mean, until somebody figures out that the HTML/CSS/DOM etc make the task nearly impossible, no matter what language.
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by lohankin 12y ago
> Aaronson IS the liberal academic establishment, so it is no mystery that his writing appeals to his peers I'm afraid you got cause and effect in reverse.
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by lohankin 12y ago
I was following Scott's posts for a while. Most notable feature of those posts: everything he says is predictable. Blog is designed to appeal to the liberal academic establishment, which knows answers to all important questions, and is
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by lohankin 12y ago
My guess is that they want you to declare map/array arguments as "inout" to be able to add/change things so that the changes are visible by caller. It might not be a bad idea after all.
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by lohankin 12y ago
There's a simple explanation for recent GUI disasters across google applications: Google+. They decided to make a Swiss Army Knife under the banner of Google+, and needed kind of "consistency" of style. Everything is consiste
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Discuss the concept: Circuit(github.com)
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by lohankin 13y ago
what is a typical lifetime of a fad in javascript fremeworking? Will Angular-JS still be able to elicit as much enthusiasm next month? Am I the only one who thinks Angular is a terrible kludge, which tries to turn every host language into e
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by lohankin 13y ago
If I open a thread "Drop HN", will it be published here? The site did more than enough during the last week to promote hate and intolerance. What do you think?
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by lohankin 13y ago
This is kind of homegrown concept, but unlikely to be entirely new. It has connections to other concepts, but the devil is in details, and it was really difficult to find good syntactic expression. I couldn't do it in any language exce
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by lohankin 13y ago
57, employed. Latest hack: https://github.com/tatumizer/circuit-dart Listening to good jazz helps to stay in shape(there's some scientific data that proves music activates something in the brain, not sure what exa
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by lohankin 13y ago
HN, my congratulations! You managed to destroy a talented person for having a view different from yours. All under the flag of tolerance. Next destination: Gulag. You are almost there. Why is it OK for him to be CTO if he is a people'