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A Classic Paper: Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search [pdf](delivery.acm.org)
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by lyudmil 15y ago
This is good general programming advice beyond game development. If you think you need inheritance, you probably will be better off using composition because the general "is-a" rule of thumb is, in my opinion, a bad way to figure out if inh
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I learned and fell in love with Rails because I was stuck working with Struts and I saw how much easier and better life could be. So, at least for me, the decision to use a different framework didn't follow what you describe. I'm pretty s
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Usually the problem you'll get if you use a lot of functional/integration testing is that your test suite will run too slowly for you to run it often enough to validate your design. It ends up being something you run when you think you've c
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I think as software developers we are collectively ignorant about the estimation accuracy possible in other engineering disciplines. Every time we talk about estimating software we point out it isn't analogous to building a bridge or a car
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Should a team write for the least common denominator? And if so, exactly how compressed should they make the code? I think the question may be unanswerable. I found this point quite interesting. It clearly matters whether the question has
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Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lyudmil 15y ago|0 comments
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I'm not proposing anything. My point is that there are other options. As to the rest of your response, I don't mean to be rude but you're simply rambling. Obviously with a legacy system you work with what you've got, but the point is what y
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by lyudmil 15y ago
The ONLY way? I call bullshit on that too. Databases like the one you mentioned exist, but I still think if you have business rules you want to enforce across all applications connected to a database, you wrap that in a service and let the
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I have a slightly stupid question. How is it that we've come to a point where we think of application and database development as separate things? I think this sets the stage for a lot of the problems you're getting at. On the one hand we m
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by lyudmil 15y ago
There's an implied assumption in this post that handling edge cases or one-off, extreme cases necessarily is done by writing ugly/dirty code. I think the whole point about writing clean code is avoiding the hacky stuff even if the problem i
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I try to be very pedantic about having the most terse, yet readable code possible in my application. This probably means that if, for now, I only need to know how to add two vectors, I will only include a function that adds two vectors and
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Economic stimulus and arithmetic(cepr.net)
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Krugman: Euro Zone Death Trip(nytimes.com)
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Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies(sites.google.com)
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by lyudmil 15y ago
The failure I was referring to is essentially having to close doors for financial reasons.
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by lyudmil 15y ago
To pour on the skepticism, even if a small business does create jobs, one of the time-tested laws of small businesses is that most of them fail, thus destroying the jobs they created. On the whole small businesses are much closer to a wash
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Researchers turn wastewater into “inexhaustible” source of hydrogen(gizmag.com)
2 points by lyudmil 15y ago|0 comments
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Yes, I understood your position to be that from your previous comment. I'll repeat that I think you're missing the point. The offensive part about religious fundamentalism isn't stubbornness or denial of respect. These are corollaries to do
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by lyudmil 15y ago
It is not just as bad. It is not worse. As you concede, Professor Dawkins' views are backed (and, in fact, a product of) science. This means that to the extent that anyone can be right or wrong about anything, Richard Dawkins is correct in
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Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street [video](youtube.com)
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by lyudmil 15y ago
One could make a case that moderate inflation isn't a bad thing. Inflation generally happens when the economy is producing close to its capacity (think of a factory working overtime to meet a lot of demand - at some point they make the same
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by lyudmil 15y ago
People kept spending because there were investments available (housing) which outperformed bank interest rates, 401k's, and pretty much everything else. There was no incentive to save because they were saving merely by owning their homes. T
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by lyudmil 15y ago
The criticism being put forward isn't at all arrogant. A tutorial for beginners that teaches you the wrong thing is incredibly detrimental. It's good to point that out and fix it.
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I'm not sure we agree on the definition of "ethics". Ethics, the way I understand the term, isn't a set of rules enforced by law. It's true that some laws are informed by our shared moral values, but in general law and ethics are independen
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Giving credit where credit is due, I think Mr. Chesky and Airbnb have done a good job here. Corporations aren't intrinsically ethical (by law) but start-ups are small enough that they can (a) afford to act human and (b) be held accountable
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Absolutely and let's assume they don't. If the facts of the case are as stated, then Airbnb acted unethically in my opinion. Since their lack of ethics cannot be punished in a court of law, the author claims her right to smear the company p
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I'm sorry, but how could you be surprised? If the facts are as laid out in the post, he doesn't always care about his customers enough. That wouldn't be opinion, but objectively true. I don't see any room for surprise here, especially giv
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Measuring the value of work is a hard problem and it's politically loaded, so I don't really have a good answer to the "how" question. In my biased opinion, it is morally necessary to reward people for how hard they work at least partially
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by lyudmil 15y ago
From the article: "my yearly salary increase was the lowest ever, and significantly lower than inflation"

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