lyudmil

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by lyudmil 15y ago
I find the following sentences from the post contradictory: "[Outwardly focused developers] copy and paste code they find in blog posts even if they don’t actually know how it works." "Both [the vocation/avocation and inwardly/outwardly foc
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by lyudmil 15y ago
With regard to your first point, I don't think that's what the author is describing: "Once all of the votes have been cast, you pick one voter at random and use their choice" It's not a matter of representation, which would not only be OK w
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Even if you consider running consistently over a long period of time? Also, my hypotheticals were meant to be such that you wouldn't take even vanishingly small chances. If you are willing to, then I failed in my argument.
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by lyudmil 15y ago
I don't think that's what the author was describing. I think it was a case of everyone gets a vote, then we pick someones vote at random.
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by lyudmil 15y ago
It's important to note that no one is paid in proportion to their productivity. In a free market, you're paid in proportion to your bargaining power. This means both that for programmer compensation to be fair we need to get better at trans
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by lyudmil 15y ago
This is a cool thought, but I think it's a bad idea to use it in actual elections. The author failed to really address the "crazy minority party" concern. His argument was that, while his system would give such people a chance in getting el
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Suppose there are no companies such as Boo.com today. It doesn't mean there's no bubble. To say that there is no bubble, you'd have to make a convincing argument that the valuations companies are in line with the (future) demand for their s
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by lyudmil 15y ago
Interesting reasoning. A bubble occurs when an economic sector experiences growth that cannot be explained by the fundamentals (supply and demand). Overvaluation is implicit in bubbles. Keep that in mind while reading the following sentence
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by lyudmil 16y ago
My experience was even worse. After reading the TL;DR I thought the author's point was vacuous. In order to comment on it responsibly I had to read the whole article, knowing that very likely it wasn't going anywhere. I think if you're worr
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by lyudmil 16y ago
This was painful for me to read. It's an important topic, but the author's argument isn't even false. The Software Craftsmanship movement does make assertions about the aesthetics of software, but more importantly it links the cleanliness o
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by lyudmil 16y ago
The first two points seem completely vacuous to me. Khan has never lectured? So what? I know plenty of people who have lectured every day for decades and they're still no good at it. It doesn't seem like (professional) experience lecturing
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Correct. I should have said "neo-liberal economics".
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by lyudmil 16y ago
It would be a boon for laissez-faire capitalism, as it would prove that markets are at least weak-form efficient. Reference: http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Regardless, you may not say Ubuntu is closed source, to follow your analogy, which is what the author writes about Android. You may say that Android is not completely open source (which you could before Honeycomb was conceived) or that the
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I'm not sure I get the point about "hacking" around operator precedence. Isn't the normal way to get around this to define the grammar differently? For example: expression -> factor | factor + expression factor -> number | ter
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I agree with the author's observation. Geek culture is incredibly unforgiving, and proudly so. To some extent this might be just a part of hacker tradition, but I think there's a deeper problem - it isn't always easy to tell who the authori
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I became an adult in the States - studying than working for a total of six years. I absolutely share the frustration with the visa laws, but I don't think the economic argument holds much water. Yes, startups create jobs, but just like all
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I also did CS competitions in college, but I always felt they over-stressed speed. They are for quick problem solvers, who are also comfortable with the languages the competition accepts. However, the way I see it, merely being sharp and kn
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Isn't this to be expected when you add abstraction? I'll argue that not "knowing what [the] code is doing" isn't such a bad thing. In fact, I don't think we can have advances in language design without relaxing the constraint you're alludin
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by lyudmil 16y ago
" Morals are all about right or wrong - you can't have it both ways. " Bullshit! While morals are about distinctions between right or wrong, the only moral debates worth having are ones that are about conflicting moral principles. In this c
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound partizan. I have nothing against advertising, I was just trying to counter a point you had made. And you're correct - it's stupid to rule out any source of money.
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Advertising was, for the most part, invented for traditional media (papers, radio, television). In many ways traditional media and the marketing industry are the same thing , so bringing that up as an example of a proven business model doe
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by lyudmil 16y ago
How about the fact that most successful businesses that have ever existed have charged for their products? Why is this data that can safely be ignored? It's the most proven business model out there. Furthermore, it takes time to get good at
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Valid, but asking questions is hard to do consistently. I've only ever asked questions if I've been unable to deal with a problem. Answering questions is something I can do on my own time because it's fun. Answering questions is what draws
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I agree with what you're saying, but I don't think it addresses the post. It's certainly true that Stack Overflow is the best place to get answers to programming questions and I won't dispute that. Here, though, is what I think the problem
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I think Murch/Ebert are implicitly drawing a distinction between 3D being something people can watch without having a physical response and 3D as a viable technique for making movies. I understood the argument to be twofold. Firstly, even i
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Paul Krugman on the Future World Economy [video](youtube.com)
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I don't think thinking about "the next big wave" gets you anywhere either. Zuckerberg and Anderson didn't figure out that social networking was going to be big - they invented it instead. When you think about it the basic idea isn't even re
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Yes, absolutely. Thinking about design in terms of defining an ontology is a great insight. Every object has a name and is therefore a part of some sort of semantics. However, what it does (it's meaning) is up to the designer. Therefore, wo
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I completely agree with your point. The way inheritance is always taught is through the "is-a" rule of thumb and I think that's so detrimental to the students that they'd be better off if they didn't know inheritance existed. The phrase "X

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