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by madmax96 10y ago
That would be a lot simpler:)
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by madmax96 10y ago
This seems like a plausible alternative explanation. An experiment could easily be ran where a new Facebook account is created without any posts or messages, and the Facebook App is installed on a mobile device. Spend a few days using langu
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by madmax96 10y ago
It'd be interesting if there were a party with a JailBroken iPhone and the Facebook App installed who would check the network traffic.
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Clojure – spec Guide(clojure.org)
7 points by madmax96 10y ago|0 comments
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by madmax96 10y ago
>the more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you You could keep going, stripping yourself of all labels via the discovery that labels are neither good nor bad in a qualitative sense. But this begs the question "what
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by madmax96 10y ago
I agree with you -- it seems totally inappropriate to invalidate a candidate instantaneously due to a lack of a CS degree. That being said, I think a CS degree is, and should be, a competitive advantage.
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by madmax96 10y ago
I think you'd be right in this assessment, especially for those in a position somewhat related to their previous occupation.
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by madmax96 10y ago
I hesitate to add this lest I be accused of moving the goalposts, but I'd like to add that the algorithmic and other low-level knowledge is vital to bringing technological value. Here's why: I've taken English courses and Mus
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by madmax96 10y ago
I have a slightly more pessimistic view of the situation: Sure, bootcamp grads can write a web application just fine; after all, it's usually only CRUD. But what value are they bringing to an organization? Why would I pay them the
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by madmax96 10y ago
While I agree with your assessment, there is an engineering advantage to the cloud: you don't have to deal with as many different system configurations, some of which result in a broken application and an angry customer. The functi
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by madmax96 10y ago
Nevermind the fact that most researchers hardly ever publish their source code, and often when they do it won't build on anyone else's machines.
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by madmax96 10y ago
I had never seen PCRE regexes. I was thinking about the plain ones. This was pretty cool, thanks for sharing:)
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by madmax96 10y ago
>Seriously, just DONT DO IT(tm) Yes, you'll learn that this task is literally impossible, as well as why:) I think we've all used regex in a spot where it's impossible to do so correctly at some point.
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by madmax96 10y ago
For me, it was writing my own Lisp. I'd strongly recommend giving it a try -- you'll learn about tokenization, parsing, garbage collection, and a bunch of little software development lessons.
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by madmax96 10y ago
I disagree with your assessment, and I guess with Sussman's appraisal as well. I believe that you are mistaken in your belief that Lisp isn't the most advanced language. The submitted thread contains many comments that state that
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by madmax96 11y ago
"Look, it's a web-browser!" "No, it's a platform!" "It's an operating system!"
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by madmax96 11y ago
Firefox runs fine on FreeBSD, as does chromium. That's your opinion, and your certainly entitled to it. I value simplicity, and IMHO it's easier for me to wrap my head around FreeBSD than Linux. I've used Linux of course, but
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by madmax96 11y ago
As a FreeBSD user, this does nothing to attract me. I dislike GNU+Linux because it feels like a hacked together mess; now they're going to add that poorly designed system to an even worse system? Count me out.
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by madmax96 11y ago
It probably is, and that is a problem.
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by madmax96 11y ago
The random variable `X = # of developers who use OS X` is a binomial distribution (a developer either uses OS X or doesn't, each developer has an equal probability of using OS X [1], and the experiment is the survey). To achieve an err
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by madmax96 11y ago
>small sample group 56,000 respondents is a small sample?
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by madmax96 11y ago
Does anyone else notice that the graph shows that women vastly outnumber men for AP tests? Or are we ignoring that fact?
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by madmax96 11y ago
Unfortunately, the article doesn't really provide any relevant information regarding the alleged technology. During the race to the moon the general public greatly over-estimated Soviet technology. I'm wondering if this is the cas
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Functors in Scheme(reddit.com)
2 points by madmax96 11y ago|0 comments
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by madmax96 11y ago
This is the most reasonable thing I've read in a while. I couldn't agree more with the author; very nuanced opinion. Outstanding work. The hijacked scroll was annoying though!
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by madmax96 11y ago
I could agree with the federal government stepping in, just not the court.
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by madmax96 11y ago
I think that gay marriage should be legal, but I disagree with this. Beware of the fallacy of analogy! There is no economic incentive for a state not to allow gay marriage, there was an economic incentive for states to keep slaves. Also, it
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by madmax96 12y ago
Isn't RMS' main issue with LLVM that people can create proprietary plugins and those plugins benefit when LLVM benefits? How exactly is this different than if a company were to make proprietary extensions to Emacs and sell them? D
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Ernest Mandel An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory(marxists.org)
2 points by madmax96 12y ago|0 comments
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by madmax96 13y ago
I might be mistaken, but I don't think that Comcast and Time-Warner compete in the same market, so the anti-trust people can't complain. I feel bad for those poor Time-Warner customers, though.

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