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by magpi3 5y ago
I know, but syntactically speaking, when looking at a program, it is always just lists embedded in lists. That is the lack of semantic references I am thinking about. When I talk about being feeling grounded, I mean seeing a distinguishable
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by magpi3 5y ago
I am also not sure, but in compiler design semantic analysis includes checking to see variables match their types, and obviously lisp macros are partially so powerful because their is no type checking. For me this was the biggest challenge
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by magpi3 5y ago
Even if it he is unaware of it, it still shows dominance to ask someone to do something outside of the scope of their job. If I asked a coworker to get my coffee, you could say that perhaps I just wanted coffee. But I am also expressing a p
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by magpi3 5y ago
There are cultures and then their is business culture. Nobody is acting exactly the way they do at home in a business, because in order for a business to work efficiently people have to adapt to the cultural practices that can help a dispar
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by magpi3 5y ago
Perhaps a tax could be introduced for those who renounce their citizenship and which could work somewhat like the estate tax. Meaning it would only affect people who have considerable wealth.
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by magpi3 5y ago
China (and Russia's) disadvantage is that they are autocratic nations that don't play nicely with others. The West's advantage is its alliances. If the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan, Europe, etc. all move in lockstep, autocr
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by magpi3 5y ago
> not only has billions of U.S. dollars just went to China without anything in return Genuine question: doesn't Chinese crackdown on its tech industry and private education industry have a greater impact on Chinese people (who are a
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by magpi3 5y ago
To _force_ a U.S. company to do something like this would be a behavior on the level of an autocratic nation like China. Yes, I think it would be a very huge deal. I imagine somehow the government sweetens the pot for big printer manufactur
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by magpi3 5y ago
But he didn't write it. He started writing it in bash, and then (because he is Linus Torvalds), some very talented linux hackers jumped in to to help him. Just like with the kernel really. It was a tool written by extremely competent l
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by magpi3 5y ago
Beginner or junior developer works. Noob has a history of being used in a derogatory sense, so that's how many people read it.
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by magpi3 5y ago
It would be an unbelievable scandal if it came out that the U.S. government was forcing all U.S. printer companies to do something like this.
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by magpi3 5y ago
It is a difficult problem. There is a saying: ease is the disease. Seeking the easy path (which most of us do) generally leads to supporting institutions not for their moral worth, but for their ability to make our lives easier. And so comp
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by magpi3 5y ago
https://www.prisonerresource.com/prison-reform/the-purpose-o... As per the article, prison has three functions: punish, deter, and reform the prisoner. In regards to the deter function: any attempt to imprison a person
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by magpi3 5y ago
I think it is fair. Compared to the Dutch, she was an amateur. No coaching and no funding. All of her training was solo. That should have put her at a disadvantage.
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by magpi3 5y ago
You have to think of the long game when comparing open source and closed source projects. If you need an app in a year, a well-funded closed source effort will win every time. But open source projects with significant mind share from develo
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by magpi3 5y ago
A really nice article. I am a teacher now, too, and I would add this to his notion of giving a problem before a solution. I teach English, and I have learned that giving students definitions to every word I am going to use is not as benefic
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by magpi3 5y ago
I keep repeating this argument in different forums, but: if you every lived in China you would realize that the native app is the past and the future. Since governments can block websites, that means they can block your web apps too. When I
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by magpi3 5y ago
In Philadelphia, people do this on the subway. They pay a token to get on (or they ask someone for a token if they can't afford it) and then once they are on no one will ask them to leave. They can just keep riding all day. I think thi
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by magpi3 5y ago
The main takeaway from the article is an old one: play and learning are very closely related and perhaps our instincts for play have been honed by the evolutionary benefits of that relationship.
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by magpi3 5y ago
I am in my third year of Chinese. Ultimately I think it's best to figure out how to say things the Chinese way, and then just say that sentence a thousand times until it starts to feel more natural. If you have to think about it, you&#
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by magpi3 5y ago
It's an interesting perspective, but from what little creative work I have done I would say the big difference is programming is very logical, very precise, and creative work is very expressive, and very, very imprecise. Creative work
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by magpi3 6y ago
I am a people pleaser. Something that helps me in relationships: I try to think of my actions in terms of the effects on the overall system rather than what my instincts tell me is the "right" thing to do. I can't trust my in
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by magpi3 7y ago
The point is removing something you don't like is different from removing something that is anti-semitic. My example is a joke that makes you laugh but is inappropriate. It is possible to enjoy something and at the same time realize th
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by magpi3 7y ago
No. Have you ever hard a joke that is racist or sexist but still made you laugh in spite of yourself?
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by magpi3 7y ago
As someone who just came from China after living there for nine months, I think the better way to put it is this: you can talk about whatever you want, but if you make an effort to organize, initiate, or participate in a public discussion c
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by magpi3 7y ago
I hear this a lot. I will believe it when I see it. Silicon Valley is crazy expensive. Why do people go there? Why don't the wealthy of Silicon Valley live someplace cheaper? Because that is where the action and the talent is. It'
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by magpi3 7y ago
Are you suggesting that the moderators should make decisions about what is objectively wrong or right? Because that would be a lot of work for them and they would probably get it wrong. When it comes to the content, we (the commenters) are
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by magpi3 7y ago
Because 2T1Qka0rEiPr read the article :-)
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by magpi3 7y ago
> Hacker News moderation is not appealable, not auditable, does not have bright line rules, and there are no due process rights. It simply does not respect individual rights. What you are asking for would take significantly more resource
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by magpi3 7y ago
If it doesn't matter, then why are fantasy characters (even today, even in Harry Potter which is extremely recent) overwhelmingly white? If people enjoyed protagonists regardless of their ethnicity or gender, then why isn't fictio

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