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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Why would that deter people if they aren’t directly paying for it? You think it would force companies to police it themselves? I think jail time makes sense, and for them to be directly sued and the company to a lesser degree, pretty much w
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Google was amazing at one point in time. In search of profit, it got worse. Maybe Kagi can withstand it, but I don’t see much difference between one company and another.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Not only are the search engines promoting newer content but they are also (at least Google is) penalizing sites with “old” content [1]. Somewhat related, it’s outrageous to me when a university takes down a professor’s page when they are no
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I don’t see much value added by a manager that you described. What you are describing is more of a product manager role.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I agree with you, and I don’t understand why some of these small blogs on niche topics even have ads. How much are they making a month? I’d be surprised if it’s even $5 a month for many of them.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I sort of agree, and I do think it’s possible depending on the team. But unfortunately developers can be too opinionated and get focused on low priority things.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I disagree with you. You are stating it, but you are not giving reasons. Managers who weren’t developers tend to not be able to manage the team. They can’t help with or understand the technical decisions made. The non-technical managers ten
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I know what you mean, when git was gaining popularity I do remember people saying that branching being better/easier in git. I do think it was overstated back then and just not true. I haven’t used svn in years as well, but I think it
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
That tends to happen a lot with git and other fads in the tech industry. See the discussion here where people are defending how git has the misleading message of “ Your branch is up to date with origin/master.” A lot of rationalizatio
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Making an svn branch is not a big deal and you can certainly create a branch in svn and scrap it. It seems that the git hype of 10 or so years ago was very effective.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
How is git better than svn?
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I don’t think that git is better than its predecessors. Why do you think it’s better?
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I completely agree with you and fail to see why people think otherwise. It’s just so arbitrary and against actual learning to make a test hard to get a certain spread of scores. Depending on the material, breadth, and depth the teacher woul
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
The solution isn’t to censor. How does one decide what should be censored and what should be allowed? We are refining what we know and altogether dropping wrong ideas for new ones. What is the goal of censorship? There was a time when those
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I think that is good advice, though I am not sure what you mean by saying life is poetry. I will also add that one should be aware of what is happening during the different seasons, such as particular flowers blooming, animal migrations, et
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I agree with you. There’s also the additional cost of maintaining more than one language which makes the balance that much harder to do. I could see utility in the high level language to do something with the result if it’s not computationa
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
At that point, you’re not really using the high level language.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Satirical song by Tom Lehrer regarding New Math sounds relevant: https://youtu.be/p0LDOAYcXAY?si=FCgSLx_PRlVL1Hc0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math_(song)
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Sorry if I’m misconstruing what was said, but then it seems that what was said isn’t consistent with what actually happens.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Thanks for giving some context on the matter. If the base language is not capable to provide a way to implement those, then that makes sense. I do like the idea of having the base being small but still capable to allow for these features to
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
You beat me to it, this is the link that I found for the book: http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/pdcs/#chapters
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
What is “TC”?
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Thanks for the summary. Unless I am missing something, this seems like a pointless argument that the scheme community has. Why not just create a library separate from the standard and call it a day?
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
Yeah, Google’s statement seems obviously wrong. They say they don’t tell people to delete old content, but then they say that old content does actually affect a site in terms of it’s average ranking and also what content gets indexed.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
That can be gamed as well: you could either change the scope or cut corners and ship something of lower quality.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
It doesn’t, especially at the introductory level. Sure, at a certain point, it would be needed, but that would be for someone wanting to become a statistician, not the general population.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
> Most high-school math classes are still preparing students for the Sputnik era. Steve Levitt wants to get rid of the “geometry sandwich” and instead have kids learn what they really need in the modern era: data fluency. [1] I do agree
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I don’t see how that is a logical conclusion. There’s such a thing as opportunity cost and interests. If someone wants to learn something, they should, but the problem is forcing those to learn something when they would rather learn somethi
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
I think learning other areas of math would better serve most people. I think logic and probability then maybe combinatorics and statistics would be much better than calculus and especially trigonometry.
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by mangodrunk 3y ago
If someone likes to use vim, then so be it. If someone likes to use VSCode, then so be it. IDEs can also be called productive mode and use the right amount of resources necessary for large projects. They will get the job done, and for many

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