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by mantrax5 12y ago
Indeed. Plus, there's another subtle moment in science. It just creates models which are good at matching observations and making predictions. Many mutually conflicting models can be created to describe the same properties of the same
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Other people. Like said company's competition? Like said company's clients? If I go to a restaurant and order a meal, and the waiter decides that's a good opportunity to invite his friends to eat from my plate, I'd find
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Just because the ad says you'll want to live on Soylent, doesn't mean you would. There's a certain kind of people who like to buy into simple formulas for health, success and so on. There are more of them than it's comfo
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Thus proving that fair markets are a unicorn.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Malice is not the only way problems occur between contractor and company. Ignorance, misunderstanding, confusion, stress, poor planning, unforeseen circumstances are other very common reasons. Contracts aren't written and signed just s
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Let's combine the volatility and speculation of the stock market with the complete lack of regulation and security of the Bitcoin market. What do we get? A bullshit Voltron, that's what.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
We're solving the bee collapse mystery on average about 2.31265 times a day now. I'm starting to fear that we're solving it so well, we're gonna produce the opposite effect - bee explosion. And now just think about this
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by mantrax5 12y ago
The author should realize that it's better for Python 3 to kill Python 2, before Go, Ruby or some other platform kills Python. If you don't cannibalize yourself from time to time, someone else will eat you. Fact of life. Or in sim
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Did we honestly need this to know both aren't related? We have plenty of proof in the AI scene. Also, it hits me as some awful mutation to be using your "external protocol" (voices) for internal communication. Is the claim th
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Science is making up stories and seeing how they check out with reality. If they check out, we use the stories to extrapolate reality, i.e. build models that predict where reality will go based on our stories. There are three things to keep
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by mantrax5 12y ago
As the saying goes, the best way to piss off everyone is to try to please everyone. It seems like W3C are trying to please everyone. Hence the result.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I wish we'd stop confusing what we can prove with what is. Chances are not only all people are conscious and introspective, but most animals are to some degree (it's not an on/off switch, it's an emergent property, the s
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"foo > 123 or foo IS NULL and bar < 12" Now write this in SQLAlchemy without strings, without concatenation, and let's see which provides you with more clarity.
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You can always have a function "roll" the query string for you, but the point is you pick the function and you handle its output, instead of making a metaquery to some engine, which calls your SQL server itself with something , b
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I think once a developer reaches a certain level of experience and maturity, they realize they should stop giving any sort of ORM a chance.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
You know what we need, we need to pick one of those people and give 'em one day to invent HTTP/2.0 and it'll be a better spec compared to letting them all "decide" together by nerd-fighting each other into etern
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Put enough cooks in the kitchen and soon you'll have each of them list a long list of complaints about the broth. Committees only work to codify existing de-facto standards as official standards. Look at any of the big standards we&#x2
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by mantrax5 12y ago
A mature discipline means highly experienced experts. And the thing about experts: they can tell you what can already be done, and tend to reject anything different than what can already be done. It's a well-known caveat. Experts would
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by mantrax5 12y ago
If Excel compatibility is the goal, one should use libraries that read and produce Excel files. CSV is bullshit, it's not good for anything except scenarios where you control both the export process, and the parser (so you know what de
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Why are people using CSV when better (and less fuzzily defined) solutions exist, such as JSON?
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by mantrax5 12y ago
The problem with this is that not every recursion qualifies for a TCO optimization, and when it doesn't, you're in big doodoo if your recursion goes deep. This means a programmer has to tell apart two types of recursion based on h
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Loops can be written as recursive functions, so that the compiler can use TCO to turn them back into loops... If your language religiously omits loops, it's understandable why you'd need to emulate loops this way, but the alternat
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Then why do we expect to prove such traits for animals? Keep in mind we use said "proofs" to justify how we treat animals used for food, experiments, hunting them for sport, and so on.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
A technical pervert would take a HD video with their phone and then use multiple frames to mathematically extract even higher-resolution stills from it: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~kalyans/research/snapshots/
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That's the first good use for this tech I've seen, and yet a hilarious demonstration why said tech shouldn't be stuffed in a phone.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Had the same happen to me, but since I'm a cynical sob, I check all my data on transfers, so I noticed and changed it immediately. Other info that gets damaged during NameCheap transfers may include company name, phone and fax. I repor
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Well that's humans for you. Until proven otherwise, a species lacks intelligence, emotions and self-awareness. It was not long time ago we'd claim that for our peers, based on silly traits like skin color. By the way, I wonder whe
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It's not the new 60s, because we already have existing computers to back us up in terms of automation, simulation and so on of whatever is to come. Case in point, the article. It'll be the "60s" maybe for a few months, a
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"In this case, the theory is way ahead of the practice, and it would seem wise to go ahead and begin offering CS courses now in quantum programming and quantum algorithms so by the time these computers are built, we're all ready t
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It's because these systems were created with the focus being how cool it'd be to make a static site generator, versus the focus being solving a real problem. We do this. I do this. We like to decide "how cool it'd be...&

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