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by methehack 7y ago
Or is it evidence that the politicians aren't working correctly?
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by methehack 7y ago
I understand this thinking. I think, though, that the more we understand about cognition (and sleep and health in general and its impact on thinking), the more we'll tend toward somewhat lighter hours (more like 30-40 hours a week eve
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by methehack 7y ago
If promoting voting or identifying the disinformation campaigns of nation states is considered bias, than consider me happily labeled. However, I think there's something categorically different about such tools as they are not so much
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by methehack 7y ago
Does anyone know of a similar resource for the next US presidential election?
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by methehack 7y ago
It really stands out with Elm and Rust and is much appreciated. A human/e interface to compiler errors is critical to me. It means the difference between the compiler being an ally and the compiler being an enemy (or maybe a teacher wh
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by methehack 7y ago
Good question -- I appreciate it. The application of human ingenuity to solving problems maybe (engineering in the widest sense). But there's something even more abstract, I think... Something more like _thinking_ most generally. It&
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by methehack 7y ago
I totally respect and even admire dissenting opinions, but, on the contrary, this book is magic for me. For me, it connects programming to larger and vital human endeavor. K&R does that for me too, so maybe it's a me thing.
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by methehack 7y ago
You probably know this, but for others reading along, Racket has a #lang sicp language to fully support using Racket to follow along. https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html
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by methehack 7y ago
Isn't this splitting hairs? The real achievement it seems to me is continuous operation within spec. The watchdog timers (whatever they are) are part of the design that enabled this. I don't think it lessens the achievement at
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by methehack 7y ago
It's seemed to me for a while that you could take an infosec-style approach and use voluntary controls, policies, procedures and third-party non-government certification via accounting firms to give the public more confidence in the pr
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by methehack 7y ago
fwiw, I didn't read "it's benefits aren't even benefits". I read something more like "static typing helps with some problems, but those problems are just a sliver of the real problems." I also heard somet
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by methehack 7y ago
The article is called "you are already smart enough to WRITE Haskell" not "LEARN Haskell". I think the point is that Haskell is quite powerful and useful without learning the whole of it. Basically, nobody knows the whol
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by methehack 7y ago
'It was written in the hurry of a lone hackaton [sic]' I love that -- it's like an inversion of Russell's paradox. This statement is true.
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by methehack 7y ago
To answer your question (sort of): in my state it is not possible. It is state by state; my state is "at will" employment. This means, in my state, you can be fired just because. Employers in my state can't violate federa
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by methehack 7y ago
I have the orange (the envirnoment) and purple (the langauge) Smalltalk-80 books. They're really lovely and immensely thoughtful. I know everything is all functional right now, but I still feel Smalltalk never got it's day in cou
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by methehack 7y ago
Have any of the naysayers used rails' ActiveRecord? I used to not like ORMs much, but honestly it's a whole different ballgame. Very easy to slip into SQL for bits (or big pieces) as well. People don't really complain about
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by methehack 7y ago
I've had several MBP 15 inchers and just bought an X1 Carbon, Gen 7. I knew I was going to run linux on it. The X1 is probably less hardware, but it's also less goop. Touchbar? The whole experience is quieter, more minimalist,
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by methehack 7y ago
So you're saying there's been pressure for him to resign for years? And that this incident is just one example of a long list of unacceptable behavior? Do you have any sources for that?
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by methehack 7y ago
I agree it's very confusing and to me sudden. Here are a couple of links to get you started anyway: vice article summary: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci... which has a link
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by methehack 7y ago
Paying for software is one thing. Paying for software where the amount you pay may be all but completely dictated by the supplier is another. If you decided to pay for a relational database, you could, with some work, swap vendors. If yo
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by methehack 7y ago
If they'd stuck everything in it you want and the base price was $1600 people would be complaining about that and it would be a brand shattering headline. Yes, they are marketing people; but they are balancing a lot of constraints --
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by methehack 7y ago
fwiw, I always say outloud in my head "thing that exists first" -- but I did need a mnemonic. Somehow I didn't realize it was just cp semantics.
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by methehack 7y ago
Oh I guess my "assuming you don't want emacs, so..." was interpreted as a ding against emacs so I was downvoted... I don't care about the downvote, but ftr, I a have been using emacs daily for about 25 years, spacemacs n
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by methehack 7y ago
Assuming you don't want emacs, so... If you don't mind branching out Racket w/Dr Racket is zero setup and great fun w/great docs. If you go Clojure, many options that don't require setup (LightTable, maybe, e.g).
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by methehack 7y ago
It has been said that HN itself runs on Arc, based on Racket, a scheme/lisp. Paul Graham is a big lisp head.
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by methehack 7y ago
That's tragic and awful. I think calling this a "shortcut" though is misleading, at least from what the times is reporting here. It's one thing to own your own brain, it's another take 14K files, including circuit
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by methehack 7y ago
"we deserve it" is a moral condemnation of our collective failure and its causes, not a statement of hatred. I think our civilization is fantastic, bracketing perhaps the last 3 or so years. It may not last the night, but it give
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by methehack 7y ago
Tiny yet somehow dominant.
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by methehack 7y ago
Just because it's sunny today, doesn't mean you should plan a picnic for tomorrow if all the forecasts say 100% rain. Will it rain? True, we don't _really_ know. Enjoy your sausages, friend! I'm sure they'll be
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by methehack 7y ago
Sigh. It's this kind of response that makes me convinced we deserve it.

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