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by mvzink 14y ago
You're absolutely right, I meant to say "extensive" action reification, in the sense that the author claims you must reify "all your actions"—although, indeed, I've never used the GOF command pattern. In any case, perhaps I the question I m
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by mvzink 14y ago
I have never made use of reification of actions in real software before. Can anybody weigh in on the costs, methods, tools, or any other aspect of extensive action reification? I'm gonna have to experiment with this.
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by mvzink 14y ago
Yeah, those problems are part of what makes this so interesting to me, especially since they so are dramatically alleviated in space. I'm betting we'll see this technology used in future space technology, and perhaps future research into th
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by mvzink 14y ago
How do you think the Brooklyn bridge got built?
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by mvzink 14y ago
Interesting. Others have tried digital loyalty cards (Punchd and Swipely come to mind), but I think Square is going to have two advantages: 1) customer adoption of digital loyalty cards will rise right alongside customer adoption of digital
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by mvzink 14y ago
That low number just makes Mathematica all the more impressive, especially considering that I wasn't nearly as impressed with my brief experience with Matlab. On the other hand, I use neither regularly, and SAS and MathWorks probably do oth
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by mvzink 14y ago
I feel like I harp on this a lot, but a quick reminder: that's not communism. I know there isn't really a better name for the ideology/policies of the USSR (and other "communist" states) but I think it's worth (repeatedly) pointing out the
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by mvzink 14y ago
It really peeves me that there can be so little outcry (close to zero) and such immediate government action to shutdown nuclear plants when it's proven damn near impossible to get people to shut down coal plants. It's absurd. Coal is guara
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by mvzink 14y ago
I'll admit this idea of political-social alienation/separation is a very abstract notion, and usually meritless in terms of immediate practicality. But you've demonstrated the reality of the notion itself: "I have plenty of Politics in my l
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by mvzink 14y ago
That first sentence isn't quite right. I agree, personally, that every political system should be burned to the ground but, as usual, some Marx might give a slightly saner perspective here: the problem is precisely that there is a politic
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by mvzink 14y ago
Genius is a sort of myth. For example, people seem to have the idea that before Charles Darwin, biology was in a dark age without any ideas other than intelligent design or some such. Well, no, Darwin was actually relatively unoriginal in h
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by mvzink 15y ago
1. "stop complaining" is the best advice to give to someone who wants to ruin a democratic country. 2. "state of women's rights or minorities": Please don't embarrass yourself by giving said advice after waving around a huge red herring to
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by mvzink 15y ago
Fun quote from the article: "This is not a choice between ruminating on art or churning out the novels for gross commercialism (though I happen to like commercial novels)"
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by mvzink 15y ago
I think your suggestions are really useful, but on the other hand, I think for something as broad as C, an initial test with a measuring stick is required before figuring out the specifics. I mean, with C, you could go in such diverse direc
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by mvzink 15y ago
I agree completely. No idea if Brandon intended to sign himself up for this, but it seems like if somebody takes point on actually getting this conference started (provided they narrow it down as you suggest), that's simply the tipping poin
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by mvzink 15y ago
This is very cool, thanks for posting this. I wanted to find a similar utility for Windows and came across Color Oracle: http://colororacle.org/ Also, thanks to this, I've noticed that the common purple color for visited links is distingu
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by mvzink 15y ago
"invent and make things" may make it sound differently, but this article is purely about manufacture of physical goods. Facebook, Twitter, and Google are considered service providers, not manufacturers, in this situation. Apple is the perfe
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by mvzink 15y ago
Given that they are all different conditions, I'm guessing it's more likely to be reactions with other drugs, diet, conditions, etc. than a side effect worth worrying about.
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by mvzink 15y ago
I was similarly inspired, but by Steve Yegge's OSCON 2011 speech, and wrote this: http://mvz.so/blog/articles/2011-08-01-lend-a-hand-to-scienc... I like this proposal, and would probably lend significant time to it.
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by mvzink 15y ago
I'm still confused about the "repair" part of "race-and-repair". Could somebody explain whether/how this is different from eventual consistency in the limited case of a database? Considering that you would (I guess) need to spend just as ma
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by mvzink 15y ago
Most cooling systems are seem pretty complex/bulky/energy-inefficient to an ignorant sob like me, but if they can make it simple enough to fit into an LED, and the fact that this cooling system relies only on optical output and electricity,
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by mvzink 15y ago
They turned heat into light using electricity. That may not be what people were thinking when reading the title/article, but I find this very cool, and I did not previously know it was possible.
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by mvzink 15y ago
I thought about it, and I think I found the reason it makes me sad: an uncooperative attitude. Yeah, the article is pretty scattered and whimsical, so I may be deciphering it wrong, but it is my guess that part of the author's disdain for C
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by mvzink 15y ago
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { ... } instead of int i; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { ... }
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by mvzink 15y ago
Tutoring is huge. I'm guessing that a college-orientation will help with adoption and retention (which could probably be counteracted by a college-oriented marketing campaign by Zaarly); the only problem that might arise is the general pove
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by mvzink 15y ago
"I came to realize that the more informed we are, the less happy we become because of our tendency to get caught up in constant comparisons ." This should have been his conclusion, not some made up theory about why the state of the world
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by mvzink 15y ago
Not comparable, but that doesn't mean worse. It will be easier and cheaper to provide good nutrition to artificial meat than it is to whole cows. It's easy to imagine that the cost-cutting inhumanity of ranches includes poor nutrition. Besi
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by mvzink 15y ago
Indeed, one always hopes they do the right thing :P
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by mvzink 15y ago
Indeed, you don't explicitly make that assumption. It's just the only one I could think of that would make any sense of your leap from "quality software takes a long time to make" to "hackathons are nonsense". If you won't warrant that assu
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by mvzink 15y ago
Hackathons are not the nonsense in this piece, the author's assumption that hackathon projects are expected to be actual business-ready products, that's the nonsense. The author is really shooting himself in the foot and missing the point

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