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by nessus42 15y ago
Is it moral to wear shoes into a Indian temple? How do you argue that without going circular? If you ask me, the only moral arguments that aren't going to be circular are those that are based on Utilitarianism (or some similar form of Con
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by nessus42 15y ago
All this talk about where the right place to put braces is, makes me pine for Python.
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by nessus42 15y ago
>I don't have to actually type commands into a command prompt like some bearded guy from the '70s Really? I mean, really? Kids today!
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by nessus42 15y ago
I'm with the camp that thinks that having to code on a whiteboard for an interview is just INANE . Worse than that, I find it to be borderline abusive. The whole concept just makes me quite mad. I graduated from MIT, and in my first progra
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by nessus42 15y ago
Speaking as someone who loves most of Apple's design, I do find there to be a (very) few other close-to-perfect products: TiVo's are perfect, and yet they are nothing like Apple's products. My Miata is close-to-perfect (other than the stere
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by nessus42 15y ago
Thanks! Yeah, it's rather unsettling to spend some time to writing up my experiences only to have my post end up in the negative numbers and all grayed out for no apparent reason. I'm not sure what's up with that -- it makes you feel like y
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by nessus42 15y ago
"Opaque" syncing of symbolic links means to sync the link itself, rather than syncing what the link points to. Copying or syncing what the link points to, rather than the link itself is called "transparent" copying or syncing of symlinks. T
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by nessus42 15y ago
Boy, what did I say to offend people? I provide useful feedback on some services that I am actually using for real work, and I get downvoted?
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by nessus42 15y ago
I second the recommendation of Insync. I use it on three Macs, and so far it has worked flawlessly as far as I can tell. I haven't beat on it mercilessly, but I did use it for all the course material for the two free Stanford classes I took
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by nessus42 15y ago
I took two of the classes and they never once claimed that either of these classes were the same as the Stanford class. In fact, they stated several times that they were not the same, and made it quite clear that you would not be getting St
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by nessus42 15y ago
Now that I think about it, I do think that I heard somewhere that the free AI class has a final project. IIRC, it's a "challenge" that is the same for every student, and the solutions are ranked by how well they solve the problem according
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by nessus42 15y ago
I just don't want my degree devalued by people who aren't as astute as yourself when it comes to the gap between the online courses and those taken by Stanford students. I can certainly understand this worry, but I don't think you really
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by nessus42 15y ago
Vocabulary is very important. But in addition to knowing the meanings of words, its important to know why concepts are carved up the way they are. Why divide the world into supervised and unsupervised --- what does carving at that joint wi
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by nessus42 15y ago
I took the free class, and have looked at the material for CS 229, and there's no way that I would ever claim that I had mastered CS 229. CS 229 looks to be brutally difficult, and I have an MIT degree. Yes, we had our brutally difficult cl
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by nessus42 15y ago
I could not disagree more. I have an MIT degree, and I thought it was remarkably refreshing to have the difficult made easy, rather than vice versa. Not that I have huge complaints with my MIT education, but having taken some classes at Har
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by nessus42 15y ago
To be fair to Emacs, Emacs had the key bindings it has for cut and paste, etc., long before there were such conventions for cut and paste.
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by nessus42 15y ago
Likewise! How will I ever get any work done with all these new productivity features I'm learning about! My favorite Emacs feature that I've learned about in the past year is Org-Mode. I use it now for just about everything.
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by nessus42 15y ago
Did I ever say the word "crazy"? Terribly misguided is more like it. They can live in their misguided world, but that doesn't mean that the rest of us have any obligation to bend over backwards for them. Btw, I'm quite aware that the East
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by nessus42 15y ago
It is NOT the way the world works. I spent my childhood being exposed to plenty of cartoon devils on TV, both in TV commercials and in cartoons aimed at children. Devils are mascots of products; e.g., Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners. Cartoony de
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by nessus42 15y ago
I take it that you think that celebrating Halloween is also "antisocial"? Plenty of people I know might dress up on as a daemon or devil on Halloween, but few people would dress up as a Nazi.
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by nessus42 15y ago
I'm actually surprised that anyone could disagree with the OP, other than to nitpick. I found most of what he said to be so obviously true as to go without even saying. Maintainable code is elegant code. Too much emphasis on the straightest
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by nessus42 15y ago
Where I worked, we switched from Java to Scala a few months ago, and we're all loving it. I really don't understand Stephen Colebourne's criticisms. Well, actually, sure I understand every one of his criticisms, but I could make equally dam
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by nessus42 15y ago
Oops, I missed my chance for the proper witty response. I should have said: Think different.
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by nessus42 15y ago
There's a company that sells junkware-free consumer computers and also has stores in your country.
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by nessus42 15y ago
Yes, I know of one. I'm sure you do too.
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by nessus42 15y ago
It's criticizing Apple for suing everything Android.
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by nessus42 15y ago
<<Has any popular git hosting site added mercurial support?>> Yes. In fact Github implemented the Git plugin for Mercurial that lets you use Github (or any Git repository) with Mercurial as your client rather than Git. I gue
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by nessus42 15y ago
Ableson and Sussman might beg to differ. From SICP: First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing
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by nessus42 15y ago
Citation needed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Demand-driven