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by nikofeyn 8y ago
in what world is this no news? these aren't just statistics on employees who happen to work at amazon. these 911 calls were reported to be placed while at work. what other places of work is it common for employees, while working, to ex
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i had a similar experience, making a little password "application" on mine. however, it didn't turn me on to programming. it was just a thing i did. many years later, i sort of fell into software. i still don't like prog
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
that letter was hard to read. it was from someone who had already made up their mind and put up a reflector. her response made me think of someone playing play investigator and reminded me of michael bluth and maritime law in arrested deve
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> Because "deeper emotions" is something defined by us, humans, and is probably completely meaningless without a complete understanding of how we define emotions in the first place. i am sorry, but that doesn’t make any sense.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> But I don't believe that empathy requires ... putting of oneself in another's shoes... put oneself in another's shoes is basically a definition of empathy...
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> Of course animals have no such conception of deeper emotions, at least in the same way that we think about them how can you possibly claim that?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
orcas definitely have culture, but these type d really look quite different from other orcas. in an article i read about these type d orcas, it mentioned that scientists have considered before whether the other types should be separate spec
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
that's awesome. thanks for sharing that. orcas and whales have some complex relationships. i have seen some research suggesting that humpback whales have begun interrupting orca hunts, even when they're hunting other species and n
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
it really sickens me how much pain humans bring to the world through selfishness. i had heard of the cooperation story and old tom before, but not the conditions of this particular incident and his death. it seems the orcas in his pod disap
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
orcas are awesome, to me, because they showcase cooperation, intelligence, and success unheard of in the animal kingdom. other than humans poisoning them, killing off and poisoning their food supplies, and hunting them, they have no predato
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
you have really nailed it on the head. this whole thing is just propaganda by tim cook and apple to continue to exert influence over university and high school education in order to outsource training and commoditize software engineers. in
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
why? (an honest question.) what problem does it solve?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i prefer ml dialects like f# or ocaml or something like racket that gives you both static and dynamic languages that can interoperate. in f# and ocaml, the type inference handles most things, although you do need to manually declare types
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
you missed a big one: racket
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
as a serious question, why even use python if you have to go through hoops to make it work even half as well as other languages? are you reliant upon some python only library?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
this is kind of an ironic statement on this forum when von neumann thought programming (outside of directly writing binary) to be a complete waste of time and effort. in terms of basically being a human computer though, i think he's pr
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> The government kept a guard by his death bed to be sure he didn't divulge any state secrets while on mind numbing pain medications. i am curious of the logistics of this. if they were there, outside of his room, to simply safeguar
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
the oft recommended f# for fun and profit is good as a reference, but i personally haven't found it good as a tutorial. the explanations are often not expedient and show (too) many ways of doing things to get to the point. i go there w
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i personally highly recommend f#. it is one of the most practically designed langauges but still does functional and oop programming fantastically. some functional programming nerds complain it doesn’t have features like ocaml or sml’s modu
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i read his comment as “[if i were you] i would consider...”.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
this article’s reputability is immediately damaged by the statement that intolerable cruelty is a bad film. just because it is a romantic comedy, a romcom, people immediately dismiss its brilliance. intolerable cruelty is hilarious and
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i hate when this sentiment pops up. it is practically meaningless but can even be even be viewed as harmful. most people don’t care about the environment already, so stating it will live on just silently emboldens people to keep on keeping
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
was it vvvv? https://vvvv.org/ https://vvvv.org/propaganda
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
a wire.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
coming to github from perforce due to a job change, i have never gotten back to the point i was at with perforce in terms of expertise, flexibility, and custom scripting. some of it is because of size of team changes, but most of it is gith
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> At the end of the day, it's really not hard to prevent table saw injuries. Use a riving knife, don't twist the wood and you'll pretty much never get a kickback. isn't this just another way of saying "don't
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i completely dismiss scratch as an actual visual programming environment. i honestly don't think of it as visual programming at all because it simply takes a text-based language and replaces the syntax with blocks rather than spaces, s
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> The core of the issue with visual programming, is that as soon as you scale to a non-trivial example, it has (almost) always fallen apart. people always say this, but it almost always come from people who haven't actually tried to
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
what isn't accurate? there has been extremely little research done in the way of visual programming in comparison to text-based programming. > Visual programming hasn't taken off because it isn't as good as text for the ma
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i sure there is probably a term for this type of argument, but this seems hopelessly dismissive on the basis of some pedantic definition of visual in this context. visual programming basically already means non-textual programming. it is ab

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