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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i wonder how this will affect the already struggling pacific northwest resident orca population.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
> In either case, it appear that humans have specifically evolved for throwing, with most of the energy coming from the shoulders, not from long or cord-like tendons. that's not really true. as someone who can throw a baseball quite
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
check out the book "turtle geometry: the computer as a medium for exploring mathematics" by abelson (of sicp fame) and diSessa. it's a wonderful book that shows a how a turtle language and the resulting geometry can be used t
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
just as an elaboration, i was already an expert in another language. my primary skill is robust code and architecture, something that is completely missed by what i consider trivia questions. although, i can understand if you have very spec
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i actually have began to enjoy places that use these types of things for interview questions. it's a good way for me to know that i don't want to work there. i once interviewed at a prominent company focusing on a certain language
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
what are the alternatives?
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
that still doesn't really hold up. i mean amazon was dealing with massive data a lot sooner than most. it's a pretty natural instinct to think those (not all that young) fields are important. and generally the story makes no sense
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
same here. i got my first macbook in the windows xp days. mac os x was lightyears ahead of that OS and increased productivity many orders of magnitude. nowadays? i use my surface pro for any real work and basically use my macbook pro as a w
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
lol. when i bought my first motorcycle, i explicitly avoided any motorcycle with a carburetor and only looked at fuel injected engines. there's no point in not having FI. and modern cars aren't just mechanically "complex&quot
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i suppose the disconnect happening in the replies is that people assume i meant normal in my rent amount. my original comment was meant to compare what an nfl player, with a family i might add, supposedly lives off of in entire year to my,
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
yea, i thought that might be the case, but it makes his comment heavily caveated since it's entirely dependent on his employment with the nfl.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i get out plenty. my apartment is even under market. i don't live with roommates. there is literally no way to get an apartment anywhere close to 50% cheaper by yourself in the market i am in. my experience is perfectly normal here. ev
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
that's an extreme case you linked. he specifically called out it wasn't because he was frugal.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
> "i ... live on less than $25k a year." there's no way i can believe that. my rent alone is $24,000.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i didn't reduce anything, there is nothing unfounded (i used this because you said canard but then changed it to banality) about applying "drive and intelligence" to bezos, and yegge didn't present any particulars to eve
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
that steve yegge story is...anti-climatic. you mean bezos pointed out he left off data mining and machine learning in a presentation about generalist engineers? what vast and yet cutting insight! ugh. that story just reeks of the blind idol
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
in a dense urban environment, like where i live, waze significantly out performs google maps on a day to day basis. its routing is much better for real time issues and is very quick to react to things happening on the road, including cops,
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i just don't understand it. the idolization of ive as a designer is truly confusing to me. i feel a sense of stubbornness and tunnel vision in his approach, which seems rather amateurish, for all of his designs. for example, the articl
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
that's really not true. i build systems using full on OOP, actor framework, custom OOP UI controls, many user interfaces, distributed, etc. all in labview labview has some great libraries for developing complex systems. thiugh i a, the
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
that's a great question. given that i use the labview ecosystem, having another language that allows me to program desktop, real-time, and fpga applications all with the same lanhuage would be the eventual goal. so being bale to target
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
but all that seems to be silly. why try to force feed patches to make python something it was in no way designed for? it seems like the completely wrong approach from a design point of view. and your dismissal of the power of type checking
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
part of my comment was also advocating other languages. i am actively researching options for replacing labview, but the choices are just not great. python is the last language i would consider moving towards. in general, i am looking for a
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
see my other reply. but in general, without proper architecture, any project will become a mess in any language. this isn't special to labview. all of my systems and code in labview are extremely extensible and maintenance. why? i pay
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
that sounds like the software design itself was at fault. labview is a programming language. if one writes poor code, then labview can't magically fix that. since labview is dataflow and has static typing, it shares a lot in common wit
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
whhhhhhyyyyyyy? i just can't understand why someone would want python for embedded applications. i primarily use labview for systems development, and there is not a single thing that would be gained by moving to python while many thing
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
creating a gui in labview is pretty trivial.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i know nothing of creating things using flash. can you link a good resource that gets at what you are describing? i am familiar with and have used processing though.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i have. everything i have done in labview has been on major, complex projects that have all exceeded 1,000 VIs. speed has never been a limitation for me other than UI updates, but that is true in most languages. and in that case it was beca
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
for many of its uses, it isn't just a connotation. mobiles apps have been commoditized to a point. social apps, messaging apps, cloud storage apps, mobile games, etc. are all basically commodities.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i am curious why traders don't look to labview for some of their work. multi-core support is inherent to the language and fpga programming is just a step away with the same language. crunching away on things in parallel is what it&#x27

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