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by nmrm2 11y ago
Simons specifically talks about a) in the video, and how this limits them to a niche.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
It's difficult to demonstrate full functional correctness. However, it is pretty easy to demonstrate partial correctness. Most tests -- even if they were completely exhaustive -- correspond to partial correctness rather than functional
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Isn't colonialism is a much better explanation in the case of India and, to a lesser extent China?
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I am impressed by the fact that Typed Closure is a lot of things in addition to language design -- library development, editor/tool development, even community engagement and evangelism. > Clojure codebases typically rely on tests
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Of course, so are calculators :-)
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This is an argument against allowing self-service, but it isn't an argument against opening things up and allowing certified third party service. Preventing counterfeiting by not releasing source/documentation is a pretty textbook
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by nmrm2 11y ago
John Deere does sell self-driving tractors to a fairly massive market. Just because you aren't in the target market doesn't mean that they haven't brought the technology to market. While there is a big difference between farm
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by nmrm2 11y ago
No, that is not my entire argument. (However, ASIDE: when every advanced nation disagrees with your view on morality or pragmatism, it does not mean you a wrong, but it does mean you should closely examine your line of reasoning for both pr
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by nmrm2 11y ago
It seems like the more difficult barrier to this model is the technical difference between music and apps. In order for a piece of music to play in the background 24/7, the user has to pretty much explicitly allow it. In order for an a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> If the subscription is doled out in proportion to time spent in-app Then what stops shady slot game app developer from keeping his app running in the background 24/7 and trashing the commons (or private garden, I guess)? Technic
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This is one reason I pretty much just leave classical music on in the background 16/7. I'm absolutely not abusing the service -- I'm paying a subscription for exactly the right to do this. And, it helps the artists who get mo
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Alternative title: you can use regex derivatives... This is particularly confusing because you mean "derivative" in the sense of "etymologically/conceptually related", but there is actually a (formal) notion
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Because what, exactly? The most honest answer to this question is because free speech protections in the United States are extremely strong, and expressing anti-modern-medicine viewpoints qualifies as (even political) speech.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Most states require food prep employees to carry some form of food safety certification. Any additional checks are above and beyond this and other basic requirements. Of course, there's a good reason that both exist in food prep. Downg
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Of course it's both. In many of these cases, the public has a strong enough interest to justify licensing requirements. E.g., it would be impractical to eliminate CDLs, licensing for food prep/barbers, etc. Once these licensing re
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> You really don't see the problem with that? I don't see a moral or ethical problem with it, no. And the democratic consensus in most western countries agrees. Choosing one applicant over another because of prior work histor
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> accounting has nothing to do with maths. Sure, but like I said, with a Mathematics degree you can self-study and get an intro-level position pretty quickly. Otherwise, I guess you can go to grad school or become a teacher? Or, certai
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Actuarial work and accounting are both very accessible to mathematics majors; you really just need one extra course worth of content (that you can work through yourself) to be prepared for an entry level position in those fields.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Well then, it's probably good that we don't have school children design our bridges :-)
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by nmrm2 11y ago
There are whole subfields of mathematicians who would agree in spirit with "I do it numerically, much easier that way" :-)
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Partial credit on a math problem is pretty analogous to still getting paid even though your code has bugs.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> And of course Apple collects information on you to help improve its products - nearly every company in existence does this. The article claims that Apple's privacy policy explicitly says that it can use that information for ma
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by nmrm2 11y ago
(TL;DR: Multi-purpose languages are pretty large and used in particular ways across different domains. It doesn't even make sense to ask about the difference between a 7 and an 8. An honest interviewee with become bogged down realizing
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I'm not looking for a job, but I want to do the work-sample part of your hiring process after reading this post. Sounds like a fun time.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
You don't think a bunch of astronaut deaths and costly mission failures would've eventually eroded public will?
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Social Security. Medicare. Tax breaks for certain types of saving/investing. Tax breaks of property ownership. The government subsidizes retirement in a plethora of ways.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> then why not reject all women? Because there is often a CAUSAL link between the degree and the set of qualifications relevant and related to the job at hand. The link between skill and gender is not CAUSAL . You're pretending
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by nmrm2 11y ago
@randomdata -- "trivial" isn't "free". The test I proposed adds an extra hour of in-person interview time per candidate, and also substantially increases the number of viable candidates. > It may not be racism e
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> So it is not trivial to test for the presence of a CS degree? It is trivial to test for the presence of a CS degree. The bulk of a CS degree can be a necessary but not sufficient qualification for a job. Testing for just the extra stuf
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Average , which has been hammered home in three posts now. Anecdotes are non-answers. Edit: Incidentally, according to App Academy's own numbers, they're about $10k behind Stanford in average salary (and, I'd argue, the comp

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