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by nnq 9y ago
It's also a side-effect of the "communist cultural heritage"... Engineers were quite respected in communist societies (at least in EE & Rusia), and women were also welcomed/forced to join the industrial workforce (be
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by nnq 9y ago
> and write statements as if they were procedural my issue is not with writing procedural code, it's with the way functional parts of a program "mush" into "OOP-statey" with no obviousness of boundary. It fee
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by nnq 9y ago
> So really, what does fundamentally differ? Sure, one can argue that nothing ever fundamentally differs because all languages are Turing complete, but... When I decide to use functions in a language that has objects , 99% of the time
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by nnq 9y ago
> In Crystal, as in Ruby, everything is an object. [...] When you write Crystal code, most of the time, you write classes. Why, God, why?! Really, OOP is a great way of structuring lots of types of code (not all!). But I don't think
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by nnq 9y ago
> vitamin D deficiency is a population health problem (widespread) ...despite the study that got very popular on HN lately this is far from a clearly agreed upon theory. There's still only retrospective data and with enough confound
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by nnq 9y ago
> People do not on the whole pay for — or need — generality: they tend to have a specific situation, and it is a solution to that specific situation that has value Yeah, but otoh, most progress in science and tech has been made by sort-
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by nnq 9y ago
it's not about what you call it... it about not adding s to it to make it more like "cow milk" now that you call it milk like in, "look, kids are eating this for breakfast, we need to fortify it vitamins and stuff to
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by nnq 9y ago
> impossibility to put an opening curly brace on its own line I sincerely wish all languages with braces would have this feature! Even Javascript devs practically standardized in always putting braces at the end of the line. I prefer
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by nnq 9y ago
...meh, just limit yourself to the tops of the lines like Thinkpad, XPSs etc., make sure any networking components are branded Intel, pick Intel CPUs' integrated graphics or not-low-end Nvidia, and everything will just work fine out o
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by nnq 9y ago
The PetroDollar is so old school... let's welcome OilCoin instead! (In all seriousness, I hope this is not a trend that takes on... having war-tied-value criptocurrencies could only lead to open betting on wars! )
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by nnq 9y ago
Hmm. That actually opens up a solution: remove the requirement you mention, and we might have sizeable benefits from 1st gen implants in jobs like coding too, we'd just need to switch/translate to languages specifically designed t
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by nnq 9y ago
THANKS! I was totally braindead when I wrote that. My 4% is actually the 8.1% you mention, and the way you phrase it makes it much clearer too :)
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by nnq 9y ago
> Our society would still be surviving by hunting if it wasn't for the smart people. Yeah, except that the guy who "was smart enough to think about agriculture but not hard working enough to practically invent it" didn&#x2
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by nnq 9y ago
Occasionally... unless you're either a genius or you work in highly verbose language and with horrible tooling, you likely spend the other 90% of the time staring at a screen full of code you've already loaded into your brain
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by nnq 9y ago
Exactly this. The order in which technological advances will take place as we approach whatever the "singularity" will be will not match our intuition at all! Imho the future will surprise the shit out of us, despite our abili
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by nnq 9y ago
> could build entire systems at the speed of thought That's kind of of the problem, you;re limited by the speed of though when coding. For most things I can type waaaay faster than I can think (a faster keyboard wouldn't help
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by nnq 9y ago
Developers want the $$$ too... so they too follow whatever generates revenue. It's more like the psychology of incentives got screwed: we've taught people to prefer subscriptions instead of one-time-payments, and you're psych
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by nnq 9y ago
An interesting related thought I had recently was: why are we optimizing the technology we develop to help / increase the productivity of, those who work more/harder? ...and not the other way around? It seems like everywhere: ev
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by nnq 9y ago
Blah. You get a lot of performance "for free" by getting the overall architecture of a system right . By starting with optimizations, you usually hit the "limit of your brainpower" very soon, like before you know enou
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by nnq 9y ago
I have no intent whatsoever to avoid "toxic internet effects" or "nationalistic attack". There's room for more love in the world, just as there's room for more hate, the latter is just as useful. Ironically, yo
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by nnq 9y ago
Isn't it obvious that this scandal was either provoked or amplified in order to make Americans get themselves mandatory government IDs with chips and biometrics? ...not that that would be a bad thing. Just getting in line with EU and t
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by nnq 9y ago
I hope you meant it in a good way. There's very very few good things about Eastern Europe. But the "open minded humor" and ability to both take and receive jokes that would offend others is one of the good things. Humor h
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by nnq 9y ago
The style of the animal carvings is really interesting - they look somewhat symbolic as letters in a "visual language" instead of artistic ... "artistic" drawings/sculptures seek either to be skeurmorphic, aka
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by nnq 9y ago
STOP. Just go work for someone else, please! Pretty please! Find someone with vision, and work for/with him/her instead. Or merge as equal partners. You sound like really competent people, but working under people without the
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by nnq 9y ago
...I know it sounded like a "pro faceless international corporations" rant, but in most less developed countries aggresive globalization helps the young lower/middle-class working individuals most, who, believe it or not,
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by nnq 9y ago
I was asking the question about non-anaconda python , aka "plain python with virtualenv" that I think GP was referring to...
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by nnq 9y ago
I don't have a disregard for history in general. Like, there's lots to learn from the world wars and the whole communism story... But Europe's "local" medievally rooted history is always either useless or utterly
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by nnq 9y ago
Can you also install separate python versions this way? like have it automagically download a precompiled python3.6 for you even if there may not be a distro package for it. I don't really like having to depend on the system's p
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by nnq 9y ago
> other provinces disrespect their culture and right to be different Hmm... that's a pretty backwards thinking. Insisting on "the right to be different" is kind of what's disrespectful to the other cultures! So it&#
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by nnq 9y ago
Yeah, it allows working with multiple Python versions fine, like not just 2 vs 3 like on modern Linuxes, but also having one virtualnenv use 2.4, another 2.7, another 3.6 etc. Couple this with good support for Windows too, and it's bas

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