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901.
by pekk 12y ago
Can you share your data? I'm curious what most evictions in SF are about.
902.
by pekk 12y ago
Or just build your furniture without using screws, like in Japanese carpentry. When people are already having a decent time building things using the tool, it looks pretty stupid to tell them they've done it all wrong for years in all
903.
by pekk 12y ago
I don't have any problem with people making open source projects and then publishing them once they are finished. It's still open source.
904.
by pekk 12y ago
Some Saudi hijackers aren't an aspect of Saudi policy, they're just a reflection of the US' lack of popularity in the entire region. There are so many kinds of people working with al-Qaeda, all different nationalities. Reassi
905.
by pekk 12y ago
No reason to hate Ahmedinejad more than the rest of the masks that Khamenei puts over his face. Mismanaging universities is a fine old tradition of the Revolution.
906.
by pekk 12y ago
The only construable "turn towards the better" in Iran is that the dictator allowed Rouhani to act as figurehead President, which is meaningless. The dictator is still the dictator, Rouhani is an old hand from the inner circle, an
907.
by pekk 12y ago
Of course it's no real controversy that the Islamic Republic is radical, it is a Revolution which always had radical aims and its power has always been founded on violence. Bearing in mind that Hezbollah is a terrorist group according
908.
by pekk 12y ago
First, explain how you plan to fully automate programming.
909.
by pekk 12y ago
How do you know all these things about AI, given that none exist and any one that does exist will have been built by some human no less cognizant of "danger as a species" than you are? Why do you suppose that people will engineer
910.
by pekk 12y ago
Let's not make a doomsday religion out of this. "AI" is just software. Making software so that it doesn't kill people is not a new problem. There is no reason why anybody has to make a completely unpredictable killer sof
911.
by pekk 12y ago
I don't propose a change to the title on HN, but the linked PDF is an informal paper that's about immutability in databases.
912.
by pekk 12y ago
You find the author's view laughable, but I find your view laughable. Reasonable deployments of Ubuntu or Windows get upgraded with security fixes all the time, browsers update themselves all the time. Waiting a year between security f
913.
by pekk 12y ago
Please do not become one of those people in tech that are just in it for the money but that actually hate the technology itself. This needs to be said to HN.
914.
by pekk 12y ago
That depends on how many kids those kids had.
915.
by pekk 12y ago
And what if it turned out that the State Dept. was helping to bankroll this? It would be consistent with things the US has been caught doing in Cuba just in the last few years. Would this change our opinion of it?
916.
by pekk 12y ago
I'd love the processes to be reformed. But the fact remains that the law has no way to know your reasons for firing or not hiring someone as long as you tell them something vaguely plausible. You'd have to be an idiot.
917.
by pekk 12y ago
The correlation between strength of IRC presence and productivity is, shall we say, imperfect...
918.
by pekk 12y ago
It really is true, because you can say anything you want (or nothing) about the reasons why you did it, and get away with it. You have to be a total moron not to get away with it. This is terrible and unjustifiable, but that is how it is.
919.
by pekk 12y ago
It really makes no sense that saying "Nim is better than Python" is an acceptable opinion, but "no, it isn't" is not an acceptable opinion to HN.
920.
by pekk 12y ago
"Don't pay women less for being women" is unenforceable.
921.
by pekk 12y ago
Indentation helps, but it's a pretty pointless thing when you make a lot of other decisions that hurt readability.
922.
by pekk 12y ago
As a Python programmer, I find the Nim version needlessly cryptic, glyph-laden and ALGOL-esque, with many of the unattractive traits of Python from 10-15 years ago. If I get the choice to start out in a codebase which looks like this from b
923.
by pekk 12y ago
Nim can't be a faster Python when it isn't a Python, but a much younger language which lifts a few cosmetic choices but intentionally breaks with Python in large ways. If it is trying to replace Python, many of these breaks are po
924.
by pekk 12y ago
They can fold it into VS so that RStudio can be abandoned, and the premier development platform for R can be locked behind the MS paywall.
925.
by pekk 12y ago
There's a lot of ranting here and it's hard to work through. Since I predict almost everyone is going to come down on the pro-OOP side or change the subject to FP in order to show their professional credentials (and because they d
926.
by pekk 12y ago
It is a more descriptive term, too, because the mechanics are almost always still the same as "adventure games" (where you find objects and apply them in puzzly ways to move to the next area, etc.)
927.
by pekk 12y ago
Most people should not be writing __del__ methods at all, especially if what they are trying to do is deterministic cleanup.
928.
by pekk 12y ago
The same reason Apple has consistently waged war against clones?
929.
by pekk 12y ago
So shake hands with more people, then lick your hands. What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.
930.
by pekk 12y ago
There are probably two sides to this story. You might see someone as out of touch when what really bothers you is that you were second-guessed or that a limit was placed on your power. One situation, multiple descriptions.

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