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by pekk 10y ago
Are we really associating Facebook feeds and ads with a "sophisticated audience"?
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by pekk 10y ago
Android isn't Linux in any sense that is meaningful to users because you are locked into a Google-ized JVM that only sees the world through Google APIs. Google wants to run Android apps (rather than Linux apps) because they control tha
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by pekk 10y ago
Why use Android as a point of comparison for dev environments, when making a better dev environment than that isn't exactly a high bar?
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by pekk 10y ago
By this reasoning, is everything that happens within a company with sufficiently high gross revenue "good enough"?
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by pekk 10y ago
You are upset about Python 3 adoption, so you advise reaching for much less popular Elixir or for brand new Google-specific Grumpy? If insufficient popularity were the problem, those choices wouldn't make any sense.
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by pekk 10y ago
How is it not practical to upgrade to Python 3, yet it is practical to rewrite in Go?
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by pekk 10y ago
It is a marketing push. Marketing pushes don't have to correlate to massive improvements in the product.
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by pekk 10y ago
Forgive me for being cheeky, but just as Rust requires you to type "unsafe," C also requires you to opt in by typing "cc". My serious point is that in practice, the example of C shows that if it is available and people u
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by pekk 10y ago
Adding the cost of bounds checking is not actually "zero cost" relative to a C default of not bounds checking. There's really no reason to speak in this misleading way except marketing. Of course, bounds checking is worth pay
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by pekk 10y ago
If your ideal is Lisp, it's not surprising if you find every other language lacking.
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by pekk 10y ago
The internal representations of Python's core types are indeed pointer-heavy ("graph model"), and Python also encourages making references. But Python is not used like C, nor is it used exactly like Lisp; one does not usually
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by pekk 10y ago
"Guess what language are the patches usually in." Patches are most likely to be in the languages used most in the most popular projects. That's just the rational prior.
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by pekk 10y ago
If you want individual programmers to be "held accountable" for bugs they write, it seems that you do not consider their employers or managers even to be involved. This is an overly-simplistic understanding of where bugs come from
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by pekk 10y ago
It can be rational to develop projects on new languages. It can also be rational to consider the risk posed by the ecosystem you are plugging into. For example, it would be rational to consider the risk to a new project of basing itself on
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by pekk 10y ago
"Wintel" is not really a thing. Apple fans misunderstood that every other platform was the same as their vertically integrated walled-garden platform. The PC clone market was different from the Mac market in an important way which
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by pekk 10y ago
If you fit some data with a very flexible function approximator, that does not imply any kind of isomorphism between the function approximator itself and the process generating the data. Some people cannot understand this, and believe that
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by pekk 10y ago
There are quite a few neurons in an adult human, and they aren't just in some kind of undifferentiated randomly connected neuron soup. So when we talk about things that adult humans do in terms of neurons, it is a bit like talking abou
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by pekk 10y ago
ANNs would be useful or not completely apart from the relationship to anything "neural." I often wish that the association had never been drawn, it just doesn't seem very useful and it is always misleading so many people.
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by pekk 10y ago
"Exponential price drops" are less of a miracle when they are produced by large subsidies as well as dumping from the production side
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by pekk 10y ago
A difference is that Freud didn't put any particular stock in the scientific method. He said that his theories were proven by his "cures" (many of which have turned out to be bogus).
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by pekk 10y ago
You are implying that it is Eichenwald's fault and the attacker should be exonerated. Right?
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by pekk 10y ago
Because Red Hat never does anything that is about political clout?
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by pekk 10y ago
Why won't they say that humans are conscious? Because this is not a question of biology and it is not a question biologists have the training or data to answer, even if you want them to take this stand for essentially political reasons
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by pekk 10y ago
A hero of micromanagement!
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by pekk 10y ago
Group #2 (users/desktop users/developers) runs CentOS because of Group #1 (server admins/agencies). I'm sure you could find some if you looked, but I've never met anyone except RH employees who actively preferred Ce
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by pekk 10y ago
Many more services implement TOTP and not U2F, so this would tend to be seen as a useful thing for end users even if the technology is unattractive.
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by pekk 10y ago
Any old server gives you full flexibility. One key point is, what do you mean by secure? If they give this Turing-complete machine to their customers, and then the customer uses or is given the wrong software (Murphy's Law), how is it
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by pekk 10y ago
You are technically right (the best kind), but the underlying idea is valid, that this is just cussing out a product with no technical detail, and that's not constructive.
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by pekk 10y ago
The list of competitors in Android is long. They would already be competing on cost, even more so in India. What would be the point of Nokia making hardware for Google's OS when there are already so many others at every market segment?
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by pekk 10y ago
Documentation should be written by people, for people. Autogenerated API docs are as old and common as hills, but are so inferior that their value over readable Python code is negligible to nonexistent. I hope readthedocs isn't causing

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