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by pfedor 14y ago
Be specific. What experiment do you have in mind that could distinguish between interpretations? Note that if the "experiment" involves dying to see what's on the other side then it doesn't exactly make it seem less like a religion.
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by pfedor 14y ago
It's an often repeated piece of common wisdom, but, for whatever it's worth, my experience is the opposite. I've had a number of jobs in my life, some of which I got through a friend and some by replying to an online job ad, and the latter
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by pfedor 14y ago
Do people really not use caps lock? I use it every day, when I need to type more than one upper case character in a row. Like, every time I type NSString, not to mention CLOCKS_PER_SEC.
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by pfedor 14y ago
As any book about RSI will tell you, you should not use your pinky finger for pressing Ctrl regardless of whether it's mapped on Caps Lock or on the default key.
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by pfedor 14y ago
Even Quake optionally used some assembly code. According to https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/readme.txt the plain C version was running at half the speed of the one compiled with the assembly code, when not relying on ha
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by pfedor 14y ago
The starting salary distribution for a lawyer is an interesting graph: http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib Basically, after graduating from a law school you either get hired by a good law firm or not. In the former case, which happens to s
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by pfedor 14y ago
However there are signs that this is changing. I've been hearing this for fifteen years now, which is about as long as I've been paying attention. For the first five years I was maybe even a little concerned. (In the nineties programmer
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by pfedor 14y ago
It would seem to me that you're in exact agreement with what I said, if not for the fact that you started with "This is a myth." What exactly is it that you disagree with?
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by pfedor 14y ago
I wouldn't say our field devalues competence and experience. It's just that in our field seniority doesn't give you such an enormous advantage as in other fields. In many professions, if you are 40+ you will expect a multiple of the salar
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by pfedor 14y ago
The starting thought is interesting, but then he really bends the definitions to classify certain private sector jobs in the US as quasi-government jobs in order to predict doom and gloom for America.
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by pfedor 14y ago
Was Richard Rorty not a mainstream liberal? Anyway, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars could be a good starting point if you care. The phenomenon was mainstream enough for say Steven Weinberg to have noticed and devoted some page
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by pfedor 14y ago
Here's one example: some twenty years ago, "science" was a dirty word among liberals, Newton's Principia was a "rape manual", quarks were "constructed", and "scientism" was but another tool in our evil western civilization's arsenal for opp
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by pfedor 14y ago
As someone who had started out as a self-taught programmer and only after a couple of years went back to school to get a degree, I can confirm that. I think the only thing from your list that I had been familiar with from my self-studies w
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by pfedor 14y ago
There are studies which suggest that people with depression have a more accurate perception of reality than others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism So no, depression doesn't lie any more than a healthy brain, it just tells
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by pfedor 14y ago
Is it safe?
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by pfedor 14y ago
A solution used in many countries including some definitely first-world countries (Japan, Germany, France, Sweden) is to have a mix of professional judges and lay judges. Seems that it preserves the benefits you talk about, at the same tim
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by pfedor 14y ago
Hotel receptionists in Vegas, obviously. Fun fact: At Google, they have (or used to have) a page with advice for employees who are new to the US, where they tell you about things like getting a SSN, buying a car etc. One of the advice item
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by pfedor 14y ago
The CDC says an estimated 1,900 people are diagnosed with neurocysticercosis within the United States yearly. In other words, on the same order as the number of people who die from cancer per day in the US. I guess I'm going to continue
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by pfedor 14y ago
Why do you think the suit is dead? Don't know about other places, but at least in NoCal high status people don't wear suits. Since the only function of a suit is status signaling, it seems just a matter of time until everyone else catche
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by pfedor 14y ago
Honest question: isn't hardware supported by Linux strictly a superset of OSX? I.e., is there any Apple computer you cannot install Linux on? I've been running Ubuntu on a mac mini and I know others who do the same. Is there a problem in
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by pfedor 14y ago
It is of course very unfortunate that this man had to spend 8 months in jail. There was no lab error in this case (the man was a cab driver with a rare skin flaking condition and his skin flakes stuck to the nail polish of a passenger who
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by pfedor 14y ago
That's how our justice system works. I'm glad that any citizen gets to be on a jury rather than some elite set of experts. We can't have it both ways. If given the choice between "experts" and average citizens on a jury I'd go with average
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by pfedor 14y ago
But that unique instance is presumably referenced by other objects which may want to use it as part of their own shut down logic, at which point it might no longer exist. (And things get only worse in the presence of threads.)
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by pfedor 14y ago
This is wrong for reasons given here: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...
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by pfedor 14y ago
The comment you replied to says nothing about professionals, and there is some truth to the claim that compared with a camera/lens that is any good Photoshop's license won't hurt your wallet. Also, I've used Gimp a bunch and I've read the G
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by pfedor 14y ago
Yeah, right, because OSX cares so much about backwards compatibility. They care so much that they actively go out and intentionally break APIs, like say when CGDisplayBaseAddress() stopped working in Lion, breaking fullscreen in every sing
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by pfedor 14y ago
There's a discussion in "The Practice of Programming" of which is a better style when programming in straight C. The argument for casting was that could make porting to C++ easier. The argument against it went like that (hope I'm not botc
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by pfedor 14y ago
The code in question 4 is not a memory leak by any reasonable definition of memory leak. Allocating a fixed amount of memory and using it until the program terminates, without ever bothering to free it, is a perfectly valid programming pra
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by pfedor 14y ago
dmm's point was made by several people in the comments thread for the very article you cite, some of them quoting statistics: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3691372 tl;dr: In the U.S. in only 20% of murder cases the perpetrator is fo
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by pfedor 14y ago
I disagree that it is the worst argument in the world, or even that it is a bad argument in most cases. There is something to be said for the simplicity of rules we adopt. If we say, "X is never allowed", then it is less likely that someon

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