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by polemic 14y ago
I think it's fair to say that one reason guitar is so popular is because of the early reward effect. For this sort of price a beginner can go buy a pretty decent electric guitar and amplifier with some built in effects. Give them an hour
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by polemic 14y ago
Not just startups, either! At any organisation you'll experience this if you have your mind open. The difference, I think (and from my own experience), is that at a start-up you are far more receptive to the opportunities. The other side of
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by polemic 14y ago
So what you mean is: "Lighten Up" ? http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/
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by polemic 14y ago
> "It is humour, whether or not it is taken as such is a different issue, when Bill Hicks gets up on stage and repeatedly tells people in advertising to kill themselves, he's not actually serious. Some might take that seriously but he'
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by polemic 14y ago
Here's the thing: it's not humour. It's misogyny thinly dressed as an "edgy" dig so that anyone who protests can be deflected with this sort of defence. It's a tried and true technique to broadcast bigotry and slander with a wink and a nudg
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by polemic 14y ago
After a recent experience of being confronted with sexism and, ultimately, not handling it how I feel like I should have, I think this is a really good idea. Having a script (or at least thinking about what I would do, in advance) would've
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by polemic 14y ago
IMHO, the complexity that this would introduce just highlights why it's a good idea not to have them. > "but I think it would be legal to reject JSON with duplicate keys." No it would not. `SHOULD` has a very specific meaning: SHO
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by polemic 14y ago
Seems to me you'd lose too many people to "Just Too Hard" syndrome for the strategy to be worth using too.
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by polemic 14y ago
You didn't actually rebut anything I said... and you haven't explained what you mean by "unfair advantage". And 99.999% of software engineering jobs are not at Google/Facebook/...
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by polemic 14y ago
> "...since CS grads do get an unfair advantage in the industry" Really? Considering that the IT industry is wide open to people without CS degrees, it is exactly the other way around. Engineering, Medical or Law students don't have
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by polemic 14y ago
I'm a developer who studied Physics, and yes, you certainly can compete. I did a few CS papers but I was frustrated by what I considered low level practical and overly complex theoretcial skills I was learning. That's fine - University
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by polemic 15y ago
That's a really good analysis. I'm currently mostly using Python, but I've had a lot of PHP experience. Once everything is configured python is a dream, but if I just want to prototype a simple website, it just isn't worth it. Same for th
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by polemic 15y ago
You're missing the point. PHP works. A priori arguments from faults in the language don't explain its success. Replaying that old record doesn't add anything to What We Already Know. Also: I didn't say that Javascript is different - I'm tal
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by polemic 15y ago
Thanks, noted.
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by polemic 15y ago
Note that this is a response to: EDIT: refer https://twitter.com/#!/codinghorror/status/18957165652253491... - Jeff's 4 year old response is still valid. http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... Jeff gets it right
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by polemic 15y ago
So, link bait. Fun.
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by polemic 15y ago
Kinda wondered why it's "to an asshole"? It's a great set of tips that would make sense for explaining anything you are seriously passionate about to anyone who isn't quite as passionate about it.
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by polemic 15y ago
Python has been the de facto scripting language of choice for automation in a number of industries for quite some time. I don't believe (but correct me if I'm wrong) that Ruby has ever gained much traction outside of the software developmen
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by polemic 15y ago
Ah, ok. Thanks!
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by polemic 15y ago
This is bike-shed, but `stringify`? What's wrong with `serialize` or `toJSON` or `toString'?
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by polemic 15y ago
> ..you overestimate what most PCs are used for. I'll agree that this is they key difference. I'm sure that my ideas of computers are good for - there value to society - is different to most users. Perhaps what really gets me is the i
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by polemic 15y ago
+1. They're still just expensive toys. And I really, really mean that. Have I ever received an email from someone using an iPad? Nope. Not once. Has anything I've looked at online in the last week been created on an iPad? Nope. Post-PC? Try
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by polemic 15y ago
Weirdly - we were talking in the office last week about what it would take to get something into orbit from, for example, a rail gun. We calculated that for a 100m rail gun and a 0.5 kilogram payload you'd need to feed it about a 100 MW pow
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by polemic 15y ago
"just"?
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by polemic 15y ago
"A real act of war" - or, more likely, an act of civil aviation rule enforcement. Obstructing airspace is a pretty serious issue. Unlike copyright law in general, there will be absolutely no absolutely no legal ambiguity if one of their mac
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by polemic 15y ago
Well, yes. Force is the ultimate source of power. The extent of which, in this case, means jurisdiction. To quote drusenko's first point: The concept of jurisdiction is complicated, but often comes down to "do you have the authority to mak
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by polemic 15y ago
Oh ho - so the TSA strategy comes to light, monetisation plans are implemented.
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by polemic 15y ago
Ok, but "...a lot of useful expressions..." sounds like an anthropocentric argument as well. Anywho, the point stands. They're simplifications for our benefit.
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by polemic 15y ago
As in - because pi is a unit-less ratio? Plank units are still units (albeit a special case), so I don't agree with your syllogism. However, what I meant was the human processing overhead in converting between units. I mean, pi is correct,
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by polemic 15y ago
pi is "wrong" in the same way as imperial measurements are "wrong".

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