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by praptak 5y ago
"Both the physicians and the hospital are part of companies recently taken over by private-equity investors."
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by praptak 5y ago
You missed this part: "Both the physicians and the hospital are part of companies recently taken over by private-equity investors."
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by praptak 5y ago
To me imperative is like the prose of paradigms. For some reason everybody speaks it without any specific intention to. Instructions for non-programmers are also imperative - "if this, then do this", "go to point 2.", &q
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by praptak 5y ago
Yes, the conceptual framework is pretty minimal (especially compared to C++). Still you need to "get it" to write even a simple conditional or a loop (I mean sending a block of code to a boolean or a block of code).
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by praptak 5y ago
To me the simplest explanation is that Smalltalk is just too concept-heavy for the average developer, just like Lisp is. Yes, C++ could be said to be much more concept-heavy but there is a difference: you can sit and crank out C++ code with
966.
by praptak 5y ago
And he's probably right. And it also doesn't mean anything. There are thousands of geeks reading an interesting debug report. It is not very surprising to find one who'd think of the right idea as the first thing.
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by praptak 5y ago
Isn't it the perfect solution fallacy? Take a government funding basic research, with some hope there will be profit from this. Take an industry which damages public health and funds lies to cover this up. Both have motives beyond cur
968.
by praptak 5y ago
"Emergency Elisp" by Steve Yegge.
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by praptak 5y ago
This is the historical context: https://terebess.hu/zen/Mumon.pdf Why it is historically and culturally significant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateless_Barrier
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by praptak 5y ago
No, they evolved to become synanthropic. That's usually a good deal for a species unless humans change their ways. The black cellar beetle was very popular in Europe living in preindustrial era because it lived in wooden buildings and
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by praptak 5y ago
My friend owns his grandfather's "engineering encyclopedia" from the era before WWI. At that time it was possible (and expected) for a single person to have principal-level knowledge in the whole field of "engineering&qu
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by praptak 5y ago
Depends on the audience-acronym pair. I don't think HTTP needs an introduction in a technical article, OTOH (on the other hand ;) ) a general newspaper should probably expand HTTP but not WWW.
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by praptak 5y ago
"Ten Myths About Israel" by Ilan Pappé has a pretty matter-of-fact explanation of the criticism.
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by praptak 5y ago
What is the scope of the contracts that you mention? I believe that the problem is cooperation with Israeli military , not with the Israel itself. There was a backlash against Maven, a similar contract with the US government.
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by praptak 5y ago
Random synapse activation: A few years ago there was a Swedish tourist at a hotel where I was on vacation. He had a blue-yellow hat with "SWE" written on it in Courier font. I felt an urge to steal his hat because it looked better
976.
by praptak 5y ago
That's basically le Corbusier, if not in the details, then in the totalitarian urge to organize people's lives.
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by praptak 5y ago
We really need a way to protect ourselves against what the rich are doing to the rest of us.
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by praptak 5y ago
"Munger Hall, in comparison, is a single block housing 4,500 students with two entrances" Is it even possible to make it fire code compliant?
979.
by praptak 5y ago
It could also be an article on any of: psychology, physics, philosophy or Buddhism.
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by praptak 5y ago
From my experience mentoring at FAANG is hit and miss. You may get a mentor assigned, yes. The thing is that this person is probably just an engineer who also needs to do their daily job. While mentoring you is a part of their daily job,
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Biden Races Clock and Holds Few Tools in Supply-Chain Crisis(bloomberg.com)
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by praptak 5y ago
I'd say consumer boycott makes you feel better and you should partake in it if you want to keep your integrity. Still it is not the way to change things: "All in all, I think it is a mistake to defend people’s rights with one hand
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by praptak 5y ago
I guess the mechanisms are similar for abusive companies, abusive relationships and abusive cults. Predators select vulnerable people and gradually accustom them to worse and worse conditions.
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by praptak 5y ago
Not only math optimizations are like this. Strict aliasing is a promise to the compiler to not make two pointers of different types point to the same address. You technically make that promise by writing in C (except a narrow set of allowed
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by praptak 5y ago
Of course, the cure for antihuman modernism is not mindless neoclassicism. The cure is sensitivity to human needs, which includes sensitivity to local context.
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by praptak 5y ago
Yes. Curiously, the pilot reported that they also used updrafts.
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by praptak 5y ago
Yeah, the relative probability of scenarios may be wrong. Maybe even some of them are totally bogus. This doesn't undermine the main point of the article though. I think the main point is that there's quite a lot of eggs in that b
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by praptak 5y ago
I guess it's the increased blood flow to the head. Same reason the porn industry aren't huge fans of Viagra - it tends to make the face red.
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by praptak 5y ago
Chatting carries the risk of hiring for the "talking about X" skill rather than "X" skill.
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by praptak 5y ago
I think that about a decade ago they still used horrible "why is manhole round" questions or "guess the trick" ones. The kind which puzzle-obsessed geeks like to ask eachother but which are horrible for evaluating fitnes

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