raganwald

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by raganwald 13y ago
An operating system whose main goal is not performance is forever going to be a toy of professors. Be careful! That statement was once true of programming languages. Over time, larger and larger numbers of people relaxed their expectation
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by raganwald 13y ago
Is it copying all process data? Or copying a reference to the process data and then performing copy-on-write when a process makes changes locally?
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by raganwald 13y ago
My guess is, we're going to see big layoffs. Sometimes, a company sells a division or wholly owned business because it is either that or massive layoffs, and it's better for morale to write down a few billion dollars than to fir
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by raganwald 13y ago
I honestly don't know. When I first wrote a program, I felt like Mickey Mouse putting the sorcerer's hat on. My interest wasn't particularly rational.
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by raganwald 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by raganwald 13y ago
Reminder: The plural of anecdote is not "data."
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If I can do it, you can do it(braythwayt.com)
25 points by raganwald 13y ago|15 comments
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by raganwald 13y ago
I was basically done with this thread, but your comment is sufficiently interesting. Compare two programmers. One believes that code must be perfect right out of the gate or else it is very embarrassing. The other believes continuous iterat
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by raganwald 13y ago
I'll take that as a "I want you to burden yourself with justifying your position, but I'm not going to commit to any movement on my own position, and for that matter, I won't even commit to a position, I'm just lobb
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by raganwald 13y ago
Your point has been raised elsewhere in this thread as well as many, many times in the last fifty-plus years when debating the effect of language on exclusion. I don't think I can add something new to the debate, so I'll direct yo
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by raganwald 13y ago
the legitimacy of your concerns is based in how women (in this case) feel. If you can't find a person who thinks he/she is being discriminated against here, you're obviously tilting at windmills. Now what you're presen
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by raganwald 13y ago
I would like to hear from first hand sources -- not a bunch of dudes on a software forum who claim to know what women want. How very odd that despite all of our behaviour being so non-offensive and non-exclusionary, we don't seem to
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by raganwald 13y ago
My experience is this: Some time ago, I wrote a post about CoffeeScript. As you may know, CoffeeScript is a whitespace-specific programming language. I am black, and there is a small cultural wiggle-room when it comes to black people making
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by raganwald 13y ago
Dude(?), I'm not MLK, and I'm not into women's rights. I'm a selfish bastard who wants to double or treble the number of productive brains in my environment. Exclusionary behaviour stands between me and my dream, and I w
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by raganwald 13y ago
I'm offended, and you'll find I do not joke about oppression.
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by raganwald 13y ago
I believe that Hacker News is worse off when it includes comments like yours. I don't know or care who you're talking to, the tone of what you're saying drags a good forum down past Reddit and into talk radio call-in territor
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by raganwald 13y ago
Your premise is flawed. For example, I don't give a damn what women think of my calling people out on misogyny. I am not pro-women, I am anti-jackass. Comments like yours are jackasstic. I can dislike them without a moment's consi
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by raganwald 13y ago
> How about an individual having backbone and integrity to stand firm, hold the line and not supplicate? I have the backbone and integrity to know that as I walk through life, I am responsible for stepping carefully and thoughtfully. I h
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by raganwald 13y ago
free market != fair market
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by raganwald 13y ago
And therein lies the problem. Although these companies are being prosecuted, nobody wants to run afoul of them or anybody else. I'm not saying that any one individual or company is presently a bullying wrongdoer, but what I am saying i
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by raganwald 13y ago
No, that's not what I said. What I said was, I understand his outrage, and here's an example of where I feel it too. Empathy.
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by raganwald 13y ago
"Where there's muck, there's brass"--Paul Graham, quoting some timeless business wisdom.
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by raganwald 13y ago
There is if you lie to the customer. There isn't if you say "Tough bananas, the written quote expired, we both get to renegotiate."
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by raganwald 13y ago
Your outrage is noted. I feel exactly the same way about the way highly admired companies around here behave, only they have nicer names for exploitation like "price discrimination" and "market segmentation" and "mo
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by raganwald 13y ago
This technique goes back long before the Internet. I recall working in a computer store where it was a standard practice to give someone a quote with an expiry date, and if they missed the time limit extra money would be tacked on with some
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by raganwald 13y ago
And when you poke it with a stick, it falls apart. GANTT isn't an acronym, the chart was invented by Henry Gantt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gantt
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by raganwald 13y ago
GRANNT Chart: A Grantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Grantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project, such that completion of the project qua
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by raganwald 13y ago
Windows 8.1 vs Windows 7 is not so interesting to me. But Microsoft 2014 vs Microsoft 1994 is very interesting to me. There was a time when they had enough weight that they could force their vendors to toe the party line on OS versions. Ent
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by raganwald 13y ago
I use markdown for my blog, which is then compiled by Jekyll. Why should I know or care what a nofollow link is? I link to things so that my readers can click on the link and read more about whatever I'm saying. It's my job to act
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by raganwald 13y ago
polymorphism is actually orthogonal to the ideas around metaobjects like classes. They are both powerful ideas. but can be expressed in different ways. Languages like Common Lisp and Haskell allow you to express polymorphism entirely throug

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