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by rauljara 14y ago
> How do we tell truths that might hurt? Well, if you are attempting to influence someone like me, not like this. I think Dijkstra's great reputation and 37 years of experience with programming are basically enough for anyone reading t
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The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital(youtube.com)
4 points by rauljara 14y ago|0 comments
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by rauljara 14y ago
> but it's not actually valid ruby. You are correct that it is invalid for 1.8.6. The code runs just fine in 1.9, though. I take advantage of many things that don't work in 1.8.6, so I'm not particularly concerned with my method chai
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by rauljara 14y ago
I may be missing something obvious here. How would this code bite you?
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by rauljara 14y ago
There was one thing with block chaining that I was really hoping they'd hit on. They didn't. They had: # good names.select { |name| name.start_with?("S") }.map { |name| name.upcase } I've noticed that sort of chaining is changing
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by rauljara 14y ago
The Onion recently began parodying TED talks. This one is my favorite so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s . The Onion parodies are definitely not entirely fair, but they do a good job of pointing out that a lot of TED tal
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14 Video Games Definitively Declared Art By MOMA(uproxx.com)
1 points by rauljara 14y ago|0 comments
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by rauljara 14y ago
Willfully and gleefully helping to destroy people's lives. My brain normally just shuts down at such a level of awfulness, which means it's probably worth trying to understand, at least at the intellectual level. I mean, is this just strai
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by rauljara 14y ago
Many thanks for pointing this out! I hadn't read far enough to get to it myself. I kind of wish it was closer to the top because it rendered most of the other tips kind of pointless. Well, not C-r, but I already knew that one. This has m
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by rauljara 14y ago
Investors in startups are making bets. If they deserve the huge payouts they get when they bet correctly, then they don't deserve pity when their bets go wrong. In this particular case, Bill Nguyen had a whole bunch of red flags, including
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by rauljara 14y ago
"I believe Paul and David are stressing the importance of co-founders because they’re talking about young founders with no previous business experience." "I funded the business with cash from my previous business" Ryan has thoroughly convin
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by rauljara 14y ago
You say that as though it's a lot. And it sort of is a lot for an initial investment. But the cost of keeping a wind farm running is a lot lower than the cost of keeping fuel consuming power plants running. This wikipedia page has a bunc
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by rauljara 14y ago
>People have decided the term racist and racism are too detached and not emotionally impactful, so now we have "hate speech" which is more forceful. This isn't why the term hate speech came about. The term hate speech came about in ord
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by rauljara 14y ago
I certainly didn't mean it as a personal attack, and am sorry it came off that way. I was trying to say that it if the parent writes clean, clear, and efficient code, it might qualify as the sort of beautiful code that people are striving f
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by rauljara 14y ago
Most of the discussions of beautiful code that I've read are about how clear and straight forward are perquisites to beauty. Code that's difficult to understand or reason through is almost always described as ugly. Efficiency is normally
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by rauljara 14y ago
Well there was that whole Todd Akin saying that women's bodies have a way to shut down conception in the event of a "legitimate" rape thing. That's a case that was so extreme that Akin got punished in the polls for it. But it was actually
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by rauljara 14y ago
In general I've been super impressed with NY times visualizations recently. I look at the 538 visualizations daily ( http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ ). Sometimes they're splashy and cool, but in general they're just tastefully d
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by rauljara 14y ago
All programming languages and all programming styles can be similarly dismissed as encoding one Turing-complete form into another. Why pay attention to any of them? This article is clearly someone having fun with their language. It isn't
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by rauljara 14y ago
The moment I saw the fusion drive I was hoping I'd be able to get one as an upgrade to my current mac-book pro (still using a hard drive). But one of the big selling points was the automatic switching of commonly used files to the ssd. I
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by rauljara 14y ago
Downvoted your original so that it falls to the bottom of the page. Upvoted your apology so as not to punish you for an honest mistake. Though I suspect your 200+ tabs are not entirely unrelated to your confusion.
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by rauljara 14y ago
The streaming session is over. Here is the link to the archive in case anyone is too lazy to find it on the page: http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/336813987 The game seems much shoot-ier than what I was imagining from the description. But
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by rauljara 14y ago
Yeah, I realized as I was typing it out that there must be "cheating" going on. After all, 99% of computer science is finding ways to "cheat".
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by rauljara 14y ago
According to the wikipedia link( http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel ), each meta cell has 64691 actual cells. So to do a 100x100 grid once is 646,910,000 bits, or about 77 mb of storage at one bit per cell[1]. To do a 100x100 g
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by rauljara 14y ago
What a ridiculously limited view of what apis do. What about being able to make a credit card payment, customize a google map, or do anything that involves interacting with a user account? If the complaint is that there are needlessly comp
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by rauljara 14y ago
I understood from near the very beginning that this wasn't really about Fizzbuzz. All the way through the post, I was waiting for the author to get a real world example instead of Fizzbuzz. Yet, I got to the end of the post and realized i
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by rauljara 14y ago
I think you're misreading the statement. The article refers both to John Galt, the character in Atlas shrugged, and a hypothetical John Galt, who is a particularly self-interestmd member of a primitive society. When the article says "He r
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by rauljara 14y ago
You're leaving out a pretty important bit of context. He isn't talking about white people in general, here. He is talking about a very specific subset of people who have had power over him, and said pretty racist things to him. I'm prett
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by rauljara 14y ago
> The poster child for strong patent protection is usually the pharmaceutical industry, as drugs are easily copied and can cost upwards of a billion dollars to develop. Here, Boldrin and Levine admit that the government would likely nee
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by rauljara 14y ago
I've tried a few times to learn Haskell, but always tend to lose steam. Last time I got as far as monads before petering out. So I am definitely not a great person to try explaining the practical benefits of Haskell programming, because I
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by rauljara 14y ago
> On one paper, the first reviewer said it had too much theory and the second reviewer said it had too little theory. Both rejected it. I haven't read the paper, so it's possible that one or both of the reviewers were way off base. But

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