reuser

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by reuser 15y ago
How do you take away anybody's freedoms without coercion?
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by reuser 15y ago
Sartre's relevance or value depends on the relevance or value his arguments, not his age or affiliations or sex life. It happens that I think he was full of steam, but it wouldn't make him any better simply to be a woman, or young.
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by reuser 15y ago
Example of a category error (stolen from Ryle): you are handed both the left glove and the right glove, and you ask where the pair is. The pair is not a separate thing from the left glove and the right glove. 'Category error' does not mean
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by reuser 15y ago
More tightly couple your code to Heroku.
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by reuser 15y ago
There are lots of ways of doing things, and more than a few of them are sensible. Without zeroing in on a specific well-defined problem, you usually won't have any hope of identifying anything like 'optimal' solutions - let alone uniquely
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by reuser 15y ago
If you write some gnarly asynchronous GUI code, it is a lot easier to point to why it is nice to have objects. (And MVC, for that matter). I think this is part of why objects blew up in the 80s
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by reuser 15y ago
Maybe one part of the reason you hate them is that they have been associated with so much marketing bullshit and pseudo-religion. It helps to realize that actually there is not one unitary concept of what 'OO' means. You can defeat your obj
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by reuser 15y ago
Possibly as opposed to 'verbs' (e.g. processes, mutations, transformations, open-ended mappings - descriptions of what is being done)
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by reuser 15y ago
Personally, I doubt there is a real quality problem with those platforms. But running .NET on those platforms looks unnecessarily expensive to me. If I were married to Microsoft (as SO is) then I would avoid 'the cloud' for that reason. Giv
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by reuser 15y ago
You can't really create a massive co-located setup on demand for big jobs, then tear it down ... use the right tools for whatever job you're doing. EC2 being more expensive for your Postgres deploy doesn't mean it is an expensive toy
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by reuser 15y ago
It's software for everyone, as long as they are people who want to write Java.
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by reuser 15y ago
That's cool and stuff, but why do I have to write Java?
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by reuser 15y ago
Gnome shell on Ubuntu is really misleading. On Fedora the support for it is first class so it works wonderfully, out of the box, including features like this. (I like Unity too, but it needs work on things like multiple monitor support)
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by reuser 15y ago
I do this on Gnome 3 every day! I have it bound to right-click on the titlebar
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by reuser 15y ago
Any VPS host, or EC2, will let you run ZeroMQ in whatever way is appropriate to your problem. edit: and same for if you run your own server or rent a server, obviously
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by reuser 15y ago
Token economies are as old as the hills. It's also called "secondary reinforcement" - although cognitive psychologists will be bothered on ideological grounds if you reference any psychology from before 1950 or so