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by rquantz 12y ago
It seems like a mistake to remove manual controls entirely, not necessarily because of safety concerns, but because there are a fair number of times when you need the car to go somewhere without having a route. I'm thinking of things l
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by rquantz 12y ago
But once again, this shows the problem with philosophy - there are fields in which people discuss what it means to "know things". That's not a problem with philosophy, it's a problem with the OP. Epistemology is the st
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by rquantz 12y ago
My understanding of it is that Rogoff is a great economic historian, but not a great economist. Or something like that. Paul Krugman, for instance, often points out that it's sad R&R are so consistently wrong about how to handle th
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by rquantz 12y ago
If I could go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice, the main thing I'd tell him would be to stick his head up and look around. I didn't really grasp it at the time, but the whole world we lived in was as fake as a
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by rquantz 12y ago
Agreed on that count. Have you come up with any good solutions for angular? I always feel like my tests end up with too much boilerplate.
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by rquantz 12y ago
My girlfriend was delighted to learn about how intelligent octopuses are today. She was reading an article about whether they can get concussions -- I'll see if I can get it from her. What a strange coincidence to find this on the fron
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by rquantz 12y ago
I know those guys too! Although I find it tends to be an age thing. The middle aged asshole writes in all caps, the 20 year old asshole writes in all lowercase.
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by rquantz 12y ago
You don't have to worry about that, because it's already happening. I see them everywhere. They wear all black. They write in all lowercase. They've seen The Social Network a million times and think that's what life is r
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by rquantz 12y ago
Many may argue that, but that doesn't mean they're right. The bill of rights is mostly great, but the actual design of the government is pretty lousy, a series of compromises to keep slave states happy and a few vestiges of Englis
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by rquantz 12y ago
The latter is probably more the case. The OED, for instance, has had a bias in favor of using Shakespeare as a word's origin since that dictionary's first edition. The number of words attributed to Shakespeare in the OED has dwind
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by rquantz 12y ago
The performers in porn are actors being paid for their performance.
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Log in human language, login is the command.
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by rquantz 12y ago
Yes, most of the code will never change. But some of it will, and it's sometimes hard to predict what that will be. So, to an extent, all of your code needs to be written so it's changeable in the future. It doesn't have to b
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by rquantz 12y ago
Jesus, over 30? Am I already past my theoretical expiration date? I've hardly gotten started.
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by rquantz 12y ago
This is silly. It basically amounts to "waaaah I don't know angular!" because they saw funny words I a stack overflow example. Factories etc., in angular are not the same as the Java equivalents. And you're usually not g
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by rquantz 13y ago
Her mid-1800s Italian has completely different characteristics from a 17th century Italian. A string player spends months or years trying many instruments before deciding on one. I've never known a professional musician who cares wheth
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by rquantz 13y ago
You believe wrong. Also, even if they are, traveling with an instrument, especially and old finicky one (and they do get finicky when they get old) can throw it out of adjustment, a seam can pop open, a string can go false, etc. The new one
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by rquantz 13y ago
Normals don't understand the difference an adjustment can make. You can tap the sound post half a millimeter and feel like you're playing on a completely different instrument.
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by rquantz 13y ago
Nice, I have that on my bookshelf. But SICP assumes a working knowledge of basic calculus, right?
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by rquantz 13y ago
As someone with fine arts background, does anyone have a suggestion for a text to get me quickly caught up on the math required for SICP?
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by rquantz 13y ago
Yeah, part of the application works that way, but then you still have to write an API, it just lives on a different server.
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by rquantz 13y ago
So is this just another way to talk about the now-ubiquitous thick-client app? Or is there something revolutionary I don't see in my cursory look at this site? There is definitely something to be said for building separate services as
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by rquantz 13y ago
This makes me glad I set up the workflow I did at our company. Nothing gets into the central code base without a pull request.
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by rquantz 13y ago
Without intervention, the human body usually headed for divorce, in this analogy, anyway.
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by rquantz 13y ago
The faces got into their brains in the first place because we already have write access. Writing to the brain is easy -- it's reading what we've put there that is difficult.
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by rquantz 13y ago
Now, I'm not saying you should test logging, but I don't think the author made much of a case here. You shouldn't test logging because it is a code smell! If you are testing logging it's because it's not actually
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by rquantz 13y ago
he said QE would cause a recovery in the loan market. Can you provide a citation for that claim? Because my recollection is that he said QE would have limited effects. I can't find much supporting this memory right now, aside from th
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And yet, he's been right about the consequences of the financial crisis, austerity, and debt hysteria where everyone else in the punditry has been wrong. I'm sorry that he thinks Silk Road and bitcoin are stupid. I happen to agree
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by rquantz 13y ago
Most unspeakable thoughts today deal with isms and phobias: sexism, racism, agism, Islamophobia, homophobia. PG suggested this as well with his references to "racial insensitivity," etc. And he may be right that future generatio
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by rquantz 13y ago
Ah, so there are! I don't know how I missed those. Still, that's three out of 45.

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