rwallace

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by rwallace 11y ago
As one who has made arguments that sound similar to, but are importantly different from, the ones you criticize, I will clarify: 1. I don't claim everything always stays on a smooth exponential trend, but that things do so on a larg
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by rwallace 11y ago
Insulting people for honesty is a dick move. The article is doing its best to show you how to avoid situations where you have a terribly weak bargaining position.
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by rwallace 11y ago
Interesting! The article is paywalled; I don't suppose you could summarize what negative learning effects they found, and the explanations they gave?
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by rwallace 11y ago
I've never quite seen the point of speed reading. When I read, it's either to look up some information I need, or for entertainment. In the former case, it's much more efficient to just look for the particular information and
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by rwallace 11y ago
The use of the English word 'days' is effectively a mistranslation. As for the seventh day, that's a context switch for some life advice: after work must come rest, trying to work a seven-day week is stupid and harmful - some
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by rwallace 11y ago
Agnostic of Christian cultural background here: I think part of what is meant is that murder was caused by original sin. Sure, death from other causes would already have occurred in any case, but murder is still part of our world because
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by rwallace 11y ago
That's why mailing lists are great. 1. Okay, they don't address this, but that's a marginal advantage, easily outweighed by the advantages of asynchrony and distance agnosticism alone, never mind the benefits of re-use. 2. Ma
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by rwallace 11y ago
No, you missed the part of the original post which says that the author is poorer than a minimum wage worker in McDonald's, and is quite unhappy about that state of affairs. Which is a pity, because that was the largest and most conspi
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by rwallace 11y ago
I had heard the theory about the market for lemons before, but none of the discussions of it seemed to be able to come up with a better example than the classic partial one about used cars. This looks like the case study the theory predicte
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by rwallace 11y ago
Happy new year from Dublin!
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by rwallace 11y ago
You say "maths/eng graduate" - are you sure you didn't mean to say "programmer"? It's an important distinction. Computer programming is just about the only white-collar job left on Earth that still has a h
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by rwallace 11y ago
I remember when I was about twelve or thirteen, seeing some mention of automatic spelling checking, trying to figure out how it could be done, and ending up very skeptical. It seemed to me there just wasn't enough regularity for any co
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by rwallace 11y ago
Depends on language; what languages are used in your company?
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by rwallace 11y ago
Fair enough, that might actually be a counterexample; C++ has a lot of rules, which aren't quite so easy to look up as you need them compared to API calls.
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by rwallace 11y ago
I can see how a memorization aid like spaced repetition could actually improve your productivity in 1993, but in 2015, it's neither feasible nor necessary for programmers to memorize all the stuff we use, so I'm not seeing this as
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by rwallace 11y ago
Because, as you say, it's obvious - the code number communicates the political opinion that censorship is wrong, or at least a dangerous tool whose use should be highlighted wherever it occurs. People who hold the reverse opinion that
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by rwallace 11y ago
And yet, in developed countries, decade after decade GDP on paper keeps going up and at the same time in real terms nearly everyone keeps getting poorer, so something has gone wrong with the assumptions on which this plausible-sounding econ
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by rwallace 11y ago
First, that assumes the savings mostly go to customers rather than into the pockets of executives and shareholders. Trends over the last few decades suggest otherwise. Second, it's a negative for truckers and their families but also fo
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by rwallace 11y ago
Every large organisation has done some things that are morally wrong, so basing our reactions on the identity of the entire organisation is unworkable - too coarse-grained, too crude, to be anything but counterproductive. We need to base ou
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by rwallace 11y ago
OP is rolling two separate claims into one. The first claim is that there is a problem. Yes, I agree. There is. The second claim is that the solution is prohibition. The results of applying that solution to alcohol addiction and then drug a
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by rwallace 11y ago
I downvoted you for lowering the tone of the conversation with personal insults. If you had just said something like 'note that PG's advice about using the Unix file system as a database is not now considered best practice,'
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by rwallace 11y ago
What changed? Many years ago, ads were very bad. Then Google got into the business and enforced clean, tasteful ads and things were good for quite some time. But then they started deteriorating again, worse every year until I finally instal
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by rwallace 11y ago
When Chrome stopped working for me a few weeks ago, I was very glad to have Firefox to fall back on.
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by rwallace 11y ago
By all means use Python if that's what you prefer! But it doesn't solve the problem discussed in the article: what if the Python binary has been compromised?
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by rwallace 11y ago
That the OP implies an ordering on priorities.
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by rwallace 11y ago
Not necessarily. For example, OP might figure effectiveness is easy to judge from a quick Google search and it's the other things that benefit more from asking about personal experiences.
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by rwallace 11y ago
To answer the question asked: I've been on the LLVM mailing list for a few months now, and been highly impressed both by the technical quality of the project and by the competence and supportiveness of the people involved. To address a
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by rwallace 11y ago
If what you say is the case at Google and Facebook, then that's great news, and doubtless a significant contributing factor to the unusual success of these companies! In that case, perhaps one could add 6. The extent to which an interv
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by rwallace 11y ago
Why has China started investing heavily in renewable energy? For one, they want the status of a modern country that's leading the world in important matters; they don't want to be a shitty third world country stuck in the nineteen
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by rwallace 11y ago
I'm surprised the above was downvoted. Seems to me it can be paraphrased as 'whatever is going on with the climate, a big current issue is that our current level of oil consumption is geopolitically destructive and unsustainable;

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