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by sago 11y ago
It's a Faustian bargain. It blesses Javascript with a wider audience, less initial balking by new JS programmers, and a few characters for established JS programmers. But it does so by deliberately misleading programmers by naming the
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by sago 11y ago
Thank you, exactly what I needed to understand.
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I wasn't considering anything, let alone 'making an argument'. Anyone who listens to non-specialists like me to determine security strategy is asking for trouble. I also wasn't making any comment about 'banking on d
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I'm not a 'security researcher', and have only a technical layman's grasp of the issue, but: > "By manipulating a document's elements an attacker can force a dangling pointer to be reused after it has been f
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by sago 11y ago
Like PuzzleScript and their own Voxatron, it is great to see these simple, limited game engines.
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A plague on both houses. I'm exaggerating, but a good and reliable example-based reference documentation organised by use-case is what I need in 90% of cases (a comprehensive index of methods/params/etc makes up the other
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by sago 11y ago
Fair enough, good suggestions. But if the writer wants this functionality , as opposed to just the syntax, they can all be written right now. So why the desire for this to be a thing? It's always been one of the strengths of languages
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by sago 11y ago
The thing about Tolkien we cannot possibly 'get' is the novelty of fantasy in the way he wrote it. Reading LOTR having not been immersed in the genre of fantasy must have felt very different. The review is fascinating with its com
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by sago 11y ago
I'm not sure why you think that counters my point. As I said, if most advertising were about the critical evaluation of needs that would be different. Instead, you're more likely to get boobs advertising your video game, or butts
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by sago 11y ago
> It's ... designed to ... supplant critical evaluation of ones needs.... > No, people want to buy things That's rather the point. The desire to buy things is driven not by critical evaluation of need, but by psychological t
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by sago 11y ago
Some context. Marius Buliga isn't a native English speaker (he's Romanian), so parts of these pages may sound a little confusing. His academic papers are (I find) more clearly written. The 'lambda' being referenced is th
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by sago 11y ago
I made a serious argument once that god(s) have a mind, with some of the same rationale. Many individual people contribute parts of their brain to a whole that has will, makes plans, seeks goals, has moods, etc, where each of those cognitiv
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Business Insider link doesn't work for me. This one does: https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep-growing/how-i-went-fro...
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So to precis the intro: "I was asked by a Nobel laureate to submit this to peer review, but I thought it would take too long, so I self published". Yeah, the Nobel laureate told you that, not as an endorsement, but because it is t
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by sago 11y ago
Oh, sorry, I thought that was in the instructions to the game. My bad. The other stuff you can do though.
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Trade, get resources, upgrade, fight bigger enemies. Then try to find the artefact, which I guess is on some random planet in the galaxy, so will take a communal effort (or, more specifically, fluke), since there appears to be millions of s
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by sago 11y ago
Take an open source git repo you've made, or open source a project you've got somewhere on your hard-drive and a) polish it (absolutely without adding new features), and b) document it. Both will teach you new skills and stretch y
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by sago 11y ago
Ah brings back memories! Nice to see old techniques rediscovered. If the OP is reading, then please add a license to your repo. Github even nags you about it now, but there's no excuse, even if you want to make it proprietary.
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Show HN: Hide petulant messages in any source code(github.com)
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> I wonder if the distinctions we draw between these concepts is somewhat arbitrary. Yes, that is a feature of all language. But I think I was specific about the knowledge I meant. Namely, deep and specific recall of the API. Contrasted
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> The fact that the interest of the journal is now naturally aligned with that of the writer, instead of with that of the reader. Thank you. Good observation. I didn't get that from your original comment.
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That was my first thought today. Faced with a programmer who had to look up how to determine array length, what would you conclude about their skills? I seem to remember a Joel on Software post a while ago that said that deep and specific A
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by sago 11y ago
What is peer review, but a formal system of review, comment, redrafting and endorsement? That could be moderated through the same system. Drafting, extending and version control would be particularly important, I think. It's been a lon
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> outsourced the domain knowledge to the journal reviewers Except that, by and large, those reviewers aren't being paid. So the 'outsourcing' argument isn't quite it. If it were there would be no problem with open acc
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But the financier of the research is already paying for the research to be done, rarely for their economic interest, but so that it gets out there, establishes the science, furthers knowledge, cements reputations, etc. For research done by
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by sago 11y ago
That sound? That was my weekend going poof! Thank you. A worthwhile OT. Maybe you could submit it as a link?
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I agree on all fronts. I think GA is a poor choice for practical programming for the same reasons you identify: nobody knows how to do it well, tools / architectures are not made for it, and nobody has publicly demonstrated its utility
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by sago 11y ago
Unfortunately what you're hearing appears to be in your head. I didn't say that, nor do I think it is true. Please discuss in good faith.
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Is it not accurate? Portraying the democratically elected EU as 'undemocratic' because it is in contrast to a national government suggest to me that the source of the misrepresentation is due to them not being English (in this cas
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by sago 11y ago
I've played with GA for a while, bought a couple of books, enjoyed the math, experimented with writing my own library. But, as TTProgram's comment, I've yet to find an application where it clearly improves on high-school vect

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