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by sethrin 9y ago
Are your indicators perhaps proxies for the cost/availability of basic foodstuffs?
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by sethrin 9y ago
Your examples are poorly chosen, but the general argument that government regulations exist to protect entrenched business interests is nonsense. Regulations exist for consumer protection, and regulatory compliance is highly unlikely to be
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by sethrin 9y ago
What level of wealth inequality is necessary for revolution? How has that changed over time?
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by sethrin 9y ago
'begs the question' is a bad translation of petitio principii , which is itself a bad translation from a greek text. The general usage of the term is the only correct interpretation. The phrase seems to be a trap for a certain ca
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by sethrin 9y ago
It's a quick cast to a boolean.
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by sethrin 9y ago
PHP lets you skip using curly braces for conditionals. I've seen real-world code which used this style only once, and it was about as bad as you'd expect.
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by sethrin 9y ago
Hobson's choice.
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by sethrin 9y ago
ALGOL 68 was published in multiple languages, but if you meant that the interpreter could switch between languages, Perl and some others have you covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
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by sethrin 9y ago
I think that what I would tell new people would be "more than ten lines, OR using more than two variables, OR any flow control constructs". Bash can make even simple conditional statements difficult, and while my rule is absurdly
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by sethrin 9y ago
I'm sure I did mean to imply that it was an artificial construct, yes. Gender expression and identity are more continuous than people tend to believe. For the interested, this seems like a pretty good overview of gender identity (prima
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by sethrin 9y ago
Right, the problem of the gender binary is that it never existed. What we have is trans-erasure. More generally it seems to me to prove that, with respect to Mr Burke, all that is necessary for evil to be done to a person is for good people
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by sethrin 9y ago
What a perverse individual. God help this country that has such people in it.
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by sethrin 9y ago
That was my confusion as well. I think that 99% of the working world would kill for the kind of conditions where mildly harsh words get you fired. Okay, maybe that wasn't the best metaphor there. What I see in this is a sort of passive
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by sethrin 9y ago
Am I reading this correctly? Fired for lack of empathetic communication? Is that really a thing?
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by sethrin 9y ago
The article like nearly every physical article has its preprint available on the arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07224 note: "on the arxiv" and not "on arxiv". The name puns on x => greek lette
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by sethrin 9y ago
> College CS programs in the USA are focusing more and more on appeasing recruiters and HR folk with keywords than in teaching CS fundamentals. And I think that's a tragedy. If true, I am sure we would agree on that score. > Ther
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by sethrin 9y ago
Condescending, incoherent, and wrong. If you think that CS is about how computers work in practice you should take that up with Dijkstra and Knuth. It's an absurd position. If you think that 'can read code, can debug' is the
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by sethrin 9y ago
There are good and bad code schools, but knowing about compiler design and binary trees is probably not going to help you that much with your web monkey job. I think you and many others drastically overestimate the value of the CS degree, a
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by sethrin 9y ago
Nothing trains people to program well. Colleges teach fundamentals like lambda calculus, but fail to teach practical skills. Bootcamps have the opposite problem, and the actual industry seems to assume that trained developers spring up out
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by sethrin 9y ago
> they just focused on application over theory. That would be exactly the criterion I had in mind. Colleges and universities should teach computer science, not coding. Dijkstra was an accomplished computer scientist and never owned a com
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by sethrin 9y ago
You could use some standard figures for page and book size (in Kb) and measure Pruteanus in megabytes of text. And you joke, but there's nothing in particular that is required of a unit of measure other than a lot of people thinking it
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by sethrin 9y ago
You have a clear definition for "bad people" as part of your religion. Whether or not that process works, adding a rigid morality does not improve simple plurality voting for most populations.
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There should hopefully be a significant difference in scope and quality between the material offered at a coding school and a community college's CS program.
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by sethrin 9y ago
I wrote a guide to the shell (posted elsewhere here). I concur with this statement wholeheartedly. Bash as a command language is exceptional, as a scripting language it is sub-par at best. I've been using Ruby a lot lately in command l
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by sethrin 9y ago
I wrote a thing for this! People should read it! Focus is on usage, not scripting. What Kai Thinks Every Developer Should Know About the Shell https://github.com/tenebrousedge/shell_guide
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by sethrin 9y ago
Third world labor conditions suck, whether or not Apple or Amazon is involved. We were talking about working conditions in this country, however. The reader will note that this is a classic example of the 'tu quoque' fallacy[0]. [
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by sethrin 9y ago
Uber is evil. They always have been. I've been trying to talk my friends into boycotting them for years because of their corrupt practices, and the various scams they've run on their drivers. Their highly-performant backend was us
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by sethrin 9y ago
Note: downvotes are not a rebuttal. Not that I think that it's possible to dispute that statement by means other than "I'd like the world to work differently", but if someone were prepared to offer an argument, that woul
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by sethrin 9y ago
> People who just can't catch up with all the rush ultimately feel discriminated. Non sequitur. You're also generally espousing some pretty reprehensible ideas. We as a society do not take the view that business success overrid
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by sethrin 9y ago
Relevant wikipedia article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence It's why "non-coercive government" is an oxymoron.

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