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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
And why do you think they take those risks? Do you think they would if people treated it like a job at mcdonalds? Would their families support them in being away for so long for 30k/year?
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Do you think the soldiers should see themselves as capitalists in it for themselves?
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Consider the following: 1. Although military people are paid, it's not enough to compensate the amount of time, health risks, and loss of normal rights and freedoms experienced by young people. 2. Are we better off or worse off if peop
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Maybe I misunderstood. Weren't you expressing that this was a poor or convoluted solution to scrolling?
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Are you suggesting that the programmer should be able to pass a tree of 10,000+ heterogeneous nodes with transformation and styling and it just works without them thinking about how to break up that problem? It is a solved problem, the solu
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Filling polygons has never been the hard part of realtime games. It's all the work that gets you to be able to fill just the polygons you need in the way you want them. It is not a big ask to have a scrolling UI. Look at motif from 80s
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
> With stock performance, I’ve already taken a 10% wage cut This is such a weird attitude to me. If it goes up you expect the gains, if it goes down the company is letting you down. Stock is supposed to involve some risk. It's not
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Your previous comment suggested nobody will develop that software because it has poor financial outcomes, that was what I was responding to. Of course you're right in this comment. Just because something exists doesn't mean people
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
If this were true we wouldn't have Octave in the first place. People are motivated by other incentives besides money.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
You can also search logs to recover a commit, besides the other ways mentioned. > ok but then I lose it's nice handle. Then don't delete the handle? Maybe rename it with a `deleted/` prefix? It's hard to imagine what
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Selling has more connotations than earning money. If he is at a Google event he is promoting it.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
What is the best public source on how Perforce works?
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
There is no immutable and consistent way to do this in a distributed system.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
I agree this is a cultural problem. Houses are seen as retirement vehicle, etc. I think it's partially a sales tactic, to switch your brain into "investing" mode and willing to fork up a lot of cash and leverage (I'm &qu
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Why did this get removed from the front page so quickly?
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
I learned from this website. I would recommend it to people who already know how to program another language.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
The other weird part of this article is it's presented as the author's unique (or uncommon) business/startup insight, when cash flow analysis is the fundamental of finance.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Deep C Secrets is one of the best programming books ever written.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Exactly.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Most programs you use and internet infrastructure are written in C and C++. Furthermore, it's actively used to develop new software everyday by most large companies.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
If you want to take a Christian perspective, the word "commit" is used to emphasize that the individual took specific action as opposed to "omit" meaning they failed to take proper action to prevent evil. "Died by s
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
> You also have a human desire to help out, be part of something bigger, do your part in the advancement of science & engineering. The fact that you associate those ideals with purchasing a consumer product made by a public company
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
The propoganda vibes are pretty high for me.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
How much of that can be attributed to it not having as much time to attract cruft? See Haskell, a very minimal and carefully designed language with a heap of complex and contrary extensions.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
I absolutely agree, but this comment referred to the library size as a major burden.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
> 90% of C++'s useless standard library, The Python library is even larger and doesn't seem to be a barrier. If you know `std::vector`, `<<`, and `std::sort` it seems you're set to contribute to most code bases. >
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
That's a nice factoid, but if you read a little further in the logic book you would learn it's quite useful. Proving implications, such a B -> C can be an important step in themselves. It's also essential for proofs by con
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Got it. Thanks for correction.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Preview is the best tool for working with PDFs I have used. Just being able to cut pages and reorder them is strangely difficult for everything else.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Sure, that's how to fix the BRK site. But I was replying to your comment: > I want to make websites like this and run into the same problem every time: phones exist now. If you start from unstyled HTML it works. My question is what

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