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by sidlls 4y ago
I think our points are aligned. The agenda driven nature of the genesis of these alternatives is part of the reason few developers work on them. Which, as you note, is why the “last 10%” doesn’t get done.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Only a scant handful of the open source alternatives in that table (Linux, git, gitlab, audacity, vlc media player) are compelling, if we use some measure of adoption as compelling. Most of the rest are all but unknown or so sparsely used a
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by sidlls 4y ago
True but not quite accurate. Locals influence zoning laws when they speak at city/town council meetings and go door to door trying to influence or get the support of their neighbors for them. It’s not “most” voters: but only in the sen
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by sidlls 4y ago
Accents can be genuine communication barriers. It isn’t racist to acknowledge that or to desire to find ways to resolve those issues. That is, ways that don’t involve asking a person to repeat what they’ve said over and over or to have your
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by sidlls 4y ago
It’s likely they could have chosen to stay with Python, C, and C++ and achieved similar results. I’d bet a pretty penny that the fact they were building on lessons learned with the rewrite accounts for almost 100% of the success here.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Nature article link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01698-6
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by sidlls 4y ago
I mean, if you’re talking about the happy path where every student understands the material on the first pass or can work out issues on their own then maybe. But that’s not how teaching or learning works for anyone, including super geniuses
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by sidlls 4y ago
They don’t want higher standards that are essentially arbitrary and capricious and imposed by boards, committees and other groups composed of individuals who have little or no expertise in teaching . That’s a bit more accurate than your co
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by sidlls 4y ago
Books provide the basics required to understand the field. They don't help develop intuition, methodology, collaboration, and other skills necessary to truly understand the field or teach it to others.
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by sidlls 4y ago
"If you can do math, you can teach yourself enough physics to teach in high school." No, you can't. Even at the high school level there is jargon, historical methodology, and domain-specific nuance that isn't accessible
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by sidlls 4y ago
This isn't a problem software can fix.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Money will not overcome the "those who can't, teach" sentiment that runs quite strongly in the US. There is a very strong anti-intelligence (not merely anti-intellectual) sentiment in this country. It will help, and we should
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by sidlls 4y ago
I literally use “libre” and “gratis” to make that precise distinction. And it’s at best questionable whether copilot is derivative of the code it is trained on.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The “elite” that the right hates are liberals and intellectuals, or whatever other object they are directing their endless two-minutes-hate at at the time. It’s not really “the elite” as understood in the context of, say, Fortunate Son.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The charitable framing is that the author contends the arguments are from a position of such thorough ignorance about the field as to be unworthy of giving them more time than outright dismissal. They're so bad, in fact, that even cons
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yes. It's especially amusing given that much of the other things you note are actually intended for commercial use (i.e. sales) from the start, unlike open source software. I just don't understand the OSS community sometimes. &quo
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by sidlls 4y ago
In what sense? Copilot isn’t a derivative work in the sense these licenses usually are understood to mean. And given that they’re open source code bases I expect licenses to explicitly disallow things, and consider anything not explicitly d
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by sidlls 4y ago
How is it abusive?
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by sidlls 4y ago
It’s both. In theory TDD drives the interface by ensuring the units under test do what they’re intended (implementation), and that each and every unit is “testable” (interface). TDD doesn’t really care about “clean” interfaces, only that un
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by sidlls 4y ago
I used CVS. And worse.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I have yet to get such an infection as a result of this activity. Perhaps choose partners more wisely?
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by sidlls 4y ago
Linus isn't right about everything.
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by sidlls 4y ago
One of the theses of TDD is that the tests guide the design and implementation of an under specified (e.g. unknown) problem, given the requirements regarding the outcomes and a complete enough set of test cases. “Theoretically” one should
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by sidlls 4y ago
Even fields that require performance can have strong networking requirements. Academia, software, traditional engineering, etc. One’s reputation is rarely purely or even strongly reputation based
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by sidlls 4y ago
That’s true for almost any field.
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by sidlls 4y ago
No, I just refuse to consider PG to be a walking deity. Personally I have never understood the fascination with his essays. They are generally poorly structured and lacking in any good quality supporting references. If we were submitting hi
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by sidlls 4y ago
If the “blub” thesis were merely about choosing the right tool for the right job I’d agree with you (I think). But that isn’t his thesis. His thesis is that not choosing the language PG would choose (most likely, a lisp) means a programmer
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by sidlls 4y ago
PG’s “blub” thesis is particularly terrible, even for him. It’s just a way for him to euphemistically say that programmers who don’t recognize how much better his language is are all dumb. PG’s problem is that he thinks too highly of his ow
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by sidlls 4y ago
I went through grad school and taught in university in the US. My perspective is a bit different. I agree in many ways the US is behind. But in some regions outside the US there seems to be a strong emphasis on rote/mechanical memoriza
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by sidlls 4y ago
Redis starts to have issues at high scale, even on sophisticated hardware, that can be quite difficult to debug without a lot of additional effort and storage. It’s not just memory, but odd behavior (e.g. randomly dropped connections) with

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