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by sofal 18y ago
Ah, okay. It was just the last sentence that threw me for a loop: "Never have I seen someone so distressed at being told he was right." From the anecdote I understood that the PhD candidate was being told he was wrong. Anyway, I promise I
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by sofal 18y ago
I've read this comment about ten times now and I still can't quite understand who was doing what to who. Am I going crazy? Edit: I think I see now. The master's student was the distressed one.
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by sofal 18y ago
He also goes on to say: I am discounting Rails here: I think Rails is great for what it is and I’ve had nothing but good experiences with it precisely because it is so “opinionated”. Its a very productive environment and manages to success
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by sofal 18y ago
I can say from my experience that while it's not Guitar Hero or Rock Band that keeps me from practicing guitar, the author's example of psychedelic music is an apt one. The sheer amount of guitar material available to me is almost paralyzin
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by sofal 18y ago
It's times like this when I am glad that I can read comments here instead of being stuck with the comments on the actual blog.
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by sofal 18y ago
However, I do not like the general holier-than-thou attitude that much of the community takes and the fact that they seem to spend more time talking about how fucking awesome Ruby is than they spend actually writing code. This is exactly
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by sofal 18y ago
Why do people see strength where there is only reactionary weakness? What is it about returning hate for hate that is so refreshing and liberating? There is nothing but waste on both sides. Look... there will always be people spewing hatred
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by sofal 18y ago
Character is how you deal with people who aren't nice. It's amazing to me how many people have still not come to terms with that truth. It's written in the oldest books in the world. I think it's particularly apt for the Internet age when
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by sofal 18y ago
While I agree with you that the corporate world is full of doublespeak, the idea that politeness is inherently hypocritical and that swear words are necessary for straight talking is, well, stupid.
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by sofal 18y ago
I've found that students who breeze by in these introductory classes have no desire to skip over them. Easy semesters are hard to come by. College students generally don't have the attitude of "I'm paying so much for this so I'd better get
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by sofal 18y ago
I just finished helping to teach an introductory programming class as well (HTML and JavaScript -- one step below the Java class). I also observed a surprising range in the ability of the students to grasp programming. Hardest class ever al
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by sofal 18y ago
Related (and with more information): http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page
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by sofal 18y ago
The software running on the FAA flight control systems, DOD command and comms systems, and satellite navigations outclass pretty much anything I've seen from the startup space in terms of quality. It sounds glorious, doesn't it? I wrote s
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by sofal 18y ago
My experience working for a gigantic government contractor was just like you describe. I cannot emphasize enough how soul crushing it is to work in this kind of environment. You cannot just put in your hours, go home, and work on something
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by sofal 18y ago
Have you also noticed that a majority of the famous classical music composers had extremely screwed up lives? I thought this was particularly fascinating when I took a music history class.
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by sofal 18y ago
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that pressing c instead of s in that situation will do the exact same thing.
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by sofal 18y ago
An insult it may be, but it is definitely not an ad hominem fallacy. Please be a little less liberal with that overused term.
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by sofal 18y ago
I desperately needed to find a way to change the java.library.path at runtime, which is technically forbidden. I finally stumbled upon this beautiful ugly hack (it opens up Sun's non-public class and hacks it via reflection): http://forum.
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by sofal 18y ago
It's about trying to find the best trade-off. Certainly automated rename/pull up/inline/extract operations help, but I've found that the navigation and text-editing power of vim outweighs the benefits coming from those IDE operations. Vim i
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by sofal 18y ago
An IDE does a great job at helping you generate and manage repetitive code. The problem is that it doesn't help you read and understand repetitive code. The fact that a repetitive and error prone task needs to be done at all is sometimes (n
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by sofal 18y ago
There are both kinds of developers. I always thought Oliver Steele did a good job of explaining this here: http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides Here's my take: The ability to write in a language that doesn't require excessive amounts
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by sofal 18y ago
Another term that is overused is the "straw man argument" comeback. It's not Latin, but people still viciously cling to it. Wherever there is a misunderstanding between two different sides, the defensive cry "straw man!" is heard either to
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by sofal 18y ago
Having a vile, boisterous, abusive, and slanderous alter ego for your blog personality probably doesn't help too much either.
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by sofal 18y ago
The sycophantic comments on his blog are nauseating.
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by sofal 18y ago
So, in other words, equality in America will be accomplished when someone like you is elected President? How inclusive. My turn... I'll believe all Americans are equal when a gay, handicapped, unattractive Muslim woman who never attended co
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by sofal 18y ago
So do professors ban laptops because they genuinely want to help students overcome their addiction, or because the professors don't feel like they're getting the attention that they deserve?
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by sofal 18y ago
Platitudes coming from a rich successful guy are still platitudes.
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by sofal 18y ago
Control systems for helicopters are developed by soulless clock-punching factory workers, marching to the slow beat of enormous, impenetrable bureaucracies under the iron fist of stifling, heavyweight processes. Inquisitive engineers need n
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by sofal 18y ago
I'd say the same thing about the presidential debates. The problem is that these cute fights represent a power struggle of unthinkable magnitude and influence.
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by sofal 18y ago
Except when the crowd is running and screaming.

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