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by steego 10y ago
Scripting is rarely about syntax. It's about being able to load code dynamically, being able to create ad-hoc data structures, quick changes and distributing executables as source rather than binaries.
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by steego 10y ago
They don't, but my experience is more than half are good managers. The best ones I've found delegate by challenging their teams, but also follow up regularly on both an individual and team level. Even mediocre managers can be up
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by steego 10y ago
Have you figured out the difference between webpages and apps yet? Let me know when you do and we can continue this discussion. FYI, I switched to iOS because they're much more aggressive controlling about runaway background processes
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by steego 10y ago
Personally speaking (That means I'm speaking for myself), I could absolutely care less about the plight of the developer who wants their page to run stuff in the background. If you really think I should be running something in the back
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by steego 10y ago
Google's users don't like popup ads so this will likely make them happier with their search results and make them more loyal Google users. So why is Google beholden to deliver traffic to websites that use obtrusive popup ads when
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by steego 10y ago
I just finished that not long ago. It's an interesting read because it places an emphasis on the value on simple and statistically effect algorithms that can be executed by humans with relatively low cognitive overload. Many of the al
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by steego 10y ago
Whether some is readable is always going to be subject to who's reading it. That's simply how readable/non-readable work. Now you can learn to read new languages (human or machine), but I suspect someone who knows a romance
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by steego 10y ago
Despite what the down voters think, I actually found this comment useful because I had the exact opposite reaction. I took a quick look at the examples, saw familiar syntax and features and quickly concluded it looks like a nice toy, but I
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by steego 10y ago
Ignore the children. Coq is a fantastic tool! It's unfortunate people think of Coq as an academic language. I really think it's something more people should pull out at the workspace and not confine it to college experimentation.
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by steego 10y ago
Why would Amazon invest its profits in cancer research? Wouldn't you expect a drug or biotechnology company to invest their profits in cancer research? Amazon is in the business of creating a marketplace that efficiently matches buyers
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by steego 10y ago
Have you bothered to ask yourself where the money goes after it's put in the pockets of Bezos' and other Amazon investors? Do you think that money is just sitting in the bank doing nothing?
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by steego 10y ago
Copying the surface structure is normal. Every generation that follows the previous tends to copy the surface structure of its predecessors until they develop their own culture based on that generation's realities. Do you really thin
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by steego 10y ago
It's disappointing to see people downvote this post rather than respond to it. I'm not going to argue that this sort of technology isn't going to have a decimating effect on employment, small business etc. It will. It will
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by steego 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zongtang If you were looking for a guy to suppress and crush rebellions, this was your man. As an aside, I would be very hesitant to call him General Chicken.
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by steego 10y ago
> But if you're on Team Pepsi, you shouldn't be very happy when your captain makes things happen due to technicalities and the ability to skirt Congress; Team Coke is going to be in charge at some point and all of these easily-
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by steego 10y ago
http://etfdailynews.com/2016/08/11/tesla-wants-to-install-so... There was buzz about this months ago.
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by steego 10y ago
> What am I missing here? There may be a market sweet spot between dedicated high-performance machine learning that's ideal for experts who are willing to buy/lease dedicated hardware and regular developers who want to use simp
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by steego 10y ago
Knowing a cursory difference between a statically and dynamically typed language in this day in age is not an unreasonable requirement for many developer positions, especially web development where you're often using a mix of languages
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by steego 10y ago
When will you NPCs wake up and realize all this is not for you? Back to work!
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by steego 10y ago
> I don't know what sort of work they do to verify, but they obviously do something. That sounds like wishful thinking. The only obvious conclusion you can come to is nobody has successfully contradicted their dumps. It means that
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by steego 10y ago
I have a son—he’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers.
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by steego 10y ago
> Yeah, but why use another patch on top of a patch where there are modern type-safe languages like Swift. The JavaScript toolchain is more than good enough to build the kinds of applications that React Native targets. Most of these app
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by steego 10y ago
I prefer statically-typed languages too, but this is easily solved by using something TypeScript or Flow.
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by steego 10y ago
Truffle oil is usually a sign of an amateur chef, but I would disagree it has no place. Most people abuse it and I would include truffle fries on the list. It's a bitter and inferior truffle flavor. However, I love finishing white mu
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by steego 10y ago
Truffle salt and fresh grated parm is really nice on popcorn.
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by steego 10y ago
> Speed of development and execution when I don't, and will likely never need, to query that way. The initial joy and speed of of development is really nice. However, my experience has been you end up paying significant technical d
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by steego 10y ago
Probably not. Then again, she probably doesn't have the first-person perspective of being a man belonging to a pack that engages women on a predator/prey terms. I know this letter is all too cliche for you because it reinforces b
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by steego 10y ago
Wouldn't a better mental model be an object-as-a-process ala Smalltalk or Erlang? I personally think the object analog is a for more useful. Rather than reinventing your own container composition system, you could simply adopt a depen
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by steego 10y ago
My wife does. She's probably ordered from them between 10-20 times. I mentioned them to her and she uses them now and then when she realizes Amazon is overcharging for something. Clearly she's mostly loyal to Amazon.
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by steego 10y ago
It's not offensive. It just doesn't add anything interesting. Naturally this post is from a man's perspective and a mother's perspective would be different. Is there an interesting train of thought that these sentences

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