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by steego 11y ago
Working in a field where we're required to define things with mathematical precision, it's frustrating listening to lawyers and judges flail about trying to figure out how to interpret laws. I don't want to claim that the law
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by steego 11y ago
The Civil Rights Act was not a prerequisite for interracial marriage. It was decided in Loving v. Virginia. ( http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1966/1966_395 ) A constitutional amendment was necessary for w
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by steego 11y ago
My point wasn't if jQuery is a bloated library or not, but whether its plugin system caused it to bloat beyond its original purpose.
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by steego 11y ago
> I use it a lot but I'm not sure its a counterpoint to bloat. You're missing my point. I'm not claiming jQuery is not bloated, what I'm claiming is jQuery hasn't bloated (grown) a lot since it was first introdu
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by steego 11y ago
I don't recall accusing you of claiming everything is under the cycle of bloat. What I disagreed with was the way you characterized and described the growth of pluggable software. You might not have intended it, but a reasonable reade
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by steego 11y ago
I disagree with your characterization. Take jQuery for example. 1. Small, fast and minimal. 2. Easy to create plugins. 3. Budding ecosystem and explosion of plugins. 4. Conflicts ensued and some plugins got pulled into th
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by steego 11y ago
When I'm working with C#, I often write code like so: products .Where(p => p.Price >= range.low && p.Price <= range.high) .GroupBy(p => p.Category) .Select(g => new { Category = g.Key.Name
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by steego 11y ago
This is the biggest problem with the H1B visa system. It's essentially a system that primarily benefits outsourcing shops by giving them a kind of deportation leverage over their employees. We should remove the sponsorship restricti
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by steego 11y ago
> Just write code. Practice, practice, practice. Writing code without guidance is probably the slowest way you can learn something. A good book or class will save you countless hours living with the consequences of your naive mistakes.
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by steego 11y ago
I've been following the trend for the last 15 years and there have literally been hundreds of articles, papers and a few dozen books that touch on the this phenomenon. It's a popular topic in the world of criminal justice and mos
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by steego 11y ago
I'm still not entirely sure what that means. Does it mean you recursively swap left and right branches, or does it mean you create a new data structure where the bottom elements become the top elements?
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by steego 11y ago
I'd much rather talk about startup pranking. I worked at a startup that had a shared bathroom with a keypad on it. Somebody had the brilliant idea to tell the new guy the bathroom code was a 16 digit number. It worked because the onl
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by steego 11y ago
It's his fault for getting into the wrong business. If he only laundered drug cartel money like HSBC, he would have just paid a fine.
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by steego 11y ago
Weddpros was making the point that criticism worked. The poster tried (An important first step), failed, and critical people pointed out his errors. Weddpros points out the poster corrected those errors because he received criticism. Wed
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by steego 11y ago
> So basically you're saying that because he cares and because he tried, and because the comments were dumb, nobody should criticize him? I don't think anybody is saying that.
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by steego 11y ago
I don't think one has to order people to break the law. I think it's easier to establish aggressive incentive systems that encourages employees to act very single mindedly. I also think it's easy to undermine internal contr
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by steego 11y ago
You're right. My whipping boy analogy is a bit leaky, especially if one tries to project it the specifics of this case. Here's my concern: Employees work under incentive structures that are established by their employers and are
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by steego 11y ago
I can't tell if you're being funny or not. If you are, well played. For those who don't get the joke, Iceland was really on the verge of collapse and took extraordinary measures to save their economy. If you did what they di
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by steego 11y ago
Yes it is. You're confusing what's right with what seems intuitively wrong to people. It's strange because it's inconsistent with most systems which group numbers by significant digits. For example, a person who is 30
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by steego 11y ago
I'm so glad they're finally putting a whipping boy on trial. Now, I know some of you are a little skeptical about the efficacy of punishing whipping boys, but let me explain. We can't possibly whip banking executives when th
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by steego 11y ago
Julia is a little friendlier for people who aren't used to APL's point-free style, but it is designed for performance, going as far showing you how functions are compiled to LLVM and native assembler in the REPL. http:/&#x2F
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by steego 11y ago
How does Julia work in this space? What's it lacking?
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by steego 11y ago
Your brain should fire wrong signals when you see mut. I think part of the design of mut is to discourage you from abusing mutable variables. (Personally, I prefer F# forcing you the type mutable). I'm glad they didn't give it a
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by steego 11y ago
> They are not (usually) psychopaths, they have feelings and empathy, but are just very good at rationalizing those feelings away. I'm really glad you made this point, and I'll add that we have to remember that most people can
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by steego 11y ago
Thank you for the whole post.
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by steego 11y ago
> What I never heard was any constructive career advice, or any details other than the outsourcing and cheap foreigners. I don't think the purpose of their tirade was to provide you with career advice. It sounds like they were bitte
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by steego 11y ago
People will justify this sort of abuse because they see it as a necessary cost for a bright future. Do you really think we'll create a bright future by continually setting the precedent it's ok to abuse people to get there? Won&#
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by steego 11y ago
> For poor people its a poor people budgeting thing. ... I couldn't help but read the rest of this paragraph in Cartman's voice.
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by steego 11y ago
In the suburbs convenience matters with things people buy regularly. You see this manifested as large convenience stores with gas bars and large drug stores that also sell sandwiches and ice cream. Small independent convenience stores ten
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by steego 11y ago
Many Americans don't see the value in a local shop because local shops tend to be more expensive and offer fewer choices. It's easier to consolidate your errands and hit a big grocery store and a big box store.

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