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by stiff 14y ago
I thought the description of the problems with LaTeX architecture was pretty concrete and convincing. Knuth is no doubt a genius, I admire him as much as anyone, but he does his work in a certain niche in a very isolated setting and probabl
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by stiff 14y ago
I present to you Grace Hopper handing people nanoseconds out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8 :)
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by stiff 14y ago
Suppose you want to build a system that using some M features of the current weather (humidity, temperature, pressure etc.) will predict whether it will be sunny in 3 hours or not - to this end you manually collect a dataset of N measuremen
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by stiff 14y ago
I never claimed damage to the tissues of the spine is the sole and only cause of back pain, I only said that if you do have damage to the tissues of the spine which is not uncommon you clearly risk making it worse by putting your tissues un
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by stiff 14y ago
In my opinion, if it's just about enhancing recovery after a workout, ideally you would eat any food rich in high-quality protein (chicken if you have access to grass-fed, pork, nuts if you vegatarian etc.) + some green vegetables (volumino
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by stiff 14y ago
At least a significant percent of the population, if not the majority, is said to be lactose intolerant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk#Lactose_intolerance Besides that, if you ingest a protein shake and eat nothing for a few hours the
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by stiff 14y ago
Many people might have back pain because of muscle weakness or just too much sitting, I don't doubt deadlifting could help them, so could many other things. But very few of the very many people with various back issues get them properly che
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by stiff 14y ago
To me, "two-hour long" and "very intense" in the gym is a contradiction, unless antirez means aerobic work. In my experience if you do heavy squats, deadlifts, presses etc. you will be done in maybe 45 minutes, will have not much energy to
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by stiff 14y ago
Deadlifts as a recommendation for back pain is, well... controversial. Maybe if you keep the weight low and the only source of the back pain is muscle soreness. I don't doubt it works for you, but in general people with back issues should s
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by stiff 14y ago
If you care about your long-term health, it is much better to get your protein (and all other nutrients, by the way) from an actual meal and not from a supplement, because of digestive issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whey_protein#Dige
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by stiff 14y ago
If you look at other articles at CodingHorror, I don't think Jeff Atwood associates coding with things like "algorithmic thinking" (which is not necessarily bad, he just has a different focus), but do courses of "learning to code" teach it
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by stiff 14y ago
Eh? The sentence you quoted explains that putting domain logic in the persistence objects is precisely what objectify avoids. I do't see any examples of domain logic as separate from persistence logic at all in the examples, so I'm not sur
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by stiff 14y ago
The services receive messages from the router, then send messages to whatever they need to call to get the job done. Being sent messages by the framework is what makes it a framework and not a library; I don't get your objection here. If
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by stiff 14y ago
The CurrentUserResolver example in the README shows that some initialisation control is possible here. This is the dependency injection part, not the policy/service/responder core of the framework I am talking about. There don't have to
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by stiff 14y ago
From the examples it doesn't even look like a _partial_ function application since it is not clear whether you can control how those services/policies/responders are initialized. Also I think it would be quite awkward for one service to ini
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by stiff 14y ago
When I say "If you look at Rails itself" I do not mean you in particular, I mean in general for people wondering about the problem a good lesson is checking out the Rails code, similarly "a new skill to be learned" in the sense that it is d
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by stiff 14y ago
I worked in Rails for the last 6 years professionally, and for the last 4 years on a single application. There are lots of ways to tackle this problem, but it really depends what precisely you have inside those models and there are certainl
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by stiff 14y ago
Well, maybe I got carried away a bit with the tone in general in the last paragraphs of both comments, but I think I substantiated the particular sentence you cited quite a bit. On the other hand, I also took half an hour to clearly explain
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by stiff 14y ago
You have to think a bit more about what OO really is about. How would properties of your solution differ if you instead of classes split all the code into many very small global methods? The essence of OO is objects freely passing messages
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by stiff 14y ago
This is not object-oriented at all, unless you learned about object-orientation from Java and its monster frameworks, this is basically a form of data-flow programming. OO is about message passing, here the "objects" do not pass any message
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by stiff 14y ago
I think you misunderstood each other, you meant a global method and Mr. Golick seems to have understood that you mean just another method in the controller or whatever. Also, those are not really single-method classes, but single-method int
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by stiff 14y ago
So did Edison. It might very well be that Edison would not be able to spell Tesla at his best but also that Tesla would not be able to spell Edison at his best. The point is they both made very valuable contributions using their unique tale
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by stiff 14y ago
I can't understand why the writer is reacting so much to the comic Because the comic is spreading non-sense as it is clearly evidenced in the article? I don't believe Edison could spell Tesla on his best day This is exactly the attitude
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by stiff 14y ago
Yes, but in your example the system is still incomplete and the moment you would add an axiom that would make it complete, it would become inconsistent (so either you never finish your puzzles or you finish them and exactly the same moment
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by stiff 14y ago
I think the point is that if you try to add those unprovable theorems to the system to try to make it complete it becomes inconsistent. See for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_proof#Consistency_a... Moreover, Gödel's se
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by stiff 14y ago
He didn't state that people should not become programmers, he stated that people who do not intend to become programmers wouldn't benefit much more from a "coding" course than from a plumbing course, and could instead for example use some k
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by stiff 14y ago
It is obvious to me how being a skilled reader, a skilled writer, and at least high school level math are fundamental to performing the job of a politician. Or at any job, for that matter. But understanding variables and functions, pointer
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by stiff 14y ago
While the "Don't Become Anything" thing is valuable (after all it's a thousands of years old insight that can be found in Buddhism for example), the article looks pretty much like a straw man to me. The original post was arguing that "codin
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by stiff 14y ago
For a more comprehensive overview of the topic, see the old "Good sleep, good learning, good life" article: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
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by stiff 14y ago
Not that many, he doesn't have a marketing department.

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