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by stkni 11y ago
Yes, this seems right. In the 1970s I imagine all these different languages were essentially good for a specific purpose and for some time it's been cross-breeding and evolving into a general purpose language. This touches pretty clo
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by stkni 11y ago
Kind of interesting, might be more interesting to see what the other end of the distribution looked like, i.e. the really esoteric commands that people rarely use. We all might learn something from that!
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by stkni 11y ago
I can empathize. Perhaps getting involved in open source would help? The OP was a little bit light on details of the exact work under-taken at the 'company' but I'm guessing it wouldn't be interesting enough to pass th
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by stkni 11y ago
Nah, don't think so. Keynes might not have been right about everything but I think some of his ideas are the closest we've come to what could be described as a 'just' economy. Indeed if we're going down this road
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by stkni 11y ago
I'd assume that the laws of supply and demand will eventually correct this. Interesting that the laws of leverage (i.e. it magnifies gain and loss) have punished plenty of homeowners, and that will probably make the correction take a
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by stkni 11y ago
Don't think we're going to ask computers to count the cost of a life, anytime soon. Especially since humans have a hard enough job doing it [1]. It will be designed, I imagine, to do the safest thing possible given an emergency.
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by stkni 11y ago
This is interesting mostly because it echoes my feelings of dissonance with the employers I've worked for. My conclusion was that I needed to be more in tune with the/a business that I'm ultimately trying to serve, and theref
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by stkni 11y ago
I remember reading somewhere (I forget where) that making software has the ability to improve change/many lives and that alone makes software development, but especially open source, a useful endeavour. How great it is then, that now I
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by stkni 11y ago
The Prisoners Dilemma by Poundstone gives a few stunning insights into the life of Von Neumann. Like how as a child, his father gave him a library of books which he read, understood and could recite verbatim. Oh and how whilst at the RAND
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by stkni 11y ago
Nice idea, nicely executed. Tiny suggestion: I'd put a little more white space between the search results. I'm finding it hard to distinguish between different results.
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by stkni 11y ago
The linked article quotes some research which is highly dubious. Using Google trends data [1] for anything other than the start of an analysis seems a little dangerous. Facebook won the social network land-grab and it will be difficult for
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by stkni 11y ago
>> Are media our 'thinking tools' or something else, like our 'communicate to others what I'm thinking tool'? Interesting. Media are definitely enablers of better understanding, in my experience. There are
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by stkni 11y ago
>> Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. This would be a very sad development. Debatable, surely. Especially since House of cards on NetFlix was a remake of a BBC drama from 1990 [1]. Sugges
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by stkni 12y ago
Clicked on first 10, then skipped to 100 by tweaking the URL. Then jumped to 150 (when jumping to 256 didn't work) and then finished the last few. Very reminiscent of 1980s adventure games on the Spectrum but my French isn't good
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by stkni 12y ago
Journalism forms a cornerstone of our democracies. It's function is as relevant today as it ever was (perhaps more so in the light of Snowden) so we better think carefully before we write it off. But this is where I think the article
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by stkni 12y ago
Great! But you need a status update that's more mobile I think. Because the status is quite likely to change when you (and all your colleagues) see the green light and head for the door ...
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by stkni 13y ago
I think I could've guessed this about Bill and Melinda based on what we already know about their non-billionaire like lifestyle. It's an approach to be lauded, but one thing their children will always have is that they started ou
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by stkni 13y ago
No, no, nothing to do with that. The particular example that comes to mind is the case of someone who published a very heartfelt disagreement with a previous employer. Since we would potentially be a new employer for this person it gave
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by stkni 13y ago
I don't want to pass judgment here, but browsing through the christfollower.me site suggests to me that OldCoder wears his internet heart on his internet sleeve. Long ago, when I was a hiring manager, we routinely searched for online p
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by stkni 13y ago
> ever had to come up with a decent original logo? Yes, don't under-estimate the time-cost of this for non-designers. I tried it once. The design sucked, I got advice and got totally lost in a 3 day tour of typography and colour
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by stkni 13y ago
Ah! I still remember the day I discovered that some of the project I had inherited was Tcl that was generated at runtime by Tcl. There's somethings you can do when everything's a string that you can't easily do in many other
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by stkni 13y ago
I've grudgingly signed one of these a few years ago because the owner of the company had a habit of vindictively pursuing employees she didn't like until they were poor. That trumped the crappy termination clause so I signed it!
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by stkni 13y ago
It's a very good piece of radio, and it's a compelling account of how selling works in the real world but I disagree with the tweet that it's the best podcast you'll ever hear about selling software. Selling your own sof
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by stkni 13y ago
I came to the same conclusion about ten years ago and switched into index funds. So I did ok from the financial perspective but I think the biggest benefit was not having to care so much about the mood swings of the market. With my new sp
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by stkni 13y ago
Apparently the predicted cost benefit of doing this in Manchester (UK) will take 17 years to recoup[1]. If that's representative it doesn't seem hugely compelling for municipalities to switch at current energy prices. In the UK
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by stkni 13y ago
David Mitchell's point is different with respect to this one. Although both valid, he argues that living in the moment is not possible whereas the video is saying that we're kind of not living in the 'here' but somewher
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by stkni 13y ago
Why would anyone even think about learning 'British' English instead of 'US' English? We Brits do talk a tad funny at times. Indeed, the OP mentions that US English is somewhat easier to follow and that's what we
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by stkni 13y ago
I'm a bit rusty but I think if you're going to include the board display function on the same line you'll need to separate with a semi-colon. I'm also going to point out that whilst it looks pretty cool (and it runs very
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by stkni 13y ago
> There will come a point in life where you have enough money, hopefully. But if you're like most of my friends you'll also have two kids and a mortgage. At that point your appetite to take risks is reduced because it's
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by stkni 13y ago
I mostly agree but doesn't that slightly miss the point though? Because I presume you weren't invited to speak at a Spaniard only conference. I'm not particularly sure the OP has had much of an epiphany either. She could&

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