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by stray 11y ago
It seems that you and this "mom" person you mentioned, may have stumbled upon a truly workable form of equality. What if men and women were to form small teams -- and divide labor between themselves however they saw fit. Such a t
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by stray 11y ago
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29418230
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by stray 11y ago
That sounds perfectly reasonable, and 20 years ago I'd have said the same thing. It's even fairly likely that I did say it. You know where this is going, right? I was a SysAdmin at the time and one of the things I was responsib
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by stray 11y ago
You mean http://aurous.rocks ? Why would you need source code? Just check out the Echo Nest API and you're probably halfway there.
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by stray 11y ago
Something else entirely. HN is not reddit. US political figures are uninteresting here -- unless they've invented a new geospatial-temporal database or something.
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by stray 11y ago
I like the way you think. The problem here is probably that if you asked 1000 programmers to draw something -- they'd all be limited to the two dimensions they can commit to paper (or whiteboard). Even a photograph is a projection of a
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by stray 11y ago
Like a DFD? Data flow diagrams were proposed by Larry Constantine, the original developer of structured design, based on Martin and Estrin's "Data Flow Graph" model of computation. Starting in the 1970s, data flow diagrams (D
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by stray 11y ago
That's a blast from the past! Iirc, that was hot around the same time as SIOD (scheme in one defun) and tcl.
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by stray 11y ago
Hey, I'd move to Copenhagen in a heartbeat if you could sponsor whatever credentials I'd need to work there and help arrange for a place to live.
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by stray 11y ago
You're probably in the Bay Area -- and if you don't want remote developers you're shutting yourself off from all of us who wouldn't move there no matter how high the compensation.
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by stray 11y ago
It's clear that the guy who wrote this never read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Nor did the author of the article he links to. Pure drivel.
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by stray 11y ago
I am of course, making the assumption that OP knows what the software does -- but not how it goes about doing it.
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by stray 11y ago
Write tests for every behavior the system currently exhibits. Then systematically comment out everything -- one function/block/class/whatever at a time -- making note of which tests break. That should give you a better idea o
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by stray 11y ago
We've got one: he. When it's important that you communicate that he is male, you have to make an extra statement. Otherwise he is just somebody and you don't know what gender he is at all. Unless someone tells you he is male
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by stray 11y ago
I just read through all the responses to all her comments and the whole "VCs, don't compare me to your wife" thread -- and I see nothing that even resembles an attack. Even the disagreements are extremely mild. There were a
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by stray 11y ago
I get a fair amount of criticism from men too -- in fact, every overt attack and criticism I get comes from men. I seriously doubt it's because I'm a woman though.
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by stray 11y ago
I think you're conflating syntax with semantics.
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by stray 11y ago
It's probably because in algol derived languages -- when you encounter parentheses, something weird is happening -- something you've got to put extra thought into. Maybe the ordering of something is being forced. Maybe something e
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by stray 11y ago
The software I produce at work is Ruby. I don't know that it's popular -- but it is central to a large company's operations. But I generate and validate that Ruby code with Common Lisp -- in other words, I write Lisp that wri
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by stray 11y ago
I have no idea why the people who write math papers make the choices they make. But I'd like to point out that in your second example the parentheses are needed because infix notation is inherently more complicated. In the first exampl
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by stray 11y ago
Germany is like the size of Oregon, so it's unsurprising that the US would rank higher. But China surprises me. I would expect the list to look more like: 1) Russia 2) United States 3) China 4) Germany 5) France 6) United Kingdom ...
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by stray 11y ago
(let ((light t) (darkness nil) (substrate :land :sea) (life '(:land (:grass :herb :fruit-tree :cattle :creeping-thing) :sea (:fish :d
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by stray 11y ago
I'm pretty sure there are people with driving licenses who weren't born the last time I heard HoTMetaL mentioned.
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by stray 11y ago
That's one of two explanations I suspect are The Real Story(tm): 1. As you suspect, maybe the iPhone is the easiest window to the lives of people that they have. If they could convince criminals to carry iPhones, it'd make the jo
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by stray 11y ago
It is not a myth that as the supply of money is increased, prices go up to reach equilibrium. Supply/demand works in both directions.
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by stray 11y ago
Prices will only go up till the new minimum wage is equally painful. Yes. We need our poorest to be less poor. Yes. We need all of our people to have access to health care and a decent place to live. But it's not enough. Not really
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by stray 11y ago
I am astounded that someone with so little compassion exists.
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by stray 11y ago
No. Paying someone the minimum wage sends the message "If I could pay you less, I would". Legal minimum wage establishes a limit on how evil people are allowed to be to each other. And working for minimum wage sends the message
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by stray 11y ago
That all depends on what the definition of "is" is.
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by stray 11y ago
Sure! Anything to avoid digging in to figure out this effin' cache problem...

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