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by stray 11y ago
Sounds like you're in your twenties. I felt like that too. Probably everybody does. If you save just half of that 70%, it'll grow to be quite a bit of money. It just takes time. And frankly, if you're living with the love
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by stray 11y ago
Only for serious transgression -- violence in the workplace, theft of company property, repeatedly showing up drunk/high. Otherwise, lots of things can be going on in someone's life that can cause them to suck at their jobs for a
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by stray 11y ago
The population would be far lower -- because apparently you either get smarts or you get laid. And we'd all be living in grass huts on the beach. Eating whatever fruits were reasonably easy to acquire. Not because this is an ideal sit
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by stray 11y ago
If you read the first 100k lines of code I ever wrote, you'd lose 22 IQ points.
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by stray 11y ago
At least! The total neglect of this art [speaking] has been productive of the worst consequences...in the conduct of all affairs ecclesiastical and civil, in church, in parliament, courts of justice...the wretched state of elocution is app
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by stray 11y ago
Very confused! Here's an example of English as spoken ~600 years ago (Chaucer): "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh h
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by stray 11y ago
Not true. The language as spoken by real people -- is the primary language. You can't stop the signal, Mal.
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by stray 11y ago
rsync?
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by stray 11y ago
Isn't startup time painful though?
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by stray 11y ago
It annoys me that the questionnaire equates productivity with lots of lines of code. Productivity is providing value. Functionality is an asset. Code is a liability.
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by stray 11y ago
Actually, Common Lisp has a very nice (optional) type system. It is not uncommon to declare types once everything is working to speed things up -- so with Lisp, you get the best of both worlds. What sets Lisp's condition system apart i
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by stray 11y ago
It's going too far to say "has no value". It may be true that its value is not immediately obvious, though. In my opinion, Lisp is more attractive than any other language because of its Condition System -- though macros righ
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by stray 11y ago
Lisp (Common Lisp, anyway) has not changed in this century -- and even 20 years ago, Common Lisp didn't require a very high end machine (at work I had a modest Sun workstation and at home a Macintosh -- and both did just fine with Comm
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by stray 11y ago
You will find no meaningful statistical evidence because it can't be done -- programming languages don't write software. Programmers do -- and programmers are made of meat. A bad programmer using Lisp will be less successful than
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by stray 11y ago
70% nature. 30% nurture.
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by stray 11y ago
Reposts articles from 20 hours ago (jk). It's someone who is relatively new to professional programming -- less than four or five years experience. In my opinion, it takes more than five years to truly know the difference between shit
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by stray 11y ago
AI is that which is non-biological, builds its own theories/models of what things mean and how things work, and updates those models when it observes inconsistencies. When unable to resolve inconsistencies it would remember the confusi
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by stray 11y ago
I will often experiment with new technologies while working on a side project. For example, right now I have an active side project that is a mobile app with a (geo)Django backend. A couple months ago I became aware of PostgREST. It'
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by stray 11y ago
Today is April 1st. I think this article is a wizardly April Fools joke -- it comes off as 100% serious. But it can't be. Not really. After all, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Or Tailgunner Joe's McCarthyism. Or Chai
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by stray 11y ago
That's a subject I find interesting. Successes are rare though. LabView is nice. Yahoo pipes was pretty cool. Neither is a general purpose programming language. The Russian space agency had a visual programming language called Drakon
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by stray 11y ago
Instead of using the public schema in your db, use schemas with version numbers.
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by stray 11y ago
The magic ingredient was that I had already been doing it for around 20 years. I doubt there's much of a shortcut. Or maybe there is a shortcut and I was never clever enough to find it. And at that point (20 years), my understandin
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by stray 11y ago
SQLite is threadsafe: http://sqlite.org/threadsafe.html
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by stray 11y ago
The file system is a proper document store. You're doing just fine.
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by stray 11y ago
To quote an old book: "That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun." More than likely, there is no app that hasn't been done. Ther
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by stray 11y ago
> Skydiving. OP will now ditch all his work obligations and move to the drop zone :-)
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by stray 11y ago
Operating Systems (3rd Edition), Deitel -- is an excellent way to fill in gaps in your understanding of the OS. Don't buy it new -- used copies can be found on amazon for less than $20. Learn a radically different programming language
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by stray 11y ago
You can't tell that sort of stuff to a psychiatrist/psychologist!
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by stray 11y ago
The Montessori method pretty much nails it.
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by stray 11y ago
Far. This would be the intersection between natural language processing, small-step operational semantics, and structural (big-step) operational semantics. This is something I've been trying to wrap my head around for nearly twenty yea

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