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by tabtab 6y ago
I find declarative and functional (D/F) code is often difficult to debug. It's generally easier to break imperative code into fractal-like steps, sub-steps, sub-sub-steps etc. D/F just can't be dissected fractal-ish like
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by tabtab 6y ago
Granted, it's a good way to prototype ideas. Less analysis is needed when one converts from Access to the new thing because the ideas are road tested. But one problem is that modern web stacks are a bloated incoherent mess that take an
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by tabtab 6y ago
I've seen end-user-built-app Excel code enough times to have a distaste. Maintenance is 2/3 of average software cost, and that [bleep] ain't maintainable. It's good for prototyping, but shouldn't remain in productio
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by tabtab 6y ago
Nobody agrees on what "clean code" is. I agree there are rules of thumb most will accept, such as try to be modular (group related things together), manage constants in a table or central class instead of hard-wire them, factor he
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by tabtab 6y ago
There is a balancing point between under-analysis and over-analysis. It's hard to know the true requirements until the system is actually in production. You can't realistically pre-learn many domain lessons: you just have to dive
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by tabtab 6y ago
Indeed. It sounds like the life of a typical politician.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Compatibility and Stability Sometimes success is a matter of being at the right place at the right time. As the article mentions, many customers were afraid of AWS because they feared Amazon snooping in their retail intel. Because MS does
608.
by tabtab 6y ago
Hunter sounds like a jerk; I'm not voting for him.
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by tabtab 6y ago
"Spam Winter", sounds good to me.
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by tabtab 6y ago
I'm not sure cross-universe communicating is necessary in the multiverse model. The splitting just resembles communication from our perspective in that it makes the probabilities look "rigged".
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "Trump's taxes were repeatedly shared..." That's kind of comparing apples to oranges. One is a public figure, the other not. And is tax info comparable to email addresses? I'm not saying whether or not it's
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by tabtab 6y ago
It seems some aspects can be explained by (modelled as) synchronization, but not all. "Spooky action at a distance" resembling faster-than-light communication still exists. The two top explanations are either some info can tra
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by tabtab 6y ago
We wouldn't know or care and it would make no difference. It only becomes an "issue" if there is a mutation or glitch that breaks symmetry.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: Only the branches where some "measurement" is done are "calculated". I suppose the others are garbage collected at the end of time, or something like that. But that's adding complexity back into it. You are in
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: doesn't explain WHY you only observe one result If the alternative universes are in different dimensional planes, it's pretty obvious why we couldn't observe them.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Because S. Jobs got rich via multiple market-changing products. It's as proof-is-in-the-pudding as you can get. There are not many practical alternatives . Careful scientific studies would be nice, but nobody is paying for them so far
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by tabtab 6y ago
That's the "hidden local variables" theory. Experiments seem to suggest it's wrong. How one pair is observed appears to affect (change) the other instantaneously. But, not in a way we can use to our advantage to get inst
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by tabtab 6y ago
Lack of compile-time type-checking gives us dodgy politicians and lawyers.
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by tabtab 6y ago
But to fit experimental observations, the "wave" would have to be faster than light.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: If the universe is a mathematical object... Math is a modeling technique, not a "thing". To me it doesn't make sense to say the universe "is" math. Maybe it's a machine "running" math notation (
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by tabtab 6y ago
Here's a layman's explanation of why "hidden local variables" theory doesn't match experiments: https://www.wired.com/2014/01/bells-theorem/ In other words, modeling particle pairs as
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: When any quantum system interacts with it, then it becomes entangled with the result of that measurement, branching it into a new universe. That's my understanding of the many-worlds theory. This is a case of a simple theory that
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "How does the particle know it has been observed?" It's as if God's code looks something like: if (event.thisParticle.isBeingObserved()) { thisParticle.assignAttributes(); }
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: You cannot be creative without being a contrarian and corporations don't hire contrarians. Amen! "Shut up and go with the flow" is common advice I hear when I question the logic of various decisions in multiple organiza
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: systems are almost never explicitly designed with an exit plan in place. How do you plan for the future when nobody can accurately predict the future? I remember where it was claimed that OOP UI api's could "last forever&quo
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by tabtab 6y ago
My spouse is Chinese and I tried to learn Chinese for obvious reasons. However, they speak multiple dialects in practice such that it's hard to focus, and there are limited training materials for some of the dialects. Generally there i
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by tabtab 6y ago
I've always liked the idea of "table oriented programming" where more detailed schema info is used to do most of the CRUD and UI work. In my experiments, the tricky part is exceptions to the patterns. You always need to be ab
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by tabtab 6y ago
Rather then reinvent a GUI library for each language, what about creating a stateful open GUI Markup Language? Then you'd use XML to communicate with the GUI browser (or browser plug-in). That way any language can do real GUI's, a
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by tabtab 6y ago
I tend to agree. Each team, project, and organization has different needs, preferences, and cultures. One-size-fits-all is a really tall order. I believe it's better to focus on kits of parts--API's and/or self-contained func
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by tabtab 6y ago
Comments should either be like a newspaper headline, describing the general gist of a section, such as "hide low-ranking blog comments", or to point out oddities or surprises, such as "for unknown reasons this API doesn'

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