verbin217

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by verbin217 11y ago
Using express in nodejs versus php jerry-rigged into apache is sort of an instance of what you're describing.
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by verbin217 11y ago
You're also not using money to circumvent the normal process we use to proliferate good ideas. If something is good, tell your friends about it. Notably this is exponential and very weak initially, hence the need for legitimate adverti
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by verbin217 11y ago
What I want is for someone , somewhere to consciously evaluate my deodorant purchase. At least in some way that doesn't completely disrespect what anyone would want given they had the capacity to consciously evaluate their deodorant
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by verbin217 11y ago
Wow. You're basically just describing the mechanism by which you're manipulating people's behavior, very apparently without concern for your redistribution of inherently finite resources. The opposition to modern advertising
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by verbin217 11y ago
You can couple material with complexity such that everything can apparently be material. However if we limit our notion of "material" to what we observe in our universe then we can easily do the same with conceivable forms of non-
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by verbin217 11y ago
I was honestly trying to be facetious before. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. Text sucks. I actually think it was really inappropriate that you were down-voted. The notion that you should have to produce material definitions for c
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by verbin217 11y ago
We materialists want a material definition for this thing you call non-material. What is it. Define it so we can analyze it with our material-limited instrument, empiricism. Otherwise we're forced to conclude that it does not "exi
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by verbin217 11y ago
The necessity of the human practice of software development doesn't end until the onset of general artificial intelligence. In the time between then and now it will increasingly be the hammer that is used for humanity's nails.
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by verbin217 11y ago
I want a web where we just draw on a big canvas. That's a pretty simple API for implementers to get right. Then we could move the scene graph (DOM) and it's rendering engine entirely into the application language where it could be
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by verbin217 11y ago
The investment could produce a net gain, even in the immediate, and there would still be a problem. Leaking value into the competitive environment in which you're trying to survive will kill you. As alluded to by the GP, training as co
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by verbin217 11y ago
It was intended for low latency services that mostly wait on I/O. These services don't compute enough to need parallelism. Especially when you can just fork another process or FFI to a C library with proper threading if you need i
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by verbin217 11y ago
Node is largely a reaction to advances in event multiplexing like kqueue and epoll. It was intended to be a scripting language bolted on top of a single-threaded concurrency model. This design-decision corresponds to the before unseen d
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by verbin217 11y ago
This has been my experience. To the extant that I'm trying to embed Javascript everywhere now. Many server-side operations are deterministic and only need to be executed on the server because it's a trusted environment. They can b
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by verbin217 11y ago
Anonymity sure. We're talking about privacy. It's always been at least non-zero available.
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by verbin217 11y ago
IMHO this is what distinguishes exceptional software engineers. They're not just trying to get a job, do well in their classes or otherwise satisfy external ideals. They just want to experience their own excellence as an end in itself.
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by verbin217 11y ago
You had me at defense contractors. Successful or not it wouldn't create a net benefit for humanity or even the subset of it our government is ostensibly serving.
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by verbin217 11y ago
I suspect it's just accessing NaN[0]. Either form of property access ([] or .) implied coercion to object (not iterable) in ES5. It makes sense that destructuring would build on that behavior.
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by verbin217 11y ago
Exactly. This is a great description and may end up being the state of things forever. A precise definition likely requires that the thing being defined is significantly less complicated than the thing defining it. I suspect a proper physic
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by verbin217 11y ago
Agreed. When I said "maintenance" I was referring to the continuous post hoc work needed to uphold the original functionality as it encounters the full range of it's potential input.
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by verbin217 11y ago
This is likely true today but it's increasingly false. Massive efforts are already underway to develop tooling and methodology for this purpose. Once completed the applications developed with them will be significantly easier to produc
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by verbin217 11y ago
Society is continually expanding it's notion of minimum acceptability. Standardized testing is a great example. The problem with this approach is that extreme excellence is fundamentally divergent. Revolutionarily smart people don&#x27
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by verbin217 11y ago
I think that sort of excellence is born from resignation to "brokenness". Many many people waste their potential trying to fix the things they think they're missing.
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by verbin217 11y ago
Often it's simply dependent on when you were hired. Employers have to stay competitive but won't give you a raise if you don't express discontent. When wages trend upward new hires can often end up making more money.
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by verbin217 11y ago
False inherencies are the staple of those that wish to understand the world such that they might exploit it. If they weren't prepared to demonstrate that the pursuit of a solution was necessarily a fool's game then they'd hav
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by verbin217 11y ago
To paraphrase: If you sat down to build something other than the web you wouldn't end up with the web.
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by verbin217 11y ago
There are many websites. Frankly, it is silly. It should be obvious that ∃site∈internet.slow(site) is true and further that it's boring.
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by verbin217 11y ago
They were developed with significantly less effort than applications from the 90s. Many are just experiments someone published after mere hours of work. A large number of people exist who would trade performance for more content. That'
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by verbin217 11y ago
Because fuck media conglomerates, that's why. Sorta like Google Chrome: because fuck Microsoft, that's why. When an entity achieves dominance they only innovate in order to keep it. The difference between this situation and the on
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by verbin217 11y ago
Amen. It's like people think the existence of a facade undermines the merit of the underlying architecture. There is no "moving too fast". If you're looking for a curated set of panacea tech then get off the frontier and
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by verbin217 11y ago
> we really should be limiting those restrictions to the smallest number possible. Agreed. I was only trying to produce a notion of speech that we can safely declare inviolable. There may be a gray area between that which is certainly bl

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