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by waps 12y ago
Too bad you can't unlearn functional programming. Or generic programming. Or algebraic datatypes. Or having actual useful datatypes. Or ... Just the basic thing of sorting a list containing a struct. And the suggested solution by the G
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Unfortunately having a code formatter does not make up for basic deficiencies in the language itself when it comes to datatypes. Basic example : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19946992/sorting-a-map-of... (sho
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> encourages breaking large systems into small services That's as much of a curse as it is a blessing. To some extent, small services are handy for dev/ops type folks, as they can quickly see which specific part of an applicati
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by waps 12y ago
My faith in management just keep strengthening over time. Apparently it's not considered ridiculous to agree with someone who says : > Apple said GT should, “Put on your big boy pants and accept the agreement,” he said. But the cyni
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by waps 12y ago
TLDR: Technology ("human achievement") is useless because "it doesn't give us greatness (of character)" (note that they believe that any worldly possession or anything that makes life easier is fleeting and thus wor
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This is not new and has in fact always been the case, in fact it's part of his job description. Yes the justice system can in theory bring down the state. Needless to say, it is quite aware that it should avoid doing that. The applicat
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by waps 12y ago
No. Because a resource that the FED had lied about again and again would have been shown to be "under investigation" (ie. potentially bankrupt). Nobody would have had real information on how deep the problem went, and the price of
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by waps 12y ago
Like many people higher up, he'd made large bets and instead of admitting he'd screwed up, he tries to keep the lie going. This is extremely common behaviour, high up and on the street, and it rarely benefits the person doing it -
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I work at a place that requires code review and has automated checkers for "code quality". Let me tell you the obvious : the best code I see has these problems, because the best code is the best code because it uses the language t
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That's because cultures change on timescales of centuries. If it works at all like gene transmission works, it isn't worth adapting the culture : one of the cultures will die out in less than the time it would take to adapt. This
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by waps 12y ago
Weird is how many of the bad employers are Indians themselves (or I think so, given they're names): Krishnan Kumar, from Softech Malini Sridhar, from Compsys Technologies (found through http://appext20.dos.ny.gov/ ) Ta
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by waps 12y ago
Exactly. Reading the paper, I have to say I disagree. Human minds are stable, for a very simple reason : they randomize inputs, they implicitly haar-cascade inputs simply because the sensors are inaccurate (they add time-variant noise like
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by waps 12y ago
> This line of thought is absurd to anyone with basic training in scientific reasoning. Not at all. You're only giving part of the story ... racial/sexual imbalances -> racism -> laws -> money transfers into specific (
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by waps 12y ago
Don't brush your teeth for a week, drink a diet coke immediately followed by a coffee right before the interview. This will give you the appearance of someone with bad teeth (and it is really bad for your teeth. Take something for the
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I find this extremely hypocritical. Does this justify obstructing his career and publicly nailing him to the cross ? NO. If you're a liberal : please explain why Mozillans don't have the right to their own political opinion, right
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The idea that the human population is somehow exempt from the natural laws on population sizes is wholly unsupported by history. The human population follows a population curve near-perfectly, better than many animal species.
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> We should prefer small random changes to big changes, unless we're really, really sure that the big changes are actually beneficial. True. But natural changes in history have been anything but small.
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So when the governor suggested people should take measures to reduce water usage 20%, it would only help if they reduced their water usage to zero ? Figures.
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Argentina and Finland are mostly-mountain countries. The water usage there is probably lower, and it doesn't matter (it is not used up in the growing of livestock feed, it passes through), and both countries have large areas where you
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by waps 12y ago
1) read this http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/how-populat... 2) realize why populations "stabilize" ... (which for all species but humans and domesticated species means that the rate
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by waps 12y ago
And what makes you think that random outcomes ("natural" outcomes if you will) are any better ? I mean, didn't we stop believing in a benevolent God at some point ? Because when I look at the green movement, my mind very quic
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And no growth (or linear growth) is the ideology of the extinct.
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> The idea that people won't spend money today because something may be cheaper in the future is bad? No. Think about what happens to any large organization during deflation. The counterintuitive part here is that every large organi
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by waps 12y ago
And if you lived in Brussels, you'd see the effect of this. Freedoms in Brussels, whether we're talking freedom of speech (constant violence is opposing it), freedom of ideology (honor killings, anti-Jewish attacks, ...), freedom
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> And few could object to that. I think you'll find that more than 50% of the world population object to it. Let's have democracy ! For example, the prime example of anti-human rights behaviour, killing gays, is favored by ideo
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I guess someone thought Ukranian government bonds were a real bargain a few weeks ago ... Sorry but I do not believe George Soros has any sympathy at all for either Europe's, America's or Ukraine's problems, only if it affect
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by waps 12y ago
If even 10% of developers actually gave me a choice, you'd have a much better argument. In fairness, indie games often do, and I often pay for them, and I have a much higher tolerance for ads when trying out the free game. Other issues
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by waps 12y ago
Native adverts are why I turn off my iPad's wifi when playing games. I wish there was a way to use the notifier switch as a wifi switch. You wouldn't believe how much things improve. Advertisers just don't trust offline views
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by waps 12y ago
I think the bigger problem is that business people and managers expect security to just work the way they intend without them having to even think about what the correct security policy for X is. When you don't want to think about it a
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by waps 12y ago
> Top officials at the Treasury Department are discussing the need to bolster fortifications around a critical area of cybersecurity: outside vendors, which include law firms, accounting and marketing firms and even janitorial companies,

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