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by wissler 14y ago
Sorry if this post doesn't do justice to a complicated issue, but to summarize somewhat imprecisely: The monetary system we now have creates perverse incentives. If people save, then it means they save money, which means that nothing happen
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by wissler 14y ago
The fact that it's based on set theory is utterly irrelevant. The question is: what is the best database from an engineering perspective? It has never been proven that RDBMS's are the best in any respect whatsoever in this sense. It's irr
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by wissler 14y ago
"LOL. It's the only formally proven, mathematically correct representation and querying of data sets." Someone led you down the garden path. There is absolutely no proof that RDBMS is objectively correct in any meaningful sense whatsoever
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by wissler 14y ago
"SQL IS the center of the database universe." Politically, yes. SQL/relational wins the popularity contest. But so what? Technically, no, it's not the center. It's merely the most popular, for the time being. This is a temporary state of af
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by wissler 14y ago
I don't agree with calling these databases "NoSQL", because it grants the undeserved premise that SQL is somehow the center of the database universe. Politically that may be so, but technically, it's not. Nothing anoints SQL databases as be
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by wissler 14y ago
To everyone shouting "hypocrisy": the primary focus should be on on real problems in the US that need to be fixed, not on China's hypocrisy. Criticism should be taken seriously on account of its merit, not on whether the one giving it is pe
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by wissler 14y ago
It's what happens when you let MBAs and lawyers make the decisions engineers should be making.
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by wissler 14y ago
He's got a good idea but has summed it up not only incorrectly but in exact contradiction to the actual truth. Taking himself seriously is precisely what he IS doing, by recognizing that in order to actually succeed at becoming more fit he
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by wissler 14y ago
I've also experienced locking problems in 12.04 that were very easy to recreate with a proprietary OpenGL-based program. We reverted back to 11.10 for now.
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by wissler 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
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by wissler 14y ago
The author doesn't take the genius and import of the AC motor seriously, therefore I can't take him seriously. There are relatively few authentic geniuses in history; people who provide crucial fundamental insight that others just can't. Is
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by wissler 14y ago
I'm well aware of the words he chose. I am referring to his actual meaning. The fact is that there are stupid people on this planet. The fact is that we can know there are stupid people. The fact is that we can identify a stupid person. And
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by wissler 14y ago
So according to him, if you think others are stupid, then you are stupid. What irony.
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by wissler 14y ago
So?
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by wissler 14y ago
Saverin's case is potentially misleading. Many American citizens living abroad are under great hardship caused by the US tax system following them around the globe. The United States is the only developed country in the world that harasses
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by wissler 14y ago
This is not a "faster" FFT. It's not a FFT at all. "Because the SFT algorithm isn't intended to work with all possible streams of data, it can take certain shortcuts not otherwise available. In theory, an algorithm that can handle only spar
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by wissler 15y ago
The element of truth in this article is that wisdom is not only not valued by many companies' management, it is actively despised. What they want from a software developer is a cog in a machine, not someone who has enough wisdom to to see h
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by wissler 15y ago
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." --Ayn Rand
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by wissler 15y ago
If it has the capacity to produce one kind of cancer then it has the capacity to produce a kind of cancer that was not part of the study. What is absurd and contemptible is an attitude that "if such and such medical intervention was not pro
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by wissler 15y ago
Why stop at teams? How about "good departments happily deciding"? Or "good companies happily deciding"? Or "good nations happily deciding"?
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by wissler 15y ago
Yes you are a heretic and yes you are exactly right and yes you will be mocked/derided for it.
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by wissler 15y ago
Glad to see disdain for "agile" is finally becoming mainstream. Now, it may be that someone writing rote software should follow a process, but for anyone doing anything actually innovative, you can't get into their head and tell them what p
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by wissler 15y ago
Out of control licensing and regulations are why health care is so expensive in the first place. While something like this bill would be a very good thing, I can't see it coming anywhere close to passing in the current cultural-political cl
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by wissler 15y ago
"Imagine we were living on a moon base where we had to buy air by the liter. I could imagine air suppliers adding scents at an extra charge." But you'd be able to choose whether or not you wanted the smell at a given price. The poor student