wlievens

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   by wlievens 12y ago

   Hadn't heard of it, thanks for the tip. PostGIS really shines when you need to manipulate geometry.
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   by wlievens 12y ago

   Let's certainly not forget the awesome PostGIS extension with its spatial types and functions.
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   by wlievens 12y ago

   I complete agree. The downsides of testable code are quite pedestrian - having to expose a couple more fields or having to parameterize a few things is nowhere near bad enough to forego the benefits.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   We use this at a contractor site for testing. Assembly of electronics has already happened, so no need for a high grade clean room environment, but still has to be relatively dust free. We call it a "flow bench".
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Markets are still susceptible to the laws of physics. "Virtually anything is possible" is a pretty meaningless statement.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   I think nl (sibling post) is more accurate: "governments" don't exist as such. You have lots of agencies with conflicting interests, and they're eventually all made of people.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Right tool for the right job. Wiring UI controls and data sources together in LabVIEW is easy, but it all falls apart when you need to implement a non trivial algorithm.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Yeah, and typical for the human brain is that it will fill any gaps with something made up but plausible.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   https://www.dropbox.com/s/003qnx5b8fftwl7/screen001.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/55qvqn273rw99t1/worldgen.png I am slowly (due to eleven month old twins) but steadily working on a new v
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    The Java pdf authoring library iText has a license provision that allows anyone except the Belgian Federal Government to use the library, due to an ongoing dispute over fiscal matters. I have no idea how enforceable that is, though.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    As far as I understand, faster-than-light communication violates causality in some reference frames but not in all. FTL communication without arbitrary tims travel might be possiblem
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I agree. Bht probably (as it has in the past) the kind of stuff we will build software for will grow faster than efficiency gains.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Thanks for highlighting this. I was speaking from the image sensor angle but it's probably true for most high performance electronics.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I think operating the hypothetical Nth generation high-level tools for the tasks you describe (let's call it ETL?) are still considered programming, as the difference between today's tools and the tool you describe is probably sma
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I think you still need to tell the AI, with some measure of detail, what he needs to build for you. I posit that that act is called programming by definition. Perhaps the difference between today's high-level languages, and the origina
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    How so? A computer needs to be told what to do. That by definition is called programming.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Skilled manual labor (mechanics, electricans) are today still in high demand. At least where I live. It's unskilled labor that is disappearing in highly developed countries. I guess to a certain extent you can group skilled mmechanics
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Something like Scheme would be appropriate.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Is Obama actually against gay marriage or does he just think it is politically expedient not to support it?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Awesome. I once replaced an intern's 540 lines of code with 12 lines of my own. Feels great.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Actually coveragr only shows you that the code executes, it doesn't tell you if it's testef.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Verifying whether your test suite is comprehensive enough is not that hard in theory, if you apply mutation testing.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Interesting comparison. For the SQL distance example, though, a spatial database engine like PostGIS would of course be more appropriate.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Another crucial soft skill to add to the list: being able to separate important from less important tasks and investing your time accordingly.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Even twenty years from now people will not have clean rooms in their garage so 3d printing electronics at home will not happen I guess.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Interesting initiative
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Strongly reminds me of Martin Fowler's articles on Microservices.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    But does this guy do this fulltime?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I can confirm the bin thing.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    A two-dimensional raster/array/grid/matrix of six by four elements. Or a LEGO plate of those dimensions.