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by wlievens 11y ago
So your answer is to search your vocabulary for a proper term that isn't a "nounified-verb"? I guess I do that anyway, since it feels cleaner, though just as often there isn't one, or it's already taken (like [Input
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by wlievens 11y ago
Yeah. For some reason some people seem to think that some contexts are superior to others just because the context concerns the scientific background, even though everyone has a prior conext in mind which is the social default.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Botanics and cooking are different domains with vaguely overlapping but fundamentally different vocabularies. There is nothing wrong with that, our brains and our social constructs are equipped to deal with that. In culinary context, tomato
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by wlievens 11y ago
Readers in Java are character-based streams. How would you implement a composite i/o stream model then, if Readers are bad-smell thingies? In Java. Adding buffering or counting or throttling to a stream is rather easy using this patter
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by wlievens 11y ago
Or horribly expensive daycare for two kids :)
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by wlievens 11y ago
"High FPS Camera" is a lot more impressive than the latest twitter-controlled todo-list app or whatever.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Yeah we do. The company I work for designs sensors that can pull that off.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Are there any payroll taxes on top of that salary number? Where I live (Belgium) there's a 33% (probably being lowered to 25% soon) social security tax paid by the employer.
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by wlievens 11y ago
I was replying to the hypothetical question of how to socially correct a consumption (mainly) based tax model.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Give every citizen a yearly vat tax credit?
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by wlievens 11y ago
Fast compilation is a worth goal, but it's not fundamentally different from optimizing other kinds of programs: it involves good selection of data structures and algorithms, smart caching, that sort of stuff. Compiler optimization (in
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by wlievens 11y ago
So basically any caching strategy? Compiler optimisation isnt about compiling faster, though :-)
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by wlievens 11y ago
That's an extremely narrow and frankly useless definition...
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by wlievens 11y ago
For people who gawk at this LabVIEW screenshot: this is what actual LV production code looks like - the rule, not the exception!
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by wlievens 11y ago
I loved that game! The Adventure of Ser Bootface Kicksalot! Too bad they screwed up the multiplayer game by essentially changing all of the mechanics.
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by wlievens 11y ago
As for having kids, I have to say this: it's a wonderful experience, but it definitely doesn't make you smarter! Maybe that's the sleep deprivation talking though...
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by wlievens 11y ago
Thanks, that clarifies it a bit.
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by wlievens 11y ago
It only wouldn't in an absurd rationalist homo economicus wet dream fantasy universe, where the current price is at a perfect equilibrium and costs have no impact.
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by wlievens 11y ago
I know some of those words...
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by wlievens 11y ago
They must be geodesics, not straight lines
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by wlievens 11y ago
Sounds awesome, what sensor are you using?
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by wlievens 11y ago
Sure you do. Positivs rights and negative rights and all.
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by wlievens 11y ago
At the start of the page I was really curious as to what image sensor they'd be using. Then I felt like an idiot.
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by wlievens 11y ago
In ten years some other language will get the right language, and the things you're talking about will be for dinosaurs. Don't fall for that trap. What matters is that you build solid software that delivers value.
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by wlievens 11y ago
I learned Scheme before I learned Java. Knowledge of lisp family languages makes me a far better Java programmer.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Somebody should construct a theorem that states that any metaphor can be used to support any given argument.
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by wlievens 11y ago
I believe Moravec's paradox is a consequence of the fact that we do not consciously recognise the effort our brains/bodies do in sensorimotor computation. When we add up numbers consciously in our head, using arithmetic, it takes
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by wlievens 11y ago
Mind if I go a little off-topic here? This paradox reminds me of some other conclusion I've had, which is the fact that energy requirements of many physical processes are completely counterintuitive. For instance, it probably takes mor
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by wlievens 11y ago
> But hey, cool with me, I carved out a consulting niche in cleaning up such messes in exactly that environment. Sounds like an interesting story there. Anything you can share about it?
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by wlievens 11y ago
That rubbish is tiny and space is very, very big.

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