wlievens

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1. 181.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   I wasn't talking about the US in particular, I'm from Europe in fact. I pretty much agree with all your points: surveillance overreach is unacceptable, police power abuse is disgusting, mandatory private health insurance is unethi
2. 182.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   Well put. What strikes me as strange is that somehow a lot of people associate your train of thought there with some kind of "socialism" whereas it's just plain common sense (free market supporting) pragmatism.
3. 183.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   Maybe if you mean the 1860's :-)
4. 184.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   Are these works (esp the latter) accessible to people with no economics background, but a decent foundation in maths (calculus & algebra) and basic statistics (distributions etc)?
5. 185.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   Cool, now you need a proper domain :-)
6. 186.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   If you compare it to the gargantuan that is an actual production compiler, it sure is tiny.
7. 187.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   Yup. What pisses me off is that they're so expensive to compute :-) Not in this data set of course, but if you do any kind of image processing ...
8. 188.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   And don't forget company size.
9. 189.▲
   by wlievens 12y ago

   If you want to divulge: what's the best algorithm for generating Lichtenberg patterns?
10. 190.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Yeah that's more correct than twelve twenty-day months. In my locale, wages are expressed monthly so I'm a bit more used to roughly divide by twenty, for instance when calculating the relative cost of daycare.
11. 191.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    If you go straight up, you can never attain orbit.
12. 192.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I liked Elon Musk's note on the space elevator; he basically said "we should look at it once we have a bridge from Los Angeles to Tokyo, because that's far easier to build".
13. 193.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    No idea, I'm not even in the US, sorry.
14. 194.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    $1.00 * 8 * 20 * 12 = $1920 per annum
15. 195.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I'm pretty sure this app doesn't solve differential equations ...
16. 196.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    The thing I remember most about that game is dropping wounded passengers because my heli couldn't keep the load up in a storm :-)
17. 197.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Yes, but you have an employee less for months on end, that's the true cost.
18. 198.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    If leave for taking care of your kids is "unwanted", you should not be having kids. That counts for both parents. I can understand the tradeoff can be undesirable, but the tradeoff ought be between wanted money and wanted leave.
19. 199.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    What will, then, beyond "merely" educating?
20. 200.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I think he/she means "easier to grasp", not to design.
21. 201.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Yes, much like how "atoms" are a useful but ultimately inaccurate (because subatomic physics) model.
22. 202.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I would think that for some formats it's trivial whereas for others it's neigh impossible. There's nothing wrong with offering that feature to a subset of grammars though. similar idea: generating a nicely formatted spec docu
23. 203.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Looks cool, but in my view a key feature is: can it save a file back, using the same grammar?
24. 204.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Yes, Pizza for only €8,50 ? ...
25. 205.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    True, though there are many other application domains where nonfunctional (i.e. non-"domain") requirements are at least as important as the domain modeling itself. Search at Google, scaling at Twitter, any chip that powers your ca
26. 206.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    > The truth is game code often needs to be performant first This is true, of course. All else in this discussion is semantics, probably :)
27. 207.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I think that's merely a matter of scale. The analog equivalent to a computer game is a video game, or playing a sport. Vice versa, there are plenty of "problems solved with the help of a computer" that simply cannot be solved
28. 208.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    You (Americans) do... we (Europeans) don't, generally.
29. 209.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I don't see how the problem "write an amusing simulation of space ships shooting missiles" in intrinsically different from "write a data model for invoices and expenses and report on how they add up". Obviously the
30. 210.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I don't see where I said the code can't be different in style. I said that I don't see how the code is somehow more important in the end product. No non-programmer gamer has ever cared one bit about what the code looks like,