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by wsy 8y ago
Your thought experiment raises a good point, but I think your conclusions are still wrong. The boundary between what should be allowed and what should not be allowed has nothing whatsoever to do with the state of technology. Freedom is not
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by wsy 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. I also don't want to paint a fairy land of learning, because it wasn't that for me either. I had a fair share of useless professors as well, and mandatory courses I hated. As always, the truth i
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by wsy 8y ago
The fact that you engage in this discussion here seems a strong indicator to me that the landscape has not changed that much. Otherwise you would just exploit everybody around you, and not talk about it.
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by wsy 8y ago
Imagine you would have had to go your path with just books, without the great math teacher you mention. It would have been possible, but much harder. Now imagine you have 5 or 10 great teachers, with expertise in different areas of CS. Woul
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by wsy 8y ago
The issue explained in the original article is that Business funds the studies, it turns out they are wrong, and Business still takes care that the wrong results are disseminated. So I miss how Business being different from University/
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by wsy 8y ago
It is not 'oversimplification', but pointing out the traps and pitfalls of empirical validation. If you gain new hypotheses in the process of validating and falsifying your old ones, you need a second, independent study to validat
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by wsy 8y ago
Netgear R7800 and any other router with the same Qualcomm chipset work great with OpenWRT. Take care that the router has a boot mode which allows you to overwrite the firmware via TFTP. That comes in handy in case of trouble with a particul
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by wsy 8y ago
While I sympathize with the aim of your comment, it seems factually wrong to me. In the past 100 years, it seems that individual freedom and economic prosperity of the society as a whole correlate. It is hard to tell what is the cause and w
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by wsy 8y ago
To explain Kuhn to the HN reader, I'd like to make an analogy between an established enterprise, and a disruptive startup. The startup is disruptive, because it has re-thought a problem, and uses a different basic model to solve it. Th
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by wsy 8y ago
I'd rather say, (mostly) everybody will use Boost.
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by wsy 8y ago
Just to mention a few points: - The title implies that Spanner is at fault for something, then the article itself admits that Spanner is totally fine. - Then it goes on to argue that this approach can't possibly work without physical d
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by wsy 8y ago
While true, I think this would not have stopped Minix, because you could compile and run all GNU tools on it. I just read that Linus developed Linux on a machine running Minix. However, what I got wrong: in the first years, Minix was not fr
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by wsy 8y ago
> I mean if someone presents to me some totally abstract splashes of paint style work, and I criticise it by saying it doesn't look like anything and can they please redo it to be much more photo-realistic, are they going to accept
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by wsy 8y ago
I think it depends a lot on the context. Some examples: - Someone injects an obviously inferior idea for political reasons (e.g. the recent TLS 1.3 debate). Then, a rude response might be your best option to deter the opponent. I think, som
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by wsy 8y ago
You always build on the shoulders of giants. However, it was Linux that took off, not alternatives (e.g., Minix).
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by wsy 8y ago
We started with two languages on our microservice backend. It is definitely an up-front investment. But it pays off in several ways: - our service infrastructure is really language-agnostic. - our design discussions are on an abstraction
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by wsy 8y ago
It is true that all type errors can also be caught by additional tests. But is this the most efficient strategy? I would think that letting the compiler find certain classes of errors should be cheaper than writing and maintaining tests for
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by wsy 8y ago
You can only answer that with respect to a specific usage of the abstraction. An abstraction that should abstract from different implementations A, B, C is leaky with respect to use case X, if the implementation for X still needs to know ab
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by wsy 8y ago
While I agree with the author with respect to his main point, I think the term leaky abstraction side-tracks the discussion. It is simply about wrong abstractions . See also: https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/
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by wsy 8y ago
Do you have statistics to back up your claim? To me it sounds like the American Dream, not so much like American reality of the 40s and 50s. Let me remind you that a) this was mainly about white middle class, and b) even among the white m
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by wsy 8y ago
This is a bad side effect of low interest rates. If the interest rates were high, e.g. 5%, investing into unoccupied real estate would not be a viable investment.
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by wsy 8y ago
Game-theoretic results prove that this cannot possibly work (tragedy of the commons). Your second sentence is no argument, just a claim. I counter-claim that I do have that right. So it seems to be a stalemate with respect to claims.
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by wsy 8y ago
Thank you for taking the time to explain the background. I totally agree that consultants working from quantitative data about past projects are much better than the usual cargo cults. However, there are a lot of dangers in the process: - I
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by wsy 8y ago
That does not seem to make much sense. Do you also think street building and maintenance, police, army, etc. should only be supported by people "specifically interested" in these services?
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by wsy 8y ago
We are quite offtopic already, so: in my experience, Liebherr fridges last decades.
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by wsy 8y ago
It is good if the society evens this out: it should not completely take away the fruits of your labor, because then your incentive to be productive will be low. But it also should ensure that less lucky children get a good start as well, to
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by wsy 8y ago
While I mostly agree, all you said needs to be balanced out against our human tendency to exploit power relationships, in particular because of the possibly involved 'inherent violence'. The legal system and many social rules are
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by wsy 8y ago
True, there is some interesting mindbending going on: it's not directly "they are suppressing us". It's "they are on the way of suppressing us, you see the first signs already, and here are their world dominion plan
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by wsy 8y ago
Already using the term 'Leftist' in such a broad and vague context makes it totally obvious that we see a tribal bad 'Leftist' vs. good conservative mindset here.
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by wsy 8y ago
As professor, you can't have a sexual relationship with your students. It is taboo, exactly because of the huge power asymmetry. Like teacher-pupil, therapist-patient, etc. Of course, each individually case could be a healthy relations

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