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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
>Well, it sounds like you went from being an atheist to an agnostic. That certainly is a more rational and less dogmatic position to take, based on what we know. I'm not sure why this argument shows so often (and it's not even
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
I hear this often enough, but I don't buy it. I think this mostly comes from being less than totally confident socially, or perhaps even having some social anxiety. To my knowledge I've never accidentally harassed somebody and can
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
I think you are seeing a more extreme position than they were taking. It's not that there isn't value in having friendly relationships with your colleagues no matter their gender. The issue comes up in comparing the value of a spe
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
I don't think these statements are as absolute as you take them. I'm also not sure where you go if "almost certainly did(n't)" is no longer sufficient. At that point you basically have to give up on saying anything
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
Heh, the math will never even get brought up in the trial. They'll just talk about DNA matches and everybody on the jury will think this guy is scientifically proven to be guilty.
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
I'm sure you're right that there are a lot of overlooked subtleties. That said I'm not sure some of those problems you mentioned would exist, or at least I'm not sure they would be any worse with a tag system than a hier
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
I think many of these issues can be addressed with mechanisms proposed by the author. Mainly, the more complex tags which can themselves refer to other tags. 1. This is probably the trickiest one. You may be able to do some sort of translat
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
I believe the point the parent is trying to make is that when you spend the time to learn Visual Studio, vim, etc. you can transfer that knowledge to multiple languages. With Pharo those tools are limited to, well, Pharo. The benefits of le
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
Not saying I agree, but he leaves room open for other alternatives such as hitting a motorcycle while weaving within a lane. You won't hit a car that way, but you might take out a lane splitting bike.
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
> The 100x time and cost is more in the sense of process changes when you're working on safety critical systems. How everything has to be traceable from requirement to test, how there are mandatory reviews before any code change tha
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by xcvbxzas 8y ago
I see this sentiment a lot. Intuitively it seems like it should be true, but I don't think the case is really quite so clear cut. The costs involve way more than just the initial development. Maintenance eats up a huge, perhaps even a
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by xcvbxzas 9y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that development programs will just stop after a reasonable advancement on the last known state of the art. If you (a nation) are working on this, it's fair to assume your peers are as well. If
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by xcvbxzas 9y ago
I don't think we can confidently say that chemical and biological weapons have seen almost zero development in the last 100 years. We can say as far as we know that's the case, but we also don't have a very compelling reason
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by xcvbxzas 9y ago
That does not seem like much of a burden, at all. All of that information is required knowledge for the business to operate and production to continue. You can't make something if you don't even know what materials you need to mak