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by zeteo 14y ago
I defy you to stop being so tribalistic. I didn't take position on any side of the "different than" controversy. All I said is that the author did not support his assertion.
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by zeteo 14y ago
All usage is outdated to some degree. Last year's buzzwords are this year's forgotten fancies.
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by zeteo 14y ago
If neither usage (#1) nor logic (#2) are acceptable authorities, then language becomes an arbitrary construct subject to everyone's whims. As the author promptly proceeds to show with his unsupported assertion that " different than is perf
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by zeteo 14y ago
A more accurate title is "why didn't the Romans invent the optical telegraph". The reason why the optical telegraph didn't become the Internet is very simple: bandwidth. You need lots of spare bandwidth before you can consider adding extra
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by zeteo 14y ago
Looks like you just read the title, thought it must be crypto-creationist and decided to dump in your link collection. The article is not anti-Darwinian, it's a survey of criticisms of the "ultra-Darwinian" position on gender differences. T
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Darwin Was Wrong About Dating(nytimes.com)
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by zeteo 14y ago
A little bit, yes, but in a friendly manner. The key is to do it early, when you can still laugh to yourself a bit about it. If you let the frustration accumulate too much, then it might come across as snide and I understand what you're say
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by zeteo 14y ago
Passive-aggressive? Hardly. I was suggesting to make an (appropriate) joke out of it.
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by zeteo 14y ago
Let your frustration out in a polite manner. They haven't hit you in the face or anything. Ideally you can use some appropriate humor, too. Make them feel a little bad, so they avoid doing it next time. > they smile warmly at the waiti
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by zeteo 14y ago
I don't think it's inconsistent. Many, if not most places these days aim to hire people who look differently but think the same.
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by zeteo 14y ago
If you also look at this metaphor >Shaw criticizes the Wright Flyer by the criteria of Second World War aviation it's pretty clear that the OP considers K&R obsolete and unsuitable for today's needs. It's not just that "sometimes yo
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by zeteo 14y ago
> Shaw mischaracterizes K&R by making anachronistic assumptions about its intended audience and ignoring the context in which it was written. [...] Their book is properly judged by different standards than Shaw's educational project
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by zeteo 14y ago
> we will be modernizing the code in K&RC [...] It will be more verbose, but it will be clearer It's been at least a year since the article first showed up on HN, and the author still hasn't made good on this promise. It's actually
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by zeteo 14y ago
Yes, you'll see lots of dismissive comments here, and this will not be a very productive discussion. I apologize in advance to those who might think this comment is dismissive as well. But I think that one of the reasons sexism is so hard t
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by zeteo 14y ago
You can sometimes make the same product by either shaping it directly or by making smaller, simple parts and binding them with e.g. screws. That's why I feel industrial robotics should be part of the discussion. I do actually agree that 3D
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by zeteo 14y ago
I'm just trying to say that a company relying on "traditional" manufacturing methods can still offer almost half a million different, and mostly obscure, parts. I'm pretty sure they don't have half a million different production lines for t
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by zeteo 14y ago
> That is where I order parts for my 3d printer. And you make my point :)
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by zeteo 14y ago
>The killer app is "just in time" manufacturing of single parts from a gigantic library. This will create a "long tail" type business that can offer a huge line of obscure parts that otherwise aren't available Have you ever held a McMas
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by zeteo 14y ago
>if we suddenly discovered a way to do 3D printing (probably using 3D technologies other than those in current use) that was anywhere near as fast as conventional manufacturing, the resulting revolution could [...] And that is 3D printi
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by zeteo 14y ago
> The concave shape of the bowl will amplify the sound by about 13 decibels. Iff you keep your ear on top of the bowl maybe. (Or just buy earphones.) Your guests will rather appreciate external-powered speakers.
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by zeteo 14y ago
> // set a value at an arbitrary index > // this will expand and zero-fill the vector to fit > vector_set(&vector, 4452, 21312984); Love to see a C article where we get some insight on how dynamic arrays might work behind th
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by zeteo 14y ago
> Innovator's Dilemma gave me the "super-power" of identifying what kind of businesses will succeed or fail in the tech industry, much earlier than most people (or even big companies' CEO's) Give us some non-trivial predictions or I cal
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by zeteo 14y ago
As distasteful as geo-engineering might be (and I see many comments here to that effect), it is probably the only politically palatable way to actually do something about the problem. The country with the world's largest CO2 emissions, Chin
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by zeteo 14y ago
Pure hype. It's interesting how a technology that is in fact revolutionizing manufacturing (CNC milling) gets very little attention compared to one that will, by all reasonable accounts, only ever be useful for prototyping or very limited p
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by zeteo 14y ago
>Both of you are missing something important. A population with a high birthrate will only achieve that dominance if the children remain in that population. Great-great-grandparent: > Secular culture has managed to peel away many of
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by zeteo 14y ago
You said it, brother (sister?). In each country there are subcultures (religious fundamentalists, usually) that have birth rates well above replacement. Secular culture has managed to peel away many of their kids in recent decades but, with
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by zeteo 14y ago
Nobody cares if you're "well-rounded". It's a gimmick that's been used for generations [1] to preserve the ethnic / cultural make-up of various groups. A simple way to verify this is by noticing that not all extracurriculars are created equ
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by zeteo 14y ago
>No manager can make me read your code as a requirement of my job unless you've proven (by certification) yourself to be at a level where less than 5% of professional programmers currently are You mean if you were hired by Facebook in '
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by zeteo 14y ago
>It would be great if programming were a proper profession, but it isn’t. A profession has a structured model for advancing [...] We need some sort of apprenticeship model, and a way to identify masters, both to apprentices and other ma
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by zeteo 14y ago
I'm sorry, but that's an invalid comparison. We don't get our democracy straight from the Athenians. There was a two thousand year break in between, and our actual institutions that implement democracy are very different from the Athenian o

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