backlava

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by backlava 10y ago
Help me. I'm being oppressed.
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by backlava 10y ago
Shhh. Poe's law is getting me upvotes.
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by backlava 10y ago
I think most programmers don't realize how much vision holds them back. I've been coding blindfolded for over a month and I'm never going back. If you are a touch typist what do you need to see ? Not looking at things helps
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by backlava 10y ago
None of the things in that list were themselves decisions. They were causes of poor decisions. Do you dispute that mental illness can be a cause of poor decision making?
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by backlava 10y ago
I wouldn't recommend hanging out on Facebook, but if it puts you in touch with lost acquaintances that can be valuable.
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by backlava 10y ago
In theory the market should balance this. Workers should be willing to accept less money for more rewarding work.
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by backlava 11y ago
It also ignores that the probability can change over time. Past frequency is not always a good predictor for future probability.
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by backlava 11y ago
There's the related example of the segfault termination message that was changed in a hex editor to "thank you for playing!" Wing Commander, maybe.
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by backlava 11y ago
Insurance rates usually go up after a claim even if it's obvious that the claim doesn't reflect a higher future risk, though.
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by backlava 11y ago
I personally only take placebos.
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by backlava 11y ago
If he could have proven the theorem in a week despite its having a counterexample, that is impressive.
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by backlava 11y ago
But in some languages bloat is a best practice.
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by backlava 11y ago
Programmers, yo don't neda lemma.
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by backlava 11y ago
Your rhetorical style here is off-putting. I don't think he's committed any logical fallacy. It's perfectly possible to do charitable work selfishly. For example, if you were offered a choice between saving two lives or, for
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by backlava 11y ago
It happened once out of how many "tries"? What if there are an infinity of parallel universes?
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by backlava 11y ago
But 10^23 could be vanishingly small compared to what's in the denominator of that probability. How do you have any idea what the odds are on the formation of life?
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by backlava 11y ago
Why do so many people on forums like this expect intelligent life in space?
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by backlava 11y ago
And Bridget, et al, with cardholder services.
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by backlava 12y ago
cliché.
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by backlava 12y ago
print "This sentence was written by a computer."
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by backlava 12y ago
So do I understand correctly that in this metaphor the poor quality of software is mostly because the practitioners are morons? I need to revisit the creeping complexity in my own projects and try to understand where I used the wrong nail
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by backlava 12y ago
Rain?
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by backlava 12y ago
If the system you are building makes sense, there is probably a reasonable type system that shows it to be well typed.
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by backlava 12y ago
How do you do that? Eat it?
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by backlava 12y ago
The innocent until proven guilty approach to traffic violations is already a farce. If you have a job, it costs more to dispute a ticket than to pay it. I'm in favor of changes to the legal system that would allow rapid turn around i
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by backlava 12y ago
I assume that you're a software guy so I would hope that you would naturally understand the benefit of simplicity. Let's assume that a speeding ticket currently costs $200. What percentage of speeding instances do you think are c
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by backlava 12y ago
No, you should immediately punish bad driving but the punishments can be much lower.
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by backlava 12y ago
I notice the consumer isn't a choice.
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by backlava 12y ago
I agree. When he started talking about how capitalism shouldn't create these BS jobs, I assumed a reasoned economic argument was coming. Then this passage. It's a cabal of elites who have decided to spend their own money occupying
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by backlava 12y ago
I think they should use this syntax: void foo(static int name) { ... } I don't think they're 'static' for anything on parameters yet.

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