batista

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by batista 14y ago
> Market efficiency and "superiority" (I have several incompatible ideas of what you mean here, but if you could clarify...) of an idealized free market are not assumptions. They are conclusions derived from much simpler assumptions. W
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by batista 14y ago
And maybe force them to like programming. Slap them if they don't use a computer for hours every day. Sorry, but the idea that we should artificially excite girls about programming is silly to me. If they are interested, fine, if not, so be
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by batista 14y ago
> I think you're conflating "people who work on Wall Street" with economists. Most of the "dirtiest" of the loan originators were people with no financial education whatsoever; salesmen, and nothing more. And I think you're conflating
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by batista 14y ago
> Meanwhile, an enterprise with hundreds of trained economists (read: The Fed) used this magical unicorn training and prevented the Great Recesession from becoming the Great Depression II. Really? So where were these "hundreds of train
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by batista 14y ago
> You really need to go learn some economics. I'm talking about the assumptions about market efficiency and the supposed superiority of the mythical "free market" here. Hayek, since you mentioned it, was a western "free market" lackey,
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by batista 14y ago
> Economists rarely make predictions. Predicting stuff is hard. Oh, they do it all the time, to give "policy advice".
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by batista 14y ago
> "Every mechanical compass I've used has two points." And the pedantic-bs-to-save-some-face-of-the-day award, goes to...
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by batista 14y ago
He also gives me that impression when I see him on Keynotes, one of a power grabbing, back-stabbing kind of guy. Which could or could not be true, I'm talking purely from a "face-reading" standpoint. The exact opposite of that would be Bob
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by batista 14y ago
Few core developers (mainly, one, Armin) that couldn't be bothered enough. It's a volunteer project after all. He did write about the unicode problems with the Python 3 changes and the need for an improved WSGI spec (heck, he even co-wrote
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by batista 14y ago
> but the majority of economists make a living on the fact that the market is not efficient. Actually they make a killing on the fact that their are interests and money to be made based on their BS advice and predictions.
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by batista 14y ago
> No, it's based on them being true enough that other approximations are less useful models. That is, in wishful thinking. No other field has a worse prediction track record that economics.
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by batista 14y ago
> Economics is clear when explaining its foundation: Markets are only as efficient as its participants are rational and fully informed. Plus even more assumptions: that participants cannot game the system (by influencing laws, abusing
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by batista 14y ago
> It is not politically correct to say that women are riskier hires than men. But given biology and current culture, women of child-bearing age clearly are riskier hires. Women have non-trivial odds of getting pregnant, sometimes unexpe
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by batista 14y ago
> The assumption that past discrimination justifies reverse discrimination is a dangerous one, and gives lots of opportunities for those who want to discriminate to justify it to themselves. The "past discrimination" was mass abduction
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by batista 14y ago
Unimpeded? The color choice MADE the sales.
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by batista 14y ago
> Please, macosx releases have an history of being bug ridden. Compared to what other OS that was "bug free" on release? Also, "bug ridden"? Please. Some people had issues with some features (and in some hardware setups). For most peop
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by batista 14y ago
> The sort of dependency you describe ("emotionally hurt", "life damages") is foreign to me. Try going somewhere important and missing it because of a Maps error, and you'll sing a different tune. You might not be "emotionally hurt" bu
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by batista 14y ago
> For the most part they aren't trying to box you into some mindless, slave-like existence, but really just want you to have a plan-B in case your rockstar/pro-snowboarder/billionaire-entrepreneur career doesn't work out. If I want to
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by batista 14y ago
<b>Not necessarily miserable, they might be just good marketers creating an online audience for themselves to advance their careers or feed their egos.</b> If someone needs "ego feeding" then he is miserable enough in my boo
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by batista 14y ago
> The idea appears to be that array languages have builtin functions for operations that would require map/reduce/etc in the applicative programming paradigm. I agree that is convenient, but the downside is that only array operations th
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by batista 14y ago
> Plus it was a beta, ppl are not going to go crazy complaining about a beta product because they expected it to be fixed. That's not how it works. People complain about beta software all the time. Case in point, Siri, after it's intro
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by batista 14y ago
> So your ok with them taking away a better product for a crappy one simply because they know about it and are trying to fix it? No, he is not OK. He is just able to understand the business reasons behind it and knows that this is not
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by batista 14y ago
Enterprise apps using IE have 1/100 of the design complexity of sites that are affected by these changes.
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by batista 14y ago
Downvotes? I don't see any offensive parts in my comment. Is there any part of my argument which is not trivially and patently true?
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by batista 14y ago
> Thomas Kinkade was, I believe, far more prolific than Picasso. But I do not want Kinkade-grade developers. I meant "prolific" in the sense of producing lots of GOOD work, not merely churning stuff. Which for Picasso, it was. If anyth
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by batista 14y ago
> Stated alternately, there's an awful lot of people online with regularly updated blogs, twitter accounts and other social profiles who seem particularly compelled to tell me how amazing their lives are. Yes, though chances are if the
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by batista 14y ago
And some things you don't have to prove, because you've seen them with your own eyes. Have you ever seen a programmer that is crazily more productive than another? If yes, then you know what we're talking about. It might not be 10x or 20x -
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by batista 14y ago
> See http://leanpub.com/leprechauns (disclosure: I'm the author) for the long form, with a detailed bibliographical investigation of the "10x studies". Forget about the studies. We all have seen empirical evidence of this.
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by batista 14y ago
Remove the books that are mostly too general introductions for novice programmers (the syntax etc). Remove the poorly edited, self published free ebooks. Remove the german language books. Now divide by the number of C++ books published in t
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by batista 14y ago
Or rather: some hedge fund (of thousands all over the world) uses OCalml (Jane Street, IIRC). That does not equate to "hedge fund trading code tends to be in Ocaml".

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