coldnebo

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by coldnebo 10y ago
Or, like one of the companies I worked for, you could exercise your options, wait for a large Fortune 500 to buy them up, but then get told that your bylaws have a special provision that if the sale doesn't clear a certain amount, ever
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Re: jruby I have considered it deeply. Many of our enterprise systems are Java-based, so JRuby's ability to call Java methods directly without implanting services would be a huge pragmatic boon. But every time I consider that I have to
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Rubygems forms an ecosystem of libraries on top of Ruby. Most gems are dev/tested within MRI, some work across other Rubies, some do not. It's difficult to tell which is which. This means most teams choose MRI in much the same way
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by coldnebo 10y ago
The Ruby community is always likely to prefer MRI because that's the core that the majority of gems support. So, yes, on the surface of it, this particular Ruby build might appeal to people looking for performance. But from a language
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Doesn't seem to stand for anything (at least it's not defined in the project charter). If I had to guess at it: Open Meta-Runtime But I could see how that might be misinterpreted compared to their goals. Not all cap names are acro
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by coldnebo 10y ago
There is no Balance and no Art. Consider part of the reason work takes so long is the constant stream of updates. Updates have killed more than one conference presentation. Yet, when companies are faced with evidence that people don't
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by coldnebo 10y ago
I think the term stems from hearing two of these people interact at work: "what, are you guys married or something?" "Nah, he's just my work wife".
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Yes, but the software may be based on symbolic reasoning, in which case the computer can 'use' a description of process symbolically and unexhaustively just as a human would. For example, these systems solve indefinite integrals w
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by coldnebo 10y ago
I liked DarkBasic: https://www.thegamecreators.com/product/dark-basic-pro-open-... Unlike other environments where everything is an integration with yet another library or tool chain, DarkBasic is refreshingly monolith
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by coldnebo 10y ago
In my mind, refactoring public policy is going to be like refactoring business processes in enterprise code. The perception is that all these "horrible" duplications and inefficiencies exist. The reality is that the duplications a
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Because math. <3
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Are you saying the process that creates risk is ending or that we are simply hitting a boundary condition (i.e. The edge of the Petri dish)? TFR is synthetic based on population behavior (I.e. Not solely intrinsic, such as genetic). My poin
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by coldnebo 10y ago
It's also interesting that the pair vs TDD divide is often based on the solution space. Service/backend programmers often extol TDD because it is easy when working in a single language where your only IO is strings (i.e. Undergrad
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by coldnebo 10y ago
That's a bit rough. I think you are missing the other value proposition for SO: in a world of poorly documented interfaces, it gives cogent, vetted examples of what works. And you still need to have expertise to know which solutions ar
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by coldnebo 10y ago
“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was: 'Oh no, not again.'" [edit: ok, so it is cool, but I'm not sure it's secure, and I'm not crazy about web page
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by coldnebo 10y ago
I can sympathize, and there are areas of computing that are tiresome and never seem to get better, but there are just way too many things on my bucket list: unbiased rendering, physics, AI, mathematics education, visualization, theory of co
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Oh, I just realized that 'tagging' in this way is kind of an implementation of Minsky's k-lines. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(artificial_intellige... Cool!
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by coldnebo 10y ago
But TFA isn't talking about 'the future', it's talking about the present. Why isn't there productive work for these people right now ?
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Except you describe the kinds of problems you typically solve (placing a button in a row) which are the smallest/simplest case of the problems that we're talking about, so it seems that you might not know about the problems that o
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Must be a server-side dev. Java client-side trainwrecks include: struts, tempest, Java Server Faces, AWT, Swing. True it's unfair to blame Java alone for these, because client side is more difficult-- we've been searching for solu
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by coldnebo 10y ago
I was initially confused by the "human" line too, but once I looked at the video and the examples I understood what you guys are trying to do. There are a lot of really interesting approaches there. I really like the ideas! I th
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Software componentization never took off because every attempt at it either leaks abstractions like a sieve or is so purely functional as to be impractical for real world use. Shall I list the componentization tech of yore? CORBA, OpenDoc,
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by coldnebo 10y ago
React is a lot more than it seems. The essential problem it tries to solve is componentization: how can you have a large team of varying skill work on separate parts of a page in a web application without one part breaking the others in har
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by coldnebo 10y ago
Yeah, unfortunately looking for advanced Rails answers means sifting through lots of silt: answers that were correct for version X but no longer, answers that avoid the question by doing something else, cargo cult solutions.
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by coldnebo 10y ago
React is for scale, just not the way you think: React is designed to allow lots of journeyman web developers implement parts of a web page together, such that every component can work by itself and that one component's failure does not
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by coldnebo 10y ago
That's what it does, not how it works. I.e., 'What' is just the top-level abstraction. 'How' is the functional composition underneath.
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by coldnebo 10y ago
I think that might be paraphrasing implications of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. Non-trivial codes can either be consistent or complete, but not both (within a system of abstraction). This explains Joel's "Leaky Abstraction
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by coldnebo 10y ago
How is omega not equivalent to the time interval in common EC strategies. Also, saying that "EC" doesn't guarantee serializability sounds strange. It does, over t. And yes, CAP is widely misunderstood, but I'm not sure t
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by coldnebo 10y ago
ZFS is also great for teams that work on ginormous code projects. When I was a contractor at IBM in the 90's we had something similar so we could work on OS/2 source code. The entire build project was made up of hundreds of other
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by coldnebo 11y ago
I think there is also space in the middle for valid critique of gratuitous motion design. Hiding latenecy with a cute animation is fun the first time you do it. By the 100th time, it's usually just slow. I regularly out-pace guis. For

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