curious_man

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by curious_man 13y ago
Data is central. More specifically: the information schema. This is useful for different cases, for example for data integration and database management (other than the coercion example in the post). However this makes me think about "
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by curious_man 15y ago
I don't know if someone has already cited this lengthy interview to Hal Abelson (co-author of SICP) about this change, but I think it is worthy to point it out: http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/hal-abelson/
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by curious_man 15y ago
It depends on you. Personally I play with it sometimes, but for me there is no danger of addiction. It's a fun and creative game, even relaxing. However, sometime in the future there will be an adventure mode with NPC and a better fighting
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by curious_man 15y ago
> While some degree of human control could make up for heterostatic forces, a swing too far in either direction would quickly exceed our ability to compensate. Exactly. That's why I'm suggesting that the "not worse" solution could be to
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by curious_man 15y ago
I don't know actual statistics, but I think that in every place there is something like a "normal temperature" each season.
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by curious_man 15y ago
Well, I think this would be the simplest: the temperature at any given latitude will be the average of the last n years. Period. But maybe I'm too naive.
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by curious_man 15y ago
If by "cohesion between design and code" you mean "more attention to the design and usability aspects" then I agree. What Linux still lacks in my opinion is a coherent and usable design. KDE4 and Unity/Gnome3 are trying, but I think they ar
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by curious_man 15y ago
I'm a happy Linux user for years now (GNU/Linux for the most difficult ones), but I went through the same process: 1. Excitement. Compiling the kernel? Cool! Configure an SMTP server just for fun? Cool! Having "fun" for hours fiddling with
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by curious_man 15y ago
Sure, this is a solution. But my confusion remains: why I should't put all these dependencies in the repository with the code that uses them? In the end, doing so I have (almost) all I need to produce the intended software artifact.
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by curious_man 15y ago
I still don't understand why dependencies don't belong to the repo. My naive reasoning: I just have to clone the repo and bam, I already have all the dependecies needed to build the artifact. When I need to upgrade to a new version of a lib
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by curious_man 16y ago
Well, this is true. But again, if I can't make a decision for myself then I'm not completely free. Even if that decision limits my freedom henceforth, I've made that decision excercising my free will. Probably your definition of freedom is
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by curious_man 16y ago
So, everyone must be free? I can't consciously trade some of my civil liberties for something in return? My idea of freedom is the power of choice. Choice to be free, or NOT free.
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by curious_man 16y ago
It's like boiling a frog: if you throw one in boiling water it will immediatly jump away. But if you place a frog in cold water and slowly making it hot, the frog won't even notice it is being boiled. As with frogs, we humans need constant
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by curious_man 16y ago
Thank you for your perspective. Let me recap the issue as I understand it so far: Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google regarding patents infringement for their use of Dalvik in Android. This is a big problem for Google and for every other
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by curious_man 16y ago
There is something I don't get yet (my ignorance): how this mess will affect the other languages that runs on the JVM (like clojure, scala, etc)?