dextorious

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by dextorious 15y ago
"""("Their coming" would suggest a correction to "They're coming")'"" How about: "Her relatives would visit us for Christmas. Their coming filled us with dread!"
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""The sentence contains misspelled words.""" No, it contains correctly spelled words used in place of other desired words. "I sea your eyes", "I she your eyes" If you want to correct these kind of errors, you must now a lot about natural l
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""I think it's perfectly reasonable to define "spelling checker" to include mere non-word detectors. """ Sure it is (reasonable). You just cannot go around acting as if such a definition is already widespread, established in tech discussio
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by dextorious 15y ago
I mean the whole tone and the other arguments of the parent comment. Skipped them, much?
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""That's hardly a rant. It's just the long story of MS vs. the "viral" open source / free software.""" That's hardly a story. Company wants you to use their products instead of OSS/whatever alternatives. News at 11.
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by dextorious 15y ago
No, he has not. "sql server" is just the product's name, it's not a generic category of servers. We call the generic category "SQL Server" belongs to: database servers, or relational database servers. No one uses "sql server" for something
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""This is just sugar coating for the crap they're covering.""" Yes, please, do reduce an elaborate article discussing technical and business trade-offs into a silly anti-MS rant that wouldn't be out of place in Slashdot circa 1999 for us.
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by dextorious 15y ago
Well, re: tinfoil, you'll have to admit that turning js off is a little on the tinfoil side... What's the supposed benefit of breaking 80% of the modern web? Using lower resources? Sites not "tracking" you with cookies? Better security?
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""It seems the author of that article doesn't know that spell checking, translating and understanding text are actually major features of pretty new software, too. """ Actually it seems that everybody reading the article got the same WRONG
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by dextorious 15y ago
You keep using this word "spelling". I don't think it means what you think it means. This is GRAMMAR checking, or at least grammar-assisted spell checking. Very few, if any, shipping mainstream spelling correctors do that.
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Oprah has practically become a saint, for opening a school that graduates ~100 students a year. Foxconn provides hundreds of thousands of migrant workers with the money they need to send their kids to school, and they are practically the
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by dextorious 15y ago
Say that to e.e. cummings' face!
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Most software are outdated after a couple of years.""" You'd be surprised. Tons of code runs in production, even in the latest of shiny systems, that was written 10 and 20 and 30 years ago -- either in whole or in parts, refactored etc.
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by dextorious 15y ago
Probably found some book or magazine about programming in some cruise ship...
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by dextorious 15y ago
Well, flexible enough so that it can refactored to something else later != framework-level abstractions. It could just be as simple: just don't make an untangleable mess out of it.
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by dextorious 15y ago
To be frank, I also expected to mainly get downvotes from my spur of the moment response. But the gist of what I was trying to convey is: It's 2011. The web is inherently tied with javascript. (The "progressive enhancement" thing in respect
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by dextorious 15y ago
Opera && javascript turned off == I don't care about this "web" thing. So, I, for one, don't exactly care about what happened in your tin-foil crazy edge case.
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Other cases I can think of are systems where high-throughput or low latency are major requirements but there aren't many of those.""" Actually, I haven't met many cases of systems were high-throughput or low latency are NOT major require
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""because MySQL is sadly /not/ a correct implementation, while PostgreSQL is""" Of SQL maybe, but of Relational Algrebra/Set Theory, neither PostgreSQL is.
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""I'm sure this can be modeled mathematically, but I'm not convinced this would help.""" Why would a mathematically modeled system of key-value observing would not help? For one, it would enable one to prove and examine all kinds of assump
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by dextorious 15y ago
""" If I'm passionate about painting and don't care about having a family, then I'm going to paint. I'm not obligated to have a family just because it's a social norm.""" And this attitude is exactly what the parent commenter was ranting ab
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Since most programs can be broken down into a set of components I believe it should be relatively easy to parallellize the workload.""" The "easy" part of your phrase, is the one key misconception that project managers have since the beg
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Yes, it's very easy to add an accessor later. But then you'll most likely have to edit every line of code that accessed the now-defunct member variable. Your IDE may make this easy, but I'd still prefer not to have to do it.""" Easy is a
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by dextorious 15y ago
No, I most certainly don't.
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Well no, because the job doesn't end when it's "done".""" By definition, it does. """In the earliest versions of the game, blocks were all basically homogenous cubes of some material, so they didn't need to be oriented. Later, blocks wer
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by dextorious 15y ago
Though doubt it would made one iota of difference.
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by dextorious 15y ago
Eleemosyne => "Eleos" (mercy) and "syne" (the status/state of), the whole meaning "charity" or "having mercy" in general.
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by dextorious 15y ago
Well, yeah, those competitors could (leverage Google's OSS against it). But an open source community, outside of some company control, not as easily if at all. Take for example Mozilla/Firefox. Well, didn't it do very well, and in many plac
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by dextorious 15y ago
""" The critical piece of "embrace, extend, extinguish" is the extinguish, and by being opensource that isn't possible.""" It's entirely possible. A project that's open source but has 90% of the dev team, and especially the major players wo
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by dextorious 15y ago
You mean their office is "the shit"!

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