jronkone

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by jronkone 13y ago
Please don't compare insurance companies to casinos. In casinos the odds are completely computable and known beforehand to everyone. Not so with insurance which deals with real life.
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by jronkone 13y ago
Does taking input from the outside (e.g. internet) change this?
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by jronkone 13y ago
AFAICT, "good engineers are productive in X" doesn't imply that they wouldn't be yet more productive in Y.
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by jronkone 13y ago
This should become a law, like Brook's, Sturgeon's or Greenspun's.
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by jronkone 13y ago
30 credits doesn't equal 30 hours as far as I know. But still, I think GP should just suck it up and finish his degree, he has only a very limited amount of time to lose by doing so, and possibly much to gain from having a degree. In o
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by jronkone 15y ago
What makes you think that proprietary software doesn't have good commit messages?
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by jronkone 15y ago
I hope you learnt something about using magic numbers.
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by jronkone 15y ago
> Plugins for printf()/scanf()?? Not even remotely the kind of thing that needs to be in the core language libraries. Where then? As far as I can tell, there's no sensible way to extend the functionality of printf()/scanf(), and compile
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by jronkone 15y ago
I don't see how unions could save space, care to explain?
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by jronkone 15y ago
All I can see is confusion about what is deemed "non-intrusive" and by whom.
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by jronkone 15y ago
For the sake of argument (let ((my-favorite-programming-language (find-language "common-lisp")))): I would like to see Lisp and *nix have babies. Take the best ideas of both and make something greater than their sum.
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by jronkone 15y ago
And here I almost thought I was going crazy...
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by jronkone 15y ago
This must be the 9001st time I read a post by a C++ programmer that doesn't understand that the problem isn't that other languages don't have RAII. The problem is that C++ doesn't have finally/unwind-protect and thus requires RAII to approx
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by jronkone 15y ago
> Bellard did this in 15 seconds, in 2004 with a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 But isn't Linux kernel a lot bigger nowadays?
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by jronkone 15y ago
In other words, automated "now playing" scripts are as annoying and useless on social media as they were on irc and and instant messengers.
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by jronkone 15y ago
The idea seems good, but I think many people would prefer a demo (or more explanation) about how it actually works, preferably without the user needing to supply his/her email. On the technical side, the scrolling text seems to overlap to t
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by jronkone 15y ago
I think there's a huge pent-up demand for software that makes it easy for artists to publish their own content on their own websites easily and also makes making and collecting payments as easy as downloading torrents. Probably something
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by jronkone 15y ago
> I've still no clue why humans procastrinate. I've still no clue why people consider doing stuff so important.
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by jronkone 15y ago
Consing for control-flow is not normal, but on Python it is. Python - not even once.
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by jronkone 15y ago
Epileptic here, not allowed either.
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by jronkone 15y ago
> I've developed an aversion to anything that doesn't follow the Zen of Python: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." Ok, so which language(s) are you using then?
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by jronkone 15y ago
Saying that "Javascript is fundamentally sound" is like saying "McDonalds serves fundamentally nutritious food". It's technically true, but ignores completely what people actually mean when they use the phrases like "fundamentally sound".
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by jronkone 15y ago
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML
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Yesterday's technology tomorrow (2004)(itre.cis.upenn.edu)
2 points by jronkone 15y ago|0 comments
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by jronkone 15y ago
My free sandwich has pickles in it! I hate pickles!
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by jronkone 15y ago
I'll have to admit that that was a stupid example, but my point is still that entrepreneurial people are often profit driven, and when one takes this incentive away, they tend to direct their efforts towards more profitable things. So if we
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by jronkone 15y ago
But what incentive would entrepreneurial people have to help the poor if not profit? It's nice to be nice for the sake of being nice, but it's also important to eat.
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by jronkone 15y ago
> If you can, you will build a much more maintainable piece of software. Instead of 3,000 lines of code, you have 1,000. Instead of a ton of object dependencies where one change means having to find the references to it in all of your o
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by jronkone 15y ago
Anyone who answers yes, should really think about this. Consider that you're going to meet a successful business man with billions of dollars. You represent to him the idea of helping the poor via technological advances that require money t
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by jronkone 15y ago
Why isn't using PHP for security sensitive work considered illegal yet?

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