jrsala

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by jrsala 5y ago
I disagree with some of what you say, but I think your last point is correct. >you yourself may be mistaken in your JS criticism It should be easy to verify I'm not. `__proto__` is indeed bad practice [0] and I'm pretty sure cr
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by jrsala 5y ago
Pure functions, polymorphism, inheritance, composition, factory functions, classes... All of those are tools. They have benefits and drawbacks that are circumstantial (they depend on the language, the problem, the time pressure to ship, the
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by jrsala 5y ago
There is no judgment in what I said. DK is a fact of life and we will all experience it at some point. I know I have, and quite badly. I wish when I was younger someone had told me "look, you don't really know what you're tal
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by jrsala 5y ago
There is a lot of wrong in this article: inability to articulate what polymorphism is, misunderstanding of prototypes, bad JS practices (`var`, `.__proto__`), falsehoods on programming languages including JS itself, confusion around ECS, un
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by jrsala 5y ago
This is a nitpick but regarding "strong AI" and "weak AI", I take issue with the use of those expressions to refer to actual software systems, or to sub-domains of AI research. Those expressions in fact refer to two hypo
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by jrsala 6y ago
Hi, good-looking site, I hope this works out! Adding to this [1] bug report, when I change pages using the numbered buttons at the bottom of the issues listing and then press the Back button of my browser it takes me back to HN. Navigating
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by jrsala 6y ago
This is a false dichotomy. GP did not suggest a planned economy as a solution, and more generally a planned economy is not the only alternative to wanton capitalism where government rather has more control over resources.
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by jrsala 6y ago
But GP, despite using the word "cool", is not really talking about how "cool" in a light sense those occupations are perceived. They explicitly talk about how some activities today are "actively bad for the world&qu
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by jrsala 6y ago
>I always advocate against opt-outs for security features like this [...] Because most users are not capable of evaluating the impact of opting out of a security process. I agree fully with the author's characterizations of the dang
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by jrsala 6y ago
I’m French and when I interviewed at a company abroad they had the usual US layout keyboards which made typing hard. I think the experience of everyone involved would have been smoother if I’d brought my own keyboard and changed the layout
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by jrsala 6y ago
I'm a non-native English speaker and I used to struggle as a teenager to read e.g. Harry Potter in English with a dictionary by my side. Literature is full of words you will never encounter in a casual or professional setting and that
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by jrsala 6y ago
The author states what he feels is holding native apps back: they’re harder to build in a cross-platform way and they have to be installed. Then the author discusses the current state and the future of those two issues. I feel that discussi
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by jrsala 6y ago
I'm afraid France Télécom didn't just give their employees "nothing to do", they actively made their employees' work life hell and harassed them psychologically, resulting in 35 suicides. https://fr.wikip
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by jrsala 7y ago
This phenomenon is called a "Jespersen's cycle" according to Wiktionary. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cycle_de_Jespersen Also according to Wiktionary, "guère" is unrelated to "guerre&quo
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by jrsala 7y ago
I see where you're coming from. I sometimes get that feeling too. The way I approach this is by asking myself if the author could have expressed their ideas with simpler words or if some meaning would have been lost had they tried to s
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by jrsala 7y ago
I think the author simply uses the vocabulary of his field, and he tries to communicate effectively with it. As a consequence, his language is terse and full of references to concepts that are foreign to a run-of-the-mill SWE like me (&quot
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by jrsala 7y ago
I think in the context of the author's field, an enlarged definition of the notion of "propositions" is adopted whereby a proposition is a useful statement about the real world, distinct from, but related to the mathematical