ludflu

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by ludflu 14y ago
> the amount of socially necessary labor decreases with each passing year. Isn't this Lump of Labor fallacy? There is not a fixed amount of work available because human desire is limitless. (and therefore so is human suffering, but th
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by ludflu 14y ago
as someone who works for TR, this makes me sad.
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by ludflu 14y ago
I hear what you're saying, and I basically agree. However, I still see some shops building new product with Jakarta Struts, hand coded javascript, and no continuous integration. They spend way too much time doing things that could be automa
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by ludflu 14y ago
relevant visualization of where research happens: http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.8087.1355853889!/image/c...
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by ludflu 14y ago
> The UK used to have something similar; British imperialism didn't work well for anyone. I certainly hope America abandons its imperial pretensions. As an American, it doesn't make me proud.
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by ludflu 14y ago
> FBI/CIA agents doing police-work without reporting to local authorities That's not "police work"! That's criminal activity. But I can tell I'm preaching to the choir.
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by ludflu 14y ago
That's what I was thinking. Any direct answer to that question would delight the swarms of injunction-happy Apple lawyers.
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by ludflu 14y ago
If you're under age 70, and you wear a bow tie, you might be Tucker Carlson.
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by ludflu 14y ago
also, interesting he doesn't have anything to say about the incumbent. http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/biography-of-city-cont... Is there a term limit or something? They're both dems.
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by ludflu 14y ago
as a Philadelphian, this is great.
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by ludflu 14y ago
I'm skeptical. The article didn't include a specific use case. I'm not sure exactly what their customers are doing with it.
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by ludflu 14y ago
over a long enough time horizon, quantity == quality
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by ludflu 14y ago
yup, came here to say this and also - wonder - why haven't they done this already?
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by ludflu 14y ago
I'm a strong proponent of TDD. In my experience its more productive, and results in better software. But.... I've been in this position before: We have a large existing codebase with no unit tests to speak of, and the business is not willin
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by ludflu 14y ago
yes. sometimes i feel as if i need special restraints built into my desk chair to properly "appreciate" the java code i am required to read and debug.
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by ludflu 14y ago
"it" meaning the conclusion about the exponential increase in the cost of fixing bugs over time.
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by ludflu 14y ago
He didn't say it was false. He did say it was unsupported.
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by ludflu 14y ago
Much respect for the frankness and forthrightness with which he addressed this. I've always taken the exponential increase in the cost of bug fixes with time for granted. I won't do so in the future. We need more empirical studies of softwa
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by ludflu 14y ago
except that they had to write unit tests - whereas the compiler/type system automatically checked the type safety of the code this guy wrote. (Not that writing unit tests for haskell code is a bad idea - QuickCheck is WAY more powerful than
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by ludflu 14y ago
> Cost is orthogonal to educational quality. I've heard this (anecodotal) argument alot. Is there any empirical backing for it, and within what parameters does it hold true? My mother taught at a very expensive private school, which ena
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by ludflu 14y ago
Although vanishingly unlikely, I don't think this is a bad question. You'd have to be big enough to somehow threaten Oracle. Not many companies fit that bill.
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by ludflu 14y ago
i'm an atheist myself, but gratified to see this guys beliefs being respected. its one thing i hate about reddit.
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by ludflu 14y ago
no, it would be constructive if he offered ways to improve the test. he didn't.
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by ludflu 14y ago
interesting thanks. so freedom of speech and lots of other stuff has been incorporated, but not everything in the constitution applies to states automatically
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by ludflu 14y ago
its my understanding that due to the supremacy clause, federal (constitutional) law trumps state laws. in some cases, state laws can grant addiitional rights, but they can't abridge the rights granted by the constitution.
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by ludflu 14y ago
i liked this comment: how much does he regret giving tmobile 6 billion dollars for a failed merger attempt?
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by ludflu 14y ago
Here's my python version, with some commentary. http://datadigger.tumblr.com/post/9709584448/monty-hall
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by ludflu 14y ago
As someone who has written apps for blackberry devices: they brought it on themselves. Their platform is a nightmare to code for, and they are unwilling or unable to fix it.
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by ludflu 14y ago
i hope they dont kill TestFlight
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by ludflu 15y ago
good article. I've found myself in various of these roles in different jobs. But it really is hard to do them all in the same project.

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