newt

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by newt 16y ago
I know you can implement it with out XML, I do DI all day long with functions. Non-sequitur. Most .Net DI frameworks (as opposed to DI in Java, or DI without a framework) use configuration in code. This is generally much more readable and
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by newt 16y ago
The point of collecting click data is not to target google engineers, it is to collect data from masses of people doing regular searches and to improve them by seeing which links get clicked on, so obviously Bing is "taking data for non-goo
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by newt 16y ago
the effect is the same as intentional scraping and outright stealing The google engineers intentionally sent this click data to Bing, so is Bing really stealing? It's odd to act surprised when Bing uses the data that was intentionally sen
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by newt 16y ago
their tanks were made by Opal (a GM subsidiary) I came here to check that, but you seem to be right - see the wikipedia article on Opel (note correct spelling) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel The company ... has been a wholly owned
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by newt 16y ago
Are these Microsoft addins causing you crashes or other problems?
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by newt 16y ago
"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM"... really shows a startling lack of understanding Are you perhaps missing that it's a deliberate inversion of the more obvious statement "needing more RAM is for people who don't k
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by newt 16y ago
To go further, What is and what isn't an "explanation" ? "Things always fall down" doesn't add much. It says that the observation can be repeated. Newton's law says more than "There exists gravitational force between bodies" which isn't muc
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by newt 16y ago
Ok, it generalises the observation to other things as well.
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by newt 16y ago
Whether the president makes the decisions or if it's someone behind him, what I was asking was about the level of the decisions made. For instance, it's plausible that the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was made well in advance by a small
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by newt 16y ago
"Simple" is a subjective term. Which is why it's sometimes stated as "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily" - i.e pick the explanation with the fewest moving parts. That's less subjective, assuming you can agree on how to count
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by newt 16y ago
Define "run" ? They don't decide what you eat for lunch, so what do they decide and what don't they? I ask since you can't argue against a statement that isn't even coherent. All you can do is point out that it makes no sense. Bear in mind
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by newt 16y ago
Yep - when a phone causes someone to waste £1500 on a flight they missed, it's tragedy. When a phone causes someone's spouse to find out they they're cheatin' .. comedy gold.
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by newt 16y ago
To go even further: if someone got dumped on their wedding day because they texted their other girlfriend and the fiancée found out, the media's story will be that it's their own fault and you can't rage at the phone software. If you miss a
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by newt 16y ago
I watched a presentation online by a large software company who used to to do this. They deprecated this as "prioritization by whoever shouts the loudest". Once a crash-bug-reporting system was in place it simply went away, as they had accu
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by newt 16y ago
Mass Animal Deaths Are Not in Fact Unusual ... especially in the middle of winter, when food is hardest to find.
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by newt 16y ago
Me and friends used to play that game. When we were 8 years old.
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by newt 16y ago
Right, it could be either.
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by newt 16y ago
Buggy software can be better than none.
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by newt 16y ago
I read it not as saying startups were reliable well, I read it as " your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of year " I read it that way because that's what it says. Do you k
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by newt 16y ago
Contradicting yourself is not the same as addressing a point.
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by newt 16y ago
I stopped after the first paragraph: If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. Come on. Startups are long shots
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by newt 16y ago
the world-wide cultural taboo against incest exists for a clearly defined reason Of course it does. In other news, shooting people in the streets is generally considered bad, yet if you read a few thrillers and watch a few action movies,
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by newt 16y ago
Agreed about the name. my first thought was http://www.zombo.com/
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by newt 16y ago
make an exception for Assange because he's in the news? because Swiss banks are so rigorous about closing the accounts of third-world tinpot dictators?
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by newt 16y ago
The probability that there will be a bubble in some sector at some time in the future approaches 1.0 The probability that it has already started to inflate is supposed to be a lot less, but in the last decade and a half, it seems there have
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by newt 16y ago
You're repeating your false idea that bugs in TDD come only from the unit tests. Eh, see comments above.
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by newt 16y ago
To be fair, it is possible to say "it's a bubble" and have to wait a few years to be proved right. It takes nerve to hang on until you're proved right. See The Big Short http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short for good examples of this
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by newt 16y ago
"Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend." - Rabindranath Tagore
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by newt 16y ago
Well, don't buy it with a contract then.
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by newt 16y ago
And neither does Amazon. And yet they claim to.

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