otabdeveloper1

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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> you could make a new syntax Thanks, but I'd rather not.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
You're making a category error. Human brains aren't computers. They do not "compute" at all.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
I'm not. My point was that Docker purports to solve the sandboxing and security problems. In reality, this is something that 90% of people who use Docker don't give a shit about. For the vast majority Docker is just a nice and eas
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Indeed you're right, but the problem is that your devs' machines and your production systems are running different OS's/distributions. Nix tries to solve this, but it isn't there just yet.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
90% of the time Docker is used to solve the problem of "how do I upload this bucket of Python crud to a production server?" (Replace 'Python' with any other language to taste.) A slightly smarter .tar.gz would have solve
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> The main reason Chrome is so popular is because tech people have been saying "just use chrome" for forever. Utter bullshit. Chrome is dominant due to two factors: a) Distribution deals by Google to bundle Chrome everywhere th
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
I fail to grasp what you mean. Reach, penetration and target audiences is like 95% of what modern advertising does. Modern advertising works on simple statistics rules like "people who drink Pepsi might need heartburn medicine" or
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Advertising hasn't been about 'persuasion' or psychology for a long, long time. Advertising today is mechanical applications of the central limit theorem / law of large numbers to sociological problems.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> ML makes predictions; testable predictions. Well, no. ML solves the classification problem, not the prediction problem. E.g.: The "is this a cat picture" problem is effectively solved, but we _still_ can't reliably pred
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> Prudential Real Estate is a franchise operation. Prudential does not actually broker any real estate. Instead, a local franchisee pays a fee for the use of the name and logo and other services. I don't know how contracting works,
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Absolutely untrue. Whiteboard problems absolutely do work. The vast majority of applicants cannot code at all. And I mean that literally: they're at a loss at how to write a function that adds two numbers or counts the number of elem
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Yeah, you're right. Many hospitals encourage bad practices like gratuitous C-sections. (But then again many home birth proponents also encourage bad practices.) I guess I'm saying that one should be less emotional at this point an
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> The commands are more uniform and predictable. Git won because it was a) unopinionated and b) powerful enough to support arbitrary workflows for any enterprise. For the enterprise, being 'uniform and predictable' is way, way,
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Trash flows downstream. Not very surprising.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> As in, it is their job. What makes you say that? That's like expecting software engineers to understand the implications of clock synchronization in your server CPU. Sure, it'd be nice if employees had that level of dedicat
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Being a doctor (i.e., general practitioner) is a job that is less cognitively loaded and carries less responsibility than the job of a car mechanic. General practitioners are simply running off standard checklists for standard ailments. It&
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Antibiotic abuse is a real problem, but expecting doctors to fix or even understand it is like expecting car mechanics to make traffic laws for your country. Antibiotics should be regulated by a serious government effort, not by doctors.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Presumably, by getting a bacterial test. That's done in a lab and isn't a doctor's job.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> Well, people shouldn't be buying antibiotics without a doctors note. Why? It's not rocket science, and it's not like this is a complex decision that you couldn't adequately make after 15 of Internet searching. The f
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
"OOP" is not "X with classes". "Classes" is a low-level thing that you'd need for implementing many language features. Including things like 'abstract data types' of the ML kind. Good C++ style h
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> The STL was a last-minute addition to the standard library before C++98. C++ without a standard C++ library is not really C++. > No, it was because Bjarne wanted features from Simula whilst still generating fast code. Yeah, but Simu
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
"Non-discrimination" means using a verifiable and objective yardstick when judging professional performance. Death and rape threads on the intertubes is just people being mean. Deal with it, there will always be somebody who hates
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> is widely regarded Yeah, citation needed, d00d. > with a more Pythonic input syntax A 'more Pythonic syntax' is literally the least important requirement anybody needs in a programming language.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Non-discrimination and acceptance isn't the same thing. You can't force people to like you, and you shouldn't.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> I always got the feeling that java was c++ with a bit more religion about OO No way. C++ was always much more into the functional programming paradigm. (See the STL, for example.) The connection between C++ and OOP is because OOP was
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> For example, why don’t operating systems support native JSON or SQL by now? Because the job of the OS is to manage computer hardware resources. 'JSON' and 'SQL' (whatever that means) are not hardware resources. Next
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
C extensions wasn't the part of PHP that broke the amateur Internet, SQL injections were.
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
Java failed as a portable language-agnostic VM for user-facing apps. You know, the use-case it was originally designed for. (I read the hype for Java 1.0, I was there.) Nobody at the time could imagine that Java would eventually become the
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> ...we're going to massively regret letting type safety and other features slide. PHP is memory safe, and yet is a larger source of data breaches and security bugs than C by (rough guess) an order of magnitude. C is not the bogeyma
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by otabdeveloper1 7y ago
> ...why don't I have Go and Rust compile targets for the JVM, with JVM browser code running my JVM targets and etc? The JVM is not a true VM. It's heavily coupled to the Java object model and the Java GC.

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