pretoriusB

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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> The Bible is not remotely as well written as the Iliad, nor is it comparable as a work of philosophy to Plato. Tens of Thousands of top notch literary critics, philosophers and intellectuals beg to differ...
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Tell me more about how you read the GoF book, and applied the patterns in a language that does not even have interfaces or type-hinting. What a joke. I don't see any joke. Jokes are of the type "Knock knock, who's there", etc. Using
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> So I still have to wake, look at the clock, make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that. Yes, no magic unicorns and fairies spreading pixie dust to wake you up at just the right moment, I'm afrai
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
The domain knowledge when it comes to implementing algorithms is algorithms themselves...
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Wouldn't it be more important to have people to come up with brilliant solutions on problems they are working on, rather than hard problems in general that have already been solved? Most of the times the guys that can come with "bril
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> but what I do know is how to find out the answer given a computer and an internet connection. Then you are not good enough for them. They want someone that breaths and knows these things inside out and backwards. Any half-competent d
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> What about if I wake at 05:00? Or 04:30? Or 02:00? Then go back to sleep, dummy. Does he have to spell it out for you? > Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions? That's call
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Road rage? People going on rampage with guns and killing tens of innocents? Fatso kids screaming in restaurants and behaving badly in public? The most BS self-entitled complaints in restaurant/hotel/etc reviews always written by Americans?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Ever tried looking around you? Do you need a citation that air is important for breathing?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Citation is needed in novel and unexpected statements and conclusions. ("Extraordinary claims", etc). Well known facts should need no citation upon an audience of educated adults. Still, here's a secondary corroboration for you: http://onl
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
I want the 30" of my life lost for reading your comment back.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Building responsively is an investment for the future. You can bet good money that there will be more and more diversity of screen sizes as we keep going. I find responsive design a cheap copout, jack of all screen resolutions, maste
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I disagree with this post No, you actually AGREE with this post. The posts says "for 95% of cases", that is, for most cases. Your case, "firefighting", is a 5% outlier.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> When you use this manipulation to get your way to your kids, the kid watches you, and you find yourself the lab rat of a psychological manipulator far more capable then yourself. And the kid uses tricks you never heard of to shape you
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Beat them when they yell?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Which is not the same at all with having thousands of proprietary third-party apps to distribute in closed source form (as opposed to having control of some open source repo with redistribution and re-compile/modify etc) right. So your poin
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Selective enforcement of the "law" is no law at all. Actually it's very much a law. And it's how the law works in the real world. It might not be "justice", but it's law alright. From the kid who the local cop knows his family and le
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Your analogy fails because MIT IT certainly know what they could do to secure their systems more robustly, and chose not to do so. While I am pro Aaron and anti-MIT this is argument is weak sause. So what? I also know what I could do
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Sure. The stagnation part was about becoming too slow to move forward. For example, with all it's lisp scripting capabilities and 30+ year history, Emacs is an early nineties editor UI, UX and codebase wise.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Now Windows 8 (moreso RT, but even the x64 version) and Mountain Lion are moving to the walled-garden, segregated, impotent app approach What can't you do in ML that you could in OS X 10.1? If and only if the app signing and approval
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
OK, here's a question: is this the same version that was around for half a decade, or is it updated to the latest LLVM API etc?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Which part of the post made it not obvious that they named her Lua?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Because they have what is called a "society", and the notion that your name is not for you (and wouldn't even make sense to have one if you lived in a remote island alone), it's for societal uses.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> People who are good at JS like JS because it makes them special. They can lord their knowledge of the quirks over "lesser" developers who come to JS expecting it to act like a sane language. It took an entire industry about a decade j
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Who said Javascript is good for async programming? It was designed to be easy to use with callbacks for website UI style events (which is not quite the same as async programming). The Node async is just a half-thought implementation of asyn
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Linux/ARM is bigger than iphone, apple, and dell combined.Android. It's sitting on a desk near you. Most Android devices are sold free with contract or with low tier phones to people who don't care much about smartphones. As for Andr
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> ^ this reply can be summarized as "turning on the fan to spread shit on everyone else". Yes, but only if by "spreading shit on everyone else" you mean: 1) a comparison between the speed of development/releases of ST (which was the ve
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Oh, what, you thought == was for comparison? Wrong. Actually true. And truer to the dynamic spirit of Javascript than ===. Sometimes things don't have to be absolutely equal to be equal, "1" and 1 will do just fine. You can sanitise
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> The flip side is, for long term adoption, it pretty much has to open source itself. Really? I don't see IntelliJ Idea suffering much from NOT being Open Source. Or even TextMate for that matter, which still has friends even while bei
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> If ST becomes open-source, that solves one of the biggest issues many people have with ST, especially those coming from a vim/emacs background. And it makes ST another bloody Open Source project, designed by a community, to fall by t

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