rohern

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by rohern 13y ago
> "it just seemed strange that seeing a doctor (not even emergency room) cost roughly half as much as an iPad." That's the banner headline. What a nightmare.
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by rohern 13y ago
The supposition is that a more expressive language lets you do more with a single line of code on average than a less expressive language. The second supposition is that commits tend to be done to gather code expressing a single chunk of fu
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by rohern 13y ago
Yeah, sure. That's what an average is. It is taking the performance of a large case and reducing it to a single unit in order to make comparisons.
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by rohern 13y ago
Obviously I and the writer of the article disagree with you that it fails the first case.
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by rohern 13y ago
Well, then your point is to say that comparing two animals on the strength of their legs is ridiculous because both animals have legs. This is just a non sequitur. No one was confused about the fact that you can make a function call in C th
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by rohern 13y ago
This is exactly the point I am making.
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by rohern 13y ago
Yes, thank you for that 9th-grade science lesson. The commenters in this thread are writing off the data because...? They decided the measure is bad? When the measure conforms to experience, it's probably worthwhile to look into it. This do
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by rohern 13y ago
I agree. I was also surprised by Ruby's position. I suspect the problem is related to that with JavaScript. That is to say, people including code in their commits that they didn't write.
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by rohern 13y ago
These are valid lines of code (plus or minus a ;) in both languages.
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by rohern 13y ago
Fair enough. That is an entirely valid critique. However, I do not think this makes the article worthless. Given the apparent correlation between known expressiveness and the data derived here, it may be that they had a good notion using le
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by rohern 13y ago
:D
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by rohern 13y ago
The data in the article based on LOC seems to match very closely conclusions based on other data. I do not know that we get to throw out this measure just 'cuz. This is proof of nothing, but no one is offering proof that we should ditch thi
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by rohern 13y ago
That's not what we're doing here. What this article really is an examination based on a set of assumptions about how we can measure expressiveness. This is a difficult thing to measure. You could (I assume) do just as well by polling thousa
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by rohern 13y ago
There is a lot of weak-ass criticism going on in this thread when the data -- whatever about its methodology is troubling -- seems to almost perfectly back up what is the common experience among programmers. Yes, copy-and-paste doubtlessly
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by rohern 13y ago
This is a terrific idea if it means that people become more open to expanding the size of Congress, an idea which is currently met with objections like 'Oh, but then we would need to build a bigger building'. The Congress of the United Stat
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by rohern 13y ago
Just below this post is "Tips for Gamifying Your Mobile App".
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by rohern 13y ago
Agreed. This a great article and great presentation.
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by rohern 13y ago
I appreciate the interesting reading. Thanks for the useful comment!
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by rohern 14y ago
I think the most interesting question raised by this article is, "Why are the smart people graduating from college willing to get shafted by startups?" Why are schools failing to teach engineers about caring for their own careers? I do not
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by rohern 14y ago
The additional advantage of this age group being that they generally have no experience with salary negotiations or normal work-life balance. In fact, if they're coming out of a top CS program, they are probably used to bonkers work-life ba
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by rohern 14y ago
> Startups aren't for financial security. They are for the frontiermen who are hoping to strike it rich in the gold rush. Most don't but some do. I think you mean "Founding a startup is for the frontiermen..." Being an employee is not.
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SpaceX Tests Reusable Rocket(wired.co.uk)
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by rohern 14y ago
Talk about an ad-hoc nutritional doctrine. Zing!
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by rohern 14y ago
This is a great list. I highly recommend "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?" to everyone on this board, both those who love and those who hate capitalism.
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by rohern 14y ago
Here is a very good lecture on the state of cyber crime law. I recommend it to everyone in this community. Things are crazier than you are probably aware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Z_z4EHq6M
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by rohern 14y ago
>But how does one determine what the prevalence of cardiovascular disease was in the ancient past? Time and the decomposition it brings are brutal on the flimsy meat of which we are made, and it is uncommon to have access to anything ot
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by rohern 14y ago
You are probably a wonderful person to work with and any team is really lucky to have you. Having someone who is deeply passionate about these problems is very important and these are important problems!
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by rohern 14y ago
Look. Becoming a programmer is NOT going to give you a satisfying life. Being a programmer is fucking boring. Companies do not give a shit what cool stuff you've built once they hire you. They want you to spend your time figuring out why th
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by rohern 14y ago
Considering the incredible amount you have already achieved, I am optimistic.
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by rohern 14y ago
This is a terrific blog post. Excellent project and excellent sharing. I feel like we have a lot of games set in real world cities to look forward to. Also: autonomous vehicle pathing?

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