smcq

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by smcq 17y ago
That particular visualization wouldn't show an average global temperature increase until after the artic was quite dry. As the author says, a picture is a story. His story is "at an extremely high level we have seasonal temperature fluctua
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by smcq 17y ago
Were you alive in the 90s? I'm just wondering out loud.
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by smcq 17y ago
In this post, we see the strange assumption that large corporations inherently make more efficient bureaucrats than elected officials.
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by smcq 17y ago
You can't handle the truth.
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by smcq 17y ago
Look, I'm not going to argue with you because you have no idea what you're talking about. Go away.
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by smcq 17y ago
Do the same thing you would do in SQL, run the efficient query (you're almost guaranteed have a view for date limited for a specific customer) then filter it based on product. This is exactly what your RDBMS does, and I don't see how you'r
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by smcq 17y ago
You don't seem to understand how stored views work. This computation cost is felt at insertion time and is not theoretically worse than the exact same computation cost at insertion time in a rdbms to build almost identical index structures
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by smcq 17y ago
You know, I was going to point out how amazingly brain dead that comparison was, and how inappropriate it was to try to guess my skill level in various languages based on my claim that a language that requires 1/20 the LOC is 50x faster. I
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by smcq 17y ago
I've had this before, it works pretty well to say "do not contact me again" and go on with your life as if it never happened.
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by smcq 17y ago
Yea, I'm 100% ready for touch screens to become a reality so I can start playing with more complicated keyboards. The idea of physical keys (even with a better layout like Dvorak) seems so antiquated when everything else we use on the comp
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by smcq 17y ago
I easily program software 50x faster in python than C. If I didn't, I would be using C for speed.
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by smcq 17y ago
They promote offline caching, so I'm betting speediness was because his edits were modifying a local db then going through diff resolution after they displayed.
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by smcq 17y ago
Every single day when we don't program in COBOL. I'm at a bit of a loss, have you never switched to a more productive language and cringed when you went back to the old language?
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by smcq 17y ago
You're effectively arguing that all languages/frameworks are equal within an order of magnitude. I think this has been demonstrated false time and time again, and you even demonstrate it again in your own post (saying Forth is unacceptable
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by smcq 17y ago
This language looks pretty awesome, reading the example code I can see how it would slash my loc for ajaxy stuff by at least an order of magnitude. However, I am confused about this announcement since I cannot discover what your company doe
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by smcq 17y ago
Programming languages aren't that hard, so I'd say, if it makes them way more productive later, then no it's not a waste of time.
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by smcq 17y ago
Exactly what compensation do you think entry level employees should be getting? Exactly what should the be making 10 years later after you've (nearly) doubled their salary.
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by smcq 17y ago
Yea, but it's right pinky which is weaker for most people. By moving it you also gain the -_ being on the home row (which you type less than semi-colon while programming in syntax demanding languages)
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by smcq 17y ago
Copyright is not patent. Patents expire inside our lifetimes. H.264 will be a viable product for startups to use in 2017. (As an aside, don't cast this as a FF vs. the world, patent fees kill startups as well as open source companies.)
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by smcq 17y ago
As a dvorak programmer, it just prompted me to write more python. If you're typing {} characters all day, you should consider how much semantic value that's adding to your programs vs. the cost to type them. Other characters (',."<&#62
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by smcq 17y ago
Eh, deciding ergonomics by a democracy of internet users is pointless (99% of them are probably just repeating things they read on the internet anyway). Dvorak will reduce the amount of finger motion. Other claims require further proof,
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by smcq 17y ago
It's really quite easy to do with a bit of javascript magic and some backend work. Not sure why you'd think it's impossible.
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by smcq 17y ago
I was quite curious what modern languages the author was referring to, wondering if I had missed some magical language boat that left without me.
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by smcq 17y ago
Custom dock connector, since I'll need to cary a dock converter with me to plug in usb devices. I'll probably by the first version with a standard port onboard and a camera.
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by smcq 17y ago
As someone who hosts videos, I hope that you don't get control over the internets. Bandwidth is already expensive enough without having to pay licenses per-stream!
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by smcq 17y ago
You wouldn't. Moving the goalpost is a fallacy, though given your complete inability to do original research I doubt you could ever find that out on your own. This thread started because you asked for unreasonable evidence in response to
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by smcq 17y ago
Moving the goalpost. God damn, this place just became reddit. Cheers. Enjoy the cesspool you created.
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by smcq 17y ago
Moving the goalpost.
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by smcq 17y ago
No. You are wrong.
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by smcq 17y ago
If you're really this interested in it and really suspect an entire scientific field has engaged in completely terrible statistics, it's basic statistics and I suggest you publish a paper yourself. That or you go look for the papers or th

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