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by unz 13y ago
OK .... looks like someone's in a bad mood
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by unz 13y ago
They're the same thing, you'll only get paid if you solve real problems (though that's not really true, a lot of people get paid by stealing - most of the finance industry, many government employees, and much of senior manage
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by unz 13y ago
His wife, the crowdfund backers, and the net loss to society by him taking himself out of productive business. Those are not 'dumb strawmans'. And I wasn't talking about him in that comment, but the various starving artists w
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by unz 13y ago
I'm not saying that entertainment doesn't have value. I said it's perfectly fine if you're earning an income from creating it and it's OK as a hobby to create. But otherwise, the market (the people that constitute t
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by unz 13y ago
Doesn't this guy realize that asking for money they way he did with flex funding defies logic. If you only raise some of the money, how were expecting to finish the project, and what about the people who gave you money - you just scamm
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by unz 13y ago
So paper is the final frontier? Hundreds of years old tech is the optimum and 21st century tech like tablet computers is a step backwards for humanity?
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by unz 13y ago
My point is - why is anyone printing anymore? Everyone can get their hands on a tablet these days
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by unz 13y ago
(you tamp down a little with your rudeness - why would multiple decades old tech be 'magical') Prolog with clpfd and chr, Mozart/Oz, Sql, Clips. Libraries like gecode, java choco. There aren't any new ways of programming
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by unz 13y ago
But that's not the main style of programming. If you teach someone lisp he'll hack around with functions and macros and not realize that his problem could be elegantly written in constraint programming. Most of the time the majori
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by unz 13y ago
That's basically the consensus among professional academics on the matter. Also among well respected programmers in senior roles like Joshua Bloch and John Carmack.
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by unz 13y ago
(putting aside the rudenss and cluelessness of your comment ...) Operations research type algorithms can be thought of as forward chaining compared to prolog's backward chaining. Prolog implementations usually integrate them in because
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by unz 13y ago
Lisp is a dangerous language that shouldn't be taught or used these days. There are plenty of superior programming techniques. Mathematical programming - linear programming, finite domain constraint programming, constraint logic progra
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by unz 13y ago
Slightly off-topic, Pdf and Ps are just plain outdated for today. They're unreadable on small screens and for people with bad eyesight, and no one sane prints stuff out these days Html is better, but the real thing today is tablet apps
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by unz 13y ago
Virtual Reality, no doubt about it. Having tried the Oculus dev kit, VR will blow everything else away. The limitations currently, screen resolution and sensors, will be chipped away because they align nicely with the troubles smartphone ma
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by unz 13y ago
The best web platform is haskell and postgres, or ocaml-java/yeti and mysql on appengine. Phpers and rubyers are missing out on the most delightful and least error-prone ways to use functional and relational programming.
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by unz 13y ago
This is a huge opportunity for startups. Online dating is still not as successful it could be because all data is not used. Everyone has smartphones, partners could be matched up based on the generated sensor data. There's also the low
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Text processing: emacs lisp vs perl(ergoemacs.org)
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by unz 13y ago
This is kind of silly. If Google launched it's own uber with the google brand on it, it would easily trump uber. Developing the the uber software would cost way way less than $250 million. These large companies are throwing a lot of mo
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by unz 13y ago
I don't want to say anything against Patrick or other consultancy oriented entrepreneurs, but I'd just put up a price on the saas app and be done with it and move on with the next thing. I'm functionality-oriented, create a l
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by unz 13y ago
Yes they provide value, but as consumer I'd like to see that 5% drop, and Kickstarter being a household name benefits them, giving them leverage to keep prices high, and a net loss for the consumer. Kickstarter don't have full int
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by unz 13y ago
The thing is, senior people don't eat their dogfood in anything. The CEO of Ford probably drives a Benz. What has worked in all industries is quality control. Government has always had a problem in doing this (the DMV) but that's
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by unz 13y ago
People like to blame the US government for this, though I think the real culprit is that often the dumber, more xenophobic members of society are usually hired for these kinds of positions. As in the case of police brutality, cameras need t
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by unz 13y ago
Much more of this is needed, crowdfunding has a lot more potential to change business but kickstarter and cohorts are getting fees while offering little value. The huge opportunity for startups currently is in planning, campaign analytics,
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by unz 13y ago
The cost issue is way overblown. $900 per officer is too much for the big cities - each officer in those big cities is paid at least $5000, and with pensions, vehicles, facilities costs, tco must be at least 20k. There's politics in th
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by unz 13y ago
Agree with that. I'd say there's two types of software - better experience and novel functionality. You can in be a competitive business and win by offering superior service/design or go into non-competitive markets and offer
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by unz 13y ago
No thanks. Destroy enterprises, never negotiate with them. If their internal processes are so easily gamed, they're easy prey.
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by unz 13y ago
Looking at your posting history you appear to be a professional forum arguer/troll and would be in full agreement if you hadn't started off with the opposite stance, so I'll end it there. By the way, very few of your comments
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by unz 13y ago
Except in America only teachers unions (along with doctors/lawyers) have managed to raise the salary through (anti-consumer) unions, while the lumberjack/fisherman/roofer is thrown to the wolves. 'Unions for everyone&#x2
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by unz 13y ago
You said 'rant' twice, not exactly polite disagreement. The models are pretty simple - they are called supply and demand. They work for everything else in economics. Low pay for dangerous work is not so exceptional situation. In p
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by unz 13y ago
So the remaining roofers get higher pay, and the in-flood of designers leads to lower pay for designers.

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