killin_dan's comments

That's an incredibly smooth transition. Microsoft has really learned from the javaverse's mistakes regarding compatibility.

On the other hand, maybe they could violate them left and right and let the code sort it out.

Something other than github. Especially self-hosted gitlab or similar.

I was thinking the same thing.

Intel is gonna get its shit pushed in one way or the other on this, and I'm gonna watch it happen with a big smile on my face.

Patents will not stop the march of progress.

It was hyperbole.

I never knew tank steering systems could be so interesting, though.

It's on Wikipedia so it must be true! /s

Net neutrality is bad for the market. What people think they want does not supercede decades of economics.

Regulating ISPs will do irreparable damage to the web, and it could be a decade or more before the average consumer can afford to be a part of a meshnet internet.

Y'all just don't understand the level of manipulation happening. Point at the comcast boogieman (and rightfully so, tbh) as they strip ISPs of their liberties and force a certain business model on them.

I have been somewhat disappointed with my fellow citizens before, and there's always been a certain kinship between Americans, but this is just too far.

I guess we will learn econ 101 the hard way.

Machine Learning needs a new acronym. ML is already taken! Get your own!

-site:wordpress.com

Not that hard

Don't know if that's the exact syntax but I've definitely done it before somehow, on mobile rn

filetype:pdf product-name manual

has worked every time for me

Ah, I see what you're saying.

Seems like you've done quite a bit of this type of work, I've the exact opposite. I guess it makes sense that the fewer data points the clients are given, the more they focus on the broader picture.

Would you often start with a napkin drawing-esque mockup, and add detail to it while cooperating with the client, or would you sometimes start with a finished HTML+JS+CSS prototype and change things up as they request?

I consider UI mockups the perfect usage for visual programming environments. Obviously a visual product compliments a visual development interface. However, it's a very narrow realm compared to the rest of the programming universe.

It's the same as saying that drawing a picture is easier for most people than programming a picture, and it doesn't really have to do with the topic of visual programming, but rather visual design.

Godel, Escher, Bach covers this in great detail. Symbols are a weird idea in the human brain, and there are multiple pseudo languages throughout the book that when you really sit down and think about it, aren't any less ridiculous than the notation we use for mathematics outside of that book.

My idea-book (is that a crazy person thing?) is probably a lot like what you're talking about. I use words for my main data, different arrows going in between each sub-idea, and then sometimes more words attached to each arrow ("pub/subs", "queries", "happens once/happens always", etc)

I think that people who think visual programming could be a thing ought to sit down with APL for a few weekends, until they have the epiphany of "oh, the code is the same as the notation for what I'm actually doing" and suddenly they realize that notation and code are interlinked, and each are basically useless without the other, in the same sort of way that x--p--p---- is exactly as valid as 2 + 2 = 4, without context.

I get the allure of NOT having to write code, but it shouldn't be so difficult for people to realize that it's a ridiculous fantasy.

Write fibonacci(N) in ANY visual language, and tell me you couldn't have done it easier, faster, and more coherently in python or whatever. It's obvious.

Honestly, I think most languages have shitty syntaxes (syntaxi?) and that the issue is not about visual programming.

The other problem is that everybody who has a big idea for visual programming has the same, actually shitty, idea.

Drag-n-drop blocks that represent logic.

UML is not a thing anymore because it's useless and wastes time.

Visual programming is great for describing high-level logic, but not low-level semantics.

Try and describe your last trip to the grocery store with just emojis. Maybe you might get creative and come up with a paper for your list, some fruits and stuff like that, but how could you guarantee that the user on the other end of your description gets the exact same idea? You can't.

With words, I can write my comment how I want, and I'm more or less guaranteed that people will read it the way that I intended them to, because it wouldn't make any sense any other way.

Obvious epiphany to be had here is that you cannot use the government to subsidize your investment in S&P. At least not legally, and to my knowledge.

At college, you can live a pretty comfortable life. You get a place to live, food to eat, work to do, material to learn, friends to talk to, supervisory staff to help you with hard problems, etc.

I hate to say it, because I think US higher education costs are absolutely ridiculous, but I still think that higher education is more rewarding than working a salaried job for a couple years to dump some money into S&P. I'd even go so far as to argue that people who have graduated a college or university are more likely to be prepared to safely, responsibly handle problems that occur in the real world moreso than someone who just happens to have a lot of money from S&P. I know that's a bit vague, but I think my point is clear enough that having wealth is not a replacement for having a satisfactory, stimulating wealth of knowledge and a sense of purpose for one's life. Not to knock people in finance, I love finance, but it's not for everybody and if the whole next generation of college students just decided to structure their whole lives based on how much money they're LIKELY (ie, not necessarily guaranteed) to make, then it'll be a boring generation that the next one has to learn from.

Student loan debt regulations need a rethink. How can we: a) not lose money from paying for kids' school

b) not fuck kids over, incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt for admittedly mediocre education (compared to some euro schools, or asian schools)

c) keep new system automated enough to reduce politician's potential for corruption by manipulating the money

and d) provide some sort of transition schedule to move current students (paying traditional loans off) to new system, without fucking over agencies/firms that are rightfully owed

???

We owe our kids better solution than this

I would think anyone even remotely familiar with economics would realize how significant even small groups of agents and how they can have rippling effects across an economy.

Maybe there was a lapse in judgment somewhere, but that doesn't excuse him from doing what he did, and that lapse can't justify his actions, which caused HUNDREDS of billions of dollars of misleading money to move around.

However, I think he was too harshly sentenced, and I think these "make an example out of him" cowboy judges only exasperate the situation even more. If I were committing global-scale fraud right about now, I'd spend even more time and take even more caution to make sure that I can't be caught or unmasked. Hayes will serve as an inspiration to future fraudsters, you can count on that.

No black bar? There's billions of lines of COBOL throughout the world. BILLIONS!

It was an obnoxious piece of the trial. Not relevant imo.

Maybe relevant for who he is as a person I suppose, but not according to the trial evidence and the case as it was brought before the court.

That wasn't just an idea. People have used Twitter for exactly this purpose for a long time, because it skews user numbers. I'd also assume that overhead is very low for c&c botnets, since its ultimately just a little pubsub message queue, so there's even less incentive to shut them down. I get at LEAST three followers a day with "buy RTs, followers" in their profile on my personal Twitter.

Spam botnets ain't nothing new. They'll ways be around.

Avatar was like the highest grossing movie of all time, and it was just Pocahontas with CGI.

Just because people use it doesn't mean it's artistically meritous.

My opinion isn't subject to YOUR conditions. I've played Pokemon games since a very early age, and I had certain expectations for the experience that weren't even close to met in the final product.

The marketing was vague, but it's not like a complex concept either. It's pokemon on the go, in the real world. It's not a scavenger hunt game, and that's what we ended up getting.

I could be a bit nicer about how I explain it, but I LOVE Pokemon and this game is a giant blemish on the legacy, as far as I see it.