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seomis | 6 years ago | on: A New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island

It's a bit misleading/sensational to call this a "blend." Not that it's a good thing, but plastic is merely sticking onto the surface of rocks.

seomis | 6 years ago | on: Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra

Bruh. It's Li𝘣𝘳𝘢.

seomis | 6 years ago | on: I don’t need The Onion, I have China Daily

What is so absurd about the US trying to influence the legislation or elections of another region?

seomis | 6 years ago | on: Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

Over the course of my career, I've gone from deploying via scp, to svn-up/git-pull, to every variety of actual deployment pipeline imaginable with dedicated dev-ops teams. Now I'm the only engineer at a tiny 501(c)(3), git-pull straight from production again, and have never felt more free.

seomis | 8 years ago | on: Simcoin – A Docker-Based Blockchain Simulation Framework

Were that a semantic issue, wouldn't it just as well apply to every Sim [City, Ant, Earth, etc.] ever made?

seomis | 9 years ago | on: Arguments against JSON-driven development

So we just need references? Let's all switch to XML (just kidding) or YAML (maybe not kidding)!

seomis | 9 years ago | on: PostgreSQL Exercises

5x cartesian product of the eight-row table in exercise #1: Server copes well, Chrome not so much. :(

seomis | 9 years ago | on: Member of The European Union

I thought this was going to be about set theory.

seomis | 9 years ago | on: Celery, non-blocking code and quest against coroutines

Asynchronous event loops aren't a core part of the JavaScript: They're from the DOM API and Node standard library. Though it is significant that nothing comparable exists for Python that has reached the same robustness and support.

seomis | 9 years ago | on: Celery, non-blocking code and quest against coroutines

Why is it that Python's single-threadedness is always singled out over every other language in the general family? Ruby, PHP, Perl, and JS are all single-threaded (Perl ithreads and JRuby/Jython caveats notwithstanding). Celery itself is just a framework for fork management, something that has been available to these languages since their inception.

seomis | 9 years ago | on: Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout

Only if such proponents also advocate maintaining the status quo of using our criminal justice system as a means of disenfranchisement.

seomis | 9 years ago | on: Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout

To those commenting with some variation of "only informed citizens should vote," pause and consider how much overlap there is with your idea of what an "informed" voter is with race/class lines. You may be unwittingly (or wittingly in some cases?) insisting that voters in the US should be, disproportionately, wealthier whites.

seomis | 9 years ago | on: Why Are Tenured Philosophy Professors Unhappy?

So then nihilism or hysterics? I guess, with few exceptions, everyone choose hysterics.

seomis | 11 years ago | on: IRC as a Hiring Filter

What do college-age stoners sound like on IRC? Do they type "whoa" and "dude" a lot or something?

seomis | 11 years ago | on: Functional Programming using JavaScript

I dislike these expositions on the "differences" between object-oriented and functional programming. The two concepts are not directly commensurable, and one can have objects with referentially transparent methods, to be used in a declarative style.

seomis | 11 years ago | on: Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

Understanding real music theory (as in the OP and musictheory.net exercises) will allow you to understand folk and popular music, as well.

seomis | 11 years ago | on: Building New SQL (2013) [pdf]

Maybe it's just the informal writing style and concentration on deficiencies in current implementations of SQL, but the whole things reads as if the author gave only a cursory glance at any relational model theory.