Predator/prey is also a metaphor. People aren't actually being eaten. They are voluntarily sharing data that is used to provide them with a service that they want. I'm so depressed that I have to spell everything out.
It was a predator/prey metaphor, not a individual/group metaphor.
I don't understand this community. I thought you were wolves, but here you are taking the part of the sheep. Instead of being outraged, you should be trying to get your own piece of the data pie. Every single web…
By definition, being social means doing things other people are doing.
I'm more curious about what the alternative is because this is my default mode of programming. I don't see what's backwards about it. You establish what you need in the module first, then code. What else can you do?
I think the analogy was stated poorly. Here's my take: 1. Big company A sees small company B getting rich off a new market. A forsees B disrupting A. With MS, it was the fear that the web would become the OS. With G…
What's the point? He'll never beat LuaJIT. I'd rather see a new language with a "slow, slow, and slow" implementation that had interesting semantics than another python/lua/js cut-down LISP.
I know they did shady things in the beginning. A lot of businesses have to do that, and many don't stop. That's just how the game works. As a user, of course you don't have to take it. Just don't buy what they're…
Current Zynga games aren't that bad. The production values and gameplay are a lot better than the werewolves/vampires style games that they started with. Given a few more years, their games might even be comparable to…
There's a lot of wishful thinking in these G+ posts of late. People hope that G+ won't have to make the painful compromises FB has, though without much justification. The two are so very similar, if G+ catches on most…
Facebook already has the exact same functionality in friend lists. They're only a small ui tweak away from parity in that respect. As for the drag and drop into circles, it's cute but realistically it's not a big part…
I find this absurd. I don't even call them bugs when I get compiler errors. They are typos. They are trivial to fix, and I'd much rather fix them at 3pm before I've checked in the code than at 3am when it's live or 5…
Every single story about facebook has a post like this, and I'm so tired of reading them. First of all, why would you even consider competing with Facebook? You do realize that outside of the valley, there are companies…
I think you know you've cracked when you prefer bad C# to clean Haskell.
On the other hand, I don't think I've ever written a program that doesn't use containers, manage memory, and handle errors.
Are you really saying that the time and energy you save coding and debugging by using high level features aren't worth a few minutes of compile time? It won't even be a few minutes except for the first time because of…
I think http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/08/06/on-seeing-like-a-cat/on... is a more insightful analysis of the cat/dog dichotomy. There's nothing particularly cat like or dog like in the roles described in the linked…
I remember it being a rare event when 212 created a FP enthusiast. Are the students in the new course liking it or just enduring it?
I'm sure the author wouldn't mind especially if you copied the article into notepad and deleted the first two sentences before reading it.
Sometimes articles are over my head too. Sometimes I work on figuring them out and learn something. Sometimes I give up because I don't have the time or energy. However, I don't blame the author for my ignorance.
Ah, quit being such a winklevoss. We win when there's competition of implementations.
Yeah, there totally should be a class on how, as an slightly above average programmer, to use open source projects representing man-decades of work by geniuses and millions of dollars in corporate investment to avoid…
Exactly right, working at Palantir is betting on the status quo.
What are you talking about? Palantir isn't reinventing government or finance, they are making extremely niche data analysis tools for the intelligence services and trading tools for wall street. If those institutions…
I went through cmu miserable. It's fine, suffering brings out the best in me. But I like that poem, and the thought that someone actually jumped does not ruin it for me. To jump is to escape, and that poem is a sweet…
Predator/prey is also a metaphor. People aren't actually being eaten. They are voluntarily sharing data that is used to provide them with a service that they want. I'm so depressed that I have to spell everything out.
It was a predator/prey metaphor, not a individual/group metaphor.
I don't understand this community. I thought you were wolves, but here you are taking the part of the sheep. Instead of being outraged, you should be trying to get your own piece of the data pie. Every single web…
By definition, being social means doing things other people are doing.
I'm more curious about what the alternative is because this is my default mode of programming. I don't see what's backwards about it. You establish what you need in the module first, then code. What else can you do?
I think the analogy was stated poorly. Here's my take: 1. Big company A sees small company B getting rich off a new market. A forsees B disrupting A. With MS, it was the fear that the web would become the OS. With G…
What's the point? He'll never beat LuaJIT. I'd rather see a new language with a "slow, slow, and slow" implementation that had interesting semantics than another python/lua/js cut-down LISP.
I know they did shady things in the beginning. A lot of businesses have to do that, and many don't stop. That's just how the game works. As a user, of course you don't have to take it. Just don't buy what they're…
Current Zynga games aren't that bad. The production values and gameplay are a lot better than the werewolves/vampires style games that they started with. Given a few more years, their games might even be comparable to…
There's a lot of wishful thinking in these G+ posts of late. People hope that G+ won't have to make the painful compromises FB has, though without much justification. The two are so very similar, if G+ catches on most…
Facebook already has the exact same functionality in friend lists. They're only a small ui tweak away from parity in that respect. As for the drag and drop into circles, it's cute but realistically it's not a big part…
I find this absurd. I don't even call them bugs when I get compiler errors. They are typos. They are trivial to fix, and I'd much rather fix them at 3pm before I've checked in the code than at 3am when it's live or 5…
Every single story about facebook has a post like this, and I'm so tired of reading them. First of all, why would you even consider competing with Facebook? You do realize that outside of the valley, there are companies…
I think you know you've cracked when you prefer bad C# to clean Haskell.
On the other hand, I don't think I've ever written a program that doesn't use containers, manage memory, and handle errors.
Are you really saying that the time and energy you save coding and debugging by using high level features aren't worth a few minutes of compile time? It won't even be a few minutes except for the first time because of…
I think http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/08/06/on-seeing-like-a-cat/on... is a more insightful analysis of the cat/dog dichotomy. There's nothing particularly cat like or dog like in the roles described in the linked…
I remember it being a rare event when 212 created a FP enthusiast. Are the students in the new course liking it or just enduring it?
I'm sure the author wouldn't mind especially if you copied the article into notepad and deleted the first two sentences before reading it.
Sometimes articles are over my head too. Sometimes I work on figuring them out and learn something. Sometimes I give up because I don't have the time or energy. However, I don't blame the author for my ignorance.
Ah, quit being such a winklevoss. We win when there's competition of implementations.
Yeah, there totally should be a class on how, as an slightly above average programmer, to use open source projects representing man-decades of work by geniuses and millions of dollars in corporate investment to avoid…
Exactly right, working at Palantir is betting on the status quo.
What are you talking about? Palantir isn't reinventing government or finance, they are making extremely niche data analysis tools for the intelligence services and trading tools for wall street. If those institutions…
I went through cmu miserable. It's fine, suffering brings out the best in me. But I like that poem, and the thought that someone actually jumped does not ruin it for me. To jump is to escape, and that poem is a sweet…