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  1. Re:Good News / Bad News on Early Brain Response To Words Predictive For Autism · · Score: 1

    It's easy to solve once you realize that it's a point of view that can be adopted.

  2. Re:Do they have tail-recursion or lazy evaluation? on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite sure you learned Lisp.

  3. Re:Do they have tail-recursion or lazy evaluation? on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    Sadly no one has yet written a language that forces you to actually understand the problem domain that you're coding. I'm sure it wouldn't be very popular if anyone ever did. Neither has anyone actually managed to write a language that allows you to write useful code without understanding the problem domain, and no one ever will.

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    Have you met Lisp? There's a reason it's unpopular, you actually have to understand things.

  4. Re:Start here on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 0

    Is it really that hard to divide by 8 and multiply by 5? Wait, this is the US we're talking about right?

  5. Co-related but possible confounding variable on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 1
    I used to be a myopic genius.

    I played the little sample video and noticed that it was easier with the small circle as my default is to always be focused with very little peripheral vision.

    However, when I switched to a wide field of focus, that I had learned from correcting my eyesight, it was now easier to see motion in the big square.

    So, perhaps what they really discovered is that motion is more easily detected when size appropriate for your field of view?

  6. Re:Why wouldn't it? on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 1

    The persons focus is smaller, any movement outside that focus doesn't get processed so results as noise.

  7. Re:So, like Lisp on Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is · · Score: 1
    People write long functions because they think procedurally and can't hold several abstractions in their head at once.

    Drivers should be functional, nothing to collect. As for syntax, why do you think different languages have different syntax? Some just think the others are gibberish. I prefer a language where i can make my own syntax if i need it, or not.

    I've got a funny look in my eyes, but not from looking at parentheses! does a driver constantly look at the shoulders or what's in the middle of the road?

  8. Re:So, like Lisp on Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is · · Score: 1
    umm, lisp? It's really good at twiddling bits.

    As for readability, pretty much any non-programmer would disagree with you, and lots of programmers as well! I think it was never for readability but for those with lesser minds who can't hold too much information in their head and for those who write functions hundreds of lines long.

  9. Re:So, like Lisp on Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is · · Score: 1

    That looks like a stupid person trying to make a joke, not anything like Lisp.

  10. So, like Lisp on Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is · · Score: 0
    but more restrictions and unnecessary syntax. Great.

    Can't wait' for the day when all languages 'evolve' back to Lisp.

  11. Since no one reads articles on Open Source Projects For Beginners · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everyone will post their 2 cents worth, recreating the article in a hodge-podge way.

  12. Re:Why on UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors · · Score: 1

    There are other countries less backwards than the USA you know, pin's on credit cards exist.

  13. Re:Practice works on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1
    Nice try at a face save.

    Understanding does help. Perhaps you don't see that because you don't understand?

    I always thought it was really stupid for people to memorize and practice multiplication tables when none of that is necessary with a little simple understanding.

  14. Re:Why on UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors · · Score: 1

    Well thank you, it would have helped more if any of the employees at any of the gas stations were aware of that. Made driving across the US irritating, well, that combined with the lower fuel efficiency of the crappy ethanol blends.

  15. And the final death blow of Slashdot is dealt on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    As all the +5 posts made by ignoramuses who don't understand what API's are overwhelm any sort of logical posts by programmers.

  16. Re: I can't wait to see this battle on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    Wow, a clueless answer gets +5 interesting. hmm, i guess that is interesting.

  17. Re:Why on UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors · · Score: 2

    Yet we still don't address the MAIN problem with [credit] cards [at least in the USA]- the lack of confidential PIN codes to secure them from unauthorized use- and all us consumers are paying for that. At least I have noticed gas pumps and some other devices asking me for my zip code.... better than nothing I suppose.

    Hate those stupid gas pumps. Useless if your card is from outside the US.

  18. Re:C'mon NASA, get your act together on units on NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact · · Score: 1

    Is it a metaphor? Or maybe, just maybe, boulder has a scientific definition that you are ignorant of?

  19. Re:Car Analogy on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1
    I don't know. Why choose Einstein for the theory of relativity if he couldn't work out the math?

    As well, stop religiously spouting stupidities without any understanding of what you are saying. Be careful, you're showing your ignorant bias.

  20. Re:Practice works on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1

    Don't be colloquially/contextually ignorant.

  21. Re:Would most people be better off undiagnosed? on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    perhaps you missed the 6 months or more part?

  22. Re:I call bunk on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should change the way you live your life and not take drugs to support your lifestyle?

  23. Re:Psychology VS Psychiatry on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1
    Do not confuse mechanisms for causes. Do you not think that an entity that functions through biological process would not show a change in those processes anytime the function changes?

    Also, heritable? Science doesn't even know what that means.

  24. Re:Psychology VS Psychiatry and BPS==morons! on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    Hiding symptoms is not the same as eradicating bacteria/viruses.

  25. Re:Psychology VS Psychiatry on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1
    Except of course, that your neurologist is 'treating' some that is entirely curable without drugs.

    Sometimes I think psychiatrists prescribe drugs simply because they know that the majority of people are too lazy to change the way they eat, sleep, and interact with the world and the US mindset of 'it's not my fault, let's blame it on X'.