Quentin Crain
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Wrt functional paradigm, do you think it has a higher cognitive load than procedural and/or OO?
I can't tell: it does always take me forever to remember how to use reduce (in say elixir), but then my day job is python, so is it just because of the conceptual switch?
Wrt typing, we have:
I prefer dynamic and don't particularly care about strong/weak since generally my programs don't do what I want because they are semantically wrong, not syntactically.
hmm .. if "sexist" == "sexually assault[ing] multiple women and us[ing] [] power to scare them into silence" then i dont understand. basically, isnt sexist shorthand for all that?
yep! but, since im new i dont know if im violating cultural norms or just being told im an idiot! :)
Hi! i do (mean to) try to add qualifiers like *mostly* and such to my questioning of whether or not speech/discussion/debate is a great mover of people's minds; certainly in the ultimate, talk is what changes minds, but its talk among people with emotional investment (eg. caring) among themselves, not some grand forum of the public. i mean, where is the "discussion" in a milo-like event?
and similarly, what motivated me to create an account and comment in the first place is my annoyance at the IDW: I think they are whingers (certainly Harris and Peterson), and their assertion that discussion & debate is what is important and yet they dont do it!... (read more)
Not evidence, just a model that might explain how a lot of opinion change happens.
I very much like this model, and bullet 4 is where people's minds are changed but it is through personal ties (as you say), discussion (yes) and very much suffused with emotion.
I also think that too many people are getting pattern-matched as Milos, and shouting down people who have been mis-typed as Milos has negative consequences
Again, who are we talking about? Damore-like? Peterson and the whole of the IDW? The unnamed (center? conservative?) academics?
I am not really at this site's level, so perhaps I am missing the point. But I certainly dont see rampant shouting down or personal/prestige/economic... (read more)
so i kinda expected those. so do you know of any evidence that people's minds where changed significantly or mostly due to debate/discussion? polls? surveys? ???
and of course on the other side, is there any evidence that those "fighting" for these believe it was debate/discussion vs (often militant) action?
i guess the "problem" i have is that im old (47) and read too much Zinn (to give you something to associate to or attempt to find similarities with people you know). ive specifically inculcate the belief that most things achieved have NOT been thru debate but action:
ah! hadnt seen this. thx!!
i dont know if you would prefer quote/question or just a free flowing sort of chat. this one will be of the open/free type ...
i personally id as part of the "Left" you are concerned about. do you have examples when the "Left" was significantly changing minds through dialogue/dialectic?
Have tons of questions so dont know where to start. How about 3.3: Did you mean to suggest or do you believe Damore is a "centrist"?
ah! ok, message received ...
(updated after serious down-votes)
" higher order functions like map/filter/reduce to be simpler": do you find most other programmers find this too?
my experience is otherwise: i get a ton of pushback asserting this stuff is too hard to read and thus should NOT be use in our shop; somehow in python even using filter is more difficult than a list comprehension with an if!!???!!