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jhrobert

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About jhrobert

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    Comment #47029579

    Cognitive Meteorite and Possibilism, the Rational As-If Approach *Founding Date: February 16, 2026* Today, I introduce an original dual concept from reflections on AI's transformat…

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    Comment #43372721

    Hi there! With all the fuzz about Vibe Programming, I, a 59 years old software veteran, had a look at what's happening. I'm kind of frustrated. Am I getting old? Anyways, here is a…

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    Comment #10177354

    Could be an interesting road for those trying to design an efficient hiring test for software developers. AFAIK there is no such test yet.

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    Comment #9219125

    It's funny that so many people missed the point and assumed the author is clueless.

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    Comment #9219049

    I would love to have "news paper like columns" in my editor. I have been looking for it since 2007... Another thing I would like is the ability to inject multiple files into the sa…

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    Comment #8650888

    I wrote quite a lot of TurboProlog code for a while some 25 years ago. I always wondered why there were no syntax sugar for nested 'or' Horn clauses. Now it's fixed. Cool. So is th…

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    Comment #8565928

    It could. Look for Eigendemocracy

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    Comment #8565925

    Kudocracy: https://github.com/virteal/kudocracy - Alpha. I will present it at https://juliareda.eu/2014/09/invitation-1st-european-liquid-...

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    Comment #8342975

    This is amazing. With enough understanding / reverse-engineering of the current JITs, one can produce near C speed efficient code. Cool.

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    Comment #8217410

    Perfect. Why? If effects from causes occurred immediately, versus with a distinct delay, everything would occur at once (or loop forever, that's a bug). Hence, because we can obser…

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    Comment #8202310

    That's another attempt to fix the "representative democracy" crisis. Unfortunately I saw nothing about "Liquid Democracy" delegations? With pure direct votes only, participation wi…

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    Comment #8061746

    If an "example" is a "suggestion", you may want to have look at my Kudocracy attempt: https://github.com/virteal/kudocracy

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    Comment #8061740

    That's "Liquid democracy"

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    Comment #8059943

    There is some "delegation" implementation inside, ala "liquid democracy". This is a nice mix of "direct" & "representative" democracy, a mix that I believe is very promising to avo…

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    Comment #8059915

    OTOH corruption & fraud is much easier with anonymity.

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    Comment #7850564

    shorteners should be called that way only when the result is actually shorter. Otherwise "interceptors/tracers" seems a better name.

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    Comment #7751846

    Quid délégation, liquid demo style?

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    Comment #7244078

    I am considering the idea of spending some time studying node streams. Your remark worries me. Is there some sources I can consult about node stream potential weaknesses? Thanks.

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    Using async, if you want something to allow listeners to be attached later: var outcome = Boxon(); fs.readFile( "test.txt", outcome ); // Attach listener later: outcome( function( …