SOMMS

Re:The Multiverse: Science, Religion, or Pseudoscience? on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:46PM (#32794028)

Thank you for this article. It is so refreshing to see a level-headed and sensibly epistemological take on the ever burgeoning buffet of sensational multiverse fare.

It's not that the multiverse is nonsense (it may or may not be I don't know)...its that it simply isn't science.

Re:Holocene Extinction on Friday May 08, 2020 @10:49AM (#23115377)

'Ecologically, humanity has been noted as an unprecedented "global superpredator"'...

</sigh>

Re:Birds Are Vanishing from North America on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:50PM (#21020613)

It's pretty, but your post in a nutshell: We are too full of ourselves to admit the transcendental beauty and value of our world soooo...drugs.

Re:Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video] on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:54PM (#18294738)

Yes. This exactly.

Re:Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism? on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:12PM (#18293707)

Out of curiosity - why was the above post flagged? It didn't violate any of the HN commenting rules. It didn't advocate for/against atheism/religion (this was explicitly stated), and it didn't state anything that was not factual.

Re:Ways people trying to do good accidentally do harm instead and how ... on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:25PM (#18250779)

Socialism. /thread

Re:Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943) on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:05PM (#17961960)

But then there's the small matter that social media doesn't actually make anything better...it just makes a bunch of things worse.

Re:Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943) on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:43PM (#17961308)

The point still stands: soldering-iron wielding neo-hippies having an orgy in the desert for a week isn't a model for society. It's more of an indication of boredom in a society blessed with extreme abundance, yet lacking a clear sense of purpose.

Getting back into the web dev – overwhelmed by framework choices

Posted by SOMMS on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:32PM
from the self-post dept.

Long story short: I'm an experienced developer who's been 'out-of-the-game' for the past 5 years doing things other than web development.I am making a mobile app and need to make its web-side counter part...but am overwhelmed by the sheer number of web frameworks out there. Is Rails still the king? I see a lot of love for Node. Also...lots of PHP based stacks out there. Spring boot?Things I...

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Re:Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem on Saturday December 03, 2016 @05:29PM (#13097807)

Actually its just the opposite - most folks who invoke 'the universe is a simulation' view this as a 'scientific' way of positing a creator of the universe that is not God. Rather it is a program being run on some fantastical computer.

Re:Flow-based Programming on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @02:39PM (#8888507)

Hey Paul,

Glad to hear FBP is going strong. You may not remember me but I had a chance to work with you many years ago on getting the Java based FBP framework to input/output HTML (ie like a servlet node). Always loved the paradigm, the parallelism and genericness of the whole concept. I wrote many, many networks and eventually wrote an FBP parser that would create programatic FBP networks from XML files. I was wondering if this sort of thing (interpreter/parser/language) was ever incorporated into FBP itself? If not - are their any plans? Nowadays JSON would be the way to go. Thanks again - hope all is well. Chris S