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freetobesmart··on Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
getting sunlight also relieves depression and exercise and eating right will help with weight losss. This are obvoius things but they are not cures within themselves.

Im sure there are tons of things hospitals can do to help the surroundings. Whose going to put up the money?

freetobesmart··on How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small
you forgot the big one. Especially when you talk about founding fathers

8. No government. Government restricts and funnel much of what we do now. Responsibilities ment freedom because there was no one to do it for you and no one to tell you not to.

We need distractions because if we didnt have them there would be nothing for us to do. America has created subsistence of mediocrity. No way to win or lose. You dont get to have a say in your society because its not yours.

Remember to vote because this is the only chance you get to effect your surroundings that the government allows without tons of red tape. And we know that it really doesnt matter that much. Where's the border wall? What democrat would really change wallstreet banking and think of the little people?

Government will be out of our way when we stop relying on politicians to act. I dont care what side you are on. Our politicians are thin veils to give the rich access to powers that the constitution would not normally grant.

freetobesmart··on Why Generics?
its just not that much code usually. I would like to see an example of this "a lot of duplicate code" scenario. Most code sharing is done by super classes. Generics seem more like a syntactic sugar added to type sharing that interfaces already allow.
freetobesmart··on Why Generics?
but what is the benefit? How does your code change. Generics are a tail abstraction. Its the last abstraction that you are able to make to your code to reduce boilerplate. This usually means that is the least useful and in generics specific case the boiler place it reduces is minimal.

Its lack of impact is why I dont really care about the subject. Adding or removing generics to a project matters little. So why bother complaining. The class creation and encapsulation choices are much more impactful to future code edits.

freetobesmart··on Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
many mature frameworks have good standards. For php you can look at any code base that adbides by PSR standards and get good code.

Not only that but laravel is in a mature space where the problems are already solved. Its basically reinventing the wheel.

Im not surprised that Laravel is written cleanly but I hate its API. It reminds me of the bloat of Zend but with an obnoxious artsy style added to it.

Im an engineer not an artisan.

freetobesmart··on Taleb is wrong about IQ
Im curious what people will get out of determining measurable IQ. What are their end goals.

1) You dont get smarter. Its not like knowing you are 120 vs 100 IQ changes anything about your ability to solve a problem

2) IQ is more of a speed of learning not an ability to understand. With enough time you can learn anything (challenge placed) the biggest barrier is discipline and desire.

3) IQ is abstract and is very useless within any context. If you want to know if someone is good at math give them a math test. If they are a good writer look at their portfolio. IQ is like determining someone is good at being a chef by only asking them questions. IQ is very far from any specific field of knowledge.

IQ is like space knowledge. Its only important/useful subject for a select few people.