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i'm sure there are many talented .NET programmers who could quickly pick up assembly and become much more productive than you in that language... if they had a good reason to learn it.


That's not how it works. There's a reason unintelligent folk stick to one thing, it's because their aptitude does not stretch well across multiple venues. Programming is like chess, most good chess players play bughouse, losers chess, etc.. .NET is like sticking to 20min chess your whole life. You might get good with t but you have no dynamic range...


.NET is also so slathered up with dainty object boxing that to claim a .NET coder could easily pickup assembly is more than laughable.


skepticism is fine. the problem is that morozov has a long history of tiresome and low content journalistic trolling.


I know Morozov's writing and agree with him more often than not. not sure why you call it trolling, it's for sure more substance than the usual hn blog post ping-pong. Last time I saw an essay of him around here, most comments here were about it being too long.


You must be talking about this thread, relating to his attack of Tim O'Reilly as a "Meme Hustler"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472759

Well, I'll leave it to people to decide if the top commenter, potatolicious, was right in dismissing Morozov's piece as being too long. Frankly, that's the nicest thing you can say about Morozov's takedown, which confuses "length" with "substance", unfortunately.

This was O'Reilly's response, FWIW: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+TimOReilly/posts/Q8EqCQJstBE


I have read his book aside of his many essays, so I can agree his style is lengthy - that's actually the only issue I may have. That doesn't change the fact that his arguments are well-thought and usually supported by references. You don't have to agree with him or like his style, but bringing it down to a 'TLDR' is silly, his writing has more substance than the usual blogosphere content posted around and it's worth taking those few minutes of overhead (instead of scrolling some blabbering on twitter f.ex.).


you are proving him right by copy and pasting results of a google trawl without any analysis or apparent understanding. "IQ tests are readily accepted now not to be a test for cognitive ability" is a bizarrely strong claim and so is the idea that it is "impossible to separate cultural and environmental influences". I think it's pretty clear that you are just looking for material to support pre-existing assumptions.


what are the best publicly available sources of baseball data?


his major achievements to date have been in predicting player performance in baseball, an area which he has spent a large part of his life analyzing. Baseball analytics rewards attention to detail and persistence over technical brilliance/advanced statistical techniques. his special ability is really very domain specific, so it's not like we should expect him to be much more effective than other qualified people if he applied himself to different topics...


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