ArbitraryLimits

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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
OT but that felt like a pretty risky click for work...
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
While I agree, I have to point out that all former congressmen die in obscurity, unless they went on to a cabinet post or the Senate.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> When TDD isn't a good idea (say, when ... you don't yet know how you want to structure the system) (Apologies in advance as I can't figure out how not to sound snarky here.) Isn't that called "the design? And
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Isn't this case the exact opposite of what's being claimed in the article? I.e. you're saying wages don't really affect total profits one way or another.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
F-150's aren't the "trucks" he's talking about. F-150s are cars for people who want to feel like they're in a truck. In fact I think by "truck" he pretty much means "trucks not sold directly to
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I think a "bullshitting architect" would be someone who concentrates on making the appearance of the building fit fashions, while neglecting lighting, space, circulation, etc. (maybe not code). In other words, it's someone
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
IMO the reason why Americans prefer Farenheit to Celsius is that the 0 and 100 points correspond to roughly the limits of common outdoor temperatures, rather than water's state changes. Pretty much the same argument for miles per hour
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Your comment is interesting but I'm having a hard time believing that "risk algebra" is a thing.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
To remind you to be careful when doing any kind of series expansion. It's more important than it sounds.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Wikipedia would be the very last place I'd go to verify that a made-up-sounding scientific discipline is real. Any crank worth his salt has authored twenty separate Wikipedia entries before he gets press like this.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Nixon wasn't ugly, he was creepy-looking. If he hadn't been creepy, he wouldn't have been creepy-looking - it wasn't a problem with his actual looks.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> Tests tell you what the intended behaviours Or, you know, the design can also. If you're into having that.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
None of them handle all of: being picked early, being shipped, sitting in a supermarket display, and being bagged. That's why there's only one cultivar in US supermarkets in the first place.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Speaking as someone with a physics degree, I like to quote Peter Thiel (for once): > This is why physics Ph.D’s are notoriously difficult to work with; because they know fundamental things, they think they know all things. - http:/
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
>> The economic structure of basic science is currently socialist, > Yes, but increasingly less so. IMO opinion the real problem isn't that basic science is becoming less publicly available as much as it's becoming less b
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
LOL that's fine as long as there's actually a _market_ _price_ for the bribe, meaning there are competitive forces keeping it in check, but once someone corners the market it's game over.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I once had to re-implement the pieces of the STL I wanted in a real-time embedded system, for precisely this reason (well, that plus the fact that STL's use of allocators is broken, and I wanted to be able to allocate from fixed-size p
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Passing information through channels not explicitly intended to carry that information is called a covert channel attack. Lots of links from the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_channel It's im
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> Requiring a professional is a flaw, not a virtue. Don't you think that depends mostly on whether there are professionals available?
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Exactly, the problem with stored procedures isn't that they exist but that once a programmer is working in a given environment he won't change to another one until forced, with the result that once someone starts writing stored pr
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
None on Intel chips, but on virtual any other chip you'd get SIGBUS by referencing e.g. an N-bit datum not alinged on N/8-byte boundaries.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I thought the cockpit doors were actually sealed until the plane landed, i.e. the pilots couldn't open them even if they wanted to?
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I was unaware there was much tactical skill in the attacks. Every news piece I'd seen on the hijackers concentrated mostly on their mistakes leading up to the attacks and how even a marginally competent c
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> The original 9/11 attack showed how simple traditional weapons could be used to leverage using four whole airplanes as nontraditional weapons, three of them with devastating effect, all of them with lethal effect. Right, but the G
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
If he's such a genius, ask him how to leave the scrollbar on your blog.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Yeah, but the CEO always ends up commandeering the nicest conference room as his de facto office, or else he's always on the road.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> I have no idea why tech companies would pay engineers gobs of money,[1] spend gobs of money on huge office campuses,[2] then inflict open plan or cubicles on said engineers It's because cubicles can be depreciated as furniture, ov
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> "Why do Americans always have to act happy? It's so fake." I always tell my Russian colleagues that it's the natural outcome of not having a 3,000 year history of being pillaged by Cossacks and Mongols, and that the
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Too bad, but probably better than a year before 9-11. At least you got to fail fast rather than slow.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
So does your stoned roommate who just finished making whirlpools in a half-full bottle. That's about as much of a filter as Wolfram seems to apply to his own ideas these days.

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