ArbitraryLimits

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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> Sounds more like Java to me. Let's replace a few words in the article: Winner, winner, chicken dinner. After seeing all the web developers of the 90s dump on Java applets all the time, it's fascinating to see the same functio
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Also writing "Google" on the moon with a laser.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Without either agreeing or disagreeing with your comment, I'd like to point out your case would be stronger if you actually provided a concrete example like the GP asked.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Seriously. It bugs me when people take the '07 meltdown as proof that the banking system need to be left alone by the government. If the government's regulatory authority hadn't been curtailed, it wouldn't have had to
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Yeah, this is one of my pet peeves. "Feedback" originally had a quite technical meaning that it more or less lost once it became a buzzword in the 50s, in much the same way that "object oriented" lost its meaning in the
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Since the article only quotes total amounts owed (US diplomats owing 7.2 million out of a total of 67 million), it probably just says the US sends more diplomats to the UK than most other countries.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Serious question: is there any point until everyone encrypts their email?
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
"So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
It's interesting to see this article portray Hofstadter as the last of the dying breed of GOFAI researchers. When I was in college (and GOFAI was still alive) GOFAI researchers themselves portrayed him as very much an outsider.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> Why not read it and find out for yourself? Because he'll have other things to do in the next year?
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> since the first element of an array is zero distance away from the beginning of the array. That's much less of a win in any language but C, where "array" means something more than "pointer." If you're che
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Did the same guy remind you that "i" is a poor choice for an index in Matlab because it's actually sqrt(-1)? And _then_ tell you that you're supposed to do array reshaping instead of loops in Matlab? Because if the sam
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> People have tried this. Over and over and over. Seriously, it's the future and it has been for fifty years.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
In California the protected term is "Professional Engineer" - you have to pass accreditation to call yourself that. No civil engineer can find work without it but no one cares whether software engineers get it. By the way, as par
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> But an anonymous free-for-all exchange being a natural right? We aren't born anonymous. In the "state of nature," without government, we are in no way anonymous. No one's ever been 100% anonymous in the physical wor
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Am I just too old for HN now? I can understand calling something that holds your data and makes it so you don't have to do JOINs a database. I can understand calling something that holds your data and does JOINs for you a database. I&#
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Agree, except I'd amend it as The success of MySQL can be tied directly to people using "database" for things where what they really need is "network filesystem". The success of SQLite can be tied directly to people
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Not about heap allocators but I followed the "About" link to this text: > At Intersec, technology matters…Because it’s the core of our business, we aim to provide our clients with the most innovative and disruptive technologica
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I'm not saying it's not good, my point is that a "technical co-founder" will want to redo it _regardless_ of whether it's good or not. (Also not trying to disparage MBAs, it's just that's how technical co
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> It is surprising you are having a tough time finding a tech co-founder ... you have traction, a site that seems fairly developed, and a decent idea. It's like a handsome, successful, wealthy, socially well-adjusted man who has tro
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Let's take that offline.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> pandering to powerful middle class votes. Don't you think that problem will take care of itself as the overpricing of a college education reduces the size of the middle class?
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Some people say to use a perfect hash function in that case, IMO it's more trouble than it's worth.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Because the purpose of school isn't to teach technical skills, it's to indoctrinate the next generation. Dumb kids have to buy into the prevailing cultural mythos also just as much as smart kids do, or society will crumble. It so
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I remember from college my Econ 101 textbook had a sidebar on heroin use by military personnel in Vietnam - apparently (according to my memory of an unattributed source) 90% of personnel stationed in Vietnam tried heroin at least once, and
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Followed closely by Facebook.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
They make Sprite Zero now, I'd do that instead.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I always thought the Encyclopedia Brown case whose solution hinged on the villain's not knowing that was far-fetched. http://brownencyclopedia.tumblr.com/post/33647027942/the-cas...
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
You know, for all the ridiculousness of this code, at least it actually performed its function correctly, i.e. it would correctly identify all McGill email addresses. From the title I was expecting another multi-page regexp.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but in this particular case, do you really think an MBA'd IT manager was in charge of a project that paid $20 per hour? (As opposed to Accenture rates.)

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