CTmystery

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by CTmystery 4y ago
Right, that was spaceman's original post. Spaceman posted > rbj challenged that stats should be used > spaceman answered, alluding to stats widely searchable > rbj dismissed the use of stats. Edit: Re-reading through all posts
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by CTmystery 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163602
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by CTmystery 4y ago
> I see that you have a hard time following an argument and the rhetorical techniques I used. I will break it down. In this one sentence you betray yourself as uninterested in debate, and instead just like to hear yourself talk. The pers
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by CTmystery 4y ago
You're almost there, IMO. This internet stranger encourages you to ditch the rule of DRYing based on the number of repetitions at all , and instead think of DRYing based on what deserves to change to together. Sometimes a single repet
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by CTmystery 4y ago
To each their own. I find the hover states on the jam3 site unintuitive, like the clickable area is moving out from under me, forcing me to track it before perfoming the actual click. Reminds me of a flash ad where the target moves as your
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by CTmystery 4y ago
Doesn't record a video, but I've been a happy user of LICEcap to make animated gifs of a portion of the screen that I share with co-workers (to github, slack, etc.)
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by CTmystery 4y ago
> HN is topic-focused, rather than subject-focused Can you explain what you mean by this?
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by CTmystery 4y ago
Agree that the amount of entitlement in this thread is wild. People, ostensibly respected principal engineers, will turn down jobs because they are asked a puzzle question during lunch. I _hope_ we are fortunate enough for this attitude to
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by CTmystery 4y ago
I have seen "worse is better" trotted out many many times, used mostly as an appeal to authority instead of a clear instantiation of the argument presented in the essay. I think this is because the argument in the original essay i
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by CTmystery 5y ago
It was at the entrance to stonestown mall in SF. Looks like it's called iRepair, and reviews are completely polarized so maybe I should see how long it works before singing their praises, as another commentor recommended: https:&#x2F
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by CTmystery 5y ago
This is only ever so slightly related, but I just have to write this somewhere because it happened yesterday. An iPhone X is what, 4 years old? I took one that died completely to the apple store yesterday. They said that it's out of wa
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I'm shocked to learn that people with money funded another charlatan to the tune of $120M /s
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I'm going to join you down at the bottom here. I agree with you it isn't quite right, and I _think_ the reason comes from a couple sleights of hand. One: healthy people don't go in testing for the presense of a rare disease.
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by CTmystery 5y ago
It's a cynical, immature post. Genuinely surprised that it has obviously resonated so well.
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I don't like this one bit! In many cases, finding the right docs in an org is like finding a needle in a haystack. When someone asks a question that's in the docs, I default to assuming they looked and they couldn't find it,
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Hard disagree, but obviously our mileage has varied. I find that junior devs are the most hungry and will comb through endless poorly organized docs and source code before asking a question that makes them look like they "don't be
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Fun list. The only nitpick I have is for Spark. I would not consider it easy at all. From my experience, team members that needs to come up to speed on Spark usually take about a month to do so.
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I would add that it's human nature to fall into a mode of complacency when it works 99% of the time. We've got a story on the front page about "the rock says" heuristics working 99% of the time. The rock says TESLA DRIVE
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by CTmystery 5y ago
> From my perspective, everything went right here. Holy smokes. Did we watch the same video? > Is this not what we should expect from a beta? Is it OK for a beta software product to nearly kill another person that has no agreement w
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Here's a comment in another part of the thread, I see now what the phrase "skewing smarter" means to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30258409 I no longer have a horse in the race. I wonder why categ
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by CTmystery 5y ago
> I hope I haven’t done some elitist gatekeeping bullshit that discourages people from trying new things. Sorry for "saying it out loud", but that's exactly what you did. This sort of post obviously irks many people. I thi
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Perhaps most of us in this forum have only the most basic exposure to biology? I say this because with any serious exposure you can't help but be dumbfounded by the complexity and "creativity" of nature. Everything is amazing
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Amazing stuff for sure. Looking at the example on page 59, though, I certainly see a description that contains sufficient information to implement against. I read this, and then I jump back into the tech spec that I'm writing to find:
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by CTmystery 5y ago
With that description, I can't help but think of "the entertainment" from infinite jest.
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Well, you are wrong. I am in no way "conceal[ing] the truth or avoid committing oneself". I am fully committed to the position that you are incorrect, and I've used clear language to show you why.
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Looking at the definition of equivocate, I see "use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself". I don't see that I have done that. Perhaps "broadened" would be better. I have in fact
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by CTmystery 5y ago
From the expecation of the user, the page that you see after punching the 'google search' box, _is_ the google search results page. Ads in the top position of this page are clearly in a better position than organic search results.
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I don't think the author was proposing that classical mechanics is something sacred. Rather, are there prohibitive consequences to a world where our invented model of classical mechanics perfectly matches reality?
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I'm only an indirect user of AirPods and I really do not like them: Every time my team does a google meet / hangout the folks using AirPods sound terrible to the point that it's distracting. I don't know if it's in
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by CTmystery 5y ago
> They aren't right, but I can understand the perspective. How? I'm curious. If someone makes accusations that you know to be false, wouldn't your best defense be a comprehensive refutation? What alternative do you see tha

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