CodeMage

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by CodeMage 7y ago
What it means is "Trust the intentions, but verify the results." It's just that "trust, but verify" is shorter and more memorable.
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by CodeMage 7y ago
> To be honest, this whole post reads like an updated version of a 'the web is going to be so neat guys' / cyber-utopian rant from 1993 I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had that reaction. Don't get me wr
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by CodeMage 7y ago
> Asked why there were several Pats, a Pat said: "We're all Pat." "His name is Robert Paulson."
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by CodeMage 7y ago
> But I've had candidates that try to make up language features, and that doesn't fly with me. This piqued my curiosity. Can you give an example?
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by CodeMage 7y ago
I don't know about the rest, but I downvoted both of you because your vague claims just add noise to the discussion. There's absolutely no sense whatsoever in the claim that the worst case for hash table access is O(n log n), wh
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Last time I looked up the meaning of the word, whistleblowing wasn't reserved only for illegal practices.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I've been a member for 10 years now. I racked up a few thousand points after I joined, before the novelty of gamification wore off for me. After a decade of steady usage, here's my take on Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow is an exc
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by CodeMage 8y ago
It's not only about getting cheaper labor -- that's what many people get wrong. It's also about dodging the rules of the free market: an H-1B holder can't just get up and leave the company if they don't like how the
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> Well, Mandos sleep should have only come into play if you were killing other members of your 'side'. I spent a lot of time playing characters on both sides, killing and being killed in PvP, but always cross 'side',
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I played roughly from 1999 until 2001. The biggest pain points for me were: * The game wanted to motivate PVP, but it did so by punishing PVE players horribly: at higher levels, dying to a mob meant losing more than one whole level, which w
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Hoo boy, Iron Realms. Achaea was my very first experience with pay-to-win multiplayer games. I don't know if the rest of them are any better, but I know that Iron Realms was the first game company that made me feel disgust as a player.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
MUME was the MUD I played the most. On the plus side, I absolutely loved the world size, complexity and quality. On the negative side, the gameplay balance was horrible. And, since I was playing from South America, my ping didn't help
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by CodeMage 8y ago
That's not what my pain point is. My pain point is that Amazon has grown to the point where this is the same kind of concern as if the government did the same thing. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Precisely. Maybe we shouldn't be focusing on Amazon's alleged "censorship", but rather on what makes us react to it in a rather similar way as if the government did the same thing. The choice of not doing business with s
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by CodeMage 8y ago
It worries me that we seem to equate Amazon with society.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Oh, okay, so we should be fine until the Vogons come.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
There isn't any. This is essentially a thinly disguised ad for Gravity.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
There's are a couple of misquotes there. For starters, it's not "w1 ← w1 − η ∂w|∂L" but "w1 ← w1 − η ∂L|∂w1". Also, the second "if" should say "negative", not "positive" again. In
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Since we're doing Slavic languages, let's go with Serbian. - dog = pas (we don't distinguish between "a dog" and "the dog") - declensions (singular): pas, psa, psu, psa, psu, psom, psu - declensions (plura
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> Ironically, Knuth's full argument is exactly what we're saying, and what @abraae's taking out of context to criticize. See https://medium.com/@jaredpochtar/on-performance-and-software... and the fu
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> You're not making games, you're selling entertainment. Focus on the latter first, and optimize accordingly. I agree with that. And yet, Minecraft is possibly the worst example: - It's an exception to the general wisdom
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> I would love to get all these "Performance First! Its so easy" engineers in a room for a week. Except that's not the argument in the comment you're reacting to. Here's what the comment actually said: > An
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Off topic: I loved the Top Gear homage in that one.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
That slight wobble in Earth's orbit we're experiencing, that's Dijkstra rolling in his grave. All joking aside, programming should be treated a lot more like engineering and a lot less like craft. Yes, it does have aspects of
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> The problem with this story is that it's more about an abusive boss at Amazon than Amazon. No, the author lists a whole bunch of names from HR. That's not just an abusive boss, that's an abusive boss protected by HR, w
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Let's not engage in doxing here.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> They are both self-made success stories. Schwarzenegger even moreso than Gates. That second part is precisely my point. They're both self-made success stories, but they are in no way equal. They're both self-made success st
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> I feel like this trope that self-made success is a myth comes almost entirely from people like the author of this article. People who were born with lots of advantages, who still couldn't hack it. They want to justify their own f
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Is there any place where I can find a comprehensive list of countermeasures to stop Google from recording and analyzing all the stuff that the article lists? According to the article: It turns out they record and analyse: - Your computer’s
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by CodeMage 8y ago
There are several solutions that occured to me off the top of my head, here's the simplest one: try: method1() return except Exception: # or a more specific exception type pass # try the next method

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