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by Drbble 15y ago
Why are hackers allowed to use Python but not R? R is a quite powerful Scheme-like language with an incredible math library. Python is a "teaching language", officially.
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by Drbble 15y ago
You underestimate the value of ML for monetizing cat pictures.
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by Drbble 15y ago
CPU is a better proxy for utilization than RAM, no? CPU uses far more energy than a RAM, and I can write a low CPU web cache in 12GB RAM or a high CPU scientific simulation in L2 cache.
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by Drbble 15y ago
If/then guards are better than commenting out code, so you can toggle debug at runtime, or hardcode a constant to get an optimized production build that skips the if-check.
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by Drbble 15y ago
This is also known as the "cave exploration" problem, (maybe involving dwarfs) which was blogged and linked from I think either here or Reddit. I have lost the link though, does anyone have it?
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by Drbble 15y ago
ck12.org
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by Drbble 15y ago
And tax unrealized gains, to eliminate a loophole that benefits folks who are rich enough to avoid realization. And to smooth the progressive tax rate over multiple years, avoid punishing the entrepreneur and employees who toil for 5 years
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by Drbble 15y ago
Our tax system is based on the concept of "realization." Interesting that the same system that un-taxes the original corporate owner (Zuckerberg, Jobs) punitively taxes rank and file staff who exercise options in pre-IPO stock as
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by Drbble 15y ago
Are you aware that sales tax exists, excise tax exists, and that these taxes, along with income tax, are taxes on transfers, not creation? This isn't double taxation, it's n taxation. Money is taxed as it circulates.
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by Drbble 15y ago
" Furthermore, your tone and wilfully ignoring my legitimate complaint is annoying. " It is standard customer service industry faux-friendliness/faux-compassion. It is infuriating but I guess it works on the idiot majority of customers beca
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by Drbble 15y ago
The "without prejudice" is phony storytelling. It sounds like they got a legal threat letter and ignored it. Also, if this lawyer was good enough to get $5k for nothing, maybe they should kept him on. Or paid him a fair wage or equity for h
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by Drbble 15y ago
Like CEOs and VCs?
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by Drbble 15y ago
What's undisciplined about working 6hrs a day, which was about standard for most of human history? Parents (especially immigrants) make incredible sacrifices so that their kids don't have to kill themselves with work, not to be an example.
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by Drbble 15y ago
What's wrong with Quora?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Do you have any evidence for the extraordinary claim that one fat American causes increased health care costs for a skinny American. Take into account overall life expectancy, variable insurance rates, and fit people that fall off mountains
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by Drbble 15y ago
I paid $60 for extra leg room recently. It's a common option.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Hallelujah! I do not understand why that feature was deprioritized for a decade, making ghci useless for quickly trying out sample code or quick ideas involving types.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Poor (urban) Americans DO have iPhones. What would it mean if the most successful corporation made a product poor people used? How is that relevant? (Let's ignore Google, creator of perhaps the most valuable product ever created, which the
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by Drbble 15y ago
Come to Seattle. Public welfare housing next to luxury condos.
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by Drbble 15y ago
It has been written, I think by Dijkstra himself, that he has a (mid 20th century) European perspective on computing: that computers are prohibitively expensive and so we must go as far as we can with math before hitting he hardware. This
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by Drbble 15y ago
Has anyone ever made the claim that LW is lampooning? I have only heard that testing early is important because it is expensive to fix mistakes after development, and more expensive after release. I guess the straw man argument is that desi
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by Drbble 15y ago
Do note that calling functions with the unsafe side effects is not Haskell-style, as that expression is not even possible in Haskell without literally typing word "unsafe" into your program at least twice. It is supposedly "Haskell-style"
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by Drbble 15y ago
Does 'accumulate' work on non-'numeric' types? Part of the beauty of Haskell is the aggressive effort to define each function on the most general type it applies to (and then specialize to concrete types during compilation, a la C++, when p
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by Drbble 15y ago
Do you mean "members are final" or "classes are final"? A final member is constant, which has nothing to do with inheritance. A final class has no subclasses.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Macros, by definition, are always misused, complete the languages point of view. They exist to let the programmer get the job done when the language falls short.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Except that managers do not choose open plans for themselves, the communicators, which shows that floor plans are more about supervision, social status, and budget, than about productivity or teamwork.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Google, Facebook? That's quite a bit of non-damaging evidence.
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by Drbble 15y ago
That's more complicated than just using Adblock and is bad PR in the message it sends. If you mean charging to not "use" your data at all, that is an ill-formed concept, given the nature of the business as a sharing service. No friend recs
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by Drbble 15y ago
Statistics teaches us that there is not a fine line at any boundary; there is wide fuzzy gradient.
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by Drbble 15y ago
My dad is a 60 year old lawyer, working his tail off for 40 years straight in a suit every day, spending his wealth to look as rich as friends. I am looking forward to being unemployed at 60, after working 40 years, on a pile of money saved

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