Estragon

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by Estragon 11y ago
The author didn't walk it back when challenged.
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by Estragon 11y ago
So they can spend less time onboarding new engineers.
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by Estragon 11y ago
Read the Orthogonal trilogy. I think it may be Egan's best work. Although it's more like Schild's Ladder than Permutation City, I suppose. (Physics ideas rather than computation.)
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by Estragon 11y ago
Watch the talk. It's pretty entertaining. The point is that to get around Docker's security issues, you have to run it in a VM to get secure multitenancy.
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by Estragon 11y ago
So has anyone run git-blame yet? Who did this?
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by Estragon 11y ago
Oh, come on. The issue is very clear. Your interpretation is correct.
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by Estragon 11y ago
I imagine you'll be able to torrent it fairly soon.
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by Estragon 11y ago
Maybe something more noble than a social coding site? I doubt it. Github has a reputation problem. I wouldn't put anything sensitive on there, given the attitude github leadership showed about privacy ethics in the Julie Horv
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by Estragon 11y ago
no idea what all(@ar1) < any(@ar2) would be Subset?
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by Estragon 11y ago
The narcissism and attention whoring in this article are reminiscent of an Onion editorial.
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by Estragon 11y ago
This pilot study will enroll up to 6 individuals with treatment-resistant depression (at least 2 failed attempts at an anti-depressant treatment) who are judged by a physician to be appropriate for the study and who remain unde
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by Estragon 11y ago
Yes, I think the biggest issue with perl was the devil-may-care culture around it. That was far from the only issue, though. It had (has?) some gratuitous features which are bound to cause hard to find bugs, like implicit conversion of nu
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by Estragon 11y ago
I didn't know Sanders has talked about instituting a wealth tax. Can you point me at some discussion about it?
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by Estragon 11y ago
Why do people like those things so much, anyway?
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by Estragon 11y ago
"The trouble with fool-proof methods is, you're still a fool."
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by Estragon 11y ago
You don't take anything hammered out by reason alone as sound information. You test reasonable-looking propositions against experience, and until they've stood up against that test by providing accurate predictions with substanti
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by Estragon 11y ago
If they do this, I might start to see some value in twitter. The 140-character limit has a strong anti-intellectual effect on the discourse there.
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by Estragon 11y ago
Maybe most voters don't, but the volunteer supporters who'll bring the vote out for you on election day do, very much.
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by Estragon 11y ago
snapchat's unique appeal seems to be snakeoil, though. There has to be someone out there making a snapchat archive tool for nasty people.
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by Estragon 11y ago
> If you can come up with a viable set of general principles > that would make HN significantly better, I'd like to know > what they are. I personally have found it to be a hard > problem. How much transparenc
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by Estragon 11y ago
My point is that it's not just a question of societal awareness. The links in my GP post show Secretary Clinton and Governor O'Malley making exactly this mistake. They are not idiots and their ambitions depend on courting black
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by Estragon 11y ago
Know any juniors without college degrees in relevant fields?
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by Estragon 11y ago
> Which investment vehicles are those? Madoff's ponzi scheme comes to mind. Everybody involved knew he had to be stealing to make those kinds of returns, they just didn't realize he was stealing from them . They thou
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by Estragon 11y ago
> You need to go one step further and outline where and how > the federal government should put this new tax revenue to > work. Bernie Sanders's fine proposals probably make a good baseline.
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by Estragon 11y ago
> It's not healthy for society and I don't see it ending > up anywhere good. It's a symptom. The disease is the dysfunctional system.
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by Estragon 11y ago
> the overwhelming majority (to the point where the > counterparty is anecdotal and, frankly, possibly > mythical) use it to establish a fundamentally > conservative defense of the status quo While "All liv
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by Estragon 11y ago
"All lives matter," as a response to "Black lives matter," carries roughly the same implications as "Everybody hurts!" would, as a response to "I'm hurting real bad right now!"
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by Estragon 11y ago
What is the upgrade path like on mint these days? I ran into real problems with it when I tried it a few years ago.
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by Estragon 11y ago
He lies. Check out his dispute with Chomsky.
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by Estragon 11y ago
> For all we know based on the article, the people who wouldn't take him seriously were also black. Five to one says Serrin Turner is white.

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