Evbn

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by Evbn 14y ago
Actually, that's what the job of a "maintainer" is. Now, no one has to be a maintainer if they don't want to.
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by Evbn 14y ago
This standard practice at every sane organization and bug tracking tool. Which is not many of them, sadly.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Sounds like a security disaster, for one. I could submit a rootkit to every project on github.
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by Evbn 14y ago
It is github, you had a fork, so anyone who wanted your feature in those 2 years could use your fork. And of course you got your feature and could easily merge upstream work as needed. So what's the problem, aside from somebody you don't kn
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by Evbn 14y ago
I thought the whole point of Git/hub is that branching and merging is so easy/powerful that you never get blocked waiting on uptream to integrate your fix. You just fork (on click), fix, PR, and merge later. Kids these days...
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by Evbn 14y ago
Haskell is like Lisp: so expressive that it supports many idiomatic styles of usage, depending on application domain.
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by Evbn 14y ago
You'll flip your id ($) = id Except that id works on values and functions, but $ only works on functions. (&) = flip id $ is just an less-expressive alias for id that looks prettier (and has different precedence/associativity when used
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by Evbn 14y ago
This is a tech forum. We do cool new stuff, not make stuff accessible to a wide audience using ancient technology from last week.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Seriously, get together with Michael OChurch and do a YouTube/podcast show "Everyone in Tech is Evil and Dumb". It would be super entertaining, and you could sell premium ad space for those techie eyeballs.
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by Evbn 14y ago
You don't like cross country mail for half a dollar?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Regulation is also a hedge against the risk of fraud, providing similar function to a hedge fund or futures derivative.
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by Evbn 14y ago
SOX hassles businesses, not Wall Street.
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by Evbn 14y ago
401k doesn't force you into wall street. You can buy govt securities or money market, unless your employer is awful.
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by Evbn 14y ago
POI: the liquidity fee is the same as the risk compensation. They take the risk of the price moving before they can unload the stock.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Postgres is proffesionally supported by EnterpriseDB. But postgres didn't have any horizontal scaling (multi-CPU master cluster) story until last year.
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by Evbn 14y ago
That's what parent meant by risk reduction. Career risk reduction.
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by Evbn 14y ago
In the modern era of retail investing and hedge funds and liquidity providers, I don't know if stocks and "betting on American industry" are the long term value they were in the past. Although, if you take the view that corporations are pil
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by Evbn 14y ago
That's not possible with a pension, since members don't direct the investments.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Step 4: shut down (by force of law) all pensions that claim to offer returns in excess of the Treasury bill rate. Employees shouldn't be forced to but their compensation in a lottery managed by someone else with fraudulent promises of retur
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by Evbn 14y ago
Ding ding ding. "moral hazard" / "agency problem"
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by Evbn 14y ago
That's obnoxious, but it is less than 1% of TARP funds, right?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Zed (his real name? Seems like one) became famous by putting on a loud obnoxious persona, plus complaining that people used his work (mongrel) without appreciating him. Why (not his real name!) became famous for his work's weirdness. And hi
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by Evbn 14y ago
It is also a statement of prerequisites. When mounting an effort for major change, rarely does winning come without the other phases. Although sometimes ignoring comes later, or being ignored is winning.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Some people are concerned about the effect of their to-be-former secrets and digital assets on their loved ones and enemies. It is a continuity of "line" issue, maintaining s thread through history.
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by Evbn 14y ago
What was Keynes wrong about? (Keynes, not Keynsians)
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by Evbn 14y ago
The technical reason is that when a font is drawn, a few coherent chunks of Unicode are included and the rest are left out.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Um, how could you ever showll someone the string-termination character without escaping it?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Very easy to spam detect on non-alphanumeric chars in subject.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Is ñ less common than q, z, or j?
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by Evbn 14y ago
If you are only thinking of physical processes and non-expert technicians,and mathematically simulating the inverse is not accepted, yes. It is a good example for lay people not in the paint/color/physics industry.

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