PDoyle

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by PDoyle 9y ago
Reeeealy? How long would you like to sit in a room with a natural gas furnace whose exhaust is not vented outside? No particulates != no pollution.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
People, listen. "Damping" means to reduce the amplitude of an oscillation. "Dampening" means to make something wetter. </rant>
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by PDoyle 10y ago
This is news? They do this on the subways in New York and Toronto too.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
> you're blaming what appears to be a weakness in Javascript's "Date" library on MongoDB But this is the point: that SQL is a better query language than Javascript (which is what MongoDB uses).
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by PDoyle 10y ago
> Surprisingly, (to me, at least) Go is the big winner here. There’s a ton of search results for people moving from X to Go. You mean ... Google search results? I'm not trying to suggest that Google's search engine is intention
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by PDoyle 10y ago
[citation needed]
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by PDoyle 10y ago
<sigh> All the instant body-language experts. Let's convict her because her motions on a blurry security cam definitely rule out "nervously pulling a prank on a stranger" and are only consistent with "highly sophi
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by PDoyle 10y ago
No, obviously it does not mean that. That known flaws have been fixed says nothing about the prevalence of unknown flaws.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
Dumb question - don't both of these concerns exist with normal taxis too?
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by PDoyle 10y ago
How many pixels does an input need to occupy before it's considered "visible"?
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by PDoyle 10y ago
This Hacker News headline is bogus. The linked article doesn't prove that at all. This is click-bait. A simplistic one-paragraph $13,000 UBI proposal was made, and the question was whether it was better than the status quo. Many of
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by PDoyle 10y ago
They'd differ for floating-point NaNs.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
> Assert easily allows lazy programmers to let their programs freely crash without properly handling error conditions. This is what he meant by misuse. Properly-used assertions are meant to document and check conditions that were though
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by PDoyle 10y ago
> Zookeeper & Curator make it nearly foolproof to implement a distributed lock correctly, whereas with Cassandra, its the other way round. Cassandra makes it nearly distributed to implement a foolproof lock correctly?
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by PDoyle 10y ago
I'm not sure it's the only way. There are ranked-ballot systems that are good too, like Single Transferable Vote. The point is, first-past-the-post has almost every possible flaw you can have in a voting system.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
...until they divide by 3.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
9999999999999999.0 can't be represented as a double. Depending on the rounding mode, it could become 9999999999999998.0, so when you subtract them, they're zero. That happens when the rounding mode is round toward zero, or round
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by PDoyle 10y ago
If there's a problem here, it's that large integers are being treated as floating-point numbers with insufficient precision to represent them properly. With the exception of Perl 6 (?!), programming languages all seem to agree th
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by PDoyle 10y ago
"stack allocation is much, much faster than any sort of heap-based memory management" No, it's not. For short-lived objects, at least on the JVM, allocation is a pointer bump, and collection is free, because unreachable obje
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by PDoyle 10y ago
Huh? Are you talking about a particular GC? Because every object-oriented program I've ever seen could be described as "Large graph-like data structures (lots of small nodes linked by reference)".
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by PDoyle 10y ago
Here we go again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11422064
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by PDoyle 10y ago
Why post your opinion without even doing the simplest of google searches? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
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Help! I invented an algorithm and I don't know how it works(engineering.vena.io)
4 points by PDoyle 10y ago|0 comments
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by PDoyle 10y ago
They looked like that on the Gameboy.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
Because that's the sort of thing you think of only when you already know the answer.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
Oops... The first sentence in the "Fast" section says "SIMD (Single input multiple data)".
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by PDoyle 10y ago
In Canada? No cost at all.
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by PDoyle 10y ago
What's strange about that? Applications should be using a computer's resources. That's like declaring that employees now get more of a company's payroll than management.
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The Case for a Logarithmic Performance Metric(engineering.vena.io)
8 points by PDoyle 10y ago|0 comments
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by PDoyle 10y ago
But if you assign your options the same value as magic beans (ie. zero) and find that the job is worth doing anyway, then you can avoid filling your head with a lot of financial mumbo jumbo.

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