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by PJDK 10y ago
I was given a piece of advice very early on in my career that I've always been grateful for, which is fundamentally the same as this. IF and FOR are both code smells. One case of this is just simplifying loops with some functional goo
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by PJDK 10y ago
What your saying is certainly true for some areas, but I feel like there is a big market for commodity ML. I don't worry that Microsoft developed our database and might therefore steal our business from under us. I just need a nice r
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by PJDK 10y ago
I think this comes down to making sure your advantage is inhouse but outsource the other stuff. For the vast amount of companies where ML isn't in any way core, this is great. For example we've got a little internal app that incl
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by PJDK 10y ago
I always think that the sign of a good system (be it a country or a company or whatever) is not that mistakes don't happen. But that the same mistakes don't happen twice.
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by PJDK 10y ago
Something that people aren't commenting much on but feels sort of significant to me is the way this information was released. The initial tweet talked ambiguously about some "State Actor" cutting off internet. Although true,
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by PJDK 10y ago
You can literally buy phones from vending machines in the UK.
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by PJDK 10y ago
Yeah, but not secretly while in the middle of central london
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by PJDK 10y ago
Right, but if Russia is cutting it off that will be a snip the cable type job, killing internet for the whole embassy (or even building). Something you'd expect to be noticed pretty widely. And it would be fixable by phoning BT. As f
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by PJDK 10y ago
I'm a bit confused by all the comments here spinning off down conspiracy theories, but not much on facts. "State actor" can only really mean UK or Ecuadorian government - or at the very least one of those two must be pulling
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by PJDK 10y ago
It's summer time - during the winter the UK runs on UTC, so if you've forgot to do a timezone conversion you don't spot it until the clocks change in spring. Having tests use the time in summer make this easier to spot.
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by PJDK 10y ago
Our solution in c# with dependency injection looks like this. Any class that needs to know the time has the following object injected in. public interface IDateTime { DateTime UtcNow { get; } DateTime Today { get; }
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by PJDK 10y ago
Thats the only time when things have a general interest. Negative results are very important to people directly involved in studying something but what general interest (or value) is there in a story "chemical xyz123 does not work as
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by PJDK 10y ago
It doesn't completely solve the problem, but if you set CS1998 to be a compile time error rather than a warning it will help. This means methods marked "async" must have at least one "await".
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by PJDK 10y ago
Interesting, where's a good place to read up on this?
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by PJDK 10y ago
What does hand over mean. Assange isn't wanted in America, and as far as I'm aware hasn't broken any US laws either. I'm sure you can find some quotes from blowhard politicians saying something mean about him, but that
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by PJDK 10y ago
I run a smallish team (6 including me) at a startupish company (as in it's quite small with growth ambitions, but the nature of the industry means it's never going to be worth much more than $40m even in the best case. I say this
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by PJDK 10y ago
I wasn't particularly clear - I intended to say that is why I have some knowledge of what it is like to be interviewed by the police at a British airport. In my case I was dumb, in this case the flight attendant was dumb. In both cas
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by PJDK 10y ago
No she was questioned for being reported as suspicious by a flight attendant. Given it was only for 15 minutes I imagine pretty quickly it became "oh, it's a book about art, bloody flight attendants are idiots. Ok, well we need to
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by PJDK 10y ago
From the article "Police officers questioned Shaheen for 15 minutes under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, under which the police can detain individuals without grounds for suspicion of involvement in criminal activities, including ter
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by PJDK 10y ago
If the HUD statement is true does that mean the pilots shoot indiscriminately at friends and foes and the firing system is therefore useless?
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by PJDK 10y ago
Not the OP, but I did it a few years ago, it was amazing. Got away without any bribing too. I wrote a nearly complete blog...one day I'll write the last couple of entries. http://settledforthis.blogspot.co.uk/2012&#x2
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by PJDK 10y ago
I've heard this said a few times, but never really felt it rung true to systems I've seen/designed. Anyone have any examples?
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by PJDK 10y ago
Genuinely curious, do you need a warrant to look through a window. I guess the answer is "sometimes, it's complicated"...
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by PJDK 10y ago
I had a pretty interesting experience with this. We were doing a bunch of interviews and decided to try out FizzBuzz. I wasn't doing this round of interviews, but things ended up a bit confused with timings and I had a 30-40 minute ve
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by PJDK 10y ago
>You put 'human rights' all day long beside your mouth, haha, but never really investigate if human rights in China really worse than western countries. US government criticizes the Chinese government for this all day long but
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by PJDK 10y ago
Interesting to note that generally even quite nice sets of draws have cheap wood at the back...
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by PJDK 10y ago
So everything was fine in countries that didn't keep such records when the Nazis invaded?
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by PJDK 10y ago
Don't forget about electronic countermeasures.
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by PJDK 10y ago
There's a lot of comments in this thread throwing up their hands about this. That's the attitude that will let this sort of thing happen. Bills are published like this well ahead of them even being debated so that interested part
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by PJDK 11y ago
And yet cars have got both dramatically safer and much harder to steal

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