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by RogerL 13y ago
Hmm, I found one of the infamous ghost towns and thought the opposite (I don't deny the beautiful places). http://randomstreetview.com/#p0sb5_f2nu7_p7_a_-f
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by RogerL 13y ago
Here is one on a train, I'm using the arrow keys to ride it through town. http://randomstreetview.com/#rkof5_5zmfd_-av_a_-a
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by RogerL 13y ago
The problem is that we are negotiating from a position of ignorance. You don't know the lowest price they will sell it to you for, you don't know the lowest price you can get from competitors, and so on. Let's say I decide I
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by RogerL 13y ago
We just boil a bit of vinegar in ours every few weeks. Keeps it shiny and clean.
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by RogerL 13y ago
An arc with the same length as the radius. This is what the animation illustrates.
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by RogerL 13y ago
You aren't diving the circle in half, you are using the radius. Radius vs arc length makes perfect sense; diameter vs arc length doesn't.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Why arbitrary? C=2pi*r. It's degrees that are arbitrary.
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by RogerL 13y ago
What "authority"? Different people have different roles. If I know tons about implementing caches, I probably end up making most of the decisions about that sort of thing. If you know a lot about scheduling projects, probably you&
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by RogerL 13y ago
Sure, on the "different people want different things" comments. But I can hire a house cleaner if I want one. Everything in that list was, in one way or another, compensation for the fact that you are not home. I don't really
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by RogerL 13y ago
I have a very different idea: don't expect your employees to be at the office 18hrs/day so that they need catered meals, home cleaning, dog walking, and so on. What a horrible, horrible life these "perks" imply. For exam
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by RogerL 13y ago
Pyongyang is the capital city of North Korea. Almost the entire city is for show, and for reward. For example, if you are a member of the Party, and are favored for some reason, thy may move you to Pyongyang. That is no small thing; familie
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by RogerL 13y ago
"The majority of code for something like Facebook or Twitter probably involves very little math." So it is clear from word choice that the author is just guessing. But Facebook does image recognition, it does ad placement, it does
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by RogerL 13y ago
sizeof (foo) would not be known until link time. static_assert(sizeof(foo)==64, "you didn't align foo correctly") would not be possible.
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by RogerL 13y ago
As I replied below, my argument is not that reasoning and controlling error handling is not important (I spent a long time in real-time, critical systems such as avionics). It is that components doesn't strike me as the most commodious
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by RogerL 13y ago
That is not my argument or thinking. I may, for example, want one component, but it has two types (or more) or error reporting that I want. I am now forced to decouple that into two components. But, it shouldn't be two components, ot
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by RogerL 13y ago
HN loves to dump on C++, and in some senses I understand why, but Stroustrup had this figured out over 30 years ago. You don't break compatibility. For all the ugly warts in C++ due to the requirement for compatibility in C, I can take
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by RogerL 13y ago
But do we really want to be forced to design components based on whether errors are unrecoverable or not? It seems to conflate two orthogonal concepts. I say that without seeing any code or examples, of course.
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by RogerL 13y ago
I'm not trying to be waspish, but are you suggesting we just be like Feynman? I will say I'm rather dubious we can achieve that with a simple interface change. There is certainly merit and utility to graphical representation; we a
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by RogerL 13y ago
A tag on City Hall, deliberately in front of the police. I would expect a more severe sentence if I keyed a cop car vs some random car on the street. While I'm uninterested in discussing the severity of the sentence (I have no experien
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by RogerL 13y ago
Ya, that's my difficulty with the article. If all the students learned the material, then what is the problem? OTOH, if they just didn't grasp information, or didn't try, they deserve something other than an A. There is no ea
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by RogerL 13y ago
We know where the revenue comes from. The point is that google's tech is, in many important ways, AI. It's like McDonalds. A hamburger company? Not really. It makes a lot more sense to consider them a real estate company. Hambur
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by RogerL 13y ago
But why do we care? In your specific example (which I do recognize as being proffered as an analogy not an equality), I'd rather the food went to a hungry person than picked at then dumped in the trash. Of course it can't work tha
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by RogerL 13y ago
The truth of this statement makes me weep inside. Jump at the chance to look at the codebase. A whole day coding, I get the concern there, but yes, otherwise, I urge you a thousand times, look at the codebase.
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by RogerL 13y ago
I am not the person you are responding to, but multiple day interviews are pretty common in silicon valley. A few weeks ago I did a whole day interview of nothing but frigging white board exercises while they stared in their phones and look
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes. I do. I do not speak for the (small) company I work for in any official capacity, so I will not go into the details. But we have quite a few patents, and they have been useful. There is considerable risk in coming up with a new idea an
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by RogerL 13y ago
"harsh" and "family" do not mix.
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by RogerL 13y ago
You are not allowed to just make things up. How do they know there is an elevated risk if they have not studied it? This is pretty basic science. I think you are probably suggesting a hypothesis , as in a bunch of 60 yo patients with Alzhe
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by RogerL 13y ago
So you are going to burn one entire question that is entirely worthless for the vast majority of Chinese that have been born recently?
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by RogerL 13y ago
Something very similar happened with my mother. She spent the night incoherently begging to die. We talked with the doctor the next day, and asked him to end it. He explained that the laws did not allow that, they they could only do somethi
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by RogerL 13y ago
I am not sure why someone else's morals should dictate my life. If you don't want to do all the duties of a doctor, don't be a doctor. Back up a few hundred years, and by some it was considered immoral to cut into a perso

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