SeanDav

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by SeanDav 12y ago
It would help hugely if we all become Vegans or at least vastly reduced our meat/fish consumption. Producing meat and animal products is very inefficient in terms of land and resources and encourages the use of antibiotics. Of course t
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Wow, strong statement! I am not going to weigh on this other to ask for clarification - do you mean not use C/C++ at all, or only in the context of security applications?
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by SeanDav 12y ago
> Never, ever debug on live. If you can't recreate the problem locally, you don't understand the problem yet. I am guessing you have not been exposed to highly complex live environments. What you say is largely true but you s
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by SeanDav 12y ago
This is already happening, on a large scale. There are numerous posts about this if you are looking for further information.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Not saying you are wrong (I don't know enough to disagree) but if asynchronous program is solved in node/javascript, why is there the need for all these post on callbacks, streams, promises, fibres etc? Can you expand more on your
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by SeanDav 12y ago
You are correct, the program does not follow all the rules of Chess, but I think we can celebrate a small technical achievement without getting too bogged down in defining what exactly a Chess program is.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
> "And unless one’s situation is particularly dire, no one really has to wear glasses anymore; alternatives like contacts and LASIK are there for the choosing" As a long time glasses wearer, I don't agree with this. For
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by SeanDav 12y ago
.... but now they have brought out "Warlords of Draenor" which apparently is excellent so you aren't safe anymore... That aside and in all seriousness, good on you. I went through a very similar experience with WoW when I rea
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I like to unwind occasionally with browser based flash games so this is not an option for me.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
OT: I usually avoid links to articles on medium.com as past experience has lead me to believe they were generally all headline with very little substance. This article was excellent and sucked me in. Almost wired.com quality. It ends a bit
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by SeanDav 12y ago
> I've got no idea why I keep coming to HN looking for hacker news. By "Hacker News" I presume you mean news that hackers find interesting? In which case, that is your answer.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I am probably making a similar point to "gracenotes" here, but as I see it the functions in functional programming are simply a tool that can be used in order to achieve side effect free programming. They are not what really def
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Does Khan Academy only support iOS and Apple? A quick search seems to indicate that they do not support Android.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I am saying we do not know yet if the climate change is within normal parameters, and even what is the definition of "normal change". The earth has been much much warmer and much much cooler. What I find irritating is the rather p
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Oh great, now we are back to "Global Warming". For years that label was not working because many areas were experiencing record low temperatures which kind of made the "Global Warming" advocates all look a bit silly. Thu
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by SeanDav 12y ago
As a teenager I went to an all boys school, so was very shy with women. One day I just decided to get over my fear and resolved to ask for the telephone number of every pretty girl that caught my attention in public, even if they were with
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Goats fighting America's plant invasion(bbc.co.uk)
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Any thoughts on performance differences between loops and streams? My gut says that loops, being a more primitive concept are likely to perform better in most situations. In addition I just find loops easier to reason about, but that is pro
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by SeanDav 12y ago
If all that time, effort and brainpower had rather gone into making it a better game, they likely would have done a whole lot better in terms of reach and ultimately, profit. However copy protection was the standard method in those days, so
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Project Goliath: Inside Hollywood's Secret War Against Google(theverge.com)
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I have got no idea of the point you are trying to make. You seem to be criticizing something I said but not sure what. You do realize that I was trying to make a somewhat ironic / somewhat humorous comment that you have to be careful t
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by SeanDav 12y ago
If the shoe was on the other foot, I can imagine a race of super computer AI's administrating a similar test to humans and saying look at the puny human vision system. It is fooled easily by simple optical illusions that wouldn't
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by SeanDav 12y ago
As someone who went through a process of constant threat of redundancy over many years - it is far better for employee morale to just do a bulk redundancy process, rather than dribs and drabs. Living with the prospect of every day not knowi
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Not sure how you are going to find out the tornado weather in Chicago by looking out your window in New York, prior to flying out. Or how you are going to find out about a major traffic blockage on your commute route by looking at the traff
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by SeanDav 12y ago
The sad thing is while Russia has oil, and oil prices are high, the Russian government can do pretty much what they want to do, with major support from the population who benefit from a decent standard of living.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
There are serious concerns with Telegram encryption/privacy. See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8686868 for example
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Are you being deliberately obtuse? The example I gave is a logical one, which just happens to also work on occasion in the real world. It does not rely on what sort of trader I am, it is a thought scenario, which can and does work in the re
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I have been a trader for 15 years, I have seen TA absolutely working and I have seen it failing. You can take the opinion of someone that has walked the walk, or not. I have given you a specific example where TA does work, so it can't
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Like most things in life, it isn't quite that simple. There are real inefficiencies in the market which can be highlighted by TA. TA can also be considered a form of Statistical Arbitrage and vice versa. A simple example: There are man
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Open cmd window, left click on icon on left of cmd title bar, adjust window size in Defaults and Properties. This includes, height, width and buffer size.

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