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by V-2 8y ago
I'm against using exceptions for flow control (that's nothing else but "goto" in disguise), and against handling exceptions far from where they occur. I would deliberately throw exceptions as a "fail fast" safe
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by V-2 8y ago
I don't think checked exceptions have many defenders left... even among their original proponents. And no language (at least no significant one) really copied Java in this regard, as far as I'm aware. I can't speak for Kotlin
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by V-2 8y ago
> If you want to make the argument that intelligence potential is affected by your ethnicity, you are free to do so, though I doubt such ideas will be well received :) I'm sure they wouldn't be, but this is not how you dispro
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by V-2 8y ago
There is more to it than that. There are many giveaways than an algorithm can pick up. All intricate details of cheating detection algorithms aren't revealed for obvious reasons. But some of this stuff is fairly well known. For example
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by V-2 8y ago
They aren't necessarily so trivial. I don't know about Lichess, but (commercial and much better funded) Chess.com employs very advanced, and continuously improved cheating detection mechanisms.
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by V-2 8y ago
> “It is the tail,” says Laurinda Williams, who breeds rats on Long Island and sells them as pets. “If it weren’t for the tail, everyone would have rats.” > Definitely true. Is it, though? ;) There are other rodents with much more
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by V-2 8y ago
> I didn't say this affects branch diffing, but rather trawling through history on a single branch. Exactly. What's the point of all the "oops, a typo" or "applying code review remarks, part III" commits.
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by V-2 8y ago
> Burnout is a very real thing in most creative industries, and if you work for a duration of years to decades on a single project you will experience periods of deep existential nausea and dread at the mere thought of even looking at t
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by V-2 8y ago
> I don't know the reason behind your various broken pages. It could be something is wrong with FF. But it could also be that something is _right_ with FF. If you don't know which, why are you complaining about FF? I'm n
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by V-2 8y ago
I switched quite recently, kind of out of principle. I'm trying to return from Chrome to Firefox every couple of years or so. I've been on Firefox for a few weeks now. And I've run into several issues that simply wouldn'
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by V-2 8y ago
I can't really post what I wrote. The "Ctrl and Enter" info is easy to miss, as it's in the 2nd line of the hint, and it disappears once you enter the first character. No other clues are left on the screen from then on
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by V-2 8y ago
> Where do you go that doesn't have Lyft, but has Uber? Everywhere other than the US and Canada?
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by V-2 8y ago
Same thing in my case. I had a few mishaps - one guy didn't terminate the trip once I got off, so I got overcharged, another failed to pick me up to begin with (!), but started a trip anyway, etc. In every case the issue was financiall
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by V-2 8y ago
This piece makes lots of interesting points. "If You Watched This Elizabeth Holmes TED Talk From 2014, It Was Clear She Was a Fraud From Day One" https://www.inc.com/john-brandon/the-truth-about-theranos-ho.
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by V-2 8y ago
I'm not sure if these variations are nearly as popular, at least in epitaphia. But I'm not a native English speaker, so I can't really argue about it. In my first language (Polish) people die "after a long battle with ca
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by V-2 8y ago
It reminds me of the old, tongue-in-cheek piece by Joel Spolsky https://www.joelonsoftware.com/whattimeisit/ The described use scenario was as follows: "...visitors are very upset if Mike has previously promised
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by V-2 8y ago
I get this, by why only cancer? There are other generally lethal (though treatable) diseases in the world. Yet you typically don't get to hear about somebody's, say, "battle with diabetes", or "battle with AIDS&quot
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by V-2 8y ago
This is only one component of the optimization though. Eg. letter frequency will be different. For instance, the relative frequency of "z" is about 4.9% in Polish, whereas as low as 0.07% in English (according to https:/&#x2
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by V-2 8y ago
I don't know about the US, but eg. scoresheets with carbon coy were handed out in the last tournament I played (Italy).
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by V-2 8y ago
A chef doesn't need to be winning vegetable-slicing races, but being able to chop the veggies fast saves time for the meaningful work. Also I admit I'm not really thinking before each one of the characters I type. It's not un
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by V-2 8y ago
Because the scoresheet you bring home from a tournament won't be in the format this tool expects? So you'd still have to rewrite it onto the "crosswords" sheet before OCR-ing it? (In which case one extra step gets automa
472.
by V-2 8y ago
Writing moves down on a scoresheet is a requirement in chess tournaments anyway (in classical time control at least).
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by V-2 8y ago
Nice idea, but doesn't the fact that each letter / digit has to be in a separate box (if I understand this right) defeat the purpose? Normally at tournaments they would hand you a score sheet that doesn't have this crossword-
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by V-2 8y ago
My experience (as a senior native Android dev) has been definitely bad so far. Configuration errors and inexplicable error messages popping up on a regular basis. The amount of troubleshooting it constantly required - instead of focusing o
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David Vetter(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by V-2 8y ago|0 comments
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by V-2 8y ago
Some of it could be cleaned up fairly easily - like the use of Yoda conditions and other anti-patterns, numerous spelling mistakes, dead (commented out) code, redundant casts, unused variables etc. But the major problem is no separation of
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by V-2 8y ago
I'm still unable to unsee https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/... :)
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by V-2 8y ago
Not a single test in the repository makes me a bit suspicious, quality-wise. The code is quite messy in general.
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by V-2 8y ago
This should have been caught out by (failing) tests. Code review is not the right tool for the scenario you describe. There's an item for the checklist: is the new (or refactored) code covered by unit tests that demonstrate its correct
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Ask HN: Internal StackOverflow for a large company. Penny for your thoughts
5 points by V-2 8y ago|0 comments

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