Vanit

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   by Vanit 10y ago

   Our engineers used to spend hours each week manually preparing stat reports in excel to send to our enterprise clients. I wrote a library that is essentially an excel templater that queries the database for the metrics, populates a spreadsh
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   by Vanit 10y ago

   Reminds me of the sites that tried to assert that you needed permission to link to them. GG your page ranking
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   by Vanit 10y ago

   I don't understand how a manager wrote that letter and thought, "this is okay".
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   by Vanit 10y ago

   Do the authors even know what a simulation is?
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   by Vanit 10y ago

   Hah, probably none of them, or all of them, depending on your outlook.
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   by Vanit 10y ago

   Not enough info to really draw a conclusion, except to say many of us have SO's that are perfectly happy letting us indulge in our projects.
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   by Vanit 10y ago

   Eck, worth mentioning that science is done by consensus. Individual studies might be interesting, but it means nothing until it's shown in the context of an aggregated review.
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   by Vanit 10y ago

   Time is an illusion. Breakfast time, doubly so.
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   by Vanit 10y ago

   Humans are Turing complete. What other definition do you need?
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    by Vanit 10y ago

    I've had an implicit mixed type array that turned REPL into an amazing picture show.
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    by Vanit 10y ago

    Pessimist in me says this approach is more trouble than it's worth.
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    by Vanit 10y ago

    Let me preface this by saying I don't bring my laptop to meetings, but all the meetings we have are interesting. I'd argue if you're having trouble getting your employees to pay attention either they don't need to be the
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    by Vanit 10y ago

    Maybe you can't change the brains reaction to the same stimuli, but you've totally forgotten that you can change the stimuli itself to create a new print.
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    by Vanit 11y ago

    Author doesn't seem to be aware you can unwrap multiple optionals in one if let statement?
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    by Vanit 12y ago

    I don't get it... why not just make your account creation endpoint sleep for 10 seconds? Add a little thing for users to focus on so they don't notice the delay. All set.
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    by Vanit 12y ago

    Okay, you win HN, I created an account because the anti-captcha crowd is missing the point. There's a current bug in Recaptcha. IPs that successfully solve too many captchas get given progressively more difficult challenges, which is f