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by Verdex 6y ago
Yeah, it's a heuristic. People who know what they're doing will over time become more confident. People who don't know what they're doing will over time become more desperate as they run out of places to fail at. You cou
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by Verdex 6y ago
The same reason that "what's your biggest weakness" is such a stereotypical interview question. It's all about stories. If you can prove you're the best with math or with certifications or whatever, that is only a
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by Verdex 7y ago
Yeah, I was confused when I first heard of it because it seems like an odd couple to "join" one another. However, it makes perfect sense for github to purchase npm.
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by Verdex 7y ago
Honest question: Is this a joke? I only ask because the article is about people making poor choices because they're bombarded with too many things that they have to make choices about. Then you show up and say, "Hey, we need eve
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by Verdex 7y ago
Therac-25 [1] disagrees with your statement. Although to be fair, the programmer didn't die. The patients did. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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by Verdex 7y ago
Really? I may have just found myself a new hobby. Search for incredibly unique (and worthless to me) domains to see if I can get people to squat on them. Heck, it could be a game ... I could get all my friends to make bingo boards ... or
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by Verdex 7y ago
I'm a huge proponent of static typing systems. However, that being said, I always keep in mind that everything has a cost. * Just because I'm more comfortable with types doesn't mean that everyone else is. * Someone may
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by Verdex 7y ago
I'm glad you commented because this is what I wanted to say, but couldn't think of a good way to lead into it. IIRC while Rust does allow you to switch up allocators, it doesn't let you mix and match your runtime with multipl
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by Verdex 7y ago
D is in the same space, but it started off having a GC and that kind of caused it more problems that it was perhaps worth being in an almost system space. Recent work with different allocator patterns and adding the -betterC compiler flag,
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by Verdex 7y ago
To be fair, the whole quote is about getting people excited to do work not by telling them the actual actions they have to perform, but selling them a dream to long for and work towards. It could be that his goal was to get people to re
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by Verdex 7y ago
Real life is hard to deal with. However, if you look at what other people do, then you can learn from their mistakes. But there's still too many scenarios that occur and too few people to watch. So you can listen to the stories that
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by Verdex 7y ago
Hear, hear. I almost said exactly the same thing you just did. I have absolutely no clue which "side" he's talking about.
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by Verdex 7y ago
Boss, executive, manager, supervisor. Person in charge. Of these people there are many who want their subordinates to enact their will in the way that requires their own personal least amount of effort. They want to give ambiguous directi
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by Verdex 7y ago
I wonder if what we'll see is actors being deep faked etc over by other actors. So of the new actors we will say, "He plays a good Pitt, but his Clooney leaves something to be desired." Movie analysis will get arbitrarily co
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by Verdex 7y ago
We should probably store a bunch of video evidence of historical events before we get the ability to do cheap and easy photo-realistic CGI on demand. There's going to be so many alternative video evidence for everything that historian
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by Verdex 7y ago
> though I'm skeptical that we'd see an improvement in quality of content if loot boxes and their like become untenable. Yeah, I agree. Once you get used to the easy and cheap workflow of creating the loot boxes it's go
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by Verdex 7y ago
I think what's happening is that they found out that instead of making real compelling content, they would just get their customers addicted to gambling. So they got used to a higher revenue stream that also allowed them to fire all o
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by Verdex 7y ago
It's complicated: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2282
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by Verdex 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield Sure, he wasn't declared guilty, but he also got a $2 million settlement. What happened to him was bad. $2 million bad. And it was because of a poorly handled finge
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by Verdex 7y ago
My first thought was: Look, I don't exactly have any love towards ICE, but you can't delete code that you were paid for. Then I read the article: Oh. You weren't paid for it. You wrote some code, hosted it (with the inten
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by Verdex 7y ago
There is also: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin and https://www.kitlang.org/ That are trying to get into the C replacement business.
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by Verdex 7y ago
Well ... http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3947
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by Verdex 7y ago
I remember watching some news program about the event (maybe the 60 minutes piece mentioned in the article). I believe they interviewed Trena and she expressed anger that her husband was murdered and nobody would testify or try to bring th
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by Verdex 7y ago
Back in my day when you passed someone on the way to buy your morning paper you would say "good day sir" and tip your hat. These kids don't even read the paper anymore. And they're all like, "what is up" and
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by Verdex 7y ago
I was hoping for that as well ... however the thing that I found was much better than my expectations. So I think it's ultimately okay. If you still feel that you didn't get what you were looking for ... here's an acceptable
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by Verdex 7y ago
While I think it is a meaningful question to ask, I had a really hard time to get very deep into the article. At any one point in time, at least 30% of the page is covered by an advertisement. Some of the time nearly 100% of the page is a
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by Verdex 7y ago
I haven't really thought about it in those terms. But YES it turns out I do make a distinction. The only reason I called the police on the guy who robbed me at gunpoint was because I was concerned that he might also steal from someone
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by Verdex 7y ago
Aren't you answering your own question here? | my testing routine included giving it a try in Private Browsing The 10X programmer (or in this case the 10X bug fixer) has a testing routine that sufficiently covers enough logical scenari
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by Verdex 7y ago
I agree with both you and parent. People are uncomfortably inconsistent. If a certain rule benefits them then they'll favor it ... right until the rule becomes a problem for them or favors their adversary. Normally, I see this whe
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by Verdex 7y ago
I wonder if you can hack your pacemaker to fool this technique. Then of course the next question is: I wonder if you can hack someone else's pacemaker.

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