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by _dain_ 4y ago
I've never written a line of Javascript in my life but that test looks trivial. a.filter(x=>1) guessing that arrow looking thing is syntax sugar for a lambda that always returns a 1, then it's implicitly cast to boolea
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>When you pick up your smartphone, the first thing you see is a push notification - maybe there’s a breaking news alert, a message from a dating site, or football scores… Whatever it is, chances are it came from us. oh it's you
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by _dain_ 4y ago
it's based on DNA studies and ancestry percentage has a perfectly well-defined meaning
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by _dain_ 4y ago
This has been known for at least a decade. https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/a-three-hour-tour/ >Here’s a scenario. A ship from some Indian civilization about 4000 years ago [maybe Indus] los
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by _dain_ 4y ago
No, I don't actually agree with this at all. Sometimes -- a lot of the time actually -- you can have a pretty good idea ahead of time what will be fast and what will be slow. If you design the system before thinking about this, you can
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Just toss a 0.01ms I/O operation in those loops; it will throw the numbers off by a large margin, then one would just rather pick sanity over the speed gains without blinking. I mean, yes, if you do something completely fucking idi
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by _dain_ 4y ago
A 20x performance improvement is not a "small" efficiency.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
It's a shifting target though. Let's take your example of a program with a lot of I/O. A straightforward way to optimize that is to find a way to reduce the number of I/O operations you do. And once you do that, the bott
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by _dain_ 4y ago
How is it a strawman when it's literally taken from a Clean Code textbook?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>I offered people working in a call centre environment to learn crm administration: gradually, with all the support they may need, etc. We would have transitioned them into new roles once they gained some knowledge. The pay in new roles
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by _dain_ 4y ago
What sectors of the UK economy actually have really high performing people, with commensurately high pay? I'm looking for a software job again, got made redundant last week. Hedge funds and FAANG maybe the obvious examples, but I'
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by _dain_ 4y ago
what is this "pay rise" you speak of?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>The stuff you see in local govt/healthcare would bring people on here to tears. The local govt was trying to hire people to improve processes...their listed tech contained no programming languages and just included managed services
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>a) remove existing material to make space for it, or b) extend the degree one more semester. It's not literally an entire semester's worth of material. "The Missing Semester" is just a catchy name they gave it. The s
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by _dain_ 4y ago
go on indeed, search for "software engineer", look at how often those things crop up in the "essentials" section
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by _dain_ 4y ago
sure, the tree might "provide value", but you have to ask if it's providing more value that what you might have put there in its place. such as: knocking down a 2-storey house to build a 5-storey apartment building, thus lett
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by _dain_ 4y ago
The following isn't aimed at you in particular, but in HN threads about the Missing Semester there will always be someone who earnestly repeats this stinking turd of a Dijkstra quote, so I'll put my rant here: Dijkstra was full
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by _dain_ 4y ago
you are bringing up irrelevant nitpicks and are seemingly intent on misunderstanding/misrepresenting my point. I'm not continuing this discussion.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>These young people learned a very important lesson: Rules are rules are rules, and they must be followed, even if they don't make any sense. no, this is tyrannical. "rules" are just words that somebody wrote down. that so
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by _dain_ 4y ago
i mean, there's always an objective ground truth because of the rules of chess never change. did it win or lose? but the "ground truth" of the english corpus changes all the time. and is changing right now as LLMs emit words
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> AlphaZero plays games of chess against itself over and over, feeding the output of the neural network back into the input, and now it's vastly more powerful than any chess engine that's ever existed. not a good comparison. al
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by _dain_ 4y ago
it's a scam to inflate property values.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I thought you could always do this?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
isn't that just bittorrent?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Those cities have extensive networks of local rail, subway, trams, and buses. So "the other side of town" is easily reachable.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Yeah I live car-free in Cardiff. It's doable. But I won't kid myself and say that the public transport is good. It's mediocre like every British city outside London. It's a city of half a million and we don't even h
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>In high density public transportation is massively faster, cheaper, and more efficient that personal automobile. This assumes the public transportation is competently run, which is a rarity in the Anglophone world. In the UK I think the
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I can't get through the paywall, but I'm one of these car-less youngs (although less young by the day). Mainly it is for idiosyncratic reasons: I hate being confined where I can't stand up if I want to, and I don't like
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>And here you are, pushing the Holocaust denial agenda preposterous, shameful exaggeration of what the parent comment was saying.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I'm one of those old fashioned people who thinks that encyclopedias should have facts in them.

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