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by abenedic 8y ago
I can agree with most of this, but what is a "zode"? I grew up in the mid-west and have never heard that term.
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by abenedic 8y ago
I was going to select some of the text to show you, but I couldn't due to the box moving. Just general stuff like capitalizing I, and things like that.
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by abenedic 8y ago
I would drop the pop-up on start, and do some proofreading. I can't select text, because when I click and drag to select it the box the text is on moves to the side. I would fix that behavior.
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by abenedic 8y ago
A more common phrasing is "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".
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by abenedic 8y ago
> chains seek to free staff to help shoppers. Of course that is what all the newly redundant staff will be doing. Because customer service is the top priority of a discount retailer.
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by abenedic 8y ago
In undergrad I had a history class that started with the unpacking the knapsack of white privilege[0]. A lot of the student responses were similar. [0] http://www.interpretereducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016&#x2
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by abenedic 8y ago
> The 15mm calibre weapon weighs three kilos (6.6lb), about the same as an AK-47, and has a range of 800 metres, or half a mile, and could be mounted on cars, boats and planes. So they are calling it an AK-47 just because of the weight?
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by abenedic 8y ago
I thought this was a really good example of using images and examples to make the point. I have seen a few other papers like it, but this is one of the best done. I hope more people do this in the future.
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by abenedic 8y ago
> Statically linking the test suite would consume on the order of terabytes (I am not sure the exact number; I have never tried) of disk space which just is not feasible for a workstation I read complaints like this a lot. Have you ever
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by abenedic 8y ago
Some people believe that entering politics "dirties" a person since some politicians are corrupt or self serving. People like that tend to believe that private enterprise is somehow more wholesome or honorable.
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by abenedic 8y ago
Wow, thank you for that. That makes a lot more sense than what I had heard before!
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by abenedic 8y ago
I get that this is for embedded software running on the Erlang VM, and I have heard a coworker talk about it, but for a total outsider what is something you would use this for, and why?
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by abenedic 8y ago
I've seen it both ways, I was on a hiring committee that interviewed a candidate who was techinically a great hire, but he had a bad personality and kept correcting one of the other interviewers. We didnt hire him because of a culture
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by abenedic 8y ago
I have a feeling that one of the biggest blockers to actually doing something about climate change is how easily the conversation gets derailed. Almost everyone agrees on clean energy, but once you get into specifics people lose their cohes
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by abenedic 8y ago
There is usually a pattern used by clickbait articles, and psuedoscientific ones tend to use unusual words(e.g. quantum, toxin, etc.) far more regularly. Also the entire site tends to be bad, so google could index a list of poor quality ne
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by abenedic 8y ago
Since people on here really seem to like Unums as an alternative to floats. It is maybe good to point out here that the author of this article has a long series of critiques of them like: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wka
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by abenedic 8y ago
Intended and expected are two different things. A person may intend to be a good person, but others may expect them to fail.
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by abenedic 8y ago
Yeah, in some sense this is the system working as expected.
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by abenedic 8y ago
There is usually a cap on pay for professors. Maybe that is factoring in?
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by abenedic 8y ago
Possibly they had funding from early investors on very bad terms. I have worked at a startup that ran into issues with early investors expecting a return before the product launched. Depending on how the terms were negotiated it could be
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by abenedic 8y ago
Due to its crash tolerant nature the Erlang runtime system always seemed a little odd. I like this introduction though. I don't write much Erlang, but I have to run a lot of it.
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by abenedic 8y ago
I like the innovation of water with clay to form a marketable product LNC.
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by abenedic 8y ago
One nice thing is you can use this to find primes in arithmetic progression, which can be useful[1]. [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1967477
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by abenedic 8y ago
For JS look at codeacademy or w3schools(they got a lot better).
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by abenedic 8y ago
I can second this recommendation, if you are into backyard astronomy.
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by abenedic 8y ago
Overtime I have gone back and forth on this. When I was much younger I liked to write my own versions of libraries and such to have more control. I got older and realized I now had to maintain 8 different projects, including my in house ve
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by abenedic 8y ago
I always liked this trick. Someone else made a version of JSFiddle using this and a few other bits as a code golf exercise that could be made into a bookmarklet, but I lost it. Anyone know what I am talking about?
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by abenedic 8y ago
The redundancy that matters to me is writing code for yet another serialization or pretty printer. I couldn't care less about syntax. I am a firm believer that the compiler should do as much work as possible, no matter the time it take
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by abenedic 8y ago
Last year I learned about MyDef. I like the basic concept, but it did not fit my use case unfortunately. I also am not well versed in Perl and at least at the time the documentation of the internals was too sparse for me, so I was not able
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by abenedic 9y ago
He mentions it a bit, but openbsd is really a good place to start for multiplatform code. Their focus on security and posix helps a ton.

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