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by ak39 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest Quite sure there's a clever quip about this exact thing in terms of bits and bytes, I just haven't walked into that part of the forest yet.
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by ak39 11y ago
I wonder whether there's a "business" in there somewhere for creating a "TL;DR as a service" API?
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by ak39 11y ago
Agreed. Also, Microsoft SQL Server does support snapshot isolation. See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tcbchxcb(v=vs.110)....
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by ak39 11y ago
It may not matter to them at all, but shouldn't it matter to you?
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by ak39 11y ago
Agreed on your incredulity. I've never understood ethics behind such type of advice. File it under Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people". If there could ever be a treatise on psychopathy, that'd
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by ak39 11y ago
"appearing more similar to those in power" ... So you must possess the talent of Tom Ripley?
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by ak39 11y ago
If you're asking whether they "learnt" their lesson ... I very much doubt that cultures that entrench such biases are ever shaken up to reconsider the harmful effects (financial or otherwise) of their adopted attitudes. Don&
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by ak39 11y ago
Ouch. Even if what you say could be true, is it a good thing to send our kids to institutions of learning so that they can become arse-licking sycophants? Is that even a conscious decision in parenting?
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by ak39 11y ago
"You cannot understand a system until you try to change it." ~ Kurt Lewin
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by ak39 11y ago
Wat? Please go find out. No startup is worth the life of another person (divorced or not). Go find her man. Get her taken care of.
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by ak39 11y ago
Yes, I believe there's nothing on God's good planet that can compare to the love a man receives from a caring woman. Nothing. (And I don't even believe in God.)
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by ak39 11y ago
> And just as The Gang of Four gave us AbstractedTangleMessFactorySingleton. Hey, not funny. I actually googled that pattern just to make sure it was a joke.
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by ak39 11y ago
None! :-( Thanks, you made me do some reading. There is no evidence that heating oils beyond their smoke points turns then into trans fats (or where their consumption is particularly dangerous for heart health). There are dangers of carci
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by ak39 11y ago
You'd think the etymology had anything to do with another cute term - "code rot", but no. No science of origin here. Programming culture (today?) is highly egotistical, judgmental, conformist and, paradoxically, divisive.*
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by ak39 11y ago
Hi Zuzu This sounds like the work you do in those 8 hours is either: 1. Not challenging enough or 2. Too much for one guy (you) to handle. You're zoned out. Figure out which one it is. There are meditation techniques to give your min
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by ak39 11y ago
Yeah. That's where I thought the analysis itself became over-engineered. It's interesting, but can the concept of code smell be reduced this way? The best I can express "code smell" into a reductionist statement is l
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by ak39 11y ago
Here's the thing, motion smoothing fakery is for sports. 24 fps is what we have mentally trained ourselves for our movie-going experience. Change that and even the casual viewer who has no idea what motion interpolation is will feel
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by ak39 11y ago
Truly. The concept is depressing and liberating at the same time. Here's a video on Dr Calhoun's "Mouse Utopia" experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM
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by ak39 11y ago
The world is too much with us indeed. Have you heard of Calhoun's mouse experiments? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experime... Maybe we are exhibiting the attitudes Calhoun observed in the &q
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by ak39 11y ago
True true. Also remember that these poor folks often have to pay agents and profitiers who are nothing but scam artists. Sociopaths. The poor will pay with what is usually their life savings to simply get an opportunity to escape. And
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by ak39 11y ago
Why? Because a lot of folks have bet more than just the farm. Their life savings, their careers, reputation, personal relationships, their health - everything for their respective ventures. And business, like always, remains brutal. Not l
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by ak39 11y ago
Also, the rice in Indian cuisine is consumed with curries which always begin frying onions and spice mixes. High oil temps and hydrogenating veg oils are killers.
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by ak39 11y ago
Cold turkey is actually good for you. ;-)
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by ak39 11y ago
Right. Heritability may be a factor, but isn't the "Indian problem" more about body morphology than it is about something specific to the sub-continent gene affecting the heart directly? For example, ectomorphs (irrespective
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by ak39 11y ago
Organisational skill is actually an entrepreneurial skill. I'm learning the hard way that there are two diametrically opposing skills you need to master for both running a business and programming effectively: 1. Skills in Creating 2
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by ak39 11y ago
Awesome. How long does it take to achieve skills of this calibre in woodwork?
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by ak39 11y ago
That is so true. Primates, not just apes. Here's Sapolsky explaining how stress in an hierarchical social arrangement impacts heart health and life expectancy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UMyTnlaMY
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by ak39 11y ago
>To your point on correctness, my experience ranges a > lot in areas where correctness can be eventually consistent. "Eventually consistent"? Explain. (Do you mean in an ACID transaction?)
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by ak39 11y ago
Foreign keys are not convenience artifacts. They are essential for enforcing data correctness . One doesn't simply opt out of their usage simply because one is "not a fan" of foreign keys.
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by ak39 11y ago
How long does it take to "hide" the ball per pic?

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