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by akud 9y ago
Yea, I find that one of the primary benefits of Django's orm is query set methods, which allows me to define and compose query fragments. I've rarely worked on a code base whwe you write a query once and then never change it, the
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by akud 9y ago
This shows poor leadership by Bill Gates. Did he not value his team's time?
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by akud 9y ago
I've also encountered arguments along the lines of "there's this other suffering you _aren't_ preventing". Emotionally it has the same feel as the drowning child argument[1] by Pete Singer. That argument engenders a
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by akud 10y ago
The content reads pretty clearly like a native English speaker imitating immature hacker-speak. It comes across as if it were written by a script-kiddy; that may be intentional.
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by akud 10y ago
It's in a book called Otherness
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by akud 10y ago
To me asking for the previous salary - especially asking for proof - shows a lack of respect for the candidate. It's on the employer to quantify the value a skilled employee brings to the organization. I've walked away from offers
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by akud 10y ago
Given that candidates are justifiably wary of naming a number first, if you don't want to waste your time, it behooves you to name your range first.
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by akud 10y ago
A maximally great being. As a sibling comment noted, the problem with this argument is that it presupposes the conclusion.
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Mental Symbols to reason about code(plus.google.com)
3 points by akud 10y ago|0 comments
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by akud 10y ago
> because in our world all objects seem to exhibit properties of logic This is the thing that needs to be explained. I get that math is just logic, but why should we expect the natural world to follow logical rules?
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by akud 10y ago
> What I found is that advocates for these new technologies tended to confuse the productivity benefits of working on a small code base (small N essential complexity due to fewer feature interactions and small N cost for features that sc
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by akud 10y ago
> At the same time, the U.S. is rapidly degenerating into something that isn't quite the sinister oppressive regime, but getting close to the point where it could become one, if a wrong leader gets elected. It's scary. Seems pr
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by akud 10y ago
Yea, it seems strictly better to include the comma. It can only make things _more_ claer, never less.
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by akud 10y ago
I would say it has a calming effect throughout the day, because when you sit you practice the mental activity of bringing your attention to the present moment. It's like building a muscle; when the muscle is stronger you can use it thr
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by akud 10y ago
I'll second that. There is nothing that will change your life more than developing a daily meditation practice. My mindfulness practice helps me to achieve direct insights in software engineering, though that's not the reason I do
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by akud 10y ago
It's useful to, for instance, run your test suite against an in-memory database like sqlite or hsql, but use a "real" database in production.
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by akud 10y ago
I would argue "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" does. The novel doesn't spend too much time focusing on the society, but, iirc, people spend much of their time with emotion-modulating machines. Also, "A Scanner Darkl
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by akud 10y ago
Was going to say the same thing. Most of my professors were secretly platonists, though they had to pass as formalists to get respect in polite society. It's hard to make absolute claims about the nature of mathematical reality; the fo
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Why some silicon valley tech executives are bunkering down for doomsday(npr.org)
2 points by akud 10y ago|0 comments
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by akud 10y ago
> Don't you think that's a romantic notion that people go to college for "in-depth learning and inquiry"? I realize that it may not square with most peoples' motivations, but in my ideal world it would be. I als
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by akud 10y ago
Yea, I was using "op" as shorthand.
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by akud 10y ago
I think the op would like the universities to become ends unto themselves. He specifically complains about university being viewed as a ticket to a career: > At stake, he believes, is a citizenry that sees college not as a place for in-
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by akud 10y ago
It makes me wonder if that's due to the relative power of capital vs labor. Is that what you were getting at?
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by akud 10y ago
People underestimate the effect of extreme sleep deprivation. For the first three months of my daughter's life, we didn't sleep for more than two hours at a time. The effect was profound - I was having auditory hallucinations, was
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by akud 10y ago
Well, we could see a cultural revolution style event where elites are persecuted. I don't think that's likely with trump, given that his rhetoric focuses on immigrants, but if there is another trump after him, it could happen. The
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by akud 10y ago
For me, damage not going on the stack was a big change. That's probably better for the game, but eliminates a lot of tricks. Also, the cards printed these days tend to not allow you to hose yourself. Take things like detention sphere,
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Robot catepillar that moves via external laser(nytimes.com)
1 points by akud 10y ago|0 comments
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How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the West’s Secrets(nyti.ms)
1 points by akud 10y ago|1 comments
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by akud 10y ago
My high school Japanese teacher mentioned the college- before college dichotomy from the article. That is, that Japanese students are pushed very hard before college and then not at all during college.
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by akud 10y ago
> the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average What they really need to do is factor in the probability of encounters with poli

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