alextgordon

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by alextgordon 11y ago
You want to maximise the density of information that is visible on the screen. The limiting factor is human working memory: the more that is visible at any one time, the less I have to remember. So it makes sense to divide the screen into a
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by alextgordon 11y ago
It's primarily a speed-of-light issue. If the server is on the New Jersey and I'm in London, it takes a perceptible amount of time for the signal to travel between continents. The only way to remove this latency is for the client
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I did pause to think about this, but sod's law dictates that if you remove the parameters to main, you will have to add them back in again. :)
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Other languages seem to get it right. Even C++! #include <vector> static int foo(std::vector<int> x = {}) { x.push_back(10); return x.size(); } int main (int argc, char const *argv[]) { printf
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by alextgordon 11y ago
When we ship node modules to be embedded into Chocolat.app, we have to strip out all the tests and documentation because otherwise it bloats the download size. And the computer it eventually runs on may not be connected to the internet. The
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by alextgordon 11y ago
True unless the server is not on the public internet. In that case, pulling the plug if port 22 is accessed would be a reasonably defensible idea (you are being attacked for sure, and it's hard to attack a machine that is off ) ...a
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by alextgordon 11y ago
For men, cardiovascular health is most important aspect, heart disease being the largest cause of death[1]. While lifting weights is better than no exercise at all, it is not that effective. There are certainly many people who enthusiasti
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I read it more generously as: > If anything, the fact that China is doing will be evidence that we'll need to do it as well to maintain national security. Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by cynicism
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Time value of money: they don't just have to collect the original amount, but the interest they would have gotten from putting the money somewhere else. So even a lifetime may not be enough time if the borrower cannot keep up with inte
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by alextgordon 11y ago
"By: Ron Fournier" ...
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Please not, Lua would be easy to implement but if we can only pick one language then it's too similar to JS. We need more diversity, static types+AOT+noGC would be a good start. Also if we do get Swift it will be for the same reason
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by alextgordon 11y ago
> Alford is described as half-black, half-Filipino This is one of those cases where "African American" is correct and "black" is not. Some Filipinos are black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negr
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by alextgordon 11y ago
The same argument would say that it's impossible to write mathematics papers without proof assistants (Coq, etc). Obviously that is bogus, mathematicians are not 'deluded' about their ability to check their work themselves. I
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by alextgordon 11y ago
You need a better layout for your API documentation. It's a wall of text. Add in a navigation sidebar, or better yet just copy Stripe. Also the how-tos are too longwinded. You could probably reduce the quantity of prose by 50% or more.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
That is not a very good way of scoring, because nobody cares about the difference between about "bad" and "awful" yet those classifications have the most bits of information. Perhaps start at 5 and go to 15.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
You wouldn't get death threats, that's for sure.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Read this and then consider if you ever want to write something like it. https://www.facebook.com/orainwikihosting/
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Let me guess: you don't live in Bangladesh. Where there are ~160 million people, and the country is just one big flood plain. Bangladesh already has the highest population density of any "big" country, and the sea is eating a
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by alextgordon 11y ago
What they are saying is that a 5:1 gender ratio can't be equal , whichever way around it is.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
This is a completely useless article, which creates more questions than it answers. Chiefly among them: why would a linguistic researcher believe that one shared property of Indo-European languages implies a universal grammar?
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by alextgordon 11y ago
It's not like humans sit around all day thinking . We build tools to do the thinking for us. Humans ourselves are very bad at predicting the weather. So we build supercomputers, and weather models, and now we're a bit better at i
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by alextgordon 11y ago
History it isn't. There is a vast amount of Python 2 code in existence. I still write a lot of Python 2, doing maintenance on existing projects.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
People who live in poverty aren't miserable. Far from it. They experience exactly the same gamut of emotion as you or me, including copious amounts of happiness. It is a very strong determination to make, that someone should wish they
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I'm sure they were quite happy with it. How can anyone regret their own birth?
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Technically speaking UKIP lost half their seats in May :)
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In the US, publication of source code is free speech protected by the first amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
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by alextgordon 11y ago
How do you define capitalism? There are places that have money but lack sufficient property rights to support a system of capitalism. i.e. "it's my land because I live here and work on it" vs "it's my land because
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I am certain that if you did some game programming in a language without OO, you would quickly change your mind.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Budgets change. As soon as the ISS gets deorbited, NASA's budget will be reduced to match, and they won't be able to afford to build a new one.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
In the UK, the Crown Prosecution Service is supposed to act in the public interest. Not indulge the public's every whim. It's an imperfect system, but they do put a lot of care into weighing the different factors, far more than I

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