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by aljungberg 7y ago
This may become another example of a good company catering well to a specific niche, then taking on money until they are unable to cater well to their original niche anymore. Solving a specific problem well in a market worth $X is not compa
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by aljungberg 7y ago
I’ve been told by many many candidates that all work they ever did was under an NDA and so they have no Github profile and not even any code samples. Somehow they never did a single shareable thing in their lives - not at school, not a hobb
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by aljungberg 7y ago
If the people from Signal start a conversation with you on the number you emailed, how do you know it’s actually them ? Couldn’t it be a third party who intercepted your email? You need to check their “safety number”, and now we’re back to
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by aljungberg 7y ago
I think this argument assumes that frequent deploys and good CI/CD is a silver bullet for every possible problem with releasing something . You could release a well tested new feature with perfect ease and see nominal stats for hours
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by aljungberg 8y ago
It seems like a work-around for an Australian company would be to always have a non-Australian employee have final say in what's deployed to production. Now you have to fire him to deploy the backdoor. I expect the law doesn't req
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by aljungberg 8y ago
Can we expect 1 person to sacrifice their life for every 13 children in need? Helping every child in poverty requires a long term paced effort rather than a one time heroic one. As inspiring as this rescue was, it doesn't scale.
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by aljungberg 8y ago
I don't remember what "Edit Each Line in Selection" does, but JetBrains does have vertical multi-line character selection. Same as in TextMate, hold down alt, click and drag the mouse to select a rectangle. The JetBrains vers
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by aljungberg 10y ago
Heating (pasteurisation) doesn't make milk free of nutrients[1] -- pasteurised milk should substantially be the same as raw milk in terms of nutrients. I agree that low-fat (skimmed) milk should be avoided: the fat in whole milk is imp
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by aljungberg 10y ago
Right but in this particular thought scenario it doesn't matter what the government does with the shares. It is still the case that the government constrained your liberty regarding your shares. You wanted Wilt to have them, Wilt didn&
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by aljungberg 10y ago
That's just another way of saying people shouldn't be allowed to give their shares freely. You give your shares to Wilt, the government gives them back to you (assuming the government has no overhead). So the original argument sta
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by aljungberg 10y ago
And to be fair GIF was used in many many places where we now use PNG. None the less, a funny end result.
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by aljungberg 10y ago
You have to admit it's a little funny that if PNG's one goal in life was to replace GIF, they chose to not support the one thing GIF is used for today. You had one job PNG. One job!
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by aljungberg 10y ago
Maybe you are right and there is some subset of mathematics so complex and lengthy that it becomes incomprehensible without a concise shorthand. I don't know enough about high level mathematics to refute that. I do know that the origin
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by aljungberg 10y ago
I'm not sure I follow. sum(vec) is exactly how I'd write it in Python (or pseudo-Python for that matter). It does what you think it does (provided the operation of addition is defined for vectors). I did mention using "sum&qu
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by aljungberg 10y ago
I agree and this was my first thought too. Yet I feel like I do know the mathematical notation. I know what each "thing" does and yet the whole feels needlessly dense. I definitely agree that once you are "used" to readi
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by aljungberg 10y ago
Right. You could define functions. The function itself is stated in a readable form yet it is concise when later called upon. And just like you desire, this gives the reader a chance to first absorb the idea being expressed by the function
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by aljungberg 10y ago
I'd like if this were the norm. I found the pseudocode much more readable than the mathematical description of what it was supposed to do. I'm (obviously) biased as a programmer rather than a mathematician but sometimes I think th
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by aljungberg 10y ago
I wasn't saying Tim Cook is lacking in skills. As the CEO of one of the world's most successful companies he certainly has his own unique and impressive skills. Lisa Su demonstrated an impressive skill not every CEO could pull off
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by aljungberg 10y ago
Yes absolutely, I think that's the key. It's cool to see very tech-y CEOs like this. I feel like many CEOs would defer a hypothetical question about how a product could have been made. I mean it's like asking Tim Cook about a
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by aljungberg 10y ago
It's pretty impressive to see a CEO being able to answer a question about CPU vs GPU power envelope targets just of the cuff. The interviewer asks why there are no CPUs targeting higher wattages, like how CPUs are less than 150W but th
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by aljungberg 12y ago
It's easy to make consistent icons as long as you don't mind them being ugly. What's hard is striking a balance. Apple used to have this balance: reasonable consistency yet beautiful icons with a touch of delight and sense of
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by aljungberg 12y ago
Bonus to the kill-and-bring-to-the-hospital method of spider bites: over millions of years genetic pressure will teach spiders their lesson and they'll stop biting humans.
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by aljungberg 12y ago
That's what Stripe's CTF3's Gitcoin was like: https://github.com/ctfs/write-ups/tree/master/stripe-ctf3/le...
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by aljungberg 13y ago
Google software could use their 99% successful algorithm to filter potential captchas. Then show the 1% they can't crack to humans. Now the race becomes who can write the better captcha solver, Google or the spammers? As spammers learn