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   by an_ko 11y ago

   While possibly helpful for assessing one's own biases, that site seems to provide no collective stats, and that's what's in question here.
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   by an_ko 11y ago

   [citation needed]
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   by an_ko 11y ago

   44 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699893
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   by an_ko 11y ago

   > enough white people regard black people being shot by the police as a positive outcome rather than a negative one Could you elaborate? "Enough" for what?
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   by an_ko 11y ago

   It's mentioned in the article; even linked from the words "threaten to Taser a woman": http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/21...
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   by an_ko 11y ago

   If the language has a large enough community, someone's bound to come up with an AST format and parser/generator themselves. JavaScript has https://github.com/estree/estree for example. I've written a (v
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   by an_ko 11y ago

   How does it work? If I create a game and join it in another browser window using the access code, one of the players is told they are the spy and the other a sniper. There's a list of locations below, but clicking on anything does noth
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   by an_ko 11y ago

   So it's basically an S-expression-syntax wrapper around Terra? So cool. I really wish more languages picked up S-expressions, because they're easy to machine-generate . I can't count the number of times I've been annoye
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   by an_ko 11y ago

   Could we have a more informative title? "Incremental" means little without context. Maybe just "Introducing Incremental: self-adjusting computations".
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    The term "emergency legislation" always makes me nervous. Laws are the nation's source code; precise wide-scoped constraints that need careful design. I'm happy this legal equivalent of technical debt is being combated,
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    To be fair, his purchase was relatively inexpensive, did not significantly disrupt other customers or otherwise compromise the system, and served to test that the balance was actually available , not just displayed. Just deduct the price o
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    PLA = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army I think that was intended to humorously imply that the link appears down when accessed from China.
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    What was the one "large scale prank" they mention that prompted this? I've seen a few HN posts with inappropriate map edits both funny and not, but I didn't think any of them qualified as "large scale".
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    Show HN: Unit-test your readme's code examples(github.com)

    1 points by an_ko 11y ago|0 comments
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    This is great! Ambient data can be really powerful. I'd never thought about it before, but having a little sense for how many users are on my sites and what they're doing would be hugely motivating. I once wrote a command-line p
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    I do this by reading the code's logic aloud, and while doing so, noting the things that I have to remember to understand it. This includes things like "what was the name of that variable", "what does this function do&
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    There's even a term for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    Neat! For the sake of completeness, I feel like I should mention jq ( http://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ), which covers similar ground quite expertly. It tries to stick to to its own query language though, rather than expos
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    by an_ko 11y ago

    I see a picture and five bullet points. It seems incomplete. Am I missing something?