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by antris 6y ago
I have no idea if Apple should buy Peloton or not, I was just objecting to your reasoning. It's completely normal to get acquired by another company and keep on working on the existing products as is, that's all I'm saying.
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by antris 6y ago
Why not? If Apple buys Peloton, they also get all their staff and offices. The existing staff can continue working on their existing products just as before, while transitioning to Apple, no?
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by antris 6y ago
> Where do you draw the line? When the abstraction can be considered 100% leak-proof in practical terms. Also, if you have alternative tools when you encounter a case where "X" doesn't fit, you do not need to learn about &
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by antris 6y ago
> If they shut you down on the App Store, you're done. Your iOS app is worthless on any other platform. > I shit you not, I've personally had apps rejected by the review board because they didn't like the screenshots. T
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by antris 6y ago
Can you give us examples of cases where the police are running out of legal options in their use of force?
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by antris 6y ago
Wouldn't duplicated textures get de-duplicated by any halfway-decent compression algorithm though? I'd assume the game is sent over the wire compressed
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by antris 6y ago
"Picture to QR code converter"?
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by antris 6y ago
I must be missing something... What does this have to do with photo realism?
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by antris 6y ago
Highly structured and rule driven practices are key to all safety. Hospitals, military, airlines all depend on a rigid set of safety instructions that are followed without exceptions. Same goes for explosives. Many governments around the
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by antris 6y ago
Cheapest option is to not buy a car and or go by public transport or a bike. And the reason why gasoline cars are as affordable as they are now is that the carbon tax is not here and cars are heavily subsidized in general. Carbon tax isn&#x
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by antris 6y ago
Back of the napkin calculation is not a source. Economy is a bit more complex. edit: Imagine being downvoted for asking for a legitimate source on HN. Because rejecting UBI by making a simple multiplication is a sufficient explanation inste
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by antris 6y ago
Quite bold statements there without linking to any sources. "I won’t pretend to be an expert" Yeah, you definitely shouldn't. Also, you are missing the target on the parent comments argument. The carbon tax wouldn't affe
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by antris 6y ago
If the self driving cars are significantly safer than human drivers, it's a bit hard to argue that self driving cars should be banned.
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by antris 6y ago
TDD and unit tests aren't exactly the same thing. Also, not doing TDD doesn't mean that there's no automated testing. I prefer to write my code and then do a few end-to-end automated tests for the most important parts of the
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by antris 6y ago
If the code is that bad, unit tests aren't going to help you. Messy spaghetti code with massive structural issues will break every unit test every time you change anything in the code, in ways that make no sense and provide you with li
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by antris 6y ago
> IMO the only systems where this “type system eliminates most tests” philosophy seriously works are the ones that don’t do anything other than pass data between components without doing anything beyond calling some serialization methods
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by antris 6y ago
You are correct, however that's a niche use case that would warrant using a non-conventional type system. Conventional type systems are mostly for just dumping a bunch of strings and integers to and from a database and formatting them
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by antris 6y ago
Additionally, even if you know the use cases, often I find it more productive to form the code of the application one use case at a time. This allows greater focus on the task at hand. People cannot effectively multi-task so breaking focu
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by antris 6y ago
I would argue that having a robust type system and some (not too many) end-to-end tests for your software makes unit testing almost completely useless overhead.
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by antris 6y ago
You'd be still trusting the compiler. However many layers of checks you do, there's always something you need to trust.
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by antris 6y ago
If you go down that road, you can make this argument infinitely. Even if you verify your builds, you cannot know if the software you are using to check the build isn't compromised. Or if you check the software you use to check the buil
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by antris 6y ago
A huge part of the knowledge I had to acquire in the early years of my development career is now useless or even harmful... Anyone remember clear: left; ? :D
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by antris 6y ago
It is very rare to have to support Internet Explorer anymore for new applications. Most software that requires IE support is legacy enterprise stuff. Microsoft has been promoting Edge for 5 years already over IE.
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by antris 6y ago
How do you know a website is pure HTML? The developers will tell you about it.
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by antris 6y ago
If there's Javascript on the site, then surely the JS code goes over the wire too?
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by antris 6y ago
If we are talking about preservation, we would most likely want to be able to preserve everything made using Flash, rather than pick people who used Flash "correctly" and preserve only their work.
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by antris 6y ago
Not a data scientist myself, but plenty of data scientists in a consultancy company that I used to work in said that they have to implement variants of a limited set of models over and over again, because they couldn't reuse code and i
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by antris 6y ago
Not everyone wants to be an admin to their infrastructure. Real existing services like Heroku and Squarespace exist as useful services because even though you might know how to design and build a website from scratch, sometimes you just nee
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by antris 6y ago
How's "Pepsi's mistake cost innocent lives by an exploding grenade"? Technically correct, but sounds even more horrendous and catastrophic, while technically 100% correct. If your argument is that the title is trying to
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by antris 6y ago
I wonder if there's some kind of software that takes an advantage of an AI to teach non-beginner players Go. E.g. you could play against the bot and then the AI would translate your mistakes into what you can improve upon.

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