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by ascar 8y ago
Ruby is awesome for prototyping. It's just incredibly fast to work with, because the language makes an effort to provide as much help as possible and adding as little obstacles as necessary. E.g. you can even add/change functions
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm not sure about this being good for coding in non-latin. It might actually encourage behavior to mistreat ruby constants as regular variables. IIRC constants are not really constant, but only visual help for reading code and ruby ju
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by ascar 8y ago
I only skimmed over the linked resource, but non of the mentioned attack vectors and issues seem to be a problem for variable names in source code?
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by ascar 8y ago
Yes. We also change the "der" in German newspapers. E.g. "at the Spiegel" "bei dem Spiegel" or "in an article of the Spiegel" "in einem Bericht des Spiegels".
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by ascar 8y ago
I absolutely expect good slides to be sufficient for learning, contain references to additional reading material and be accompanied by exercises to get practical examples for the theory. In the best case the lecture is recorded on video and
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by ascar 8y ago
It's funny, because the Spiegel is a weekly magazine and the NYT a daily newspaper, which brings a lot of difference in the style of the articles. Th best German comparison to the NYT is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) oder Sü
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by ascar 8y ago
Fact-checking isn't just about dates and numbers, but about all facts presented in an article. As a German I'm also surprised about that reputation. The Spiegel is somewhere between a serious newspaper (like FAZ, Süddeutsche or Ze
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by ascar 8y ago
Kinda offtopic: I find it interesting and a little bit disturbing to read "Der Spiegel". "Der" is the German male form of "the" and the Spiegel uses it in the title like "The New York Times". For me a
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by ascar 8y ago
> What's interesting is if you did this for just about any other country, there would be a wall of star spangled banners. So the US has the most headlines for about any other country? I highly doubt it. All your following points act
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by ascar 8y ago
That's still a feat today, maybe albeit of scoring with girls that are your fans in the first place.
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by ascar 8y ago
Functional programming is not supposed to be a golden hammer. That's the pragmatic solution for this problem ;).
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by ascar 8y ago
I disagree with the whole notion of "learning" a programming language. It's studying, maybe trying out or learn how to do [something] with it. It's like a real language can't be learned, but only studied. "Last
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by ascar 8y ago
Setting that stuff up is not that hard, you can even just use unix Sendmail. What's hard is actually making sure your emails get delivered and don't end up in the spam folder. Starts with the easy stuff like DMARC (needs DKIM &amp
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by ascar 8y ago
I've worked on the email dev team of a mailchimp competitor and from what I've overheard, when a customer gets spam-flagged the first step is to help him avoid it in the future. A lot of small businesses using these tools might ac
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by ascar 8y ago
I guess the perception comes from the kind of lawsuits private persons can get disproportionately rich of.
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by ascar 8y ago
You are probably referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abmahnung which only affects a small part of civil law, but granted it has some nasty consequences.
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by ascar 8y ago
You are right, I was off. On another note: I absolutely do not understand why we substitute the international mathematical symbol for cardinality (|A|) with variables we have to explain. Computer science has a math background, so we all kno
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by ascar 8y ago
You have two lists of objects and the thing you want to compare against is a property nested two levels deep in one kind of object and one level deep in the other object. Are you sure you still want to pass this to a library and not write t
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by ascar 8y ago
That's probably the issue with algorithm solving is not software engineering and if you mostly select on the first, you do not necessarily get good people in the second, broader and more important area. Then you end up with a terrible
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by ascar 8y ago
I agree with you that a non significant number of developers need this kind of problem-solving ability for their daily work, but I would disagree that they never need it. And when they do it can have huge impact. There are many applications
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by ascar 8y ago
Maybe I'm off here, but sorting of D should not be necessary. You add O(|D| log(|D|)) to the runtime complexity (with |D| being number of elements in D) while a single linear run through D is sufficient. The complexity of checking if a
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by ascar 8y ago
Maybe a parrot! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18689467
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by ascar 8y ago
I know you probably exaggerated, but isn't causing so many feedback loops still the sign of a bad programmer? I wouldn't trust someone to deliver quality software who produces multiple syntax and multiple runtime errors while codi
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by ascar 8y ago
> If there are several individually wealthy family members it's probably more likely due to dilution. While this is probably true in general, there are at least two famous exceptions from Germany. There is the notable case of Adolf
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by ascar 8y ago
Take my arrrpvote.
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by ascar 8y ago
CAPCHA? What is this supposed to mean? Completly automated parrot test to tell computers and humans apart? Doesn't make sense. CAPAHA? Completly automated parrot test to tell animals and humans apart? Closer, but i doubt that's wh
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by ascar 8y ago
You are overgeneralizing one (small) enabling factor of agile as the whole reason. Maybe based on your experience in major corps. Agile doesn't start at the corp level. It starts at the individual and team level (think scrum) and maybe
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by ascar 8y ago
In Germany enigneer ("Ingenieur") is a protected profession title and I was granted the right to use it with my B.Sc. in Compsci (though a B.Sc. in Germany is also a lot more focused than undergrad in US afaik). I have no idea how
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by ascar 8y ago
Doesn't AMD with TSMC 7nm basically ready to go? TSMC is already talking about 5nm. While you might not see it in consumer hardware from Intel anytime soon, you will from AMD.
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by ascar 8y ago
But you have to know if the boundaries are inclusive or exclusive, which leaves you with four different possibilities. You and everyone who reads your code needs to know this. Ruby is my main language and I would have to look up the boundar

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