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by bakhy 8y ago
Is it possible that Zimbardo is now legally responsible? He influenced policy in this way, with what seems to be obvious malicious intent, and he also apparently testified in many court cases. Can he be prosecuted for this?
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by bakhy 8y ago
Yes. And the fact that, being taken as serious science, it actually affected penal policy, makes it particularly ugly.
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by bakhy 8y ago
The outcome was not entirely unexpected. The article mentions that this is what Zimbardo originally intended. But I think even more important in this story is the great story-like quality of the result. It's a great story, and it &quot
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by bakhy 8y ago
For C#, and all .NET languages, there are Code Contracts. I've never used them, but they seem to be maintained and relatively easy to use. The docs, with a good example at the end, are here: https://docs.microsoft.com/e
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by bakhy 8y ago
I think in C# nowadays I'd implement Select and SelectMany for the data type I want to visit, and then use LINQ. This is one pattern which is easier in a functional approach. I presume it would be easy to do something similar in Scala?
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Show HN: A distributed key/value store library for .NET Standard(github.com)
4 points by bakhy 8y ago|0 comments
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by bakhy 9y ago
is this something like this XKCD? :) https://xkcd.com/1588/
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by bakhy 9y ago
Yes and no.
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by bakhy 9y ago
It's a little funny to me to talk about infinity in the context of physical systems. Where do you keep all those balls? :)
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by bakhy 9y ago
Ctrl+Shift+Del
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by bakhy 9y ago
This is why I use Firefox on Android - with the uBlock Origin add-on installed, it's really fast. There's no optimization like avoiding the needless work in the first place :)
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by bakhy 9y ago
Why is parsing "1.23.4" more difficult than "(1, 23, 4)"? :)
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by bakhy 9y ago
I'd also recommend getting a pull-up bar. Great excercise for keeping the back healthy!
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by bakhy 9y ago
your ability to pay is better determined by looking at pay slips, which a bank can (and probably will) demand from you. the fact that you paid X dollars monthly for Y years is not sufficient to determine the upper limit of your paying abili
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by bakhy 10y ago
the negative reviews are funny :D and this one sounds almost like its conscious: "I couldn’t figure out how to stop this drivel. At worst, it was going absolutely nowhere, no matter what I did.Needles to say, I skim-read the entire boo
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by bakhy 10y ago
The old kernels should be purged automatically on desktops. That really is an annoying issue.
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An Elegant Hack(josipbakic.wordpress.com)
1 points by bakhy 10y ago|0 comments
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by bakhy 10y ago
people trust Google, which IMO makes them responsible here. IANAL, but if they would for example be caught giving Holocaust-denying answers in Germany, where that's illegal, could they not be sued?
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by bakhy 10y ago
i fully agree! though technically, there is a pretty big dependency there - the .NET Framework... however, Mono supports WinForms on all platforms, and is able to compile everything into one standalone EXE. to be honest, i have not tried ei
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by bakhy 10y ago
didn't know that. now, what does that say about (some corners of) our industry? :)
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by bakhy 10y ago
i must admit, i was unaware that this is used so commonly. that changes things, of course. and i don't really know what to suggest as an alternative... review is ok. or, "a look back"? "lessons learned"? "exper
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by bakhy 10y ago
i understand i'm nitpicking, but maybe someone should tell the author what "mortem" means? i was expecting something dead, a failure story. pick another worn out phrase ;)
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by bakhy 10y ago
> If you push a hash table which handles collisions by linear probing that hard, and any non-randomness appears, you can get long runs and are in trouble. I knew about Robin Hood hashing, but didn't know it was being used to justify
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by bakhy 10y ago
if you'll forgive a bit of cynicism, it turns out, in hindsight, that the correct maxim should be: "information wants to be false" ;)
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by bakhy 10y ago
little meta - HN is not the best place to have these discussions. the way voting works here, everything is too conformist, too sugarcoated, and most importantly, downvotes are regularly handed out (at least in such emotional discussions as
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by bakhy 10y ago
"reminds me of" != "is".
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by bakhy 10y ago
good read. and kudos for coming out and opening the subject. i personally think this is not just a developer issue, but affects every person living in a society. the quality of the society we live in depends on all of us doing as much as we
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by bakhy 10y ago
this is a very good point. these e-mail leaks are really just lowering this election even further into the mud. and nothing is really gained. it's not hard to see how shitty both candidates are. this reeks of spite and frustration, lik
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by bakhy 10y ago
> into the actual thoughts and motivations why do you think you should have the right to this? it is quite extreme. anyone's "actual" thoughts are their own business. judge them by their actions. godknows, there's pro
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by bakhy 10y ago
interesting research. i wasn't really that surprised by what they say about suggestions - i always thought the problem with giving suggestions is not in suggestions per se, but rather in the way they are given. people often suggest sol

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