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by bananaface 6y ago
https://github.com/Somelauw/evil-org-mode
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by bananaface 6y ago
I think that's why I'm being downvoted too, but frankly if the codebase is so bad that something is being copy/pasted hundreds of times to the point of unmaintainability, the abstractions that same team would build would prob
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by bananaface 6y ago
I said this below but I like to distinguish technical debt as having metaphorical "interest" - specifically, it becomes more expensive to pay back the longer you leave it, the ball of debt grows over time. It's stuff that get
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by bananaface 6y ago
I agree, I just wouldn't call it tech debt. It doesn't become more expensive to fix over time, except for the bump when you forget how the original code works. There's no metaphorical "interest" that you draw down o
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by bananaface 6y ago
I would say: technical debt is anything that makes the system more expensive to maintain (and grow) over time, and becomes more expensive to fix the longer you leave it. If it's just a bad or incomplete aspect of the system, that'
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by bananaface 6y ago
I wouldn't even say lack of testing is technical debt - it's just another feature that isn't implemented. Once you implement it, problem's solved. It doesn't make the system worse/more expensive as it grows, an
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by bananaface 6y ago
I would argue copy/pasted code is usually not technical debt because it's very isolated and easy to change, and it's cheap to consolidate it later. Crappy abstractions are a way bigger source of technical debt than repeating
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by bananaface 6y ago
Thanks! This makes sense.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Unless you explicitly need speed, or they're your only option, why do people use VPNs for privacy over Tor? Do they provide any benefits other than being faster? I thought Tor was a much more secure option if privacy in particular is
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by bananaface 6y ago
Smartphones have notification schedules for stuff like this. You can enable/disable different notifications during different hours.
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by bananaface 6y ago
I think a deeper network has less degrees of freedom in which to move, or rather, in which to move usefully , because parameters are more interdependent. That means in order to generate a useful function, it has to learn more abstract feat
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by bananaface 6y ago
Doesn't the fact the network is discrete (floats have a maximum precision) mean this isn't actually the case? There's a finite number of states the net can be in, and one (or more) is best.
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by bananaface 6y ago
I would argue you see that uncomfortably often
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by bananaface 6y ago
Completely disagree with the superstar thing. Some developers are hundreds of times more effective than others even if you ignore raw output, because they know where to apply their effort. There are games written by one person that are more
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by bananaface 6y ago
Some forms of HFT work by getting information from other exchanges before you, then front-running on price differences.
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by bananaface 6y ago
It's a shame, though. Content aggregators at least should allow the ones that exist to bubble up.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Someone who doesn't own a stock benefits from the publicity. Peter Schiff has made a lot more money from books and his gold brokerage than investing in gold.
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by bananaface 6y ago
It's not captive. It's quite replicable (and impossible to monopolise), it's just expensive.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Doesn't matter. If I got a large chunk of the long-term payoff, I'd care about tackling those problems. The issue is incentive, not the difficulty of the work.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Auto-formatting punctuation - or syntax. You can show it a few examples and it will insert punctuation into raw words coming in from speech recognition, or convert badly formatted Python into well-formatted Python. It can correct syntax e
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by bananaface 6y ago
Thank you for explaining.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Forums like this, reddit, etc. become worse over time partly because people demand (superficially) high-quality comments. People who's time is valuable are less likely to comment. When a very talented & experienced person says,
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by bananaface 6y ago
How does the protection work in the case of e.g. Brexit going badly? Do they have insurance policies that pay out if the UK economy tanks?
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by bananaface 6y ago
An alternative and IMO better fix would be to have patent cases decided by juries.
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by bananaface 6y ago
The problem with rebasing is you might break every one of those commits, which defeats the purpose of chunking the work like that in the first place (since its no longer an honest reflection of what was happening/what worked at each po
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by bananaface 6y ago
Quite a lot of companies function better when managers are poorly paid, obedient and basically apply a replicable system with minimal autonomy. It would suck to work there but structures like that absolutely exist & are very profitable.
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by bananaface 6y ago
>This isn't trading, though. It's forecasting. That's not my point. The point is people don't give away predictive edges for internet points (or reputation). There are many reasons why but the lack of a betting &amp
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by bananaface 6y ago
I don't think that's correct either. They just have to show that Apple is engaging in anti-competetive behaviour as defined by the Sherman Act.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Right, and a serf can technically leave. But they can't, because they lose access to the pertinent resource. Where else can they farm? I don't like the media, I'm not trying to make out they're weak. My issue is that Goo
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by bananaface 6y ago
The basis of the lawsuit is that the TOS are unreasonable. It doesn't matter if they broke them, in fact they had to to even bring the lawsuit. They might still lose but the fact they broke the TOS won't count against them.

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