bedobi

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by bedobi 6y ago
Yeah, no. Programs and algorithms can only encode models (which are themselves imperfect) of what we already know. There's countless things we know that we don't know, and yet more that we don't know that we don't know.
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by bedobi 6y ago
A lot of Robert C Martins pieces are just variations on his strong belief that ill-defined concepts like "craftsmanship" and "clean code" (which are basically just whatever his opinions are on any given day) is how to re
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by bedobi 6y ago
I'm also interested in this. Apparently recently there's an aversion to using terms like "dark ages", because they imply the period between antiquity and the renaissance was poorly recorded or objectively worse, and hist
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by bedobi 6y ago
Great. Yet another online psuedo-intellectual "guru" with pretentious posts full of meaningless, vague trueisms. Why are posts like these so popular on Hacker News?
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by bedobi 6y ago
Have a look at Kotlin with the Arrow library, it's a great compromise
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by bedobi 6y ago
Null and exceptions. (in Haskell, Maybe and Try/Either)
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by bedobi 6y ago
Commenting mostly for myself :P I struggle a lot with analysis paralysis and worrying about not picking the best possible option, anything from simple things like what to have for lunch to big life choices. The thing is, yes, there are virt
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by bedobi 7y ago
I used to hyperconsume news but concluded that news just isn't really a good way to know what's going on in the world. It's mostly alarmist outrage devoid of any meaning.
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by bedobi 7y ago
Haha granted, I do enjoy Hacker News, because it's just random interesting links, not politics or current events, which is what I'm very deliberately chosing to cut out.
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by bedobi 7y ago
Same here! I haven't had a TV in many years and since quitting the news (on every medium) I'm much happier and have much more time and energy to devote to fun and productive things.
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by bedobi 7y ago
Same here! Since quitting the news I'm much happier and have much more time and energy to devote to fun and productive things.
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by bedobi 7y ago
With functional error handling, you don't need neither checked nor unchecked exceptions, everything just returns objects, and the language and syntax used for talking about them is the same as the language and syntax used for everythin
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by bedobi 7y ago
With functional error handling, every method just returns an object. If the caller doesn't want to do anything with it, it can just pass it on somewhere else. Only once you actually care about filtering, mapping, flatMapping, folding e
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by bedobi 7y ago
Haha you're putting me on the spot here, I guess I haven't really thought too deeply about the specifics! Maybe flatMap would return true only if all chained booleans are true? Bimap would allow you to provide functions for what t
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by bedobi 7y ago
I think it's better, see the other reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=22306638&goto=threads%...
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by bedobi 7y ago
I used to think so, but * Java also has unchecked exceptions, and, incredibly, there's still no consensus as to which exceptions should be used for what and when, though these days the most common approach is to simply stick only to
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by bedobi 7y ago
IMO the biggest problems with almost all popular programming languages are 1) null 2) exception based error handling such that, when you call foo() where foo is String foo(){ blabla } you can get a String, null OR an exception (!!!) and mos
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by bedobi 7y ago
Just questioning the overly simplistic world view. A carbon tax/cap and trade is in everyone's interest. The "cost" would be passed on to consumers, just like if the price of oil went up, or any other cost really. As suc
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by bedobi 7y ago
> they're just prioritizing their class interests How? > transformation necessary to properly fight climate is a threat to their status quo power Is it? How would a carbon tax/cap and trade threat their "status quo powe
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by bedobi 7y ago
Late reply but I just had to thank you for your comment, I had something close to an epiphany reading it! Instead of dedicated syntax and language features like try-catch exceptions for things that can go wrong, ? for potentially absent val
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by bedobi 7y ago
Sigh
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by bedobi 7y ago
Uh... Economists advocate making carbon and land prices reflect their true costs. Identifying, studying and correcting market failures, internalizing externalities etc are some of the most fundamental concerns of Economics as a field.
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by bedobi 7y ago
How can these wildly inaccurate posts about medicine, economics and finance keep getting so many upvotes?
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by bedobi 7y ago
If acupuncture had an easily and consistently replicable effect it would have been incorporated into medicine, even if we didn't understand how or why it worked. (just like paracetamol and any number of other widely used drugs and trea
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by bedobi 7y ago
Your relevant article doesn't even get the first paragraph right. The Efficient Market Hypothesis doesn't mean eg that markets result in efficient use of resources or societally efficient/optimal outcomes, which the author se
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by bedobi 7y ago
Welcome to HackerNews! Threads about Medicine and Economics are some of the worst - everyone here is apparently a Nobel grade expert.
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by bedobi 7y ago
"...demanding excellence in all that we do ...steals from us one of life’s greatest rewards — the simple pleasure of doing something you merely, but truly, enjoy" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/o
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by bedobi 7y ago
How is this individual vote any more or less significant to the outcome than all the others?
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by bedobi 8y ago
This isn't serious macroeconomics or finance. People like Taleb are psuedointellectual quacks, not actual economists. For anyone who's interested, https://reddit.com/r/badeconomics is a great resource for tak
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by bedobi 8y ago
I can see how you would think that, but the author is Gerd Gigerenzer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Human...

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