ben509

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by ben509 7y ago
The iCalendar spec[1] already features "encryption by committee" by being thoroughly obfuscated through its innate unreadability and undocumented vendor extensions. On a more serious note, a sibling comment asked if there's a
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by ben509 7y ago
> They always return the same results so why not memoize? You only want to memoize when the lookup table is "cheap" compared to calculating the function. A lookup table is naturally expensive in terms of space, but can also be
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by ben509 7y ago
I think the issue with Haskell's syntax is it has always been a research language that has evolved very rapidly, and it shows. Honestly, I'm more impressed than anything that it manages to remain quite usable in spite of this. The
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by ben509 7y ago
I think your counterexamples reveal why those metrics work: * In baseball, batting average and OPS require you to compete against other teams. * In finance, ROI is tested in the marketplace. * In sales, conversions require you to convince a
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by ben509 7y ago
Land will appreciate in value if more people move in to the area. So the downside to a boat is you have no neighbors. On the upside, you have no neighbors.
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by ben509 7y ago
I like that there's an accumulator struct. fsum is nice, but it's ugly to stash everything into a list; it's often prefereable to push terms into an accumulator and get the sum at the end.
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by ben509 7y ago
But it's not your whole life because we're living longer and it's enough money to retire earlier. Suck up the drone life, retire early and spend 50 years with no boss, no customers, just tooling away on whatever you please.
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by ben509 7y ago
The point of jargon, though, is that it's not loaded with value judgements. > A difference of that magnitude... This neatly highlights the problem with claiming this is somehow objective: what magnitude, and why? And how is your jud
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by ben509 7y ago
"Golden parachute" is just a pejorative for "severance pay." And, it shouldn't be surprising the person hired to be a company's chief negotiator tends to negotiate themselves a good deal.
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by ben509 7y ago
> But with all what happened, authorities are extra thorough before allowing the 737 MAX to fly again. I think this is entirely true, but it's an interesting commentary on the structure of regulation: it's some small part techn
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by ben509 7y ago
Certainly having started from scratch at the company would help him as a leader as the rank and file knew that he had been in their shoes, at one time. But, yeah, being steeped in the culture may very well have been part of this problem as
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by ben509 7y ago
My feelings on the subject are entirely dependent on luck. If I'm trying to do something, naturally most of the time, I'm cursing the notifications and trying to skip past them. If there's less pressure, I might read through
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by ben509 7y ago
It's incredibly confusing if you naively use a list as a default argument, e.g. def foo(some_list=[]): ... some_list.append(3) ... Since the default is constructed when the function is evaluated, it&#x2
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by ben509 7y ago
Here's a thought: maybe do most of the feedback during the interview process. Train interviewers to explain their reasoning for the questions they're asking and what they're trying to evaluate. And then, at the close, ident
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by ben509 7y ago
When the question is asked "why are you doing this" and the answer is, "because it's our policy," what that means is, "we are doing this thing because it's the thing we do." I think people who give th
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by ben509 7y ago
That question has come up a few times, lots of good discussion in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20058697 And the back and forth on whether you really need it: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by ben509 7y ago
The problem with the CJR presenting themselves as neutral is that they are an interest group, and their idea of "honest" and the "public interest" is their business model being promoted. And that's not peculiar to j
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by ben509 7y ago
> This is what happens when regulators don't promote a fair marketplace. > Because Amazon has out priced or out delivered many local stores , we don't have those choices any more. Original post referred to the marketplace
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by ben509 7y ago
An editorial agenda is normally very easy to hide. If you're a paper and you support an administration, you're going to do so by suppressing news that harms your side, and if you dislike an administration, you suppress news that i
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by ben509 7y ago
> This is business, nothing else. That's entirely the case. Apple has to weigh the cost of maintaining compatibility against the value it brings. And it's hard to see how if the developer can't make a business case for upd
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by ben509 7y ago
Seems like coastal real estate is fucked either way.
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by ben509 7y ago
I didn't want to get into what your motivations may be, but I alluded to this: Now, if no one is picking up trash and you want it picked up, then by all means go pick it up. The idea was that you might be doing it yourself because, i
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by ben509 7y ago
All the QR code needs to encode is a URL pointing to their authentication endpoint. If it's reasonably standardized, any password manager could implement it. Login would be: * scan QR code, sees https:/ /megacorp.com/l
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by ben509 7y ago
Technically, there is an infintesimal chance that entropy spontaneously reverses permanently and that nothing ever dies.
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by ben509 7y ago
The economic consideration comes down to the real value of the labor, and that depends heavily on the economic benefits of specialization. A day of you doling out soup to people or picking up trash won't be worth any more than what som
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by ben509 7y ago
That would be consistent with all the really terrible apps I've seen.
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by ben509 7y ago
> Otherwise various efforts making use of containers, lightweight virtualization, and binary wrappers for the purposes of introducing new options to companies allowing them reasonable backward compatibility for the various applications t
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by ben509 7y ago
Encryption is a 2nd amendment issue. It's not a private expression, encryption algorithms are armaments that have always been used as such in warfare, and still are. And the Internet means that private citizens are routinely defending
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by ben509 7y ago
> People love to cite this reason, but practically speaking, it's FUD. > Either way, lack of rename support in diff-based schema management You're trying to polish a turd here, this isn't "lack of support" it&
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by ben509 7y ago
Kind of not understanding the reality of the military's mission, and a disconnect from the consequences of their actions. It looked, to me, that they were just following a bunch of steps without thinking about whether any of it works.

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