ben509

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by ben509 7y ago
> It is, realistically, the smartest financial choice to invest in growing the people you hire instead of just throwing them away and hiring new ones every quarter. Absolutely, a capable person can contribute far more if they develop pro
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by ben509 7y ago
> They did not include the time it took to transfer the input file from memory to the GPU Fair point, it's more support for this HN post[2] making the case for memory-mapping files to GPU. > This is a neat project, but there is a
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by ben509 7y ago
Theoretically, a regular expression can be expressed in constant space, and that's profoundly limiting, so anything that requires so much as a stack is not a regex. That includes basic things like capture groups. That doesn't mean
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by ben509 7y ago
I'm thinking of using it (or a slightly hacked modification) because I keep a "master" resume in a messy LaTeX doc with lots of crap I usually filter out, and with variable accuracy in things like dates. But if I change caree
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by ben509 7y ago
Standard issues with these derived password schemes: * Are you sure your algorithm can't be reversed? * What do you do if your normal username is taken? * What do you do when the site's name changes? * How do you handle forbidden
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by ben509 7y ago
What do you actually do about an alarm? Okay, I just got an email, check there's no release planned, I go through the diff and, oh crap, my customers are being pwned. Now I'm going to have to drop everything and manually disable
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by ben509 7y ago
Some 3rd party services, though, serve up libraries, e.g. disqus.
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by ben509 7y ago
Under "pricing" all the "start" buttons say "sart". (Checked Chrome and FF.)
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by ben509 7y ago
> It seems like everyone just explains the relational algebra, then leaves it right there. Fair point. > What is the exact nature of the complexity explosion you are talking about here? I'm thinking in terms of the entities of Oc
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by ben509 7y ago
A SQL DBMS (run of the mill) gives you a well thought out data model (the SQL model, derived from the relational model) that implements your business logic in terms of a well designed, well understood data model. Conceptually, the relationa
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by ben509 7y ago
I think a person pursuing a privacy agenda would still want to raise those other complaints, though. The reason is that while a technically inclined person probably has the means to cope with them, the point of a privacy agenda is broader:
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by ben509 7y ago
I think GP is referring to the usage in translated material, not its usage by native speakers.
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by ben509 7y ago
As someone who works on math intensive back-end stuff, and routinely can't google things, I'll defend web-devs: Most occupations are not intellectual in the slightest, nor do they require a high IQ. They do require other talents
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by ben509 7y ago
Also, giving people a signal that you're lazy or view them as a resource to exploit is an awful way to start a conversation. Any given community's patience is, unfortunately, subject to the tragedy of the commons.
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by ben509 7y ago
They don't handle it well. I worked on a service that had some severe technical constraints at a prior job. (Basically, we were hosting a vendor's network device to the cloud, and it really wasn't designed for it, and it also
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by ben509 7y ago
Recalls make a lot of sense if mass announcements are sent with mistakes, so people aren't confused by having the incorrect version in a busy inbox.
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by ben509 7y ago
You don't need to require OEMs sell their parts. They just need to be unencumbered by IP and other restrictions, i.e. customs. Then the parts will become available on the secondary market as companies disassemble dead devices and resel
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by ben509 7y ago
I worked at AWS on a service team, and did a lot of work with CF. CF's limitations are in part due to the fact that AWS services are all independent entities and the interoperability services have tremendous difficulty getting other se
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by ben509 7y ago
The trustworthy experts are the self-interested ones. The sugar producers, for instance, have a price floor for the goods they supply. But they have experts who know the danger of price floors, so they made sure their deal requires that the
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by ben509 7y ago
Yup. Pretty sure the most referentially transparent function will stop if you unplug the power.
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by ben509 7y ago
It could possibly make sense in Typescript, depending on how good generics are. But, generally, functional programming really shines when you have build-time type enforcement so you're not guessing as to whether things will work toge
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by ben509 7y ago
> I also think people have a right to use the extensions they want to scrape or block content on sites they visit > Why should a company like linkedin be FORCED to serve anyone? Companies are routinely forced to serve people per the A
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by ben509 7y ago
That's how organizations get stuck with a status quo. The key is to understand they're quite sincere; when they think it through, they have this massively successful encyclopedia as evidence that solidly justifies their conviction
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by ben509 7y ago
> ... are considered failures (or at least security risks) because they allow a third party to act on object implementation internals. Well, not really, in Java you had to opt in, and you could implement the readObject and writeObject me
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by ben509 7y ago
> If something is a legitimate callout of hypocrisy I'd like to nail down when accusing someone of hypocrisy is legitimate. (I don't think I'm disagreeing with your larger point, more clarifying.) If the person is insistin
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by ben509 7y ago
But I can build a computer that would accept any pair of integers you sent it, add them and return the result. Granted, they'd have to be streamed over a network, in little-endian form, but unbounded integer addition is truly doable. A
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by ben509 7y ago
> If you want a tolerant society, you need to be intolerant of intolerance. But what's the limit of this process? The end state will continue to be intolerant of intolerance, because people will continue to think bad things. All tha
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by ben509 7y ago
Please post your thoughts rather than dropping a link with no commentary.
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by ben509 7y ago
It's really not all that subtle. If you want to laud yourself as tolerant and pure, and then do bad and intolerant things, one way to avoid the obvious inconsistency is to furrow your brow and say, "well, it's a paradox,&quot
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by ben509 7y ago
> Obviously it is my responsibility to keep those bytes away from you. If you're in your home changing and accidentally leave a window open, I shouldn't be watching you through binoculars. Whether it's bits and bytes or im

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