bloaf

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1. 571.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   "Don't move fast and break things when the things are people."
2. 572.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   So why wouldn't you just put c before the arr[padding#] chars?
3. 573.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   See also: ordering text with numbers in them. I've worked with several programs that present results as "Thing number 1" "Thing number 10" "Thing number 2" ... Which IS of course alphabetical order, but it
4. 574.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   Wasn't the whole Incan Empire money-free?
5. 575.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   I think this says it very well: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html >One of the examples from the Plan 9 survey paper is the way FTP access to remote sites is implemented. There is
6. 576.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   I hope someone can find a niche for Plan 9, be it on the RPi or somewhere else. So many of its ideas seem to me to be obviously correct in the sense that they logically and conceptually-purely fix the warts other Unix-like OSes have.
7. 577.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   So what's the status of open source printer firmware that doesn't have secret tracky dots?
8. 578.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   I don't know if I'd be courageous enough to run random internet code server side, but I know there are some people that do. I was thinking about trying to get a lisp-to-javascript compiler, then use it to compile a lisp-interprete
9. 579.▲
   by bloaf 9y ago

   I'd like to make a wikipedia-of-code where each page corresponds to a "project" like the ones listed here. The project entry would look like a Jupyter notebook, and you can edit/execute the code freely.
10. 580.▲
    by bloaf 9y ago

    Haha, yeah, clearly text is so much better: view-source:https//www.google.com/
11. 581.▲
    by bloaf 9y ago

    I've always suspected it should be possible to charge people in non-monetary ways. That is to say: charge them by having them give you computer resources.
12. 582.▲
    by bloaf 9y ago

    I like WA, but most of the quantitative info is what I'd call "highschool stuff." It is improving all the time, and some of it's math capabilities can reach into advanced undergraduate territory, though. https:/&#
13. 583.▲
    by bloaf 9y ago

    A better search engine is a project that is near and dear to my heart. PG describes the problems with google as trying too hard to give you information you'll like (as opposed to information that is correct) and a loss of focus on the
14. 584.▲
    by bloaf 9y ago

    A beginner would not want to break compatibility with every tutorial/instruction manual. They would be faced with decisions about the placement of shortcuts they're not even sure what they do. They definitely wouldn't have
15. 585.▲
    by bloaf 9y ago

    I bet it can at least create bookmarks to arbitrary URLs though. http://imgur.com/FrXs6U6
16. 586.▲
    by bloaf 9y ago

    Hence the joke in the bug report.
17. 587.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    Wouldn't all of this be provided by the Plan9 paradigm?
18. 588.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    I'd suggest that maybe we're all looking at programming the wrong way. Not everyone can build a decent sized building, and the people designing and managing their construction are likely also in the top intelligence quartile. But
19. 589.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    Do ISP's keep detailed logs as far back as 2005?
20. 590.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    It still seems bad to me. Lets suppose your hiring process is fantastic, and there is an unlimited pool of high quality candidates. Every time you fire a below-10% person, you hire someone who is better than everyone else on the team. In
21. 591.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    Would it work well for algorithms like A*, or other quazi-AI problems that crop up in games?
22. 592.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    You mean this 1Password? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=88...
23. 593.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    I think there are two fundamentally different kinds of dialogue on the internet. 1. Dialogue in communities directed towards a purpose. 2. Dialogue in public forums. In my mind, the only place where filtering should take place is in #1. If
24. 594.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    Science communicators/journalists can turn "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a casual relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or &
25. 595.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    Question: how much like a kotatsu is the end result? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu
26. 596.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    I missed the "graduate" part of "graduate school" and was temporarily impressed that Japanese high school students would have to learn eigenvalues/vectors. The second question about rotations seemed right out of an
27. 597.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    I'd argue that there are essentially two problems in computer science: 1. Math. 2. Dealing with the hardware. Virtually all the ugliness is a product of the interface between these two areas. Dealing with the hardware requires a fasci
28. 598.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    I've thought that Haskell should consider resurrecting the old convention of putting a commented header at the beginning of their code that explains the single-letter notation in a more friendly way. Then they can have their terse syn
29. 599.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    My wariness with respect to the PSR are these two features: 1) The PSR is typically defended empirically. That is, the reason for believing in the PSR is usually some form of "we observe that things happen for reasons." 2) No pro
30. 600.▲
    by bloaf 10y ago

    "Engaged in" makes it sound like they're more interested in ongoing disobedience, e.g. the folks at sci-hub.