bonobo

9 ms·

31.
by bonobo 12y ago
And this complexity doesn't end there because, in order to deal with these heavy employee taxes, it's not uncommon for IT companies to ask employees to open their own one-man companies to avoid these taxes. Now having a B2B relati
32.
by bonobo 12y ago
> Isn't that how software is meant to work? Different schools of thought. Some say software should be able to handle all your data without having to ask you everytime it shifts a bit around — convenient, but with the implicit cost
33.
by bonobo 12y ago
Another big factor for the communities' explosion was their misuse. The way communities were displayed in your profile page leaked enough metadata that people started using them as badges instead. Some time around 2006 people started c
34.
by bonobo 12y ago
I usually say that I don't have trouble sleeping, my trouble is with changing states :) I seldom go to bed in time because I hate to lay there trying to get asleep. Wanting to make more use of my day also doesn't help; I don'
35.
by bonobo 13y ago
Lately the only thing I've been feeling ashamed of is the amount of code I DIDN'T write. I think this is mostly because I fear feeling ashamed of my code after it's running or, even worse, after it's public. I don't
36.
by bonobo 13y ago
That's not an uncommon question at all. This is a single instance of a set of philosophical questions related to qualia[1], i.e., the question of subjectivity and conscious experience. Richard Dawkins stretches the question a little mo
37.
by bonobo 13y ago
Oh boy, these are awesome! :D I'm especially fond of game #1. It reminded me of an old html game I played in which I had to use the mouse to drag a rectagle around, avoiding collisions with other rectangles that bounced around. I remem
38.
by bonobo 13y ago
You missed what I think is baklava's main point: " The only things that have changed are access to such ideas and the volume of our records ." Your argument that " The essay reflected that something has gone wrong in our
39.
by bonobo 13y ago
I understand the induction steps, but what I don't get is why the foreigner's statement triggers the logic induction. This quote from your first link sums it well: What's most interesting about this scenario is that, fo
40.
by bonobo 13y ago
Yes, it's still the same coin, but you don't know which coin you got. You know that you got 10 consecutive heads though. How improbable this is if you got a fair coin? How probable this is with the double-head coin? This is the da
41.
by bonobo 13y ago
Or perhaps you're misinterpreting him. I don't think there's a need to call the author a special kind of asshole , there's nothing there implying that he's referring to himself when saying egoless. At least the way
42.
by bonobo 13y ago
I don't think this problem applies though. You're stashing right after a commit, so your stage is empty at this point.
43.
by bonobo 13y ago
I find myself guilty on that last strain of procrastination: feeling so anxious about being late on a deadline that I end up delaying it even more, closing the loop. Gathering the courage to face the task didn't work so far. Every time
44.
by bonobo 13y ago
I've never seen this definition, but I've seen two different ones that were often confused: the division in North, Central and South Americas where Mexico belongs to North America, and the division in Anglo-Saxonic and Latin Ameri
45.
by bonobo 13y ago
I don't think it's appropriate to make fun of somebody else's culture "for a real laugh," but these links were interesting anyway. So, thank you.
46.
by bonobo 13y ago
Something I don't get, why is a hotmail account a pre-requisite? Wouldn't this work with any other email account?
47.
by bonobo 13y ago
This idea that consciousness emerges from complexity is the study field of Giulio Tononi[1], and I find his point of view particularly interesting. This is not to say that we have something concrete in hands yet, but I like his approach non
48.
by bonobo 13y ago
You might find this story quite interesting: http://qntm.org/responsibility
49.
by bonobo 13y ago
> Comonads tend to well represent a notion of computing where you're isolating a particular section of your data in relation to its context. This was the piece missing for me to understand comonads, worded exactly the way I needed.
50.
by bonobo 13y ago
This isn't the first time I got myself wondering "where do people derive these ideas from?" I need to read and re-read (and perhaps read once again) a post full of pictures every time someone try to explain me a new concept i
51.
by bonobo 13y ago
First time my in-laws saw "the book" they were trying to find information about vacation spots in Brazil but their grandpa's diaries were obsolete, I found a printed book a monk had written up about where the best places to
52.
by bonobo 14y ago
The greedy alligator always wants the bigger prey. It took me a long time to differentiate the symbols because, before using the alligator metaphor, my teacher tried this one: cross a line that goes perperdicular to the bottom part of the s
53.
by bonobo 14y ago
It's not just you, I thought the same thing while reading the article. It may be a different thing if you're working on a profit center vs on a cost center I guess. If your clients are outsourcing their software needs to you (so, basically,
54.
by bonobo 14y ago
This one[1][2] is the only one that I remember seeing his name, but it's a very good one. In his answer he explains branch prediction, and ended up receiving more than 5000 upvotes for it. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196 [
55.
by bonobo 14y ago
I wouldn't give much importance to it, the only problem I see is the amount of visibility this kind of contribution have. I think it should instead be only a small footnote. It's an edit, we can't assume the editor contributed significantly
56.
by bonobo 14y ago
Use the cache, Luke: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Acodet...
57.
by bonobo 14y ago
What I meant was that the article was not about MongoDB at all. I think thefreeman summarized it better than me on his reply: the author is talking about his experiences on running more than one DBMS in production, not about MongoDB in part
58.
A Beautiful Equation Explained: Euler's Identity (Ignite Bristol)(youtube.com)
2 points by bonobo 14y ago|0 comments
59.
by bonobo 14y ago
I was expecting a post describing why MongoDB specifically weren't fit to their use case, but the TL;DR version is basically: " Before you get too excited, the reason for the failure is probably not any of the ones you're imagining. Mainly
60.
by bonobo 14y ago
Foursquare[1] and Codecademy[2] are two that I know of. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBauy0o-Wzs [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkPmVQNesZA

More ›