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by cantankerous 11y ago
True in theory, but not true in practice. Terrible lecturers find ways to rationalize the poor grades of their students (i.e. externalize the blame) and curve grades to get kids to pass the class. Especially bad lecturers will give the bu
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by cantankerous 12y ago
I'm using Arch linux and I've only managed to break XMonad once (or maybe twice) when I removed some packages that my config relied on. Admittedly my config file is probably pretty boring.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
"Clarkson said she filed a request for a recount after the 2014 election but was rebuffed by the Sedgwick County Election Office. Clarkson said she was told that only candidates could file for a recount of their own races." It loo
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Agree with you. HN has been (seems to be) moving away from indicators that can influence upvoting (for example, folks upvoting a comment already substantially upvoted because its upvoted while downvoting dissenting views). Coloring influe
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Curious if the folks at OpenBSD have ever thought about giving CompCert-C a shake. I realize it's no gcc or llvm, but OpenBSD is no run of the mill *nix, either. http://compcert.inria.fr/compcert-C.html EDIT: See also
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by cantankerous 12y ago
I have one with Cherry Greens. Have been loving it so far. I prefer a really heavy action and this pretty much gets me there. The keyboard is solid, like really heavy. It's nice to finally have one that doesn't feel like a pie
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by cantankerous 12y ago
He's using it to frame what he thinks is public perception. In this case, he's putting that number into some kind of perspective more relevant to regular Janes and Joes trying to become engineers. Made sense to use it, or at lea
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by cantankerous 12y ago
So what you're saying is hardware is justifiably patent-able in the same way that software currently is.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
"As for the HDL code itself, it can act as software (when it is run on an emulator or loaded into an FPGA) or as a hardware design (when it is realized in immutable silicon or a circuit board)." This statement comes with some pret
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Maybe so. I think this could be made more confusing if he was at the conference while on the company dime.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Where in the article were they directing it at the talk? I didn't catch that happening anywhere? It seemed like the two guys giggling amongst themselves to me.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
On the flip side, you're not supposed to get involved in everything that's going on around you just because it's going on. It's pretty easy to mistakenly thunder in on a half-heard conversation without any context.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
This. We are already living in a post-scarcity world, but we keep pretending that we aren't. Eventually the number of unemployed people will be so large that we won't be able to ignore the problem of excess labor.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Does your dog throw up often when taking Trifexis? I was considering making the switch, but my parents dogs both have had a really hard time with it. Eventually they (my parents) gave up on Trifexis and went back to topical stuff because
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by cantankerous 12y ago
The police are naturally going to have a skewed view of society (modulo racial and class issues) because they spend their days dealing in bad situations. If your job is dealing with "bad people" doing "bad things" you&#
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by cantankerous 12y ago
This. I was really excited about the possibilities glass could bring to my desk job, or other aspects of my daily work, but was pretty let down by how it pushed to augment aspects of my daily life where it wouldn't make any sense (goi
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by cantankerous 12y ago
While I think you're right in principle, I think the parts of the GOP and Conservative groups pushing the "starve the beast" line have completely lost control of the message. I see the same mentality applied to all levels of
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by cantankerous 12y ago
True, but when you talk about the perspective of economics, it behooves you to talk about demand, I think. The broad based demand for a college education is based on the irrational thinking that so many should have a college education in o
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Amazon is acting as the marketplace, or the conduit between producers and consumers here. In this formulation, both ends of the pipe are their customers. Yes you can make a reasonable case for quality control, but not a big one. Books ar
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by cantankerous 12y ago
The author claimed that this wasn't the case. I don't see why I would take this as a bad faith posting. You'd think if it actually were the case, Amazon would have a better way of indicating so.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
You're missing the point. The author is really talking about Amazon suppressing creativity in the written word. If you're going to take issue with the title, you should probably go with the "should be a title more in line w
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Yes. That's probably why he's beating up on Amazon....because they're picking on the little guys while ignoring the big ones.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
This article is about an opinion on writing software well, not writing good software.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Especially given that you can't reasonably enforce the rigor of your test suite by way of your language.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
This is a good point, and one I've wondered about since using LastPass. Having a segmented password safe would be nice for more secure accounts you use less often. I definitely wouldn't like to leave my password safe open in, sa
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by cantankerous 12y ago
For what it's worth, the horse battery staple is completely correct for the problem it's trying to solve. This article is about another (arguably more important) problem.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
The product appears to be his research. Presumably as a PhD candidate.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
This analogy doesn't relate to OP's comment. He's talking about secured debt with institutional lenders, not interpersonal loans. Risk is an integral component to determining your interest rate in the US. This is why there
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by cantankerous 12y ago
There's also the bit of refusing to agree to the same cost benefit function because it commits you to a standard that you can't back away from. I mean look at the global warming debate, for example.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Seconding on the SPJ book! It's a solid start for learning about the particulars of FP implementation.

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