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by corecoder 10y ago
Do we know better than her how she feels and why?
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by corecoder 10y ago
Totally agree about power imbalance; stereotyping (and belittling in general) someone from a position of more perceived power is of course worse, no doubt about that. But parent's point was along the lines of: women can't take jok
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by corecoder 10y ago
> Make a joke about typical male stereotypes, nobody bats an eye I'm starting to think that maybe this is a problem. Maybe we should stop tolerating male stereotypes. Edit: typo.
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by corecoder 10y ago
Sure, but are we sure these probes are instantaneous? What if it takes more than zero time to build a Dyson sphere? As I said earlier, you're only proving that they have been building spheres for less time than it takes to finish up th
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by corecoder 10y ago
I don't get this argument. Let's just posit that every single advanced civilization ends up building lots and lots of Dyson spheres (which I'm totally unconvinced of). Now, can you prove that there are no such spheres out the
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by corecoder 10y ago
Why so?
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by corecoder 10y ago
Adaptations in a couple millennia? I doubt it. I don't think there's much a living being can do to become more resistant to radiations; the most effective trick seems to be being small.
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by corecoder 10y ago
Well, predictable in the sense that they would either reach the Moon and come back, or reach the Moon and die trying to come back, or reach the Moon and die there, or die along the way to the Moon, or explode in the air, or explode on the g
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by corecoder 10y ago
IMHO you should only accept the cut if you answer absolutely yes to the following questions: * are you 100% sure that, if revenue had been higher than expected, they would have given you a substantial raise? Or are you supposed to share the
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by corecoder 10y ago
Nice attempt, but: 1. I won't speak for BLM, but protesting in a visible way is not action for action's sake. 2. this is just an old joke. No, those who oppose racism don't think racists are an inferior race. Also, they oppos
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by corecoder 10y ago
The problem is that most of your neighbours and friends would see you as the hippy idealist guy who gave up apples in vain, because while you don't use apples anymore, airplanes full of apples keep flying, apples factories and farms ke
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by corecoder 10y ago
You say they couldn't find anyone else, and I can think of only three possible reasons for this: * You are using some very rare technology, so rare that there are literally no engineers that know it well. If that is the case, and the t
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by corecoder 10y ago
It depends on the codebase. Open source projects are probably a bad example, as they tend to be well (or at least decently) written: code has cohesion and is organised in a rational way, so that you can usually find pretty quickly the piece
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Some of the people with whom he used to communicate may still be alive.
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by corecoder 10y ago
Sure you can, but you better clean up on server side, or find a way to prevent any of 7+ billion people from posting maliciously.
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by corecoder 10y ago
I really enjoy environments in which everyone feels safe asking dumb questions; if I have a question and there's someone able to answer, I ask. I like answering questions, especially when this leads to someone's growth; it's
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by corecoder 10y ago
I don't know, I'm starting to think that all this is either propaganda for ad sellers or a prank Google, Facebook et all are doing to me. Google has my full search history, all my hangout chats, all my e-mails, and yet: * On my An
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by corecoder 10y ago
JavaScript, webfonts, XHR... In my experience, if you don't wait most of the times you get a blank page.
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by corecoder 10y ago
They mean that it's hard to write a static analysis tool that can determine if functions using recursion will ever terminate or not.
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by corecoder 10y ago
> Do you have the right to tell them? This I don't understand: what does it mean? What is the right to warn people of dangers? How do you earn such a right? How do you lose it? Have someone else tell them if you think you haven&#x27
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by corecoder 10y ago
Not that I am that good at following her advice, but: you have to look at your code in a more dynamic way; you try several designs, thus several abstractions, and you know which abstractions are bad because they don't work for you at s
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by corecoder 10y ago
Jeff Atwood was so right! He was talking of StackOverflow, but it happens on HN too: if you answer a question with a link to a google search, the first or second result will eventually be the question itself, with the increasingly useless (
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by corecoder 10y ago
Innovation is not the point; there's nothing wrong in building early stage prototypes, even incomplete or mostly non working ones. But you should not sell them as production ready, nor employ them in providing a service sold as product
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by corecoder 10y ago
Also: I can't skate, but I used to be able to juggle almost decently. Sure, learning to juggle involves some degree of conscious learning, but really the cerebellum does almost all the work. You look at someone doing a new trick and un
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by corecoder 10y ago
You surely can (and in certain circumstances must) consciously control some parts of your movements, but mostly you are aware of the high level goal and the "main" body part movements, but there's simply no way that you can c
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by corecoder 10y ago
Interesting article, but I don't get why so much surprise at the notion that we don't consciously control every single muscle, joint and nerve as we run. We never ever consciously control every anything, period. Just try to list t
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by corecoder 10y ago
Had his text been the body of an email, I would have concluded that it must be some new variation of the Nigerian scam; being on HN, I really have no idea what it is.
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by corecoder 10y ago
Shouldn't `say 'all done!'` just work without the osascript part?
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by corecoder 10y ago
Here in Italy Netflix there are a lot of english subtitles available—except when they are really needed: I watched Misfits in english without subtitles and it took a lot to start to understand what they say.
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by corecoder 10y ago
I think that we have to give up the idea that we can understand anything about thought and more generally cognitive processes by looking at how it "feels" thinking (or doing math, vision, etc). The more we observe how we work, the

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