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by d4vlx 13y ago
Good point, I definitely agree that the rights of minorities need to be protected. Some problems with this idea are with defining what are rights and what constitutes child abuse, and what to do about abuse. The extremes of social isolation
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by d4vlx 13y ago
"Their playmates were so selectively chosen that they were rarely allowed to interact with other kids at all. It showed. They were socially underdeveloped to a degree that, in retrospect, is legitimately sort of troubling." "
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by d4vlx 13y ago
Rand Paul would probably do a lot more good by learning how to think rationally.
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by d4vlx 13y ago
This article conflates Libertarians with Republicans which I don't think makes sense in Silicon Valley. Yes, nationwide they tend to be in the same group but not in the valley. Judging from comments on HN the valley does sound quite liberta
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by d4vlx 13y ago
I am still skeptical for reasons spelled out here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954 It is unclear if they are actually taking advantage or quantum effects or if similar machines could be built using much simpler and cheaper classi
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by d4vlx 13y ago
I still prefer trunk based development with very frequent commits and a strong test suite. Write 5 lines of code and a test, commit. When everyone is doing this, continuous integration is running and QA is testing continuously most problems
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by d4vlx 13y ago
This post makes me want to work at 42floors. Mission accomplished Jason ;)
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by d4vlx 14y ago
I don't think you logic works. Your table says that if a 0 is in-putted then there is a .1 chance of getting a 0 and a .8 chance of getting a 1. That leaves a probability of .1 or something else happening, but it you add a third state it is
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by d4vlx 14y ago
Exactly, instead of having a convenient -option- that could save many Americans time and money Norquist and people like him are forcing the rest of the country to use a less efficient method. In other words they are taking away people "free
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by d4vlx 14y ago
Sorry, poor wording on my part. I wasn't trying to make your struggles look easy. I actually found it heart wrenching to read about them. And was trying to point out that change can be easy when done in small steps systematically. Although
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by d4vlx 14y ago
That is an awesome story, good job Zaphar! You make it sound easy and it can be. Just keep taking the next step, keep learning, moving forward and getting feedback and almost anyone can take themselves somewhere. What is you blog BTW? It's
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by d4vlx 14y ago
"The company has an office in eastern Washington state that's basically a call center, full of headsetted women in cubicles who make calls all day long to potentially disabled Americans, trying to help them discover and document their disab
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by d4vlx 14y ago
Mybatis migrations is also a great alternative for schema migrations http://www.mybatis.org/migrations/index.html It is made by the Mybatis team but it not dependent on the Mybatis object mapping framework or on Java. It runs from the com
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by d4vlx 14y ago
I think the key here is to treat everyone like people. By publicly shaming two individuals and associating them with sexism they are being turned into figureheads for sexism. Real people make mistakes, say stupid things, are affected by the
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by d4vlx 14y ago
I no doubt he knows very well what TDD is. Even if he is being as dogmatic as plinkplonk claims I still think his advice has merit because this and the last post are great justifications for automated testing. Attacking dogmatic TDD seems b
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by d4vlx 14y ago
I interpret Bob's post as saying that having automated tests is critical, not that TDD is the one and only way to test. I know he uses the acronym TDD but his logic all points toward the value of automated tests and he did not mention that
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by d4vlx 14y ago
No http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
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by d4vlx 14y ago
The tea party uses this to great effect. At one point they had training sessions where they would encourage people to go online and post canned comments in an attempt to discredit and delegitimize their political opponents. http://www.yout
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by d4vlx 14y ago
With anything as elite as MIT there is bound to be a few very self centered narcissists.
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by d4vlx 14y ago
Could be a reason why they chose LG for the Nexus 4.
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Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into Australia(techdirt.com)
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by d4vlx 14y ago
What about http://imgur.com/BOaFPtn So compact yet so powerful.
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by d4vlx 14y ago
Ah the good old days, when computers were so simple and yet so mysterious and exciting at the same time.
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by d4vlx 14y ago
So much time and effort by talented people being used for such useless purposes. So monarchic.
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by d4vlx 14y ago
Does anyone know if invalidating patents affects previous settlements? Could the company that settled sue for their money back?
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by d4vlx 14y ago
I'm curious what people on HN believe the future holds for Bitcoins. I expect the US government will step in in the not to far future and severely restrict the ability to legitimately exchange Bitcoins for dollars. I'm not passing any judge
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by d4vlx 14y ago
Good point, but some communities seem more civil than others. I went from theoretical computer science to development and there was a noticeable drop in civility. Of course the theoretical computer science community is tiny when compared to
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by d4vlx 14y ago
The irony, it burns. I have a feeling there is an apology incoming. Everyone screws up and most people will poke some fun at some point. Seems like one of those off instances for him.
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by d4vlx 14y ago
I mostly agree with you but it seems to me elitist behaviour like this has a lot of tacit acceptance among developers. I have seen it many times in my career, and have also noticed that workplaces where is is not acceptable tend to make eve
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by d4vlx 14y ago
Developer elitism at it again. The dev community really needs to lose this trait.

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