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by davnn 9y ago
> a decently powerful desktop Mac That's to be defined. I for example use a MBP with an E-GPU Setup (Sonnet Echo Express-III with a Pascal GPU inside). Put the MBP in my Docking station and I have a decently powerful desktop Mac. I
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by davnn 10y ago
I like them. It's not that I don't like point-free functions but more often than not specifying the point makes sense in my opinion — more clarity, less beauty.
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by davnn 10y ago
> With sufficient type information reasoning is easy enough that even the compiler can verify correctness. I think we have a different opinion on "easy to reason about". With easy to reason about I mean the time it takes me to
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by davnn 10y ago
> Use it when it makes your code more readable, avoid it otherwise. That's probably the most useful approach to point-free programming.
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by davnn 10y ago
I have yet to see the benefits of point-free programming. Don't get me wrong it's fun, but in my opinion it makes reasoning about programs much harder. I am a huge fan of functional programming nevertheless. The opinion that a poi
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by davnn 10y ago
Your anecdotal statement doesn't bring much to the discussion, but there surely are great differences in tap water quality around the globe. I have just found an investigation why the risk for AK is higher in the UK. (seems to have to
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by davnn 10y ago
> It would be nice if Apple started using OLED displays in iPhones, but I don't care so much about that. My iPhone 6S screen looks fine to me, and I don't feel any need to upgrade. It's a shame. My iPhones still feel like
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by davnn 10y ago
The reach should be quit limited or not? Imo it's kind of the point to make it accessible to everyone.
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Ask HN: Allowed to publish data of paywalled research articles?
2 points by davnn 10y ago|1 comments
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by davnn 10y ago
Coming from the PC universe, the process is different. 1. Define: You first decide what you actually want 2. Search: Your search is entirely based on value for money (you have defined value before) 3. Decide: You read reviews and decide whi
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by davnn 10y ago
> I could sit down and do 200 vocabulary words 90% retention after a single pass. I'm nowhere close now. Would be interesting to quantify such changes, but my guess would be that the changes are smaller than expected or felt.
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Are Notifications Driving Us Crazy?(blog.hubspot.com)
1 points by davnn 10y ago|0 comments
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by davnn 10y ago
There is some progress or at least hope in this area. http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-scrollbar
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by davnn 10y ago
Java/JWM interop was a good starting point to make corporate adoption easier and Scala was/is pretty successful with that strategy. However, in my opinion, Scala developers are not necessarily interested in Java and see it more as
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by davnn 10y ago
Awesome, I much prefer a creative idea than knowing the tool used for creation.
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by davnn 10y ago
Implicitly attributed to user error probably.
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by davnn 10y ago
Why?
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by davnn 10y ago
The real productivity killer is multi-tasking and in my opinion the problem with using digital media is that it's too effortless to start multi-tasking. There are already apps that restrict yourself to certain programs or websites - th
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by davnn 10y ago
That's actually a really interesting idea - hand off driving to a remote person when the conditions are bad. But would a car's connectivity and latency allow for that to be safe? Edit: If not there would still be some form control
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by davnn 10y ago
I found an article about the "biggest loser study" pretty interesting a few months ago, but didn't investige further. Tldr: It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest.
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by davnn 10y ago
Thinking from first principles. Sometimes starting the other way around might be helpful - not seeking inspiration but defining the essence of your value proposition and starting from there. We often tend to develop horseless carriages.
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by davnn 10y ago
It's not that people are too stupid to understand, they just did a really bad job telling us, but it kind of was their PR strategy. Look how many articles there are "I ate Soylent only for X days". Let's see how long it
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by davnn 10y ago
I share the exact same story. Progfun is a really smooth introdu tion to FP in my opinion, no crazy syntax and only the core concepts. For any deeper concepts and if you don't understand what FP really means you should check out a pure
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by davnn 10y ago
The biggest problem I see with eBooks is that they are basically only useable with plain-text. Once e-ink displays master color and formatting (probably pretty soon) I would not want to use a physical book anymore. Just a few benefits: adju
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by davnn 10y ago
I always wonder about the conversion metrics when I see an artistic website like that. I think the website would perform better without that huge header.
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by davnn 10y ago
Do you really think people care that much about the counter?
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by davnn 10y ago
What really struck me when I was seeing a presentation about self-driving cars was that Google might have over-engineered it. If Tesla gets its system right, Google will have a really hard time. Their desired lidar data monopoly would becom
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by davnn 10y ago
After you read the first three words of the main headline "a simple CMS", the chances that the site has anything to do with foresting are marginally small and thus not worth exploring.
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by davnn 10y ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10938593
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by davnn 10y ago
What about the chance of failure of a simulation? When you believe that simulations are nested like virtual machines inside virtual machines even a small chance of failure would make it highly unlikely to live in a very deeply nested simula

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