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by delhanty 9y ago
>But it isn’t easy to ... Surely that's a significant understatement. Once mega copy dev has planted that idea in one's mind it must be hard to kill off. So maybe one needs to have thought about the possibility of an unwelcom
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Sorry to hear about how you were given the run around. It reminded me of the advice from one of Paul Graham's essays: Don't Talk to Corp Dev [1] >Distractions are the thing you can least afford in a st
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by delhanty 9y ago
Parasolid [1] is 30 years old and is the dominant B-rep solid modeling kernel powering Solidworks, Siemens NX and Solid Edge. It's very difficult to see it being replaced as it is so entrenched. Parasolid (written in a C dialect) was a
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I don't understand what it means either. But one thing I've picked up is that inflammation isn't all bad - in fact some of it is necessary, particularly for growth. Obviously, as you get older growth becomes less necessary, a
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by delhanty 9y ago
>How the heck did "" get in there? Something like (E(t)-P).(E(t)-P) where E is the ellipse and P is the point. >Is there a reason not to use the cubic formula in this situation? Numerical stability in edge cases, wh
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I don't think there was any trick. One approach is to use the rational quadratic parametrization of the ellipse and substitute that into the squared distance function to get a quartic. >I try to avoid using quadratic solutions in c
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by delhanty 9y ago
>I had a problem which required finding the minimum distance between an ellipse and a point. If that had been my day job ... OT: I had the problem as part of my 1st day job in 1990 on Parasolid. IIRC, there was more than one way of conve
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by delhanty 9y ago
>...like airplanes, is possible because someone quasi suicided I agree with some of that. Progress and freedom have costs. Where it gets problematic for me is when there is a promoting entity that doesn't have skin in the game [0].
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by delhanty 9y ago
Six hours late on this thread and I can't see anyone calling out GoPro and friends: >Five days earlier, the GoPro star Uli Emanuele, 29, died when he crashed in the Dolomites of his native country, Italy. Freedom for these people (m
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Think about all the references to hiring "cowboy coders" and "code ninjas." From my memory since the mid 1980s, those references came in somewhat later - about the time tech became cool and there was money to be made
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you for reply. >There just aren't that many of us That was my point really - female geeks/nerds existed back in the day before tech was cool. It's just the natural level of interest (NOT ability) seemed to be more li
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Until recent years all developers I met were socially awkward men, me included. +1 - that's how I remember it too! I asked the following 12 days ago [0]: >One thing I'd like to ask the women in this forum: >If you'd
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by delhanty 9y ago
Also, support is limited to the country that you purchased the device in - see comment by `nailer from 79 days ago HN [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14400873
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by delhanty 9y ago
>For example, if you assume the negation of AC then you can prove that there's a collection of nonempty sets whose cartesian product is empty. Equally bizarre! Intuitively, that's not "obviously" false to me. Similarl
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by delhanty 9y ago
One thing I'd like to ask the women in this forum: If you'd grown up back in the day before tech was cool and techies were (generally) just nerds with no money, would you have still been interested in tech? My recollection from my
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by delhanty 9y ago
>but I never understood why just using map/filter/reduce and avoiding state is enough for code to be called "functional programming" Maybe that's enough to count as first-order functional programming ? The Wikipe
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by delhanty 9y ago
>coworkers banging on in excitement whenever 7-11 has an Onigiri sale dropping from 110 to 100 yen Usually it's an up to 150 yen onigiri for 100 yen, so of course they're going to get excited. Edit: It looks like it is/was
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by delhanty 9y ago
I'm with `detaro - see her/his well-written answer to your follow up.
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by delhanty 9y ago
It's clear enough to me. In a well written article, he's advocating a middle way. On the one hand, if you borrow an idea from another person or source, then you should cite it. Just because it's only the arXiv doesn't
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by delhanty 9y ago
TLDR: my 2 cents - that 6% is ripe for disruption, so if Redfin have a differentiator maybe that price surge is justified. For letting, my experience of comparing Hawaii with the UK is that one has to pay around 10% (plus misc charges) for
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by delhanty 9y ago
For those considering MS Surface, be aware that, unlike Apple, support is limited to the country that you purchased the device in. See this comment from 2 months ago on HN [1]. Because of that negative point, I'm now considering one of
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by delhanty 9y ago
>"Food A is good for me and Food B is bad for me" is not how health works. Your oversimplifying what I said. As it happens, I generally favor a holistic approach to nutrition too.
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Worse still is casually lumping together all different types of fat as simply "fat". Different types of fat have different nutritional effects and should be considered as different nutrients.
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>they both use open-loop policies that lead to massive volatility Is that really the (only) reason that there is a massive volatility? Why isn't gold more volatile than it is then? I'd say that another reason for massive volat
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by delhanty 9y ago
>What is the use case here? Clicking through on the link that says "more discussion here" [1] the OP does at least explain the original problem with Excel that he was trying to address: >Mesh was started because I couldn&#x2
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>My most recent 'big' fortune 500 company put me under very strict legal terms regarding what type of software I was allowed to use. Any code I didn't write 100% myself had to be approved by legal before it could be used i
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by delhanty 9y ago
+1 Apple (and the others) controls how much they invest in writing secure code, and how they manage the trade-offs with, for example, investment in shiny new functionality. So when they make a security slip up and write code that contains a
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Responding to feedback from the ‘wrong’ customers kills so many products/startups. That's something I wonder about with Show HN. Aren't many of us on HN inherently the 'wrong' customer for any product or servic
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by delhanty 9y ago
As a Brit living in Japan, I'm struck that the connection between organised crime and seaside towns seems, unsurprisingly really, to be a universal phenomenom. For example, in Japan the seaside town of Atami in Shizuoka is where the In
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by delhanty 9y ago
There's more to it than just available capital though. A still-shrinking working-age population will have to look after a still-expanding retired population. IIRC (no reference), Japanese pensioners on aggregate have lots of savings.

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