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by delluminatus 12y ago
The end in this case being the ability to decrypt cellphone traffic. And what will that capacity be used for? Spying on foreign nations? Halting nonexistent terrorist plots? Further secret surveillance of American citizens? If we judge the
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by delluminatus 12y ago
You said yourself that you can believe that sexism is worse in tech than in other professions. That is already a problem worth discussing. Why is it worse? What can we do to correct that discrepancy? I will go so far as to say your suggesti
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by delluminatus 12y ago
It seems quite attractive overall, but I think the dark background header and the partially colored text are a little gratuitous. What matters in a resume is the content -- the experience and skills -- not the title or the headings. I would
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Homeschooling is interesting, because it has the potential to be a lot better for children than public school, but it can also be a lot worse. It is a topic close to my heart because I was partly homeschooled, and I have seen firsthand some
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Meteor -- the JS framework -- uses something much like this, which they call "latency compensation". It's a core part of their ideology. Data is prefetched or given default values that give the user at least something to look
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by delluminatus 12y ago
I think that's a false dilemma. In my mind, part of "fighting" cancer is trying to mitigate its impact on your everyday life, and acceptance probably plays a key role in that process. It's not like being angry and afraid
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by delluminatus 12y ago
It depends on your usage. Sure, source files are (hopefully) not going near that size, but many people regularly open multiple-MB log files or data files. Also, for me at least, it's the principle of the thing -- we are talking about a
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by delluminatus 12y ago
I remember that feeling in my upper-division math classes in college -- PDEs, abstract algebra, etc. It seemed to me like I was struggling (which was a new experience for me in math class) and to make it worse, I sat next to this guy who al
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by delluminatus 12y ago
I thought this was going to be a humblebrag -- and boy, it sure started out that way -- but I was pleasantly surprised by the end. It made me think about how some tools, libraries, or frameworks seem to prefer to use buzzwords or neologisms
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by delluminatus 12y ago
I think your analogy has confused some people but yes, that's what he's saying. I believe he's confused "800 rounds in a minute" -- which is impossible -- with "800 rounds per minute" -- which is a rate of
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Oh well. I guess if you want "neologism" to mean "any word invented in the past 300 years", that's your prerogative, but I take a very different meaning. One interesting side-effect of that interpretation is that &q
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Ah, another person who talks like a book. I also get that quite regularly. I have a bit of a personal rule, though, where I never use a more complicated word when a simpler one would work. After all, conversation is at heart a means of comm
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Ironically, it works if you disable Javascript. edit: seems to be working anyway.
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by delluminatus 12y ago
The thing that struck me about it was that the $scope.displayName() function shadows itself by setting $scope.displayName again: $scope.displayName = function () { if ($scope.anonymous()) { return;
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by delluminatus 12y ago
While that may begin the process, I think (obviously, I have no proof) that this nostalgic sentiment is "hard-wired" into humanity, because it seems like throughout history mankind has always looked at the past and felt longing fo
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Yeah, it totally sucks. That is one of the reasons that, in projects that I expect to be maintaining for a long time, I shy away from frameworks with inversion of control, like Angular or Rails. I prefer the wiring to be exposed, so to spea
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by delluminatus 12y ago
I don't think you always need to know exactly what's going on. Angular is a lot like Rails in my mind -- there is "magic", but it makes things easier. Personally, I never thought Angular was very hard to understand. The
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by delluminatus 12y ago
I've made applications using both React and Angular. Qualitatively, Angular is way easier to get started, but React "feels nicer" (it's hard to explain, but because you have to handle a lot of the eventing and message pa
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by delluminatus 12y ago
There are my idle thoughts on the matter: I have also caught the nostalgia bug, but I suspect that in the future we will come to see this as a bug in people , not in technology. And, eventually, I suspect that we will "fix" that
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Personally, I experienced this with programming. When I learned to program in high school, it never struck me as a chore; it was always just interesting and I enjoyed it. However, I think the only reason I was able to enjoy learning progr
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by delluminatus 12y ago
I quite like F# - it's similar to Haskell, but since it's a .NET language, you have an extensive STL and tons of 3rd party libraries. It works great with C#, so you can switch between functional and OO programming depending on you
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Not if you're unfamiliar with Ruby on Rails, I guess. It's a little tricky to characterize because of how much stuff it contains. Basically it has a number of different components, that work together to make a structured environme
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Meteor.js is basically Ruby on Rails for Node.js and MongoDB, plus a Javascript library for view-model binding. It's a monolithic framework for building database-backed single-page applications in 100% Javascript.
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Like you say, science can't really help with questions of subjective experience. I think this is more about observing an objective phenomenon, which is that "thought" can affect random number generators. The problem, as sta
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by delluminatus 12y ago
It's a good first step, however unless the experiments are repeatable/independent, it's not particularly trustworthy. Consider that they may be falsifying or misinterpreting data. The only way to be sure they aren't -- o
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by delluminatus 12y ago
It's for Google Analytics tracking of links. The links in the page use Javascript: <a onclick="goTracked("link-external", "http://octopart.com/bb-bblk-000-circuitco+electronics-2647
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by delluminatus 12y ago
I feel like I would think this was cool if I understood it better. I think it needs a more clear statement of value. Since the videos are mostly just a guy talking, I would consider transcribing them into a tutorial or Getting Started forma
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by delluminatus 12y ago
A lot of things "correlate with IQ" to varying degrees. Education level, length of sleep, size of vocabulary, etc. I don't understand why the relationships you suggested would be socially unacceptable. But just because those
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Do you know why? Is it just to encourage people to take more vacation time?
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by delluminatus 12y ago
Color me envious. I currently get 10 paid vacation days total per year.

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