discardable_dan

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by discardable_dan 7y ago
Brainfuck exists. It's fine.
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by discardable_dan 7y ago
At this point, I'm not so much against Rust because it's a difficult or hard thing to use, but because there's such a learning curve I can't, in good conscious, move team projects to it. "To continue to work on this
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by discardable_dan 7y ago
This is sinister in a subtle way: profiling in this capacity is not only wrong, it is self-perpetuating. If police are trained to do this, then more African Americans are arrested even without warrants, and then end up in the system /
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by discardable_dan 8y ago
The US also imprisons 1 in every 20 African Americans.
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by discardable_dan 8y ago
My main beef with R is that this is valid code: > f <- function (n) { + f <- 1 + if (n == 0) return(f) else n * f(n-1)} > f(5) [1] 120 The language has some warts, that's for sure.
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by discardable_dan 8y ago
I couldn't get into Consider Phlebas---I found the 'protagonist' too deeply flawed and unlikable. Is it likely I'll enjoy his other work in light of this?
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by discardable_dan 8y ago
The difference is that most movie showings are not full, and every empty seat is $12 lost. If you have 50 people seeing a movie at $12, and you'll get more than 10 more people watching it if you price it at $10, you'll make a prof
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by discardable_dan 9y ago
While I don't have a definitive formulation in mind, this seems like exactly the sort of problem that can be solved with delimited continuations by 'augmenting' any outer continuation with a code to perform the file-pointer c
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by discardable_dan 9y ago
The real question is: does Google Cloud charge more or less per GPU cycle than one can make mining cryptocurrency with it? If it's less, I expect these to be at load momentarily.
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by discardable_dan 9y ago
At its heart, I am not certain the increased contributions are always good. There is a lot of theory written about how to build and grow out languages, and most of it seems to indicate that there needs to be a strong, central group of peopl
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by discardable_dan 9y ago
At this point, communicating electronically basically necessitates someone collecting information at this point. I don't care. I just care that the dumb argument I had two years ago is in a chat room with 10 people I know and my employ
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by discardable_dan 9y ago
The truth of it, though, is that many people who are moving away from Facebook aren't moving elsewhere, they're disengaging the social media sphere. Many people are simply not logging in, preferring direct messaging, chat rooms,
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by discardable_dan 10y ago
Anyone considering a position with Mozilla should take a good, hard look at their glassdoor page first [0]. 0. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Mozilla-Reviews-E19129.htm