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by edejong 9y ago
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. Dijkstra (1972) The Humble
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by edejong 9y ago
If we would put as much attention to innovations saving millions as we do to war killing millions, the world would certainly look brighter.
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Infinitown – A WebGL Experiment(demos.littleworkshop.fr)
354 points by edejong 9y ago|104 comments
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by edejong 9y ago
Is that due to airco or electric heating? We have an average of 130W.
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by edejong 9y ago
Very rough back-of-the-envelope calculation: we have 3000 GP's in the Netherlands. Lets say the proposal will cause 30.000 patients in the Netherlands to go to the GP incorrectly per year. That will cause 8 man-year of time (20 minutes
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by edejong 9y ago
Before doing an expensive and inaccurate field experiment, we can calculate the expected cost per QALJ [1] by taking the following variables: - Estimated accuracy and recall of the test - Estimated probability of user doing a follow-up base
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by edejong 9y ago
Unfortunately, most arrhythmias are benign and do not lead to further treatment from a physician. So you are taking 300,000 worried people wrongly to a general practitioner, who in fact can do nothing but write down the event and perhaps co
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by edejong 9y ago
97% accuracy seems high, but with an approximate sales number of 10 million Apple watches, it will give 300 thousand users an incorrect diagnosis.
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by edejong 9y ago
It’s funny that you introduce time in your equation, because it shows how your view is incomplete. In our visual system, you cannot reduce to three dimensions without creating a recursive relation. It should be more like: Ret(a,b,c)_t = f(R
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by edejong 9y ago
Phrased differently: operating system Microsoft Windows allows silent installation of Root Certificate during installation of unrelated USB driver installation, despite featuring a micro-kernel design.
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by edejong 9y ago
Key takeaway is: what you think is personal stuff on a social site, never really was to begin with.
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by edejong 9y ago
Because you (as a generic customer) will come back to buy more. Customers by now should be aware of significant deviations to the expected ingredients of common, well-known recipes.
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by edejong 9y ago
I think that might be incorrect since it's an easy first step for the body to snap the glucose of the fructose.
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by edejong 9y ago
Your criticism is harsh by pointing out a (debatable) point, key travel, using a certain amount of rationale and suddenly concluding ‘every step’ has flaws. Point out those flaws! Furthermore, the OP is the first one doing real measurements
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by edejong 9y ago
I have a very similar experience. Also the lack of support for any query more complicated than a freshman’s SQL is often bothering me.
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by edejong 9y ago
I'm slightly surprised that a simple tic-tac-toe game in high-level FP takes 400 lines of code.
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by edejong 9y ago
Yet here in the Netherlands I see many coworkers and friends moving partly or totally away from meat due to moral concerns. Others choose to pay higher prices for livestock raised in better conditions.
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by edejong 9y ago
Why stop at identifiers when you can have C++ #defines? http://lallouslab.net/tag/emoji/
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by edejong 9y ago
Yes, among many others.
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by edejong 9y ago
This is what A/B testing does to a popular site. You test for immediate customer engagement but cannot (easily) test long-term customer loyalty. This is why booking.com has become the largest online hotel booking site in several contin
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How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME(blackhat.com)
769 points by edejong 9y ago|240 comments
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by edejong 9y ago
Perfect answer. Another reason, which kind of joins with the density of the population is the significant noise pollution of larger wind farms.
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by edejong 9y ago
Whenever I see a young gullible engineer, all twinkly-eyed and bedazzled by the MongoDB hype (or any other NoSQL hype), I'll send him a link [1] on a rather interesting talk by a very thoughtful Turing award winning engineer named Mich
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by edejong 9y ago
Thank you for your answer. My reason to come back to HN is to read these kind of expert insights.
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by edejong 9y ago
I wonder if an expert could chime in on why this land (and carbon) would not be taken up by larger, more developed plant life, such as larger shrubs or trees. It seems conditions would be ideal: fresh, bacteria rich soil, high CO_2 levels a
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by edejong 9y ago
Beautiful back-on-the-envelope exposition on the latency of playing the piano: http://northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php/37769-Acousti...
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by edejong 9y ago
Yes, it's a team of engineers. But interestingly, Google started with a mono-repo. All through their explosive growth they maintained (mostly, except Android and Chromium) their vision of mono-repo. It clearly shows that their vision
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by edejong 9y ago
It's not just about compile time. Couple of examples: - Parallel downloading / uploading of artifacts - Multi-step transformation (old-style: lexer to C to Object file to linker to deployment). You can turn this around, but genera
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by edejong 9y ago
I seriously wonder if the author ever worked on a project with more than around 10k LOC, multiple languages and tools, automatic testing, deployment, version control (merging this build script is going to be a huge PITA). No, you have to re
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Trump legal wants IPs of anti-trump website visitors(theguardian.com)
8 points by edejong 9y ago|3 comments

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