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by eric_h 10y ago
> given they released Siri in 2011, and only minimally improved on it since It's quite possible that their iterative loop on Siri and Siri-like experiments simply doesn't include the general populace. Apple does not have much o
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by eric_h 10y ago
It can be argued that money was freely given by people who were issued tickets because they didn't want to deal with challenging the ticket in court. I've done the same (got an open container ticket on the boardwalk in coney islan
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by eric_h 10y ago
Ha! I wonder if whomever was using that VNC session had an "oh shit" moment there.
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by eric_h 10y ago
My "enforcing TDD" point was rather tongue in cheek. Really, I was just saying that a rails app of even moderate complexity with no tests is a very dangerous beast, and something I would not wish upon my worst enemies.
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by eric_h 10y ago
There's an argument to be made that Rails, by not actually enforcing conventions like TDD, gives an amateur/impatient developer a very high calibre footgun. Unfortunately, of course, that gun doesn't usually go off until it&#
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by eric_h 10y ago
Indeed. Efficient use of language can be far more compelling than florid prose. Of course, it can also be more difficult to convey the same meaning tersely, hence the old quote (who's source I forget, and I'm likely mangling) &quo
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by eric_h 10y ago
That's pretty well done, actually. Personally, I would add an addendum at the end that breaks out of the ten hundred most commonly used words and actually introduces the reader to the terms you're dancing around.
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Teen looks to stars to find lost Mayan city(yucatanexpatlife.com)
1 points by eric_h 10y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 10y ago
The karma threshold for downvotes likely means that there are far more people with the ability than there were 3 years ago. Honestly, I only collected enough karma recently to down vote (and it's a privilege I use quite sparingly).
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by eric_h 10y ago
and it won't affect your buoyancy at all.
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by eric_h 10y ago
If I may riff on this rather unscientifically from my own anecdotal observations of how my own brain works: I do not agree with TFAs assertion that "The feeling ultimately relies on the same statistical computations a computer would ma
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by eric_h 10y ago
And it's a bloody shame that the acronym for Islamic State has become so widespread that a properly capitalized given name is mistaken for their organization. I'd always liked the name Isis, and would have named a daughter that (i
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by eric_h 10y ago
The moment that a weapon crosses the threshold of a building that was, moments before, weapon free, the odds of a pet dog, or a person, getting shot go from 0 to non-zero. Personally, cops make me nervous. Whenever I'm on the subway an
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by eric_h 10y ago
Seems quite different from this case. The agent you're referring to stated his intentions up front quite clearly. As far as I can tell the only details revealed by the FBI in this case is that they had some "documents" (witho
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by eric_h 10y ago
Her lawyer should be able to do that just as easily.
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by eric_h 10y ago
> If the offshore team works just stick with it That is a big "if". A good technical cofounder will identify the latent technical debt that exists in an outsourced prototype and if that number is too high, a rewrite can be just
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by eric_h 10y ago
In straight cash USD, that's more money than most people in the world have to their name. [Edit: straight cash == completely liquid assets]
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by eric_h 10y ago
True, but they usually do by the time they say that you will be paid. I think the argument that a black market sale of an exploit won't necessarily be as clear cut is still valid.
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by eric_h 10y ago
The parallels with the US in this regard are striking (though of course it's just North/South in the US). I'm curious if it is the inverse in Brazil of what it is in the United States? Also, given the downvote(s) and another&
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by eric_h 10y ago
There are two components to Prime Now, at least in NYC. One is products that seem to be sold from an Amazon controlled or contracted warehouse, and the other are products sold by local businesses (e.g. produce from Westside Market).
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by eric_h 11y ago
> The internet can act as a social lubricant of sorts which is valuable. The legacy social lubricant is alcohol. That is a very interesting point, though I suspect we'll never actually be able to retire that legacy. If we do, I thin
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by eric_h 11y ago
I've been meaning to whip up a browser extension that streamlines the Open web inspector - find offending node on page - delete div element work flow. There are some out there that sort of do what I want, but I really just want to righ
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Snowden Debates CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Encryption(theintercept.com)
7 points by eric_h 11y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 11y ago
It's really a question of what kind of experience you've got. Many programmers with "10 yrs of experience" really just have 10x1year of experience; they've just done the same thing over and over again for a decade w
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by eric_h 11y ago
I agree that the design of the nation's site is better/more modern. However, when I landed on the site, I was able to read the first sentence before a modal subscription form popped up. I clicked the little x button in the top r
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by eric_h 11y ago
Same article on a website that is not awful http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176132/tomgram%3A_rebecca_go...
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by eric_h 11y ago
I'm going to guess you've never been burglarized. I have not either, but every single person I know who's had their home invaded is a fair bit more nervous about that sort of thing than people who haven't. A coworker of
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by eric_h 11y ago
My point was that I would start by test driving to "dust off the cobwebs", as it were. Personally, I don't actually believe in truly "mindless", trial and error TDD, as oftentimes it will miss the forest for the tre
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by eric_h 11y ago
Indeed it was, I was replying to arcticfox, who I thought overgeneralized (hence my reply). [Edit] and I now realize that this whole subthread could have been avoided had my original comment lead with "In this case yes, but...", l
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by eric_h 11y ago
That would be the second person to which I was referring. [Edit, to clarify:] first person: me second person: you third person: him/her

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