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by ganonm 7y ago
Sorry, I realise on reading that that my response makes it sound like I'm an opponent of making mutable state private. I totally agree with you, what I was trying to say was that mutable state in general is considered as something to b
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by ganonm 7y ago
I've been using the Ergodox EZ for over a year now and it is life-changing. The ergonomic benefits are huge and it forces you to learn to touch type properly. I went through 20 iterations to find a layout optimised for using Vim in Ubu
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by ganonm 7y ago
I think this article is quite old, so I can forgive the author for being out of touch with modern OO language practices. Nonetheless, I find myself disagreeing with almost all of his arguments. When he talks about state for example, I assum
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by ganonm 8y ago
The fact they are typically referred to as exceptions has nothing to do with the fact that they are exceptional or not. Exceptions, in an abstract sense, are a language feature that allows exiting from functions via an alternative mechanism
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Tricks for writing allocation free code in Unity3D(unity3d.com)
2 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments
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by ganonm 8y ago
Kotlin + Dropwizard is a great choice (or Spring Boot). I've used it in production and it's got the best aspects of Rails (opinionated) with the best aspects of a modern, statically typed language running on the JVM (need I say mo
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by ganonm 8y ago
If you need limited document storage capabilities I'd recommend just using S3 alongside a traditional RD like PostgreSQL. You can simply store object IDs in the primary database but the actual document/data in S3. I used this meth
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by ganonm 8y ago
Maths is running on 'software' from 500BC. Don't see anyone complaining.
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E number(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments
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by ganonm 8y ago
This reminds me of a similar problem I came across whilst studying quantum mechanics in my undergrad. The problem is stated as follows 'imagine a perfectly upright pencil balancing on its perfectly sharpened tip. How long does it take
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by ganonm 8y ago
Lombok is a useful crutch if you're writing lots of Java code on a day to day basis. However, given how easy it is to use Kotlin alongside Java I would question whether Lombok is the right solution to the problem. Kotlin has data class
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by ganonm 8y ago
If I understand the post correctly, the advantage for e.g. inserting a subnet is that most of the overall IP address value is shared between each IP in the subnet. In a Radix tree, this shared data will only be represented once in the three
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Listen to totally meaningless quotes read over zen music(inspirobot.me)
1 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments
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Poker player bets $100k he can last 30 days in pitch black solitary confinement(theguardian.com)
111 points by ganonm 8y ago|44 comments
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by ganonm 8y ago
The best piece of financial advice I can give people just starting out (e.g. early 20s), especially if they are working in startups, is this: make sure you have enough cash savings so that you can afford to be unemployed for at least 2-3 mo
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by ganonm 8y ago
"The Gates foundation directs a large amount of resources not to "prudent economic decisions" (eg, it looses money), but to non economic priorities he set." This is true, and although certainly not a bad thing, is perhap
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by ganonm 8y ago
Your point about inheritance is a very good one and is a rather major flaw in the capitalist model. Inheritance tax goes some way to dampening the transfer of power from one generation to the next but isn't perfect. Hard to see how thi
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by ganonm 8y ago
"The point is, money spent on consumption is toxic — value-destroying" This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently. Surely when comparing inequality in societies, what we really care about is consumption. Singli
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Center Pivot Irrigation(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments
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3D printed designer furniture(ai-build.com)
1 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments
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Java Random Access Marker Interface (declares no methods)(docs.oracle.com)
1 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments
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Star Wars Despecialized Edition(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments
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by ganonm 8y ago
Surely people would just start using some sort of utility that tells them 'people in X are usually awake between these hours'. It replaces an existing problem with a slightly different problem but the net gain is you remove all th
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by ganonm 8y ago
Why can't we just get rid of time zones altogether and just use UTC exclusivsly? The amount of productivity lost to dealing with them is immeasurably high. I proposed this over dinner with some friends recently and they thought it was
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Harmonic drive used by 6-axis industrial robots(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments
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by ganonm 8y ago
Pro tip: if you're ever drinking slush, drink from the top down (I.e. Always keep the straw at the surface of the slush). This largely avoids the problem of ending up with just a load of ice at the bottom.
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by ganonm 8y ago
By 'tune in' he means calibrate an end effector to be mounted on the robot. This involves TCP calibration (tool center point) and specifying the centre of mass and moments of inertia. KUKA robots, for example, allow you to determi
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by ganonm 8y ago
They probably use a bloom filter and populate it with a bunch of 'probably spurious' word pairs. The combination of 'Flower' and 'eggs' will evaluate as 'probably spurious' but the combination 'f
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by ganonm 8y ago
The term debouncing is also used in an analogous manner for electromechanical switches and is probably the origin of the term. These switches literally 'bounce' off the contact during the first few milliseconds after the circuit i
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Ultrasonic Cleaning(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ganonm 8y ago|0 comments

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