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by ganonm 9y ago
Agreed, and presumably there's evolutionary factors here too. If you can't eat you die - having a wound in your mouth that reduces your ability to eat is not good, so there must be strong selective pressures for tissues that can r
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by ganonm 9y ago
I think it's more about simply having an awareness of algorithmic complexity. I'm talking about writing a doubly nested 'for' loop and being able to realise that you've just written an O(N^2) algorithm if you'r
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by ganonm 9y ago
I posted this due to taking a train from London to Swindon last weekend and encountering this exact problem! We nearly missed our stop due to being unable to open the door (and I couldn't see an instructional diagram like the one shown
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Horrible doors on British trains (2010)(lukehalliwell.wordpress.com)
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by ganonm 9y ago
It's so easy to avoid having them in VCS though. Any secrets can be loaded from a configuration file placed in ~. Populated configs can be selectively distributed so you can e.g. only place the production config file (with the prod ser
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I Got Scammed by a Silicon Valley Startup (2016)(medium.com)
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Show HN: Ergodox EZ layout optimised for Vim users(github.com)
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by ganonm 9y ago
You may want to consider using 'stamp files'. These are just empty files created via 'touch' to serve as a timestamp that Make can use to determine if a target needs to be rebuilt if the target doesn't correspond to
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by ganonm 9y ago
Totally agree regarding doctors being fallible humans just like the rest of us. If you are diagnosed with a rare disease (or even just a disease that isn't common in your geographical region c.f. Malaria) there is a very good chance th
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by ganonm 9y ago
What, serious about wanting to know why it is in their codebase? Yes, I'm 100% serious. If they're currently using it in production I'd assume there's a good reason for it. Plus, I'm pretty sure the folks over at Li
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by ganonm 9y ago
What is up with the seemingly popular knee-jerk reactions towards OO design patterns? It genuinely feels like some sort of mass hysteria... Yes, strategies like dependency injection might seem like pointless complexity if you don't exa
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by ganonm 9y ago
I remember introducing someone to the concept of variance in a set of data and I used a very similar approach. Variance seems like an arbitrary (but obvious) definition but in fact it can be derived from first principles by just looking for
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by ganonm 9y ago
In my current project (work) I've chosen to use JDBI for communication between model and database. For me it is the perfect level of abstraction whereby it still feels like I'm just writing SQL queries but also avoiding a lot of t
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San Francisco passes regulations to cut down on delivery robots(theguardian.com)
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Scientists attempt to cure Hunter syndrome by permanently altering DNA(theguardian.com)
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by ganonm 9y ago
The anecdote about the pink eraser isn't as impressive as the author makes out. A manual google search of 'why are erasers pink' returns the same article from Design*Sponge (that the author mentioned as the source for the res
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CSS guidelines(cssguidelin.es)
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by ganonm 9y ago
I worked on a product that used the Vaadin framework for UI. It is a serious, production ready library that is written by some very sane and very intelligent people. The JavaScript hipsters would probably turn their nose up at it, but being
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The Inside Story of the Great Silicon Heist(wired.com)
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by ganonm 9y ago
The centre of mass of the ISS follows a fixed orbit round the earth (to first order approximation that is, occasional thrust is required to maintain this trajectory). Moving away from the centre of mass, by definition, puts you into a sligh
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If real life was an MMO(kotaku.com)
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Clever design to reduce carbon footprint of washing machines(theguardian.com)
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by ganonm 9y ago
I think you've misread my comment as what you're saying is incorrect. When a qubit is in the state (|0> + |1>)/sqrt(2) it does have equal probabilities of being measured as either |0> or |1>. I think what you&#x
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by ganonm 9y ago
This isn't a particularly good introduction to quantum computing. The fact that we can't scale down transistors into the quantum realm doesn't have much to do with the real motivation behind making quantum computers. The real
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by ganonm 9y ago
Spotify wrote a brilliant blog post on this. Highly recommend reading. https://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/
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by ganonm 9y ago
I think this is a disingenuous argument. Yes the vast majority of the IT field are not experts but if you don't hire one of these experts to secure your system, a system which is aiming to raise $12m, then you shouldn't be surpris
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by ganonm 9y ago
Either the average blockchain startup is unbelievably amateurish re. security or this was an inside job. I suspect the latter but the former does not surprise me one bit.
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by ganonm 9y ago
General intelligence evolving independently in another distantly related species implies there is a degree of evolutionary convergence towards this trait given the right selective stimulus. This has implications for the possibility of extra
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by ganonm 9y ago
This is misleading advice. Most linters can be configured to fail upon detecting a 'TODO'. I make liberal use of TODOs when developing, typically for reminding myself to e.g. localize a string I've hardcoded during prototypin
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by ganonm 9y ago
100% agree. I don't buy the verbosity argument one bit. Yes it's more verbose than a dynamically typed language but it's not like you get nothing in return for that verbosity. When working with serious, mission-critical cod

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