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by gerbilly 7y ago
Ugh, go is fine but is seems like a regressive design with guardrails all over the place to prevent programmers from hurting themselves. I use it, but feel its design insults my intelligence.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I find that in a lot of critiques of programming methods, the proposed solutions often contain the implicit assumption that the 'code' is a small to medium codebase with a single developer. If a sole developer is the only one work
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Maybe, but who says inheritance is the wrong abstraction?
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Reminds me of this article by Courtney Love comparing the music industry to sharecropping: https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
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by gerbilly 7y ago
If you want a bug in english, then how about: "Petting Dave's cat", "Going toMartha's Vineyard", "Using its eyes." (no apostrophe) What a stupid idea to make "it's" stand for "it i
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The reason tech struggles with algorithmic bias(wired.com)
2 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It's actually a famous quote, i.e.: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancer is bad for the industry(newrepublic.com)
4 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The reason I think we should assume we have free will is a moral one. If you believe you don't have free will, it can be easy to excuse all sorts of behaviour, because it was 'predetermined ' anyway. Sort of like, stealing ca
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> You never have "real" control over your own actions because free will is an illusion. This is facile, and you certainly haven't proven the absence of free will just bey stating it here. I believe the best assumption, sin
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Lebanon used to have vast forests of cedars, but they were all cut down in ancient times. I guess there aren't too many logging jobs now in the middle eastern deserts. Once you cut the old growth down, what regrows is not the same land
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> This kind of repeated pain is what is impossible to resist to for very long I think it's the implied 'ill will' of the interrogator also has an effect. Knowing that someone means you harm and might even be willing to esc
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by gerbilly 7y ago
One way to think of scientific instruments: like telescopes, microscopes, voltmeters is that they are extensions of our senses.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I think that's a horrible idea. It would lead to a lifeless, technocratic society. In many ways we've already tried that, for example in urban planning, and it failed miserably. For a counter point, as applied to urban planning,
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It's ok. I have another response in this thread about the origins of the Parisian accent (because it really is a new invention) compared to the Québec accent. Also in Martinique, they speak with a less sing-songy accent than they do
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by gerbilly 7y ago
More like 18th century French. There were two accents in common use in 18th century France: the 'bel usage' and the 'grand usage'. The short explanation is that after the French revolution, Parisians adopted the 'gr
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> It also doesn't help that French and Quebecois French are different dialects to the point of almost being different languages. No, just no, they aren't and I can speak both. I don't know if you are a native speaker, but
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The main difficulty is that there are so many French words in the English language, with slightly different meanings: so called false cognates.¹ 1: https://www.thoughtco.com/french-english-false-cognates-faux...
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Canadians “Spock” Five Dollar Banknotes in Honour of Leonard Nimoy (2015)(mymodernmet.com)
25 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> we were running 10 AWS servers - to serve a mostly static website and handle a few hundred REST API calls each day. You could do taht with 2 instances and dropwizard ( https://www.dropwizard.io/1.3.9/docs/ )
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Apple should replace the MacBook keyboard with a touchscreen(mashable.com)
4 points by gerbilly 8y ago|2 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I also found that for some reason, MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane), caused me to lose several pounds of fat. I don't exactly know why, but some suggest it reduces inflammation, or improves blood sugar regulation. From wikipedia: Multiple h
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Right now, foreigners in China have a hard time getting any kind of credit [...] so the government wants to fix that. Another case of the cure being worse than the disease.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I fear that the touchbar was just to test the waters. Soon to make laptops .5mm thinner, the macbooks will probably have touchscreens keyboards instead of physical ones.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Like this perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziw4yd5R0QI (Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Who cares how thin the damn thing is if it's going to cause all these problems? Seriously, I could deal with a laptop that is 3mm thicker.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Take home assignments usually indicate that the company has a 'take home' culture. If they find it so easy to ask someone to work on something in their free time when they don't have any leverage, imagine what'll happen
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Unfalsifiable information would not (and should not) be apart of the system. Then that's not human discourse. We are people, not robots.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> the US legacy of liberal, constitutional democracy wouldn't be such an outlier in history. Any nation given an entire continent of temperate arable land nearly for free¹, might have fared as well. 1: Cleared of inhabitants mostly
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I use something like this to set a few global variables at build time. This keeps my secrets out of the source code. go build \ -ldflags="\ -X main.programVersion=`git describe` \ -X main.username=$USERNAME \ -X ma

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