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by gertef 10y ago
OTOH, by going through that laundry list, it shows that you actually performed a full review. You can optimize that (for example, by having a checklist where you mark off all areas with either constructive criticisms or a checkmark.
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by gertef 10y ago
If all the stakeholders are happy, the solution is good, right? Or perhaps not all the stakeholders really are happy?
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by gertef 10y ago
When my typechecker writes most of my tests for me, I have time to write features.
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by gertef 10y ago
Why don't we install suicide booths in coffee shops? Make it convenient and cheap? Sit down, insert $20 (or wave your smartphone NFC), get a shot of toxic gas and automatic call to morgue to pick up your body? Uber can contract delive
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by gertef 10y ago
having one's cake and eating it is better than either alternative alone.
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by gertef 10y ago
If your employer doesn't offer to buy the shares back, it's a pretty clear signal how much that equity is worth. Pay attention to that when you choose to exercise.
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by gertef 10y ago
Imagine if the military was converted to be mostly Corps of Engineers, building schools and roads and cafes, instead of building stuff to blow up.
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by gertef 10y ago
> Having a large company store some data you generated in a server farm somewhere ... and make it a available for somebody to intentionally look into your life, individually, because of some possibly perverse or unwanted interest in you
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by gertef 10y ago
All currency is a "pointer", not "value". That's the purpose of currency.
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by gertef 10y ago
It would be much more interesting to see a TensorFlow program actually learn to solve FizzBuzz from examples, instead of hardcoding in the logic: if i % 15 == 0: return np.array([0, 0, 0, 1]) elif i % 5 == 0: return np.array([0
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by gertef 10y ago
> drunken biochemists' ball what's this? > an entropy catalyst" should be "anti-entropy catalyst", yes?
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by gertef 10y ago
unusual, like paying 1 billion times over recent prices?
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by gertef 11y ago
This is covered in the article.
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by gertef 11y ago
Economically, this is a solved problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax Politically, it is not solved.
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by gertef 11y ago
Since trailer parks tend to be the choice of low-income /lowe-wealth residents, in practice the mobile homes tend to be owned by the parks and rented.
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by gertef 11y ago
Guy Steele's _Growing a Language+ is a much better model than "1000 most common words" https://www.google.com/?#q=growing+a+language
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by gertef 11y ago
Trump does not limit himself to anything like the most common 1000 worrds
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by gertef 11y ago
Why is this an iPhone and iPhone-only app, excluding many users? The UI for this is a trivial web form, with absolutely nothing mobile-specific.
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by gertef 11y ago
> including one new theory I don't think so.
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by gertef 11y ago
You mean, create an alternative to broadcast, mail, and free services, and migrate the entire world off of it?
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by gertef 11y ago
How would you test this hypothesis? With a non-physical mental stimuation? Multi-colored paper confetti in the cage, or laser-light shows, to give the rats something to play with?
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by gertef 11y ago
That's a very good definition of "designed" that I hadn't seen before.
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by gertef 11y ago
Sigh, Epic. Incredible businesswoman, horrible company and product.
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by gertef 11y ago
I'd rather CO/WA/CA solve the public nuisance problem of smoking (we juuuust finished clearing most public airspace of cigarette smoke, and now MJ is bringing it back) before rolling out legalization nationwide. MJ smokers ar
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by gertef 11y ago
Apple makes hardware and iCal. Google makes Search and Calendar. Neither company charges for their calendar app. (OK, Google sort of does for Apps) Is it a priori obvious that which conglomerate would be better at some app than another?
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by gertef 11y ago
fraud?
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by gertef 11y ago
Haskell's "badge of virtue" is that it's unpopularity has freed the language creators to improve the language, to get closer to solving the extremely sophisticated problem it is trying to solve (completely safe, efficien
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by gertef 11y ago
> those who have the ability or opportunity to know something, but choose not to. That's "intentional ignorance"
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by gertef 11y ago
Whicgh provides an excuse for why the prime was truncated, and OOPS made it into a not-prime.
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by gertef 11y ago
> This is the amount that would be required to buy all the stock and thereby gain 100% ownership. This is not true. Stock price is marginal price of a share -- the point at which all sellers are askin more than all buyers are accepting,

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