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by girzel 8y ago
It's grounded in MacGyver!
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by girzel 8y ago
Okay, I think I get it... And if you're not at top-level, ie you're in a function definition, you actually can't use "let" without an "in". That is a little weird, but not terrible. Thanks for the explan
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by girzel 8y ago
I thought this was a pretty great introduction. Part 2, in particular, finally helped me understand function type signatures in ML languages: the fact that, under the hood, functions only accept a single argument, and the way the type signa
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by girzel 8y ago
> if you have to do the work of three people just to make what you would as an employee of someone else, you might need a new business model or it might be time to be an employee And that's precisely the realization I've (final
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by girzel 8y ago
Thanks for this. I think my current feeling is definitely a bit "grass is greener", and I'm overestimating how much help a larger company structure would provide. But I can't help thinking: running a company requires abo
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by girzel 8y ago
> Would I be right in thinking that the revenue from this is not particularly high? Boy, would you! > Not all bootstrapped businesses are equal. The OP described challenges of a successful bootstrapped business - even that is psycholo
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by girzel 8y ago
After ten years of muddling through, I'm finally coming to the conclusion that I was never meant to run a business. By this point, the mere thought that I might give this up and work for a company that would pay me a regular salary and
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by girzel 8y ago
I think the general consensus is that the Communist movement (50s and 60s) actually did a lot for gender equality, given that that was one of the explicit precepts of the new society. China was coming from way, way behind, though, so even i
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by girzel 8y ago
Come to think of it, several years ago I had to migrate a website from Wordpress (I think it was Wordpress) to Django. The Wordpress database schema was nothing but EAV tables: Every damn thing had all of its attributes listed in a separa
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by girzel 8y ago
I had to resort to Wikipedia before this even made sense[1]. Apparently it's a technique for efficiently storing small subsets of potentially enormous/variable/unknown attributes on objects. Instead of a SQL table with 500 co
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by girzel 8y ago
Yeah, that finally clicked afterwards...
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by girzel 8y ago
Never mind, it still binds a local variable (at least in elisp, where I just tried it).
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by girzel 8y ago
They're pure convenience, but they're pretty convenient. It's very common to have patterns like: (let ((result (do-some-calculation))) (when result (operate-on result))) `when-let' would just skip one &q
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by girzel 8y ago
I can't do anything productive or mentally taxing on long flights, I don't know if it's the air pressure or premature jetlag or what, but I have a very hard time exercising my will. What I do enjoy, though (in addition to the
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by girzel 8y ago
Is there any recourse (at any level) for litigation in this situation, on grounds of corruption? I mean does anyone have the ability to sue the California legislature? I know essentially nothing about these things...
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by girzel 8y ago
> I use Emacs and I never want autocomplete or "go to definition" features. I hate them. In the cases when I unfortunately need them it's a symptom of exceptionally bad software I can understand wanting to be able to code
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by girzel 8y ago
Meh... China has a living Buddhist tradition, and I've hardly ever seen anyone meditate at all – mostly people seem to approach is as a karmic quid-pro-quo to bring themselves good fortune and avoid illness. I'm not sure that&#x27
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by girzel 8y ago
Poor editing.
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by girzel 8y ago
Just FMI: the "events" approach that's recommended in the article over threads, that's how Python libraries like tornado and twisted work, right? And to what extent does the new asyncio Python library assume that functio
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by girzel 8y ago
Interesting. The Chinese stuff is definitely just salt, no fish sauce.
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by girzel 8y ago
Was it basically sauerkraut? People in north-eastern China (across a river from North Korea) all eat something basically indistinguishable from sauerkraut.
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by girzel 8y ago
Sorry -- that was a mistake.
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by girzel 8y ago
In terms of arrogance and sanctimoniousness, yes. Ask the Vietnamese, Tibetans, Koreans, Uighurs and Burmese about Chinese "isolationism". Britain: I now control you. [My boats can reach you.] China: You are now me. [You were on m
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by girzel 8y ago
Two of history's most arrogant and sanctimonious cultures, meeting together for the first time. What could possibly go wrong?
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by girzel 8y ago
That seems like an awful convenience -- isn't it far easier to recall that all lists must be quoted, than to remember which are auto-quoted under which circumstances?
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by girzel 8y ago
My understanding is that bike-share companies in China (unlike how they operate in the US) require a deposit when you sign up for an account. Everybody dumped 100 RMB or what have you into their accounts at the outset Meaning that starting
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by girzel 8y ago
Gnus in Emacs :)
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by girzel 9y ago
I find the argument convincing with the addition of a little tweak: it's not about how fast you type, but your facility with the editing. I use Emacs, and plugins like ace-jump (which I think is a copy of a Vim plugin) and paredit re
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by girzel 9y ago
I think that's a very compelling argument: that China's swerve towards totalitarianism in the past few years is motivated by the fact that the government sees an economic depression coming. This isn't about Bibles, the Bibles
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by girzel 9y ago
Repression in Urumqi will likely be an order of magnitude more intense than in smaller municipalities around the province. The CCP is still working off their own revolutionary playbook from the 30s and 40s, when they effected change through

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