grayclhn

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   by grayclhn 11y ago

   Fair enough; I only asked because in practice it's largely a formality.
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   by grayclhn 11y ago

   Have you gotten married in the US? I think there's substantially less red tape in practice than you're imagining. People get married on the spot all the time.
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   by grayclhn 11y ago

   Hey, if you think that I've advocated censorship or claimed that you shouldn't have the right to say "hey guys" to mixed-gender groups, you've misread my comment.
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   by grayclhn 11y ago

   I'm from Pennsylvania; the alternatives there are "youse" and "yinz" which are two of the most awful words in english. (Both mean "y'all.")
5. 305.▲
   by grayclhn 11y ago

   I mean... this reads like, "I don't care about offending those people."
6. 306.▲
   by grayclhn 11y ago

   Yes, but there are many things I can say that I'm not knowingly bothering people.
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   by grayclhn 11y ago

   "Hey y'all..." :)
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   by grayclhn 11y ago

   I mean, even if you personally feel that "guys" is totally fine for mixed gender groups, it clearly bothers some people. So why not say, "hey, everyone..." instead of "hey, guys..."?
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   by grayclhn 11y ago

   All of the extra building and testing can be automated, so the extra work just becomes a matter of reorganizing the work to make logically cohesive commits and it's more work in the same sense that writing good comments is more work. W
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    But one of the points of editing the history is to make sure that both of those are more likely to be yes -- it's to make the history easier to review historically than it would be unedited. (IMO, obviously). And this is probably partl
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Because people can reasonably disagree about what "being nice" means.
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    There have got to be more constructive ways of making the same point. Throwing up specious strawman arguments as a mock "FAQ" kind of undermines point 1: "We are all adults. Capable of having adult discussions." Edit: i
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Fair enough. I agree that rewriting history shouldn't replace other good practices. But I don't really see the benefit of having an exact historical record of all the mistakes made when coding. What does it get you?
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Or... rewrite history. :) All of these problems are trivial when the commits are right next to each other; they're less trivial when they're separated by other unrelated commits. "Don't make idiotic mistakes" isn&#x
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    The "Derp" commits are the ones made immediately after a mistake. No one is editing their commit history just to fix these idiotic messages, they're doing it to fix the idiotic mistake that precedes the idiotic message. Yes,
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Well, just take notes while you play then. ;) You're already simulating it by hand. How do you think people ran simulations before there were electronic computers?
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    I assume there are other students in his classes. Care to explain them?
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Not necessarily, but convincing your boss to be mindful of your medium-term career goals definitely is and at largish companies there should be opportunities for you to spend time working on something else. Career-wise, I'd be more con
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    At the risk of sounding snarky: why do you need to know?
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Do you have a link explaining how the equivalent of these contests are run in the cryptography community? I'd love to read more.
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Oh, it's definitely a great screening mechanism for the candidates. But you don't necessarily want it to mess up your own organization process too. :)
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    No, you're combining a few different things that aren't related to IIA. For your first dining example, you've changed the relevant set of options to (A,A), (A,B), (A,C), (B,A), etc... where the first element is the diner&#x27
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Arrow's impossibility theorem, and the IIA criterion, is about preferences not about uncertain actions. In particular, IIA doesn't mean that you'll vote differently than your preferences in some sort of election, it means t
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    I'm sure that this is something you've considered and chose not to do for a good reason, but it seems like using a different email address for each job posting would eliminate a lot of the problems caused by an incorrect subject l
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    I wouldn't use it as a stats book. The coverage is very spotty and seems a bit old fashioned. Lots of different test statistics, not too much intuition from what I could see, and too little coverage of most things to be useful (ie the
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    I'd amend that to "someone evil who's built up a 'good' reputation for long enough that they dominate search rankings...." I don't know that what sourceforge is doing is a unique situation, but it's
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Scan? A picture of my foot next to a ruler, please. Or some other standard-sized reference object, like an electrical outlet.
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    I haven't used it for anything serious, but librelist looks promising: http://librelist.com/
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    Things are moving in that direction. Some of the top statistics journals encourage authors to put their papers on ArXiv, for example.[1] Creating "new elite journals" takes much more time than you'd think, though. I work in e
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    by grayclhn 11y ago

    I think you're overestimating the number of people that read Nature.