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by hacknat 11y ago
I developed on v1 over a year ago. Read before you respond.
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by hacknat 11y ago
Umm, this has been around for a while. Notice the v2 tag? Source: I developed an application with this API over a year ago. Also, it's not a given that most of Square's customers need online processing. Probably most of them don&
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by hacknat 11y ago
The philosophical position mounted by the author of Ecclesiastes, Albert Camus, and other existentialists is that being rich is nice and enjoying life is good, but the work and sacrifice it takes to achieve wealth isn't worth it. More
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by hacknat 11y ago
Full disclosure: I'm an engineer at Catalyze Inc, a direct competitor of Aptible's. That being said working with payers and providers you are obviously going to want to learn the ins and outs of HIPAA. However increasingly provide
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by hacknat 11y ago
Pretty sure this is what most news organizations do already and is why celebrity news, disasters, and horse race politics is all they report on.
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by hacknat 11y ago
The Economist, paper copy, once a week. It has the benefit of keeping hype out of its perspective. Treating human disasters and wars as more important than the American primaries is sanity that I can't live without. Keeping up with the
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by hacknat 11y ago
I'm actually one of the people who think that the top 0.001% are fine. People like Buffett and Gates own valuable companies. There's not much we can do to change income inequality there, largely because it's not income, it&#x
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by hacknat 11y ago
To all the people dissing this plan from afar you have no idea how bad Seattle has gotten in the last three years. Over 100k people have moved into the metro area every year for three years. My commute times changed noticeably over the cour
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by hacknat 11y ago
Edge cases for a padding function? Your comments make me think that the author's point is valid.
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by hacknat 11y ago
The criticism that Y Combinator tells companies that "they have to move to SV" is misleading. That quote is about being a part of Y Combinator. You are free to leave once you graduate your cohort and get funding, and many have...
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by hacknat 11y ago
Those aren't broad definitions at all! Quick question though, what is "acting", what is "thinking", what is "rational"? Your definition of intelligence practically includes the term in its definition(s).
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The Tau Manifesto: For the Curmudgeons Amongst Us(tauday.com)
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by hacknat 11y ago
I think someone needs to come up with a good theory of what intelligence even is, then we can try to discover its mechanism(s).
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by hacknat 11y ago
If anything the replication crisis in Psychology is proof of just how little we really know about intelligence. I think Psychology is necessary, because I think it needs to come up with an adequate definition of what intelligence is first,
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by hacknat 11y ago
I think we need more advances in neuroscience and, I know this will be controversial, psychology before we really know what the cake even is. Edit: I actually think the major AI breakthrough will come from either of those two fields, not co
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by hacknat 11y ago
This is conventional wisdom, but I don't think it holds as much muster as you think. Point #4 is a red herring as they add considerable wealth and convenience to the lives of the people that consume the services listed. Point 1 is a co
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by hacknat 11y ago
Slack works on Linux, which is a big deal for some teams. Before people jump on me, stating, "Linux market share for dev machines is too small to matter." Consider that there are some members of organizations who need to use it. I
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by hacknat 11y ago
>That's a very specialized thing, not something general While polling for i/o may be common the next most common problem in computers is solving computationally complex tasks. Why is Intel making all these cores? I guess no one
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by hacknat 11y ago
What if you need to do a compute intensive task on a large data structure? You know you might need to take advantage of more than one core and sharing memory between the threads will be difficult. Assuming you're talking about nodeJS,
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by hacknat 11y ago
What if you want multiple readers at once, and a writer thrown in once in a while? Edit: Okay, my point was that the sync primitives of most languages alone can't save you and you're using RWLock in your example, so clearly owners
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by hacknat 11y ago
Piggy backing off @catnaroek, go does have finalizers too though.
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by hacknat 11y ago
I'm not saying Erlang isn't great, but if you need to pass a large datastructure around between Erlang processes then copy message passing starts to be a lot and you need to share memory. You can do it in Erlang, but I'd hard
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by hacknat 11y ago
Should have been titled, "Interesting Cases Where Go Channels Fail"...
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by hacknat 11y ago
I think I've just come to accept that sychronization is the pain point in any language. It's callbacks, promises, and the single event loop in nodejs. It's channels in golang. No one can come up with a single abstraction for
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by hacknat 11y ago
I think the title is fair, because it is meant as a literary or rhetorical reference, not as a sensational headline meant to draw you in to some ho hum news article.
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by hacknat 11y ago
Let's compare median national wages to local home prices. Look at the story we can tell! Looking at median wage data can be deceiving. For example, doctors salaries are bi modal. A lot of people making 40k/year then all of a sudde
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by hacknat 11y ago
Sure I'll do it...on a white board to solve a problem, or reviewing a spec. Pair programming glorifies the task of programming as overly difficult. Solving problems can be difficult, programming them shouldn't be. Solving a tough
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by hacknat 11y ago
I agree. I literally just did this and got free shipping, even though the items were spread out.
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by hacknat 11y ago
I'm dealing with Azure at work right now you would not believe how much of their API is undocumented or unexplained. My company is being courted by MS a bit, because they want us on Azure, so I was able to talk to some of their develop
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by hacknat 11y ago
I already have enough interesting problems that I need to solve without SO, because they're obscure enough or because I'm one of the first people doing "said thing". If SO can help me solve some dumb CRUD problem more qu

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