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by imagist 10y ago
> One possible reason is that pre-baked primes can be designed to avoid certain pitfalls (e.g. primes close to powers of 2, which the article implies can be solved using the much faster algorithm) or otherwise to be resistant against cer
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by imagist 10y ago
Yeah, agreed, Viet Nam is more clear-cut because history has given time for the politicization to settle down. But Iraq is more relatable (or in the words of the OP title, "Fathomable").
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by imagist 10y ago
> There are a lot of worthless measures we use out there. Body Mass Index (BMI) is another one. This scale was developed in the mid 1800s and you can do a simple search to find tons of criticism on it. If you're overweight/obes
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by imagist 10y ago
15 years after we invaded Iraq, a country which had nothing to do with 9/11 and no WMDs, or at least fewer WMDs than the US. It's easy to distance ourselves from things that didn't happen in our country or in our lifetimes, b
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by imagist 10y ago
Meh, that's too passive-aggressive for me. I'm perfectly okay with clicking decline on an invite and not going--no need to hide it. I guess what I was really asking was how do I persuade my company to not try to waste my time with
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by imagist 10y ago
> Well, if you take a 2000 word write-up about your own type, there may be some thought-provoking generalizations either about your own type or about patterns that are consistent when people of different types interact... things which de
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by imagist 10y ago
The problem here is that since the MBTI only collects your own perceptions, it is only as accurate as your own perceptions--it isn't going to tell you anything you don't already think. There's some value in bringing what you
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by imagist 10y ago
All I wanted to know about all-hands meetings: how to avoid them.
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by imagist 10y ago
This underscores the need for flexible security that doesn't rely on magic numbers. If an algorithm needs a number that can't be one of the obvious ones (0, 1, 2, 3, 2^x - 1, largest prime < 2^x) it should be generated.
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by imagist 10y ago
That would pretty much defeat the entire goal of free software. Setting up a technical barrier to usage is counter to free software goals.
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by imagist 10y ago
> 1. The proliferation of libraries enables devs to get very, very picky about their libraries - the slightest wart or lack of understanding will cause them to label a library "utterly crap". But anything they create to replace
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by imagist 10y ago
> #2 I feel like is the trap. As beings with limited amounts of time on this planet, the test should not be about absolutes, but if what we would build is better given the time we would have to devote. I don't think it's really
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by imagist 10y ago
Yeah, but that happened to late to help me. :/
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by imagist 10y ago
> Of course, but one should be aware of a tendency to overestimate the effort required for tweaking third party code (understanding somebody else's code is always more difficult), and underestimate the effort required for writing th
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by imagist 10y ago
A case like this, which has a wide variety of exceptions that need to be updated as timezones change (yes, they do) is a perfect case for a library. The best I've ever found was JodaTime, but I no longer work in Java and no other langu
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by imagist 10y ago
> 95% isn't "only". That's pretty darn high. I'd wish that in-house code covered 95% of requirements more often. > If we're talking about open-source (I can't see why not), you can just fork the libr
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by imagist 10y ago
The longer I work, the more NIH I get. There are two reasons for this: 1. The ease of creating a library these days is resulting in a proliferation of utterly crap libraries, so bringing on a new library is more and more of a liability, bot
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by imagist 10y ago
> I don't really understand why people treat de Sade's writing as different than any other run-of-the-mill elaborate fetish fiction. de Sade does spend a great amount of time expounding at length about philosophy and society in
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by imagist 10y ago
I still don't see anything here which indicates to me that I should give a shit about NewLisp being called "NewLisp", or about referring to CL/Scheme/Racket/whatever as "Lisps".
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by imagist 10y ago
> Only actual Lisp dialects have a claim to the name. Frankly, I don't give a fuck about anyone's "claim". If people can use a word to move an idea accurately from their brain to other people's brains, communicat
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by imagist 10y ago
> Naming a project in such a way as to troll people is not a matter of "terminology". 1. I see no reason to NewLisp was named to troll people. It only has the effect of trolling you because you have created a subset of the Engl
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by imagist 10y ago
But I don't think the project is trolling, and I don't have any problem with the project's behavior. I'm curious about ORO. You're the only one who's looking for a fight here.
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by imagist 10y ago
I would rather we put the people who made this decision in jail. People make unethical decisions, not companies, and fining a company doesn't usually punish those people in any significant way.
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by imagist 10y ago
That's simply not a correct analogy. A more correct analogy, is that if you make $90K/year at your job, you rob a bank for $10K, you are then are fined $55K. I'm a cynic and most of the time lawsuits penalizing companies are
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by imagist 10y ago
Okay, true, but why should I care? This is like one of those ad games: If you press the button, you fix spam calls, but Twilio goes out of business. I couldn't press the button fast enough. For the record, I like Twilio and I literally
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by imagist 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
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by imagist 10y ago
This could be fixed by fixing the broken telephone protocol so that phone numbers can't be spoofed so easily, and then implementing adblockers. But that won't happen because: 1. It would cost money. 2. A proper implementation woul
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by imagist 10y ago
Cassandra is used by Reddit and Uber. There's a word for unjustified confidence.
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by imagist 10y ago
Twitter is analogous to ABC in the same sense that I'm analogous to Usain Bolt. We both run, but only one of us makes a profit doing it.
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by imagist 10y ago
> Despite what the CLers say, we all have an equal claim to the name. Agreed, but who cares? Is this what you want the Lisp community to spend our time on? > It's important because we have to distinguish between many dialects. If

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