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by inimino 7y ago
Huh? The argument here is "free speech is an important principle, and is being eroded online", then "yes but that only applies to the government", then "no, if the principle is important, it is important whether it
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by inimino 7y ago
Then replace secure with "maintainable" or "high quality". It's still a subjective opinion, unless you can prove that large files are inherently less maintainable or lower quality (which you can't, because all
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by inimino 7y ago
Centralized because running a press or a radio tower is expensive. For the same reason, there were a smaller number of channels, and a more unified discourse (everyone reads the same newspaper). Now, neither of these is true. Twitter, Faceb
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by inimino 7y ago
Daily rejoinder that this argument is getting really old when most political speech has moved to online fora controlled by a small number of corporate players which have more power than any traditional publisher ever did due to network effe
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by inimino 7y ago
A part of using the platform is the ways in which other users respond to your content, so this seems like a distinction without a difference.
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by inimino 7y ago
> objectively worse That's an opinion. There's nothing objective about the assertion that many small files are inherently more secure. However, that many small files and one large file have equivalent power, can express all the
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by inimino 7y ago
Thank you too!
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by inimino 7y ago
This is a pressure tactic against Facebook. They are also carrying signs and chanting slogans. Of course the signs and slogans are in English; wouldn't do much good in Chinese. So it makes sense they would follow the custom of the coun
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by inimino 7y ago
There is by definition no irrational number in any language implementation that runs on a finite machine unless it is either a stream (which is still finite when realized) or an approximation.
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by inimino 7y ago
Kolmogorov complexity is just the standard name for a concept that's useful across machine learning, AI, compression, etc. It's not just a definition in some obscure result in complexity theory. OP was simply saying that, in any g
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by inimino 7y ago
The OP says: > yes, I can assure you the Kolmogorov complexity ... This is a strong comparative statement, and it's clear that it's an assertion but not a proof. So it's perfectly fine for you to say "I don't bel
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by inimino 7y ago
To be clear, this is what we're discussing: > You may be gaining access to hidden gems, but you're definitely turning away proven and experienced developers from even entering your hiring funnel. You're describing hidden g
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by inimino 7y ago
And it won't, because you're internet famous. Most people cargo-culting your practices aren't getting good results, just like most people cargo-culting FAANG interview practices aren't getting good results.
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Compensation and engineering skill aren't as correlated as you seem to think.
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> Maybe the interviewers were just really good judges of character and skill (I think I probably was a good fit for the position), but it was hard to look past the fact that I didn't think I'd proven that I fit the role to them
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by inimino 7y ago
You can't calculate it. You can make strong comparative statements about it. And it is a much more specifically relevant concept than program length.
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by inimino 7y ago
One of the very awkward things about things you can't say is they often come in opposite pairs. So for example, you can't say that physicists are on the whole clearly working with more intellectual horsepower than literature majo
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by inimino 7y ago
> the vast majority of people that are good at rigorous studies and “hard” sciences are actually people who don’t question accepted beliefs—they use an entire framework of reasoning without ever questioning it on a day to day basis. This
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by inimino 7y ago
"Must be willing to own a device that can get you disappeared" is not a realistic solution to state-level censorship, despite cypherpunk dreams to the contrary.
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> prefer to buy software that they can fit to their workflow rather than change Existing users' familiarity with existing tools and the ability to accomplish existing tasks with existing skills are all part of the competitive landsc
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by inimino 7y ago
For context for those who are not already aware, since this is being downvoted... white traditionally has the same associations in Chinese culture. So it was not an entirely unreasonable question. The answer is just that this happened in th
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by inimino 7y ago
Being quiet about the specifics of the individual case does not prevent them from having a transparent discussion of company policies and practices that may have contributed. The argument is that this does not protect employees' inte
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by inimino 7y ago
Also Robert Pirsig, known for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, whose second book Lila is concerned extensively with an index card scheme.
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by inimino 7y ago
You may personally have "no idea" what percentage of the Chinese population have any particular view. However those of us who know more than one mainland Chinese actually are not totally ignorant about this. We can simply talk to
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by inimino 7y ago
This is sometimes called "leapfrogging" and one example was cell phone technology (when countries that came later to the game adopted newer and better standards). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging
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by inimino 7y ago
Liking PHP is not controversial. You might find this interesting: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by inimino 7y ago
This is Yegge's over-the-top style of humor, none of these are actual quotes from the email.
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by inimino 7y ago
> Nobody said he was trying to antagonize nonbinary people. The first sentence of this thread: "Dude has gone out of his way to make other people uncomfortable." I'm simply saying that, on the basis of your [1] alone, I wo
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by inimino 7y ago
I had previously heard this attributed to Yogi Berra, so I had to check. Apparently[1], it's an old Danish proverb. [1]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/
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by inimino 7y ago
Just a few points to present another perspective. - RMS's main reason for introducing "per, pers, ..." was to use them in written English; this was just his own weird solution to a problem that a lot of people have noticed in

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