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by inimino 3y ago
I would say the meaning is always the same, the difference is what was being fabricated. Fabricated material good, fabricated evidence bad.
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by inimino 3y ago
This is exactly right, not sure why you are getting downvoted. YC wouldn't work as an accelerator if there wasn't some pattern to their successes.
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by inimino 3y ago
The observation that YC companies tend to share a common shape is a pretty easy one to make. Who gets accepted or not is clearly a matter of fit and equally clearly has strong random chance effects. Analyzing why the fit wasn't there i
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by inimino 3y ago
It also says it's LL(1) recursive descent, so you should already know what that includes.
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by inimino 3y ago
The thing is that parsing is a solved problem and has been for decades. But because this sounds like you must be incompetent if you can't do it, people get very defensive if you say it's easy. Everyone who believes that parsing is
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by inimino 3y ago
"Any more or less real programming language is more complex than an arithmetic expression language with only four operations so any 'lessons' from such a simple example is inapplicable to anything else."
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by inimino 3y ago
Why would you apologize for your vocabulary and try to sound like someone less well-read than you are? Just get over it and be yourself.
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by inimino 3y ago
Reading textbooks is wildly more effective than trying to pick up new math from Wikipedia.
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by inimino 3y ago
The commenter is talking about the local equivalent of Uber, not actual taxis.
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by inimino 3y ago
Your definition of good work is so above and beyond that well under one percent can approach the rarified air of your high standards? I don't believe you.
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by inimino 3y ago
The funny thing about this comment is that man pages do all of the things you mention. There seems to be a common sentiment that cargo culting random opinions from the internet is a "best practice" and that no code reviewer should
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by inimino 3y ago
That section was great. As soon as he said "interesting" I said "hard"! This is a real gem, there's a lot of wisdom in this short talk.
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by inimino 3y ago
Wow. What condescending hogwash! You don't have to be born loving knowing how things work. But if you want to be a programmer (and most people don't) you should accept that the people who understand how things work are eventually
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by inimino 3y ago
I would never get on a plane with the pilot anywhere but on the plane either. But, the point of skin in the game isn't that it reduces the risk, it's a moral issue of who bears the risk. Skin in the game means you don't get t
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by inimino 3y ago
I mean, you completely missed the point of what "skin in the game" is about. It's not a magical antidote to anything , nor is it a guarantee of anything . It just means that if the plane goes down, you're on it. The po
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by inimino 3y ago
Apparently they were trying to fix the cartridge and the officer lost control of it and was killed instantly, some of the others dove under the water and survived the fire, but as the fire had consumed all the oxygen, it didn't matter.
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by inimino 3y ago
That's not Taleb's point at all, not even close. The point isn't about whether people take the risk or don't, the point is who is exposed to the risk. The CEO here had skin in the game. He may have been a cowboy taking n
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by inimino 3y ago
The thing is that reading the manual isn't easy. If it was, everyone would do it, because the benefit is that, eventually, you know every topic or section that appears in the bash man page, and then eventually you know most of what tha
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by inimino 3y ago
Bayesian analysis means you set up at least two models and evaluate the likelihood of the observed data under each. In this case rather than assume a fixed probability of good reviews, you might model a sudden switch (for example if an acco
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by inimino 3y ago
It's secret enough to be well documented in the man page. The real question is, why do people look to random web pages prior to having digested everything in the manual? People used to say "rtfm" all the time, this would be r
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by inimino 3y ago
This assumes the experimenter has zero ability to predict your choice.
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by inimino 3y ago
selling: "we are not the right owner for this asset" foreclosure: "the current owner, the world's expert on making this location profitable, concluded it can't be done" You can argue that it's reductive, o
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by inimino 3y ago
Usually a chess game is started and finished by the same player, so why does this matter? The question you want to answer is "I'm up a rook, how likely am I to win?", which this analysis answers.
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by inimino 3y ago
Opposite in that you liked it at the beginning but not at the end? I could see that happening, given the plot.
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by inimino 3y ago
It would be nice to mention in the Haskell part the solution which is just use 'trace', which just prints the thing and also evaluates to it, so it's just a pair of parens and a keyword and away you go.
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by inimino 3y ago
We should be building tools that empower people to solve their own problems, whether that's no-code or low-code tools, or platforms, or scripting languages. We underinvest in internal tool-building for all sorts of non-technical reason
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by inimino 3y ago
Well, I didn't think that anyone would say "completely impossible to be up to speed on what reality's doing" without some arcane math topic and mean it perfectly seriously.
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by inimino 3y ago
Might have missed a bit of sarcasm.
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by inimino 3y ago
That's 5000 years of not having a climate model at all. Zero years of people confidently asserting small outputs from small changes.
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by inimino 3y ago
Well, yes, I mean, how can we really have this conversation and throw numbers around without defining even what countries and industries we are talking about? But, maybe it's true that most code covers edge cases; then in my opinion, s

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