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by ionforce 13y ago
That doesn't seem like a particularly strong example, especially considering the phrase you chose isn't concise. "H N Time Sink". "I forgot to feed my kids because Warcraft." "My server melted because Slas
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by ionforce 13y ago
How are prototypes brilliant? I'm not familiar with them outside of JavaScript. Maybe you could provide some examples?
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by ionforce 13y ago
They're great if you don't care about your user experience.
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by ionforce 13y ago
It's not stupid at all. I've been using three language learning apps and they all have streak features. That feature is helping me maintain a level of commitment far greater than I ever would have done if I said "well I'
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by ionforce 13y ago
But why is it on Hacker News? And why did the submitter use the term Pinay? People barely know how to spell Filipino, so I don't expect them to know Pinay either. "Filipino visitor something something..."
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by ionforce 13y ago
TNT stands for the Filipino phrase "tago nang tago" which means "always hiding", describing an undocumented immigrant. Hoy, TNT ka? Hey, are you an undocumented immigrant? It's slang.
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by ionforce 13y ago
I think you're misconstruing the linked article. Answer the following. In a generation raised to believe that "how I feel" is the metric to be optimized, who will do work that does not provide "a positive amount of feels
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by ionforce 13y ago
Yes and no, depending on your metric. If you look at it from the "hobbyist does cool hobby thing, gets a lot of upvotes" then yes. But if you look at it from the "minority does X cool thing" then the answer is no. I thin
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by ionforce 13y ago
Sure, you don't "have to" but you most likely do. To understand something implies some grasp of scope and size. And if you're continually working on toy problems, you'll never encounter problems of the appropriate s
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by ionforce 13y ago
Why capitalize git?
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by ionforce 13y ago
Isn't that elitism? Narcissism: I am the most beautiful of all. Elitism: I am more beautiful than you.
552.
by ionforce 13y ago
There's no way this is possible unless you are selecting different shades of the same category of answer. The overall framework of MBTI is largely binary. To produce different results, all you have to do is choose the complete opposite
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by ionforce 13y ago
I get what you're saying but taken literally, this would imply that there are multiple, equally high-paying jobs, when in reality there's probably only ever one, which has a constant value of hate. What we need is a normalized val
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by ionforce 13y ago
Whose "problem" is economic equality? It doesn't sound like it should be the responsibility of the companies that happen to reside in/near the Valley. Google's mission statement is to index the Internet, not to bols
555.
by ionforce 13y ago
Well it would have to be some sort of flexible time constraint. Otherwise the photos are already ordered.
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by ionforce 13y ago
I'm curious what you mean when you say "official policy". Did you mean, that's how the machine works, people will always find/create loopholes. Or did you mean there is a technical provision somewhere that somehow m
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by ionforce 13y ago
Maybe the market is predicated on imperfect/occluded information. Therefore, ripe for disruption and collapse.
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by ionforce 13y ago
They are just fun code names. Nominally textual rather than nominally numeric. I think they're all supposed to be desserts. Akin to how all releases of OSX have cat names. Until the last one. Combo breaker!
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by ionforce 13y ago
Usually people who attain technical knowledge are the same type to avoid politics. Politics is a "soft" game of imperfections, where as technical knowledge is the opposite. Cold, hard, objective. What incentive is there for techni
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by ionforce 13y ago
This talk is so fluffy and empty. Surely there must be someone else who did not enjoy it.
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by ionforce 13y ago
Good on you for being open-minded. Also, diversity bingo!
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by ionforce 13y ago
In your example with the arrays, what were you trying to illustrate? I don't understand.
563.
by ionforce 13y ago
You are conflating explicit type declaration with static typing. While often found together, they are different things.
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by ionforce 13y ago
I don't think reasoning about types is a matter of intelligence. I happen to share your experience. It is more of a cognitive burden, exacerbated by less diligent coworkers. No amount of "convention within dynamism" can compe
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by ionforce 13y ago
With a static language, you get more with less. If you didn't have any testing framework, the compiler would tell you where you messed up. So, there's that, barring "well you should have had testing code to begin with".
566.
by ionforce 13y ago
It's weird. You mention that the claim is unfounded, and then you have all this text that follows, but none of it seems related to supporting your point. How is the claim that [X at large is difficult to maintain] unfounded? I happen t
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by ionforce 13y ago
Quora is bad at/does not specialize in answers involving code/math.
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by ionforce 13y ago
I think the code has a generator framework, so the fact that they are alphabetical may just be convenient/arbitrary; the code could be generated to run in any order (I think).
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by ionforce 13y ago
I'm sure if law enforcement doesn't like your innocent looking messages they can just keep demanding that you give them the real key. How easy is it to produce a stream of messages that is fake but looks real?
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by ionforce 13y ago
I think that people view art as a side effect of abundance. It is something that naturally arises given a surplus of some thing. The point of contention here is that someone of that level of intellect has "wasted" their talent on

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