jack9

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by jack9 11y ago
> More importantly, attempting to respond to invalid inputs is dangerous, for two reasons. First, in such a scenario we've already identified that someone is trying to be evil; Being incorrect is not trying to be evil. smh > Post
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by jack9 11y ago
You think so? Trust in measurements to qualify for government regulation are in question, not car performance or appearance. Toyota sales have not dipped surreptitiously (demand increased in oct). http://www.autoblog.com/201
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by jack9 11y ago
This is one of the worst possible replies you could make. The label is binary (insofar as it is applied or not to a product). The questions are about who determines what "safe" means and where. Your solipsistic attempt to frame hi
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by jack9 11y ago
> allows you to laugh and blow off the propaganda as fluff That's how insidious good propaganda is. You treat it like fluff because it's entertaining and you've gotten the message.
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by jack9 11y ago
> that we disdain verbosity Dynamic languages show there's a tradeoff. Repeating yourself is often useful, when maintenance is expected and code is cheap to produce, without having to worry about strict typing.
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by jack9 11y ago
This is the process used to generate new version of CentOS from RHEL.
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by jack9 11y ago
It's not clear why anyone would care, but a basic concept might be that making umpteen tools throws them all into the bucket of "wasting time on something that won't exist in a few years" while hindering the products tha
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by jack9 11y ago
Wasn't this method already popularized (basically) by twitter's simpleflake/snowflake? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7764254
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by jack9 11y ago
Wrong. It's a spiral (after more than 3 consecutive years!) US, Mexico, Brazil, Greece have all gone through this and melted down. The US called it "the roaring 20's" which proceeded a great depression. Now, companies in
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by jack9 11y ago
How does it compare to D3?
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by jack9 11y ago
I think it's appropriate. Unintrusive, noted by readers. It should link to a notice of the death tho.
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by jack9 11y ago
The article puts forth a couple paltry reasonings. First, there's a shortage of tooling. Second, there's no existing standards for collection/analysis/etc. Neither of these attack the real problems that immediately sprin
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by jack9 11y ago
I thought I was going to read about the real problem with the lack of research into software development. Research software engineers is a secondary issue.
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by jack9 11y ago
> Likewise, I'd ask you what data you used to arrive at your conclusion that rice is healthier for you than bread? There was no conclusion to question. You created a false equivalence because there's an assumption that one MUST
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by jack9 11y ago
If the auctions aren't periodic, what's the point?
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by jack9 11y ago
Typical hollywood self-delusion. > after Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale passed on the title role, it lacked a major star, limiting its commercial prospects > Having a DiCaprio or a Robert Downey Jr. in the title role may have br
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by jack9 11y ago
> The problem is a file system isn't a database Except that, that's exactly what it is.
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by jack9 11y ago
> Many sites simply kill my computer; I can't even remember the last time a site did that, regularly or unintentionally with or without an adblock.
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by jack9 11y ago
It's lucky that I wasn't born as an aboriginee. Babe Ruth didn't have to compete against black players or get drug tested, ad nauseum. The whole "you make your own luck" is as wishful thinking as any other hokey rel
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by jack9 11y ago
> Most people don't care about global commerce Only the ones with money.
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by jack9 11y ago
slow: left skipNext goto slow fast: left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left lef
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by jack9 11y ago
That's a list of concepts. None of that approaches proof.
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by jack9 11y ago
Linear Algebra is almost worthless to most programmers. I challenge you to demonstrate otherwise. Of course it has use in specific industry. So what? There's a lot of thinking that math is a fundamental part of software development. Th
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by jack9 11y ago
Where do you get 1 cubic meter? Anyone talking about grains in such a small area without referencing volumetric differences between grains, is making up measurements. There are multiple order differences between sand types. http:/&#x2
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by jack9 11y ago
The reason I thought ca-chook meant small is because it's fairly difficult to say. When saying small vs big, there's a few incentives (physical, contextual, etc) to have one easier to say than another. e.g. We have a big problem.
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by jack9 11y ago
Bacteria have their own protection mechanisms. That being said, your question belies an assumption. Is it not brain-like if it's damaged/attacked? The blood-brain barrier is a structure the human brain has developed that provides
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by jack9 11y ago
Almost every single one has borderline nonsensical services, leading to some very "creative" APIs or workarounds for weaknesses. The pitches that I have heard in regards to a lack of initiated prewarming or synchronization/tr
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by jack9 11y ago
Why people use shitty CDNs like Akamai or Highwinds (kinda) or MaxCDN, is beyond me. Does nobody do testing? Pick someone with a sane API and you don't have these problems. I happen to like CDN77.
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Of course I do. The idea that a single individual directs (generally through a number of cabinet positions, notably Secretary of State) is how the US presidency worked under a number of administrations, most notably Bush Jr and Reagan. Jimm
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Modules are for us. They provide context. You want to use a function name as a namespace and that creates problems for organization and conceptualization. Any compiler should be able to look at foo() and module:foo() (with identical side ef

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