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by jblow 11y ago
There are many different kinds of prayer in the (for example) Christian tradition. You might be thinking of intercessionary prayer, but there is also contemplative prayer which is indeed a lot more like meditation.
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by jblow 11y ago
I came here to post "this article is garbage" but I see I have been beaten to it 3 times by the only 3 other comments here. So.
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by jblow 11y ago
All other arguments aside ... this idea also fails if the judging party's idea of quality is mostly uncorrelated with actual quality. Which Graham says in other essays is usually the case (it's what you mean when you say it's
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by jblow 11y ago
Only a billion? This is the USA in 2015 we are talking about. A single F-35C costs a third of a billion dollars. So you are talking about 3 planes.
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by jblow 11y ago
No kidding. I was trying to watch some soccer games in England last month, and it was an exercise in having to fight through the flashing+animated ads around the entire field. I don't think I will ever try watching one of those matches
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by jblow 11y ago
Part of the reason this is unappealing to consumers is there are actually two layers of bundling here. One layer is the obvious cable TV bundling that most of us probably think is evil and should die. But the second layer of bundling is ESP
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by jblow 11y ago
Don't presume to give them so much benefit of the doubt. Apparently Stripe are kind of jokers. This incident report reminded me of the 'Game Day Exercise' post from 2014: https://stripe.com/blog/game-day-
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by jblow 11y ago
No trackpad buttons, no sale.
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by jblow 11y ago
No kidding. If you want an image format to become widely adopted and standardized, GPLing the code is a pretty bad idea.
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by jblow 11y ago
I won't ever hire anyone who has this company on their resume.
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by jblow 11y ago
Yeah, my comment was not in response to your post, it was to the comment I was replying to.
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by jblow 11y ago
Yes, indeed that was a big part of my point! But also , even if I didn't have a choice and had to write the code in C++, I would do it in the style on the slide, not the style endorsed by the link on this HN thread. I do agree that co
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by jblow 11y ago
Guys, there are errors in this code because I just typed it into a text buffer without ever compiling or running it. It is an example from a slide that I didn't care very much about, for illustration purposes only. If you did that with
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by jblow 11y ago
I agree! But the first step in a good decision is a clear understanding of the situation, and it is a barrier to understanding to just blanket-decide that procrastination is completely bad without even considering otherwise.
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by jblow 11y ago
This is one of those cases where science, viewed globally, is being dumb. Is it not consistent with the scientific narrative that procrastination, being a universal behavior, must have been developed evolutionarily for some benefit? It is a
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by jblow 11y ago
I don't see how you can claim that the idea of wave function collapse here is a misunderstanding. The mathematical meaning of the statement "two things are entangled" is that you cannot factor the states into the product of t
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by jblow 11y ago
With this scheme you would end up with pretty bad problems regarding function pointers and lambdas. Because the type is deeply implicit, you would have two function pointers that look compatible but are totally incompatible. Then when you w
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by jblow 11y ago
Because in order to know which instructions in your procedure might excecute, you need to know about the exception-handling behavior for everyone you call, which requires looking at the source code of everyone you call. User barkkel above i
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by jblow 11y ago
I also prefer option 3 over option 4. It bothers me that the article recommends exceptions without seeming to understand their drawbacks (the major one: as soon as you use exceptions you suddenly need to apply nonlocal reasoning everywhere
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by jblow 11y ago
I tried using LibreOffice last year and it was a total joke. Almost nothing worked the way it was supposed to, and it crashed often. When it came time to give my speech and output slides to a projector, that just didn't work at all. My
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by jblow 11y ago
That sentence is not informative. The backbone of the regular internet is fiber optics as well (usually).
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by jblow 11y ago
Everybody who has tried to use const in even medium-sized C++ codebases is familiar with the behavior discussed here. It's not about specific examples, it is about what happens when you have a lot of code.
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by jblow 11y ago
Whether they don't right this second doesn't matter. Their terms of service say they can . If they decided it was unthinkable that they would ever do this, they could have written their TOS to be less overreaching. But they didn&
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by jblow 11y ago
So don't do that. Make a few UIs. They are a big company, they can do that if they actually have anyone who knows how to program.
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by jblow 11y ago
Perfect point! The fact that you think that was the outcome of the investigation is due to the huge amount of money Toyota spent denying the problem.
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by jblow 11y ago
You might want to read ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com. Usually this kind of announcement is followed by another one, 9 months-2 years later, of the service being shut down. This is just the first step of that pattern again.
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by jblow 11y ago
Please make an effort to read and understand my point. Yeah, maybe there was a case when a couple peoples' lives were at stake but nothing happened. The real issue is that tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of peoples' liv
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by jblow 11y ago
Look at what Toyota did with the whole unintentional acceleration thing. About as irresponsible as you can get.
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by jblow 11y ago
They might be reasonable in isolation but are not being levied remotely in proportion. I just realized what the problem is: this is bikeshedding. Everyone knows about people driving around and feels qualified to have moral indignation in th
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by jblow 11y ago
This discussion is going insane. I see lots of people arguing about the safety of how these guys conducted the hack. Okay, sure, there is probably an issue there of some degree. But it's a very small issue compared to the fact that hun

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