jbooth

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by jbooth 10y ago
For what, his libertarian values? While backing Palantir and engaging in stuff like this?
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by jbooth 10y ago
Interfaces you supply will necessarily constrain implementation details. So it winds up mattering. Passing a function to a function is a bunch of indirection and extra stack frames(!) compared to updating very small, memory aligned mutable
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by jbooth 10y ago
Which is still a very different statement from the way functional zealots would put it. Carmack's talking about pure functions at the architecture/design level. Within those functions, there's still lots of temporary mutable
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by jbooth 10y ago
That's a reasonable point (although it's not like Assad is short on human rights violations), but implying there's some sort of "natural line of development" that would have happened without interaction with the wes
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by jbooth 10y ago
Dude. We talking about animals here? Their natural ecosystem? People deserve more respect than that.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Given how much of the job is based on resourcefulness and 'sticktoitiveness' which wind up being completely unmeasured by the typical big-o-whiteboard-olympics.. I wonder if it wouldn't be an edge in hiring to fast-track any
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by jbooth 10y ago
I'm not sure what the boundary is for "life-affecting", if you're talking about loan origination or anything, then like you said, there's already a boatload of regulations there. For marketing optimization, FWIW, my
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by jbooth 10y ago
What is it with hacker news commenters and assuming other people don't know things? The comment I was responding to was talking about training sets, I riffed on that. Depending on your definition of "full explanatory power",
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by jbooth 10y ago
Which then violates the other N-1 people's privacy, right? Why should Guilliame get access to Wilhelm or Guillermo's data? I bet this conundrum never crossed the minds of any of the people writing the regulation.
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by jbooth 10y ago
I've tried lots of languages, thanks. It's still astonishing and will always be astonishing. WTF does "timesRepeat" have to do with what an integer represents? Nothing, that's what. Integer is a noun, conventiona
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by jbooth 10y ago
That depends on the language, I love flatMap, but I never want to see functions attached to the integer type. Just stop with that :) Principle of least astonishment and all.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Agree with all of that. My hatred of extreme DRY is due to having been burned by premature/poor abstraction so many times. Also, there are even exceptions to that rule.. I've seen a number of cases, let's say you've go
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by jbooth 10y ago
Like I said, it's a judgment call on a case by case basis. Taking 'DRY' to an extreme leads to an overly self-coupled code base, taking decoupling to an extreme leads to the need to apply the same fix in multiple places.
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by jbooth 10y ago
It's sometimes actually the best option. We're talking about principles in a vacuum here but I have seen so many tall class hierarchies where now in order to change one isolated feature that shouldn't affect the rest of th
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by jbooth 10y ago
So then you make all your nice pretty abstractions, and something comes from the business where it needs to be different in some wacky pathological case. Now your abstractions suck. Duplication leaves you room for that messy business logic
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by jbooth 10y ago
They've got an absolute shit-ton of recruiters out there manufacturing those candidates. I've never done an on-site Google interview (never the right timing) but they hit me up once a year trying to drum up interest. And then eve
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by jbooth 10y ago
That's a really interesting point, thanks :) I'm tempted to try and argue for the sake of it but I'm not even conversational besides 'baby' and 'food' topics and nowhere close to literate. So thanks again
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by jbooth 10y ago
Learning the radicals does allow a certain amount of 'chunking' and makes things easier, but it's by no means a consistent system like an alphabet. Sometimes one radical is sound and another is meaning, sometimes neither, so
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by jbooth 10y ago
I know about 200 words of spoken chinese and can write maybe 4 (including yi er san ;)). Now, admittedly, I'm just picking it up here and there rather than attending classes and spending hours writing characters over and over, but I t
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by jbooth 10y ago
Interop with C is easy to code but deceptively expensive from a machine standpoint, due to correctness guarantees when you're switching from green threads to no-green-threads. It involves interacting with the go scheduler and possibly
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by jbooth 10y ago
Yes, that and infrastructure to create jobs, demand, and fix a bunch of things that need fixing. But, unfortunately, most national politicians are against it because politics.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Student loans aren't dischargable in most forms of bankruptcy, why's a cosign necessary?
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by jbooth 10y ago
Respectfully, that's a bullshit point of view. For the japanese military in WWII, rape was normal. Butchering civilian populations wholesale was normal. The Americans and British did not play by those rules, even though we did a lot
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by jbooth 10y ago
If you're talking about Japanese conduct during the war, I'd find the rampant war crimes a lot more notable than the fighting until death.
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by jbooth 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
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by jbooth 10y ago
1) They already are 2) If you're going Econ 101 on this, ever heard of elasticity or switching costs?
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by jbooth 10y ago
Lots of people do at 22-23, aka before a car rental company will give you a decent rate based on their actuarial models of judgment.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Yeah, the hilarious part of scala hyperpartisans (and i like scala) insisting that SBT is great is when you point out that Maven is declarative and SBT is imperative.. in other words the exact opposite of scala dogma. It's a good way
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by jbooth 10y ago
Especially since he was being questioned by a conservative group who's suing the government over the matter to keep it in headlines. Once they figure out he's pleading the fifth, they're going to ask 125 questions to craft t
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by jbooth 10y ago
Just use Maven. It will be the lowest maintenance cost over time for your project. Nothing else matters, it's a frickin build system -- get it working and move on.

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