jdc

73 ms·

691.
by jdc 11y ago
Don't move the goalpost.
692.
by jdc 11y ago
That may not be the best example of macros since you can do the same thing in Python: def awhen(func, callback): val = func() if val: callback(val)
693.
Thousands take to Berlin to protest EU-US TTIP accord(dw.com)
4 points by jdc 11y ago|0 comments
694.
by jdc 11y ago
Regarding security, any distro install is going to have an attack surface several orders of magnitude higher than a unikernel. Does anyone know how the quantity of exploitable vulnerabilities varies with attack surface (ie. SLOC)?
695.
by jdc 11y ago
I was being facetious but now that I think about it, it does seem fairly inevitable that one day air-traffic control will be consider to have too low a margin for error to entrust to human operators.
696.
by jdc 11y ago
Until someone disrupts air traffic control, I'm afraid that airspace is stuck with the status quo.
697.
by jdc 11y ago
> Whereas previously I could simply mouse-over a data structure when I hit a breakpoint (or crash), I now have to do a REPL dance to see what's in any of my data structures. Why is that? IMHO, this sounds like a problem with the dev
698.
by jdc 11y ago
> collapsing local financial pyramids I don't know what you mean here. Would you unpack this for me?
699.
by jdc 11y ago
Citations?
700.
by jdc 11y ago
I don't know if SQLAlchemy is unique among ORMs for this, but it seems to that it cleanly, and extensible abstracts SQL. At my previous job, our other programmer (who had more experience in Java than Python) was able to implement a sof
701.
by jdc 11y ago
I'd like to believe the conclusions of Rat Park, but I've heard there were problems reproducing their results.
702.
We Are All Confident Idiots (2014)(psmag.com)
2 points by jdc 11y ago|0 comments
703.
by jdc 11y ago
> Every part of your system must now know the hash structure you're using and often reproduce logic in many places like dealing with optional keys that may be missing. Why not just write accessors and mutators for your hashes? Also,
704.
by jdc 11y ago
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
705.
by jdc 11y ago
http://jsbin.com/jikisugifu/edit?output
706.
by jdc 11y ago
Do any of the down voters have another point of view they would like to share?
707.
by jdc 11y ago
I'd guess job creation, possibly with a side of union influence.
708.
by jdc 11y ago
Pretty sure the definition of embedding (that at least the article uses) is to call Python from rather than having Python call the other language.
709.
by jdc 11y ago
They looked at over 2,000 adolescents in a network of US high school students to see how their mood influenced each other [...] The team found that while depression does not 'spread'
710.
by jdc 11y ago
Alan Kay has similarly criticized the computer software industry and its "pop culture." https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
711.
by jdc 11y ago
Yeah. Just put the year in parens at the end of the title if you're worried about it.
712.
by jdc 11y ago
What surprised me was the the Liberal party helped pass it.
713.
by jdc 11y ago
http://fsharp.org/use/mac/
714.
by jdc 12y ago
Schopenhauer's "On Reading and Books": https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/...
715.
by jdc 12y ago
How does plan9 help make your interface cleaner?
716.
by jdc 12y ago
How is any of that relevant to the central point (that no mutual funds beat the market in the long-term)?
717.
by jdc 12y ago
Regarding (3), you have the success of Swiss direct democracy to content with.
718.
by jdc 12y ago
Compare with: Prognostic Value of Treadmill Exercise Testing http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/98/25/2836.long Maximal Exercise Testing Variables and 10-Year Survival Fitness Risk Score Derivation From the
719.
by jdc 12y ago
What are some examples of non-trivial working formally verified software?
720.
by jdc 12y ago
Thorazine.

More ›