jdmichal

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by jdmichal 7y ago
I don't think either of your points has anything to do with type erasure, and everything to do with allowing generics to take value types. This was an easy decision in Java, since it doesn't (yet?) allow user-defined value types.
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by jdmichal 7y ago
The best answer I've seen is the Lisp Curse. It's basically the idea that Lisp is so flexible that every project becomes its own DSL / idiomatic version of Lisp. Imagine what's being discussed here, except that every
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by jdmichal 7y ago
I believe the only difference would be whether income is taxable or not. If there is no intended income for this fund -- that is, it's completely prefunded by the founder -- then there's no advantage to jump through the hoops tha
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> They might not know they are, but that’s besides the point. I actually thought that was exactly the point here...
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I mean, maybe technically, but not practically. Knowing how your computer works requires knowledge of semiconductors, p- and n-type doping, quantum physics, etc. So yes, maybe you can enumerate the levels, but at some point they become no
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> Assuming your agreement states that the company will front the fees. I'm not entirely sure they can agree to not front the fees without also potentially voiding arbitration. While money does mean a lot in court, there's a ve
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We don't have a difference. Of course talent plays into skills also. And, if it wasn't clear before, I think it's impossible for two people to run the same decision process. Values, needs, experience are all so infinitely
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Probably confusing it with North Korea, which is officially the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
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> You think all people have essentially the same fundamental capacity to reason? And all that differs from person to person is information, experience and knowledge? I think that decision making is a skill. And like all skills, having t
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The name makes sense, though they have a very explicit definition of violent which is laid out at the beginning of the book. (Which I suspect very few commenting here have read.) The definition is that, by only acknowledging your own need
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by jdmichal 7y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that, when you say "my blood-letting barber", you're exaggerating. Others could say the exact same thing, and be deadly serious. My argument is exactly this variance. When scientific me
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by jdmichal 7y ago
I'm one of today's lucky 10,000! Thanks for sharing I will definitely look into getting one of those.
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Oh yes. You'll destroy the roots if you try to separate it. What I meant is that you will typically only sprout seeds that way. Then you put them in a small starter pot or similar with soil to get them to continue growing inside. T
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That argument is just turtles all the way down. How did those people get educated? How was correct dosage and drug interactions determined in the first place? How was purity enforced? At some point, you're either trusting unverif
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Even if I'm in the first group, I still need to know things like correct dosage, drug interactions, purity, etc in order to safely self-administer. I'm not quite sure where you would draw the line between "being educated&quo
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by jdmichal 7y ago
I'm getting a 404 on your resume link.
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IANAL. I would start with consideration. What's the consideration from the site that would form a contract? Access that is freely granted to the public anyway? Could I write a contract in which the only consideration I give is acce
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Ditto. The only downside to this method is having to transplant twice: once to soil pots after sprouting, then to the ground.
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Expression trees are a .NET capability to compile a series of expressions during runtime. It's not required for this at all; it's just an optimization. It allows the complex tree of Specification objects to be compiled down into
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That's just an optimization layer, though. I actually have a hard time telling this apart from `java.util.function.Predicate` with its default `and`, `or`, and `negate` methods... I can certainly understand using something like this w
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I can confirm that I saw the phrase on posters visiting the Palo Alto site in 2011.
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Audi is also pretty good at making more relevant information and controls available in the dial display area, controlled with a scroll on the steering wheel.
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> In fact, most of history the etymology of words wasn't a huge topic because everyone would pronounce the words in their language similarly and thus language wouldn't evolve nearly as rapidly--the phoneme is as important as th
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Bigger scales typically include an implicit amount of wiggle within the lower scales. People understand that when you say a car cost "25 thousand", that it's not exactly 25,000, but that it's closer to 25,000 than 24,
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Meanwhile, League of Legends suspended all professional leagues, because they don't play remotely. I'm pretty sure they even have isolated, local servers for tournament play. And I still see games paused with "lag" as
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> Obviously this program [in C] contains a lot of things that deal with the computer and not the problem of calculating a sum. Stack based languages replace "dealing with the computer" with "dealing with the stack".
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by jdmichal 7y ago
No worries... It's been almost 15 years for myself. Even when I was much better, I used to describe myself as competent enough to get into trouble, but not back out again.
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by jdmichal 7y ago
I mean, sure Fluss is masculine... But it seems like borrowed English nouns generally end up masculine also. So sure, why not!
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> cry mich ein river That should be "cry mir ein river". You want the dative case, because you are requesting that the river be cried for you.
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On the other hand, you are now beholden to the treadmill of your business' ever-changing demands as their processes change. You are devoting engineering resources (not cheap) to products which do not directly make money. For a group t

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