jemfinch

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by jemfinch 15y ago
I catch the irony, but I'm not confident that it really contributes to the discussion here. Look at the comment thread it's produced: practically nothing of any consequence or interest.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I use the Vimium extension in Chrome to gain that same keyboard navigability.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Patent troll? Everything in the article indicated they were suing over copyright, not patents.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
"Everything happens for a reason" is about teleology, not etiology. When people say so, they're implying a goal, not a cause.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
> The fact that it needed a mathematical proof to arrive at that conclusion was a hint that the path was too convoluted to follow. There are some (e.g., Dijkstra) who would argue that the code itself ought to be a mathematical proof o
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by jemfinch 15y ago
My definition? If your definition of "meaningful" doesn't take into account an act's impact on the external world, I don't know what to say; we probably have very little to discuss. I have no interest in arguing against what effectively
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by jemfinch 15y ago
A cursory googling for "elephants culled on reserves" shows several stories from reliable sources indicating that you're not mistaken.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
John Delaney left behind two sons and a pregnant wife pursuing a meaningless accomplishment. Bob Parsons killed an elephant who was destroying crops and fed an African village. I'm troubled by your use of "meaningful" in describing danger.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Not when you consider how a large number of PHP programmers "program" on a day-to-day basis.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
In what jurisdictions is it illegal to recover your own stolen property?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Perhaps a more reasonable middle ground can be found: only show the scores after a person votes, a la Slashdot's "you can't comment and moderate in the same story/thread". You avoid groupthink and pissing contests, but you allow someone to
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Model releases are not necessary for the use of recordings as evidence.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
No, doctors aren't lawyers. But they are humans, and thus they're responsible for their own actions, even if they've been misled by so-called experts. They bear responsibility for refusing medical treatment to clients who refuse to sign r
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by jemfinch 15y ago
The funny thing is, the Netflix policy is tied to a corporate culture that's reputed to be very high stress, performance-focused, and quick to terminate. In such an insecure environment, I would be very surprised if Netflix employees took
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by jemfinch 15y ago
HA Proxy isn't going to protect their pipe from congestion. Null routing the ip that's getting flooded will.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
It's RIAA/MPAA and "porn". The GP is right: you're communicating childishly.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I find SML a much "prettier" language than OCaml, but OCaml is much more widely used and maintained; SML seems to be largely a dead language now.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
As another poster stated, the drawing pulled 90% of the applicants from the first two days of the application period. Perhaps the bug was something like "bool choose_this_applicant = random() < 1/total_applicants_received_so_far". It w
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by jemfinch 15y ago
All men (and women) are created equal, of course. What rubashov is talking about is what they do with their lives after they're created.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I'd really like to see an NTSB/FAA-style post-mortem analysis of bugs like these, along with suggested process improvements that will prevent such errors from occurring in the future. Our industry could really benefit from a body of analysi
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by jemfinch 15y ago
It's remarkably easy to hide backdoors in plain sight. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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by jemfinch 15y ago
We're all losers. Even the best programmers in the world have difficulty writing bug-free code. Whatever tools we can leverage to make us lose less should be welcomed with open arms.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
You have solid points, but your rhetoric and diction is unnecessarily inflammatory and immature.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
My experience indicates otherwise.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Routing changes break the network connection. If it's buffered and you can reconnect transparently, it might work, but for unbuffered connections (like most web connections are) you'll see increased error rates.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
What's leaning ownership?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I've been asked to produce this data structure as an interview question . Aren't patents supposed to be non-trivial?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Two eyes are required for ordinary depth perception without workarounds, but depth perception is not required for 3D vision. Speaking as someone who naturally has little to no depth perception (amblyopia affecting my right eye), I still s
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by jemfinch 16y ago
If your phone doesn't ring and you're not feeling warmth when the microwave runs, you're fine. Microwaves don't do much more than excite water molecules. Those excited molecules would manifest as a simple perception of increased heat if
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Releasing information about this helps others better compete with Facebook's competitors while not diminishing the value of Facebook's core asset at all.

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