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by jemfinch 13y ago
Smuggling? Really? Why does Microsoft care where I drink my soda? My brain doesn't turn off at 5pm: last night I was up until 3am, at home, figuring out some bug my change introduced. Yes, I drank an employer-provided Diet Mountain De
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by jemfinch 13y ago
> Doing 10 runs of each and averaging the reported duration I wish people would stop doing that. Your program is doing the same work in all benchmarking runs; any variance in the runtime is a result of factors you're probably not inter
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by jemfinch 13y ago
> I do not believe that Go's concurrency primitives are better than Haskell or Erlang's, full stop. Unless I'm mistaken (and please correct me if I am!), synchronous primitives can be used to implement asynchronous primitives, but the c
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by jemfinch 13y ago
I've asked it as an interview question many times; it works really well. The only bad part is that most candidates can't even write a correct strstr(3), so it becomes incredibly depressing.
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by jemfinch 13y ago
The article's credibility is significantly reduced by referring to Judy Trie lookups as O(log n) operations. They're actually O(log w) operations: the number of operations is bounded by the array's word size , not the size of the Judy arr
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by jemfinch 13y ago
You were misled by engineers parroting the ideology they were taught in school. Else statements are far less readable than straight-line control flow with early returns.
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by jemfinch 14y ago
You took a screenshot of plain text. Did "Error establishing database connection" not suffice?
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by jemfinch 14y ago
So is driving on the highway. What, exactly, is your point? We take calculated risks every single day. Meeting an opportunistic thief in a public place to retrieve your own property is at the low of end the risk spectrum, and the savings
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by jemfinch 14y ago
> Much safer to just gather information and give it to the police. The police won't help you recover your stolen property: it's not their job. > Confronting a thief in person is pretty dangerous...there's a non-zero chance of a figh
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by jemfinch 14y ago
I like Kenji, but he's wrong about osmosis. Specifically, this claim "Moreover, if you soak a turkey in a ridiculously concentrated brine (I tested turkey in a 35% salt solution), according to the osmosis theory, it should dry out even mor
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Another reason paramedics are taught to walk around pools is simply to avoid slipping on wet floors. The additional speed isn't worth the increased risk of falling. (Source: I was a certified EMT-Basic)
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by jemfinch 14y ago
You're bickering a lot throughout this thread with people who have training and education. I was a certified EMT and have vetted these facts with my wife, who's a veterinarian. This shouldn't be a long, drawn out battle. You said somethin
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by jemfinch 14y ago
The incorrectness in your claim was the use of the word "frequently". VFib does not "frequently" become asystole after a few seconds. It generally continues for several minutes. 2% of people who enter asystole ever recover; far more than
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by jemfinch 14y ago
> If VF continues for anything longer than a few seconds, asystole frequently occurs. Among other things, asystole is definitive of "clinical death." This isn't true. VFib can persist for a long time (at least 20 minutes, maybe more).
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by jemfinch 14y ago
I'm (only a little bit) sorry to be so pedantic, but I've grown weary of this modern misuse of death for hyperbolic effect. You didn't die. You weren't dead and you aren't now resurrected. You experienced a very serious medical event, and
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by jemfinch 14y ago
It's interesting that bash doesn't figure out the system's maximum command line length and either error or truncate if any single argument exceeds that length.
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by jemfinch 14y ago
The Internet is a really complicated place. There could be any number of reasons Netflix is faster for you than YouTube: your ISP might have better peering with Netflix than Google, or it might have a wider transit pipe to Netflix's pref
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by jemfinch 14y ago
> Everything that you can do incorrectly with C, you can do incorrectly with C++ This isn't true. C++ doesn't allow certain implicit casts that C allows (e.g., from void* to T*).
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by jemfinch 14y ago
It certainly wouldn't be good advertising for his company, which sells a purported alternative to candidate referrals.
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by jemfinch 14y ago
The author works for a company marketing a "a scientifically driven way to quantify the match between a job candidate and an open position" and is making claims derogating another mechanism for matching candidates and position. He's not ex
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by jemfinch 14y ago
It's not the word itself. The word could be "terrorist" or "bomb" or "Muslim" or anything, really. It's denying some wrongdoing without having first been accused of it . Humans learn very early on to be suspicious of people who offer de
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by jemfinch 14y ago
The author contracted carriage in exchange for money, and the captain refused to honor that contract. The author was a victim. The captain was an aggressor. Those are facts, not opinions, and they're not manipulative. It's your prerogat
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by jemfinch 14y ago
No one's taking the airline's side here, but he shouldn't have brought up terrorism. That was a mistake in judgment on his part, as I explained elsewhere. The irony here is that you're demonstrating the same sort of knee-jerk misinterpreta
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Because if you can't do that, what's even left for terrorists to destroy? Oh please. Imagine you have a guest at your house who asks to use the bathroom. You reply, "Yes, it's the second door on the left, and I haven't installed any rec
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Even police officers have no right to confiscate equipment or delete pictures[0], and you're proposing that private parties attempt it? Please, be more aware of your civil rights. [0] http://www.aclupa.org/issues/freespeech/kyrwhentakingp
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Captain: I don't have any, but United will have no trouble finding me. My name is...[removed]. Why do victims protect their aggressors in this way? The captain made a wrongheaded decision, and he should at the very least have his name at
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by jemfinch 14y ago
The community spoke, by voting up this submission: he just translated those votes into words, while reasonably pointing out that the community speaking now is not saying the same thing it was saying when he was initially attracted to this s
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by jemfinch 14y ago
This is a knee-jerk reply. I know, because my knee jerked as well. Think about the problem a little more: if you have the data necessary to pick the min-of-two, then you have the data you need to do intelligent routing.
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by jemfinch 14y ago
If Heroku had the data needed to do minimum-of-two random routing, they'd have the data needed to do intelligent routing. The problem is not the algorithm itself: "decrement and reheap" isn't going to be a performance bottleneck. The prob
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by jemfinch 14y ago
I think this is an externally visible link: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/A2ygEJ5eG... . It's the answer I received when I filed an internal bug on this. "Hi John - Thanks for the feedback. Maps uses Mercator becau

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