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by jfoutz 5y ago
I'm going way out on a limb here, and claim both. There is an interplay between the two. Wood, for example in a dark and dry place, can last for a very long time, but I doubt there are many wooden structures that are, say 2000 years ol
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by jfoutz 5y ago
So, I'm not an R guy, but I pawed through some of the code. I get what you're saying, there's an environment, it needs to be just so, or it won't work. that's fine. And yeah, it does feel a lot like SQL. I would poi
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I think it always makes sense to have an oracle, or a few. Nothing super fancy, just a few values you _know_ have a certain outcome. f(4,5) == 6 is good enough. just, whatever you type in to test as you develop the code, write it do
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by jfoutz 5y ago
London and city of London are different. Agree, London is great. City of London was pretty sparse when I visited. Perhaps things have changed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
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by jfoutz 5y ago
My wild guess is City of London. Massive amounts of office space. Like 500 housing spaces, no shops, no kids, quite a few restaurants and bars to cater to the workers.
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by jfoutz 5y ago
The information sharing tools they developed back at the start got some popularity. I imagine you're wondering about newer things and actual discoveries. I just couldn't resist the setup.
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by jfoutz 5y ago
it's a skill. get a book, take a class. I made the same eggs on the same pan for a long time. Do the same thing over and over. Treat it as a hobby, not an obligation. It really is something you can get better at. You'll learn how
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Totally respect this. I'm curious about your thoughts about pizza/pizza on infogami:reddit. Is it better to make them public, till someone steals them? should they be disallowed? early on, it's a free for all. grabbing the s
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Try cooking. The skill cap is high, it doesn't take much to make things OK, and you gotta eat. it has helped me a lot. Plenty of times I don't want to do it, but it's hard to put off for long. You can screw up a lot, and the
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by jfoutz 5y ago
my great uncle owned an armored car when I was a child. He lived a few states away so I only saw pictures. British Ferret. Apparently it still had the guns, but they were spiked, so they would never fire again. Also, he tried to explain ho
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by jfoutz 5y ago
> At this point I also don't care if it's at the cost of backward compatibility Yeah, no. This is the heart and soul of MS. Apple breaks stuff all the damn time. MicroSoft keeps things working forever. Some people pay for upgra
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Well, fines are a fixed cost, the risk can be calculated and offset against a bonus. A ransom has an unknown downside. I'd imagine most ransoms would be priced to likely get paid, but ransomers don't really know the biz inside and
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by jfoutz 5y ago
My interpretation, Murph solved the gravity equation all by herself. Plan A was a success. She never really got over her father leaving her. Probably he couldn't take it and just left. Maybe, they flew into the black hole and died. But
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Ah, no offense intended. There were a lot of calls to just build more fabs. I personally, and I think it's a common belief, that for a lot of software I could build a simple version, alone, over the weekend. When stackoverflow was new,
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I can only recall 3 forced upgrades, passive passenger restraints, which turned out to be airbags. Minimum MPG, across all cars sold (SUVs could be worse as long as other models improved). and crash survival, which turned out to be crumple
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by jfoutz 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho I think this is a pretty clever meta comment, but for those who don’t know, it’s a quite graphic book. I never had the stomach for it.
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I'm not quite sure I follow. I guess the same reason AMF isn't really much of a thing anymore? I don't think making a pinsetter would be a big deal now with ready access to parts and tools, but I'd imagine it was quite a
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I think a lot of folks underestimate how fabulously complicated it is to fab a chip. Yes, you can diy it in your garage, here's a wonderful implementation. http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/ But take a look at the sp
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I love that you use 4 indirections before getting to you main, parenthetical, point.
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Joel Spolsky did it, city something?
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Reliance on deprecated behavior, but without the compiler warning. There may be some hidden risk out there, and we have no idea how much it'll cost to fix or replace. The example that springs to mind is the social security check printe
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by jfoutz 5y ago
How about a RAM disk?
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I'm not a doctor. I haven't worked in a wet lab. All this is from second hand conversations and anecdotes. Mice aren't human. There's lots of ways to cure cancer in mice. it's practically a joke. Mice can tell you a
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I think it’s an encouragement to be like apple. Understand your suppliers and their suppliers and on and on.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I saw that exhibition within a year of it opening. It wasn't amazing. The dwarf fortress aspect was a wall painted with screenshots. It made me both happy and sad. The funny little punctuation marks on the wall meant so much to me, tha
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Usually ambulances can speed, for example.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
This is hand-wavy and bordering on woo, also not specific to web development. In my experience, Lisp has this sort of brain amplification power. Whatever weird idea I have about how to think about a problem, I can kinda smush lisp into shap
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Far from my field of expertise, but I'd guess more than just one and they would move closer and closer to the source of the wave. Put the differentiator right there in the break or whatever the component might be. Creates a neater inte
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Microsoft's legendary backwards compatibility not being extended to support win95's look and feel. That part.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
-q Set to be quite. I doubt it's intentional, but I kinda love it.

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