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by jgwil2 5y ago
I assume it wasn't just darkness they were dealing with, but also that the water was so muddy it became opaque, in which case lights wouldn't have helped them.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
They determine how prominently a comment is displayed in the thread, so they do affect the user experience.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Not least because downvoting disappears in a day but you can upvote stuff no matter how old.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
OP was responding to a comment specifically about debugging C. Someone questioned the value of this to employability and then the comment I responded to laid into him/her, suggesting no one on HN should ask that. I am defending that qu
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Well, one doesn't have time to learn everything, so it's entirely reasonable to do a cost-benefit analysis (in terms of employability or personal interest) before investing.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I think the parent is suggesting that by this logic, tests are also useless, but almost no engineers would argue against tests.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Should be marked "Show HN," no?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Is it open source?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I mean, have you ever punched somebody in the face? I'll admit the thought occurred to me as well but in practice, I think most people have a strong aversion to violence, not to mention the potential criminal liability.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Even after being degraded by Felleisen, Butterick received a high rating for his teaching by Felleisen? I believe you've misunderstood a sentence from the article. The author meant he received higher ratings than all other teacher
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Let's not forget about Ireland.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
For anyone wondering about the incident in question this is a good roundup: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.htm... According to the article neither employee was fired: one was pl
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Any news site, but foxnews.com is one of the worst. On top of everything almost every article has some auto-playing video that follows you as you scroll.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Some good programming/mathematical logic content here: https://stopa.io/ Russ Cox of Go: https://research.swtch.com/
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Also "The Americans denuded the landscape with chemicals to deny cover to the Viet Cong." means chemical weapons. I believe the distinction is that Agent Orange was not used as a weapon per se, in that it wasn't applied
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I also enjoyed this article on Chip-8 emulation: https://www.taniarascia.com/writing-an-emulator-in-javascrip...
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by jgwil2 5y ago
The etymology given by Wiktionary[0] is: > From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”),
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Well, the thing about English being a global lingua franca is that English speakers aren't constantly exposed to another language the way many other people are exposed to English. It isn't fair, but there we are.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
French and German, at least, have handy words ( si and doch respectively) that just serve to contradict a negative question.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Well I didn't read the entire website, but from what I saw, the quote I cited above seemed representative of the general attitude, so I'm wondering where the outrage is coming from. As a matter of fact they seem to go to a lot of
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I don't understand what is so absurd about the proposed solutions. Can you provide a citation, in context, of something particularly outrageous?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
From the first paragraph of the FAQ: > For decades, America’s schools have tried and failed to close gaps on math test scores between White students and students of color. That’s not because math discriminates by race, and it’s not becau
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by jgwil2 5y ago
There are non-periodical cicadas that have an annual lifecycle, but the ranges of the various broods of periodical cicadas do not overlap a whole lot. The Great Eastern Brood is the biggest of these and its range roughly corresponds to the
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I like this idea, but I would add that my preference for scenario 2 is to add HACK (or FIXME) along with the explanation instead. This way it is still searchable, but you make it a bit more clear that there is no obvious fix at the moment.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Good point. I think it is pretty common for schools (particularly community colleges or regional universities that primarily serve commuters) to offer programs in "Information Technology," but these may be substantially less rigor
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Yes, that is a good point. But by analogy, should an English major receive credit towards their major for a course in word processing, or is it just something that they should be expected to pick up along the way?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Seems like these are more subjects for "software engineering" or some other kind of pre-professional major, as opposed to CS. Obviously not every program makes that distinction, but personally I like the idea of CS being primarily
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Looks busted if I just type "cake," but if I append a space ("cake ") then I get the same results again.
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Jumping Worms Are Taking Over American Forests (2020)(theatlantic.com)
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Do you have any ideas for how that could be done on HN? What about Twitter UX in particular do you think leads to that dynamic?

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