jheriko

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by jheriko 13y ago
a p-value of 0.05 or even 0.01 is stupidly high. it only takes a little thought experiment about what that means in reality to realise how permissive it is and you can find demonstrations of this without going particularly far, looking very
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by jheriko 13y ago
p-values need not arise from the normal distribution - but any distribution - selecting the right one is another cause for error when producing them. the normal distribution is also quite well justified by the central limit theorem. i do ho
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by jheriko 13y ago
> The downside to failure is exceptionally low. It's all other people's money (at least in Silicon Valley) i always feel disgusted by this sort of attitude. sure it mitigates risk, but as secular and reasoned as i like to think
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by jheriko 13y ago
i enjoyed this - maybe a bit extreme, but since his family is involved it makes good sense. a lot of what he says is common sense and knowledge though. something lacking massively in this community it would seem...
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by jheriko 13y ago
> Any things like this will inevitably, sans comments, be difficult to make head or tail of. perhaps true (maybe). but if the variables were named properly we would at least have a decent idea of what the expressions actually are - even
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by jheriko 13y ago
actually... if you are in the UK and into games its a great place for that - plenty of studios around. Although mostly in the south east there are well known studios in Scotland, Ireland and the north and midlands. Rockstar, Havok, Ubisoft,
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by jheriko 13y ago
if you are writing software which has to have some kind of guaranteed reliability then maybe there is a sort of argument for this - but unless you are handling the failure case in a deterministic and well behaved way then I still think that
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by jheriko 13y ago
I'm just glad France are actually making the effort. Things like law and tax aren't things that should go away as you become big and wealthy, and ultimately going against the law of the land whilst not showing respect for it is as
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by jheriko 13y ago
Learn how to decouple yourself from specific technologies. Underlying all programming languages is the 'pure' logic of programming itself and the theoretical stuff of computer science. Things like algorithms and data structures ar
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by jheriko 13y ago
good work. not enough people who use source control really seem to know what its for... whilst i'm a big fan of making code good enough to read - and learning to read code properly - its easier to not have to do both
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by jheriko 13y ago
whatever happened to ethics and demonstrating problems without victimising people? its not big or clever. :/ once again disappointed in the community...
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by jheriko 13y ago
"Check for NULL at beginning of function or blocks which are dereferencing pointers to dynamically allocated memory" I really strongly disagree with this. Better for it to crash if you expect this memory to always have been alloca
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by jheriko 13y ago
this would be straightforward to fix in a patch. they are clearly not prioritising it if its a known issue for several years now...
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by jheriko 13y ago
imessage is subtle - it happens by default and is easy to get lumped with. really its a shame that apple do that...
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by jheriko 13y ago
interesting, but i want to nitpick on the appeal to authority: > This fallacy is committed when the person in question is not a legitimate authority on the subject. More formally, if person A is not qualified to make reliable claims in s
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by jheriko 13y ago
interesting read. one of the later comments is a bit off the mark though: " As a direct result of leaving out all the safety checks that other languages include, C code can run faster" C is fast not just because of missing safety
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by jheriko 13y ago
are you saying that using less code, more steps and less maths with a simpler algorithm requiring much less knowledge is going to make more obfuscated code? any mathsy code is going to be obfuscated without comments explaining the underlyin
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by jheriko 13y ago
i was hoping to find something clever or interesting. thats not a reason to not continue trying to learn
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by jheriko 13y ago
slightly disappointing - the effect is interesting but the implementation and derivation are sloppy. using a z buffer is a little unexciting i was expecting something raytracy or voxely - maybe even scanliney... but thats too much to explai
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by jheriko 13y ago
as much as i disagree with this approach it is actually quite fantastic to see a cross platform solution that isn't either using native code directly or Unity. small tip: make the engine to fit a game, building an engine without a game
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by jheriko 13y ago
Why do I need either? If I wanted to improve CSS I'd remove things and tidy up the existing mess... but that my opinion. My opinion is also that things like LESS and SASS only exist because CSS is in a poor state to start with... prepr
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by jheriko 13y ago
implementing git is an interesting approach to learning it. i generally support this kind of stuff - however I think that this starts out implementing a source control solution rather than git in particular and its a shame that it follows g
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by jheriko 13y ago
just makes me wonder why our leaders aren't robbing these people down into 'moderately disgusting' levels of wealth inorder to equalise our varying national debts and deficits... and why tax havens aren't being threatene
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by jheriko 13y ago
my gut reaction here is to cringe and generally be revolted. with some thought it seems like an okay idea... it gives you a place to start in the morning that is easy and helps you overcome the 'start working' hurdle at the beginn
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by jheriko 13y ago
along these lines i'd highly recommend: http://socialsafe.net/
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by jheriko 13y ago
lets hope their less constrained ethics result in some good for the poor and needy. the idea of cute mini pets with their growth hormones gimped is all well and good and i'm sure will be fantastically popular... but its not exactly a n
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by jheriko 13y ago
another one, you can drag files and folders onto the terminal and it will paste the path in at the cursor position... very useful to cd to some path you have open in Finder
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by jheriko 13y ago
> it'd break runtime method replacement and all sorts of other stuff. yeah, i thought as much. thanks for saving me the effort. :)
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by jheriko 13y ago
it would be nice if this could somehow be a banner across the top of HN... hope he is found soon.
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by jheriko 13y ago
i didn't see it and still can't maybe i am being blind or selectively filtering it without realising... :/ > low level libraries like crash reporters which can not be platform independent. > Or libraries that rely on pl

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