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by jholman 10y ago
Not so. I've tried this on a few dozen students (post-secondary, many of them post-baccalaureate, perhaps 50% ESL) over the years; of those who have not heard it previously, all others say "what? that's not a sentence"
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by jholman 10y ago
> (or not, doesn't matter) heh. indeed. I agree with the "didn't I say that?"s, you just appeared to contradict it on later in the respective sentences. Of course appreciation (assuming it happens) is not productio
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by jholman 10y ago
Both of those definitions are wrongly stated, and that's why you're producing this wrong belief about primary residences. An an economic sense, an investment is an allocation of capital. Certainly consumer purchases of durable go
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by jholman 10y ago
If you agree with chillingeffect that one's home "is an illiquid investment that appreciates at a rate that varies in conjunction with inflation", then you think it's an investment, albeit one with some drawbacks. Yes, i
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by jholman 10y ago
> I'll go ahead and say this. Your home is NEVER and investment. A house that you own, maybe. But, I repeat, your home is never an investment. I'll go ahead and say this. My home is certainly an investment. I allocated so
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by jholman 10y ago
Which article?
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by jholman 10y ago
When people keep writing "aliasing XOR mutability", don't they actually mean "aliasing NAND mutability"? And if yes, is there a reason to use XOR here? And if no, isn't it the case that if it's worth com
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by jholman 10y ago
I do not. That article, which is remarkably poorly written, has very little to do with what I'm talking about. I don't know how to concisely be a lot clearer than what I said. Look, in Canada, as in the U.S., and to the best of
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by jholman 10y ago
In Canada, representing yourself as an "Engineer" is like representing yourself as a "Doctor". There's a professional organization that gets to say who is and is not a member. That includes "software engineer
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by jholman 10y ago
Yeah, that's all clear. But notice this sequence: Retric > Ireland also has a law on the books saying it must comply with the EU. akvadrako > Ireland has to follow EU laws because the EU says so Retric > No, Ireland ... has
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by jholman 10y ago
You're missing several stages in how the creative accounting works, and each of those stages are, separately, probably good things, which is why they exist in the first place. Note, for example, that the UK and Germany and France all h
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by jholman 10y ago
I agree with you about "EU is claiming exists might be legal according to Irish tax law, but that doesn't matter [to the EU]", and your source is helpful. I think if you read the actual claim they make, and then you go read t
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by jholman 10y ago
There are no one-off deals, and Apple doesn't pay 0.005%. Apple pays Ireland 12.5% of all taxable-in-Ireland income. That's because that's Ireland's corporate income tax rate. Conveniently, because of the structure of
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by jholman 10y ago
To the best of my knowledge, Apple, Ireland, and the EU all claim that Irish tax law is being obeyed. Do you have any reference to this claim of yours? Europe claims that Ireland's tax law is EU-illegal, and thus Ireland must retroact
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by jholman 10y ago
Half the comments here refer to Ireland offering Apple some special deal. To the best of my ability to determine (IANAL), there is NO special deal. Apple is simply using a bog-standard Double Irish arrangement. It's a very common in
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by jholman 10y ago
Ireland DOES grant that tax law to all companies within their borders, as the article clearly outlines. From TFA, among other relevant paragraphs: > It is important to note that the words “any aid” covers not only one-off deals between I
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by jholman 10y ago
> Any proofs? Ha ha, what proof would satisfy you, where my word does not, O doubting Thomas? If I was going to lie to you on HN, I'd also be able to fake a screenshot. Maybe you'd like administrator access to my machine, so
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by jholman 10y ago
I just installed it (Tabist reports 415 tabs in 9 windows). Looks tentatively useful, I'll keep it around. If it's easy to add a by-date-last-opened to the order-by at the top, that MIGHT be useful? If it's easy to add the
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by jholman 10y ago
400 tabs. Including several active fancy SPAs, like gMail and two copies of Slack, a gDocs or two, sometimes the godawful work LMS. Stock Firefox 50 (32bit), untweaked with no relevant add-ons (well, except AdBlock Plus), Windows 10, just
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by jholman 10y ago
How do you assure yourself that your non-database code uses code coming from a specific commit? In general, you have a deployment procedure that overwrites all the old code with all-new code, and from there on out you trust, right? Why not
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by jholman 10y ago
Care to elaborate a bit? What's hard about it?
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by jholman 10y ago
Write your stored procedures in any language you like. Postgres supports pgSQL, Tcl, Perl, and Python out of the box, with third-party bindings for some other languages. When procedural coding is necessary, use a procedural language, in yo
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by jholman 10y ago
I don't understand what's hard about mass-overwriting your previous stored procedures with new ones. You're right about non-SProc code; just deploy all of it. Do the same thing with SProc code! What's tough about keepin
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by jholman 10y ago
That's not the Queen's English, HRH speaks RP.
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by jholman 10y ago
Why is this relevant? Are llvmpy and llvmcpy related?
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by jholman 10y ago
Which brings me to wonder... how does a New Brunswick boy get in the habit of using BC First Nations slang?
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by jholman 10y ago
This is a perfectly straightforward implementation of a somewhat sophisticated concept. But one wouldn't encounter this code in an application; this is library code. It's so useful and common that it's part of the ES5 standa
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That comment about it being 400 pages is not a complaint, I think.
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What is it about k-means that means it doesn't work on other distributions? I find it easy to come up with other (contrived) distributions where K-means produces the results that a human would produce. E.g. disjoint (and distant) circ
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by jholman 10y ago
Why do you suspect that? Having talked with over 200 of them, I'd suggest that just like people in most career training programs, there's something about the job (as they imagine it) that attracts them relative to other jobs. &qu

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