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by jholman 10y ago
Last time I restarted Firefox, I had over 350 tabs open. Which is ridiculous, of course, because I'm sure that I haven't looked at more than 100 of them today, but since that all fits into 1.2GB of memory (currently), what's
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by jholman 10y ago
Which one of those categories does jaywalking fall into? Smoking pot? Drunk driving? Selling drugs? Smuggling? Illegal sex acts? Negligent manslaughter? Domestic violence?
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by jholman 10y ago
Yes, exactly. And "this code has a mathematical error in it" is often interesting, often non-trivial, and often has probability 1 (and often probability 0). And these things are exactly the sort of thing that "differ from [t
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by jholman 10y ago
I don't disagree with your details, but you're arguing in a circle (here and in another similar comment). Let's assume, based on the evidence at hand, that Amazon is rolling out Amazon Lightsail, and that as such, they'r
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by jholman 10y ago
Regarding your question about a paradox, what would qualify to you as "an actual paradox"? What is the definition against which you try a contender? Free free to look it up in a dictionary, but that probably won't help you
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by jholman 10y ago
I've seen the WP page. If that's what FP is, then I think that means that either * think Lisps and Schemes aren't true FP, or * think that Lisps and Schemes avoid mutable state Which one of those is your belief? I&
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by jholman 10y ago
It's like changing the beating heart of a living person. That's probably impossible!
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by jholman 10y ago
This is correct, except your step 4. It should say something like: 4a) Enable feature switch on 1% of requests, ensure that they're working correctly. 4b) go to 10%. 4c) start rolling it out across all requests.
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by jholman 10y ago
My professional experience says otherwise. There's always more work maintaining/enhancing sites than creating new ones. By the way, Rails is the craze from maybe 10-6 years ago. consider e.g. [0] But it is still far, far from d
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by jholman 10y ago
As an algorithmist, I strongly agree. Algorithms are of value, but they are not a high priority for junior devs. For a tiny fraction of problems, algorithms knowledge is absolutely essential, and often cannot be picked up at the time of n
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by jholman 10y ago
I'm confused that you seem to think that "FP" means immutability. I think that most lisps and schemes, for example, have had mutable state. ML does. I think APL does? I think Erlang does, even though it says it doesn&#x27
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by jholman 10y ago
First of all, you weren't complaining about what they said (or wrote, but whatever). You were complaining about the motives you imputed to their choice to say that thing. I mean, fair enough. I don't agree with you that it was
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by jholman 10y ago
Is this a typo for Pascal? When I did the ICPC, Prolog was not a permitted language in my region, and IIRC not at worlds either. But Pascal was (which I always found quaint, but perhaps that was my provincialism).
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by jholman 10y ago
I agree. And for myself at least, I could also say: I'm not particularly fond of fully OOP languages, but they have some nice ideas that I've been enjoying using. If a thing I want to make is a stateless process, modeling it as a
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by jholman 10y ago
Can Eve modify CPU microcode without any overhead? If it can't, then "your entire programming stack" is excluding a lot of stuff I can't be bothered to enumerate. </satire> Also relevant: "To bake an app
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by jholman 10y ago
Your points about it being only 24 individuals are fair. But even 2 million individuals is not "a large chunk of the US population" -- being less than 1% -- and that's assuming that all employees of the US DoD need to maintai
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by jholman 10y ago
You think that 24 individuals per year is "a large chunk of the US population"? That is confusing.
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by jholman 10y ago
That's not what Aumann's agreement theorem says. First of all, it only applies to statistical reasoning about distributions of probabilities. It does not, for example, apply to "what should one do in this situation?".
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by jholman 10y ago
This is year-old blogspam. bigthink.com spins every article out into nine self-linked articles, and also leaves out all the interesting details. Also they don't source the $11.36 figure, and all the other sources I've read give
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by jholman 10y ago
Given that soy butter is marketed as similar to peanut butter, and has about 1/3 the fat of butter, I'm gonna go with "probably not and what were you thinking?" (I mean, sure, it's possible to cook your lean beef
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by jholman 10y ago
/commence well-actually mode If that's how you do math, the sky's the limit. 206% means x3.06, so (s)he was previously making 1/3.06 of the new rate, which is roughly 32.7% of the new rate. Assuming the new rate was &qu
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by jholman 10y ago
Or just awesome joke?
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by jholman 10y ago
First Lad of the US, of course.
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by jholman 10y ago
Do you have any evidence that Google is losing market share? The latest reports I could find (from Feb 2016) showed that Bing's incredibly small increase in market share in the Americas is actually less than Google's growth, and
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by jholman 10y ago
Thank you for that great link. Thank you twice over, because it refutes your claim. Dijkstra specifically calls out exceptions as structured control flow, and as being probably-acceptable, and not subject to his concerns. More broadly, a
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by jholman 10y ago
That's because it's the best Asimov book. :P
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by jholman 10y ago
Fourth letter of the line.
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by jholman 10y ago
Google does not hire with a work-sample test. tptacek's claimed process is therefore easy to distinguish from Google's. Maybe better, maybe worse. Google does allocate non-trivial time on training, though, both on the candidate&
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by jholman 10y ago
Project Euler is not a good resource for algorithmic thinking. Doing old GJC problems would be a better move. https://code.google.com/codejam/contests.html
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by jholman 10y ago
Cheese contains huge quantities of fat and protein, both of which are nutrients that I want to eat. What on earth do you mean by "without substantial nutritional value"? Are you of the impression that calories are bad? Listen,

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