jholman

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by jholman 10y ago
Yeah, what kind of asshole carpenter wastes his customer's money by inflating materials costs for no reason?
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by jholman 11y ago
Hey. Just read it start to finish, since reading your comment. It was good. Thanks!
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by jholman 11y ago
Once the bacteria reach some limit of saturation, they can only multiply as fast as they can geographically spread to new area. If they have some maximum speed of physical spread, then that limits them to a maximum speed of n^2 in two dime
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by jholman 11y ago
> When someone is called crazy, they're making a parallel to a crazy person on a train screaming about how they didn't take their meds. I do not agree that this is what is intended, or heard, by the overwhelming majority of spe
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by jholman 11y ago
> First about violence: You're wrong Wrong about what? What claim did I make that's wrong? Oh, wait, you're just assuming that I disagree with you, so that you can be mad. You assume that I assume that mental illness pr
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by jholman 11y ago
I don't mind the double-post, but I'll reply to both of them at once. I have mental health issues. Nearly everyone I care about has mental health issues. Some of those issues are moderately serious problems, some are minor annoy
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by jholman 11y ago
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by jholman 11y ago
Holy crap, Tim Cook at 3x is still too damn slow.
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by jholman 11y ago
Yeah. For a long time I thought I hated nearly all video-based entertainment. Then Youtube got that speedup feature. Now that I can watch things at 1.7x, it's much more interesting.
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by jholman 11y ago
There's a simple solution: don't use Facebook.
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by jholman 11y ago
Utterly unpersuasive. The reasoning in that Quora response means that "harasser" and "wrong" are also slurs, because the Quora response equates denigration with "slur territory". As an ongoing fact in my life,
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by jholman 11y ago
I mean, practically, it's more profitable to get on with life, and just ignore the injustice. But yeah, saying "if X is moral, and if Putin was also moral, then Putin would behave differently, and therefore X must not be moral&quo
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by jholman 11y ago
C3 was a failure for whom? All of the planners and senior engineers went on to spectacularly successful careers as Agile "thought leaders". Sounds like a rousing success to me. :D I, too, find it funny that people whose main la
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by jholman 11y ago
Okay, does anyone actually believe that causes a problem? I can think of ONE time when that causes a problem, and that's with indentation with multi-line strings. Oh look, HJSON included that feature. That's like throwing the ba
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by jholman 11y ago
If you want to do well on GCJ, practice GCJ. All the past contests are online.
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by jholman 11y ago
It's a lot cheaper buying a macbook if you can get a 20% off credit, which you can get by buying a new porsche. Spend $100k, save several hundred dollars! Saying that learning C++ helps with learning Rust is almost certainly true in a
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by jholman 11y ago
I agree with you (strongly about medium, though I disagree about blogger). Or, to put it in terms more related to the article... Medium is nouveau riche, LJ is authentic aristocracy. If you think Medium is "nice middle-class", i
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by jholman 11y ago
You think The Last Psychiatrist is performing Rationalist culture? I hadn't noticed such a relationship, and at a moment's consideration I still don't notice it, and if you really do think that, I'd appreciate any evide
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by jholman 11y ago
Bigger guys like Stripe have huge anti-fraud departments, using a variety of techniques, including but not limited to machine learning, allowing them to derive results like this themselves, in near-real-time.
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by jholman 11y ago
I think that swsieber's point was not that Rust is unsafe, but rather that Rust is too paranoid. There exist safe things that Rust will not let you do (without turning off the safety catches)! Of course, the answer to that is still pr
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by jholman 11y ago
Thank you, those both seem like convincing evidence that, at minimum, it's not quite as bleak as I had believed.
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by jholman 11y ago
Rob Pike has his ambitions. Great. Meanwhile, almost no one at Google uses Go. They use C++ and Java almost exclusively. Not Python either, outside of Youtube. (There's a reason GvR left.... all of the stuff he was proud of writin
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by jholman 11y ago
Looks like my computer monitor is about 0.8 or 0.9 radians in horizontal viewing angle (23 inches away, 21 inches wide), with 1920 pixels. 2300 pixels per radian. Similar values vertically. I wonder how 2300 pixels per radian compares to
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by jholman 11y ago
Let's start by assuming that the SEC think that capitalism is a good idea, and that the property rights of owners should be respected. I'm not saying that _I_ think that, or think the converse, but I think it's a reasonable
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by jholman 11y ago
I'll start by noting that this sequence of comments is just nit-picking, and if that bores anyone, stop reading. That disclaimer disclaimed... I don't honestly care if it was booklearning or not, and I don't see what it has
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by jholman 11y ago
I think that both this question, and beachstartup's question about speeding up a website, are totally decent interview questions, for a intermediate-to-senior web developer. But if anyone thinks that either of these questions is testin
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by jholman 11y ago
Okay, the stock in the 4-year stock grant is imaginary in the same sense that your future salary is imaginary. I mean, fine, call it imaginary if you want, but that's true of all pay. The Google vesting schedule, AFAIK, is 1-year clif
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by jholman 11y ago
In the case of Google stock, it's real money, not magic money. Google bonus is real money, not magic money. Startup stock is imaginary money.
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by jholman 11y ago
"base ||||| |||||" perhaps "base |||||*||", for short.
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by jholman 11y ago
To me, "creative" is not the right word. Maybe try "intuitive". As Radim says, of course, the intuition is only relevant when logic fails. However, no computer, including AlphaGo, has sufficient processing power to tak

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