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by jholman 11y ago
And yet, I feel that US-Chinese trade patterns could directly affect my life.
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by jholman 11y ago
If it's 100% client-side, and it's already on github, why not host it for free on github Pages?
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by jholman 11y ago
I was WTFing about the same thing (mobile?!?) It's mostly a desktop app. There's just ALSO now a mobile app! Woo!
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The confusion here is that you're misusing the word "regressive". In the context of taxes, "regressive" means that the poor pay a higher percentage than the rich. That's because it's the opposite of &quo
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by jholman 11y ago
So does all HTML5 video, it just doesn't show the controls. Here's my bookmarklet (doesn't work on embedded videos in iframes, I assume because of same-origin-policy) javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22vid
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by jholman 11y ago
What would you expect the word "disappointing" to mean, other than that the speaker was disappointed, i.e. that their expectations, which are necessarily subjective, were not met? That's the exact thing the word means! What
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by jholman 11y ago
Sorry, that's wrong. I've checked my home price, and I know what every unit in this building sold for this year. And I have, to some degree, been keeping an eye on alternatives in the Vancouver market. Insufficiently lucky? No,
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by jholman 11y ago
There are a lot of things that I cannot grasp, that are still true. I know of one Big Five tech company where the lowest pay bracket for permanent-position software engineers is $110k USD base salary, plus substantial annual bonus and liq
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by jholman 11y ago
Vancouver (my city) is always rated as less affordable than every other Canadian or American city (except maybe NYC). And yet somehow I am a homeowner (mortgage-holding, not outright) in the city of Vancouver proper (not in a cheap suburb)
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The End of Big Data [fiction](motherboard.vice.com)
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by jholman 11y ago
All of these arguments are arguments for replacing the mathematics curriculum with video gaming. Games require generalized problem solving (arguably better-generalized than math, and arguably better-transferrable to other domains). Games
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by jholman 11y ago
And yet the quantity-over-quality potters were not making any effort to identify the failure and the causes of that failure.
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by jholman 11y ago
You don't appreciate office cultures involving alcohol or dog-friendliness, and you roll your eyes and put up with them. Some people do value those things, and they also value having coworkers who value those things, which isn&#
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by jholman 11y ago
https://www.google.ca/search?q=china+skyscraper+15+days It's been discussed on HN half a dozen times. "Extraordinary claims" is a context-dependent idea.
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by jholman 11y ago
The ability to show something more than aggregates is, sure, a UI/front-end issue. (And an issue with intermediate storage, obviously). But it's misleading to say that tracing-vs-sampling isn't a factor, unless you believe t
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by jholman 11y ago
It's not really that much like protobufs. I mean, pretty much all wire formats have some things in common, true. Protobufs depend, for interpretability, on a schema. That is, if you don't have the schema file (which is normally
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by jholman 11y ago
I cannot think of an example exactly like that. But in many professions, senior members are the ones who certify junior members. Law, medicine, all the reputable parts of finance. I mean, to make my actual argument, instead of just alludi
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by jholman 11y ago
Wouldn't it be super weird for the leading experts in <professional field> to start formally rating their competitors, i.e. other more-junior professionals in that field? Y'know, the way it's done by all professions wor
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by jholman 11y ago
The many facets of human thought include planning towards novel goals, inferring others' goals from their actions, learning structured theories to describe the rules of the world, inventing experiments to test those theories, and learn
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by jholman 11y ago
That is not the goal. Read TFA; their example specifically still loads small.css by dynamically creating a <link> element after pageload (in a RequestAnimationFrame or onLoad). The goal is to have the CSS already present when the &qu
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by jholman 11y ago
It might not be the best plan, but it's not the worst plan. Step one: Do something mildly skeevy that skims from the public weal, e.g. by using monopoly power to suppress competition (hurting the ability of the invisible hand to give h
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by jholman 11y ago
It's true that if you play all your tickets in one drawing, you have a higher chance of winning the jackpot at least once, especially as your number of tickets approaches the number of total tickets. However, your expected value does
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by jholman 11y ago
What doesn't work that way in Canada? For that matter, doesn't work what way? If you mean that in Canada you're never ineligible for your physician because you changed insurance providers, that's basically right (except
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by jholman 11y ago
You're right about nuclear (though, if we can get hydrogen fusion to be profitable, that won't even be stellar in the way that fission is). Tidal energy isn't solar in any sense. It's harvesting momentum which in turn i
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by jholman 11y ago
I agree that predation is not zero sum. The antelope loses its life. The lion gains nourishment for a week. Clearly the total number of utils in the system has decreased .
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by jholman 11y ago
It's useful to be able to pass functions. In C, the mechanism for doing so is the function pointer. Function pointers feel really complicated, relative to most other features in C, and relative to the mechanism for passing functions
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by jholman 11y ago
I will assume, for the purpose of this answer, that you mean "what is the big deal about Java 8 getting lambdas?". For other meanings of your question, see other replies. In (pre-8) Java, variables can only hold primitive valu
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by jholman 11y ago
Honestly, that library reading room sounds terrible. I should not have to hear chairs on the floor. And like you, I don't want the terminal to reverberate, I want it to be functional and welcoming. I'm not looking for the acoust
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by jholman 11y ago
> You should really think before spouting off, and you should honestly admit if you're biased in this instance. The ivory tower comment which you complained about up-thread read to me as "this is a possible cognitive mistake
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by jholman 11y ago
I see two aspects to your question/comment: at-rest, and two-objects. The whole point of that comment was to apply only to at-rest things (he goes on to contrast it with objects with velocity), though I think maybe you got that. If you

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