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by jholman 5y ago
> Nobody should work overtime for free. > Just never work for a company for free. Screw you, buddy, I'll do what I want to! (Okay, my aggressive tone is a joke, but I do actually mean the underlying point. I've worked for f
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by jholman 5y ago
If you particularly wanted books that "didn't make it", I don't know anything about that. But maybe you just wanted books that are like HP but better than HP. I read the first few HP, and thought they were dreadful, and
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Japan? South Korea? Just brainstorming, here.
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by jholman 6y ago
First of all, no, the perigee need not be "below the original orbit", where did you get that? The correct thing to say is that the new orbit's perigee cannot be any lower than the location of the collision. But more generall
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I agree that the best case (uh, best for people who like Kessler cascades?) is that the new fragment has a perigee equal to the location of the collision, and a higher apogee. That means, yes, that it will suffer whatever degree of drag wa
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by jholman 6y ago
You know a technique, based on asm.js, that lets you use Rust or Go in the browser?
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I think you're claiming that it is impossible for two colliding objects to release fragments that have more energy than either of the original objects. That's wrong. If it helps, start by imagining two satellite-like machines col
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> handled literally _billions_ of records in the database Classic example of Medium Data
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by jholman 6y ago
In addition to franky47's more important point, I'll add that `new Array()` and `Array()` are equivalent.
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Huh. You're right. Horrifying.
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Weird, because Mozilla's actual advice on this bug report is to interact with the HN thread. So I did.
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by jholman 6y ago
Yeah. For my own projects, and/or on my own command-line, I don't care what "ma<tab>" resolves to. "main" is not a terrible choice. But as a teacher, the way this makes all the existing guides and tutor
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by jholman 6y ago
Why do you think this means that git is deprecating master? Similarly, GitHub claims that git is making similar changes, and links to a "Statement" that actually says the opposite, and a code change that also does not include anyt
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by jholman 6y ago
Dear Mozilla, I've been an evangelist for FF for 15-ish years, since before Chrome existed. I teach computer science, which means my evangelism is multiplied by the hundreds of students I see every year. Why is it that every time we i
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by jholman 6y ago
I can never remember what they are, though. To avoid this problem, I think I wrote them down on a post-it, but I had too many post-its on my desk so I got rid of them all, and now I can't remember.
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by jholman 6y ago
If all you can hear is a dog-whistle, you might be a dog.
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That's also my understanding. Heroku, on the other hand, has no time-limit on their free tier, but it's always kinda broken (startup times). AWS's free tier is the real deal. That's a trade-off. But that's orthog
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by jholman 6y ago
In the context of AWS Free Tier, the non-obtuse option is you do the EC2 t3.micro with Linux on it, maybe also the RDS t3.micro, and you ignore all that make-things-harder-so-consultants-can-charge-more nonsense. Install your own nginx, in
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by jholman 6y ago
Haha, if only we were all so suave at 18.
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by jholman 6y ago
> If you want to make your program popular then packaging is part of the process needed. That is demonstrably not true. I'm not making a value judgment (maybe it SHOULD be true, I dunno), but it's not true. There's a lot
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by jholman 6y ago
What you described: let x = 2 // runs x = 3; // runs x = 3; // runtime error, you made a mistake No, I'd want a balance update to succeed. Even if it's to the same value that it alre
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by jholman 6y ago
> It was a leading question, pretending to claim that regulation was the cause. Nice walkback, though. Not cool. I mean, when I first read tinco's comment, I thought what you thought. But either reading is plausible. If you're
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by jholman 6y ago
That sounds promising. Watch out, you'll also need some way to get those pods to stay where you need them, like to dock them with a harbour. I imagine one day, if your idea really takes off, we could abstract away our fisheries activi
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by jholman 6y ago
Agreed. As we probably all know, the earth is smoother than a regulation billiard ball wrapped in 1000-grit sandpaper.
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by jholman 6y ago
To Kevin Kelly, today, $1000 is barely worth anything anyway. So he also stands to gain nothing. (And, indeed, he didn't even want the money, but asked for it to be sent to charity.) So ask yourself the question again. Why would t
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by jholman 6y ago
Zigbee devices can form mesh networks. That means viruses on them can form mesh networks. If, in addition to your Zigbee-only home automation gear, you've got a zigbee-enabled internet-enabled hub of some kind, you can get comand-and
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by jholman 6y ago
I think it's useful to understand religious intolerance in a few tiers. The following tier-list is a sketch, but I think illustrates the idea: Tier 1 (most intolerant): Suppress the out-group vigorously, including executions, torture,
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by jholman 6y ago
What do you mean by "real term"? Real rocket science teams really use phrases like this, including this one. Is it a joke? Yeah, kind of. Is it what they would say if they had no sense of humour? No, probably not. Is it still
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The version I've evolved, for teaching students why I care about style: You need to communicate clearly with a number of coworkers, the most important of whom is future-nerdponx. Sometimes future-nerdponx is smarter than you, and some
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by jholman 6y ago
No, it does not. Just mathematically the thing you said is clearly false. Suppose I say that, for some system, the return to each player is a function of the number of players: r(n) = 100 / (n+1). One player makes 50, two players ma

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