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by jkaptur 7y ago
Thanks so much for the explanation!
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So to "change a lightbulb", so to speak, the system decides something like "turn off the lamp first". But then the evaluation above says that the human would not dislike touching the bulb, but, in reality, it's stil
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Excel.
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> You see a lot of talk about moneyball, but for some reason people are less excited about… trainingball? Practiceball? Whatever you want to call taking people who aren't “the best” and teaching them how to be “the best”. I think th
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by jkaptur 7y ago
There is https://commoncrawl.org/ , but it would be really cool if there were a more well-lit path towards building the rest of a simple search engine. For example, another commentator wanted “like Google, but without the sp
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by jkaptur 7y ago
Looking at the bottle of vermouth while stirring the gin provided enough vermouth for Churchill and it provides enough for me.
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I imagine that the idea is that, for example, the lumber store would have a truck to deliver to your house, so that each and every person doesn’t need their own lumber-hauler.
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> ... schemas aren’t free. You have to coördinate between sender and receiver, and you have to worry what happens when someone wants to add a new field to a message type — but in raw JSON, you don’t have to worry, you just toss in the ne
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by jkaptur 7y ago
Chrome devtools is also a JS application: https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend .
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I was struck, though, by this quote: "my Electrical System Engineer Al Gross threw me a curve. He said, 'Bob, we need to connect two new circuits with a couple of diodes. I don't know where you are going to put them, but I do
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by jkaptur 7y ago
My pet hypothesis is that train systems are intellectually complex, but bound in a framework of knowable rules. It seems like some people just can't resist diving deep into systems like that (credit card rewards, board games, or, of co
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by jkaptur 7y ago
It is not the case that every programmer has to know SQL (if it ever was). Programming is now such a big field that plenty of people will go their whole careers without knowledge that's foundational for other programmers - whether it b
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by jkaptur 7y ago
At least in the late 2000's, input latency made this incredibly painful for me over all but the very best connections. I haven't tried it since then, but maybe some of the Stadia tech can improve things.
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You can search for "Chinese Wall" in the context of banks for more context on this.
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Keep in mind that facial recognition is probably only one part of a modern identification pipeline. There's every reason to think that some sort of gait signature, history of clothing purchases, and cellular data could be combined to i
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by jkaptur 7y ago
Thanks for the the heads-up :) I hadn't heard about that specific board, but I'm certainly aware that students frequently collaborate in various public and private ways. It's definitely true that my company would be a promine
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I've conducted technical interviews for approximately 200 students and recent graduates - around 100 each from American and elite Chinese universities. I've seen absolutely zero evidence for your view that "a generation"
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I was underwhelmed by this book. I think that so many of the practices (like version control) have become so popular that reading an argument for their use seems superfluous. That also makes it really jarring when it recommends something
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by jkaptur 7y ago
I don't think there are, actually. Some algorithms might run faster in practice, but, since the game is NP-complete, brute force is pretty much as good as it gets for exact solutions.
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What would you want Google to say? "I’m not sure I can say this more clearly: we’re not in cahoots with the NSA and there’s is no government program that Google participates in that allows the kind of access that the media originally r
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by jkaptur 7y ago
"mores", pronounced "morays" :)
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Another amazing fact is that, once you take inflation into account, the Apple computers they were buying cost around as much as the just-announced Mac Pro! Well over $5,000, and people paid it - for a spreadsheet.
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Ctrl + G certainly is hookable[0], folks just rarely know that it's an alias for 'find'. If you REALLY want the browser's search, in Chrome, you can use the mouse to open the menu and choose "Find". You could a
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by jkaptur 7y ago
Before Sheets was acquired by Google it was known as XL2Web, and it was strikingly similar to this. I can't find a lot of press, but see [0], for example - basically the same article, just with 2004-isms like using XML. 0: https:&#x2F
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Arguably not an “editor”, but I think the mosh shell input does something like this.
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Using words like "bullshit" is rude in almost exactly the same way as putting your elbows on the table while eating. I think the idea is to position the author as transgressive and willing to critically examine mild social mores.
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Sheryl Sandberg described a similarly thorough weighing of her decision to join Google. Mayer: "I had a long analytical evening with a friend of mine where we looked at all the job offers I had received. We created a giant matrix with
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This is so cool. I just tested using it with the IMAGE formula in Google Sheets and it works really well: =IMAGE("https://quickchart.io/chart?c=" & ENCODEURL("{type:'radar',data:{labels:[&#x27
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Thesis, antithesis, synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic
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It's easy to say that every programmer should read CLRS, but I think it would be a lot more interesting for the author to explain why they think CLRS is better (and, in particular, better for straight-through reading?) than "The A

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