jkingsbery

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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   I probably could at some point. It's pretty easy: you do the right commands to generate a Java project from a maven archetype or to start a Rails project, you hook up your git repo to Heroku, tweak some HTML. Today if I wanted to, I co
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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   If I was hiring an agency to build a mobile app, and one of them came back with "195 days," I would have pretty high confidence that they've never built anything of noteworthy complexity before, and that they think that sof
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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   As someone who is a Catholic first and politically more conservative second, the question of Unions is pretty interesting. Catholic teaching says that in principle, unions can do a lot of good, see for example: > The most important of al
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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   > No one is forced to work a union job. This is technically true, but this is also an argument against unions. It's true that if you don't like that your company is unionized you can go work for a company that's not unioni
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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   Given that horses run faster than 30 mph [1], and people have been riding on horses for a while before trains were developed [2], this seems unlikely. [1] https://horseandrider.com/western-horse-life/fastest-a-quart...
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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   I have no way to verify the author's claim, but it strikes me as likely self-refuting to argue that life seems so rare because actually it's super common.
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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   Agreed. Taking the "ant" argument to it's logical conclusion and based on https://xkcd.com/1610/ , there very well might be some alien who is part of a very advanced society and struggling in grad school,
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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   (To explain to others) So now All your base are belong to us ( https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-u... ).
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   by jkingsbery 6y ago

   The way I heard this ( https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096?l... ) was "There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors." Sti
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    I know Visual Basic gets a bad rap, but as a learning language it had an interesting feature, `Option Base`. By putting `Option Base` in a module, it changed how the indexing of arrays worked. It defaulted to 0, but for some applications (a
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    In focusing on Brexit (and possible secession of Northern Ireland and Scotland from the UK), the author seems to equate "society" with a political entity. The author never defines what he means by society, but it seems like perfec
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement..." - Frederic
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    So, I agree we should all be charitable, but we also shouldn't settle for "well, that's just how I am" because communication can be a practiced skill. As one example, a direct-personality coworker of mine learned to comp
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    I've come to the conclusion in the past couple years that the world would be a better place if adults were forced to watch Daniel Tiger episodes. So many things it covers (like, how to be kind, how not to over react to bad news, how to
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    Reading the actual book that this video is based on, those pushing the "Strong Towns" theme are pretty agnostic to free markets, so it's kind of besides the point. The point is - we spend $X/year on infrastructure, but p
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    For a pretty good book describing how to apply this rule in modern life, see "Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict" by Esther de Waal.
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    I think you are mistaken in some details. Monasteries from pretty early on required celibacy. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy_in_the_Cat... , priests did get married until the 12th century
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    As someone from the US, my experience is different from what this article portrays. When it's come up, everyone I've heard from acknowledges the role that their parents, schools, community and even luck play. A lot of the politica
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    Most engineers I know in this situation move on to a new project before too long.
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    Looks interesting. I had spent a while playing around with LilyPond ( http://lilypond.org/ ), and I think something like Handel would solve issues with some of the more repetitive parts of using LilyPond. One thing that would
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    I don't think the National Enquirer is a "right-wing media outlet," so much as a sleazy tabloid whose owner happened to be friends with Donald Trump. See e.g., https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    > "A growing number of people in China seem to feel the opportunities that people like Mr. Ma enjoyed are disappearing" As of 2021-01-04, it appears that's not all that's disappeared: https://www.dailymail.
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    I think the author has a very different definition of "fair" than what I usually think of it (free from favoritism; conforming to established rules; see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fair ).
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    I read the story differently. It seems like WGU splits two problems (teaching material and verifying that the students learned material) into two different problems. It's not that the author crammed weeks of learning into hours, it&#x2
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    Huawei reportedly tested ‘Uighur alarms’ to help China track Muslims(nypost.com)

    3 points by jkingsbery 6y ago|0 comments
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    > I think I have gained skills and experience that can be very valuable to the astronomical community, but I know that that is simply not what candidates for academic positions are selected on. t seems pretty damning to suggest that a co
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    While I think there are some merits to this approach, I think some caution is also needed. There are numerous times where I've read a lot of material quickly, not really mastering it but making a mental note of where to find that later
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    The connection between web scraping and the case cited seems pretty tenuous. I can't say I know much about the definition of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but employment agreements commonly stipulate that the employee can only access i
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    <not-helpful-comment> The ink on the label might cause cancer. Shouldn't the cancer label have a label on it? </not-helpful-comment>
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    by jkingsbery 6y ago

    Yeah, it's not a question of what is P(X=5,6,7,8,9), it's P(Someone is cheating | X = 5,6,7,8,9). In any case, there's probably a few people out there who picked "1 2 3 4 5" that are kicking themselves extra hard.