jlg23

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by jlg23 9y ago
In case of an emergency people should follow staff's directions; preferably without being glued to their phones and without disrupting any ongoing rescue attempts by trying to take a good video... The only relevant exception are profes
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by jlg23 9y ago
If programming languages' impact on resumes would be a sensible metric I had never learned LISPs, prolog or MLs. Those experiences have been the key to many well-paying gigs, even though I more often than not was hired for some mainstr
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by jlg23 9y ago
While I basically agree, parents who fear to confuse their kids do have a point: I have heard preschoolers use portmanteaus like "bivor" for "please" (german "bitte" + spanish "por favor") and having
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by jlg23 9y ago
Anybody checked the original study? Having a group that fights against sewage pollution in the interest of surfers recruit the surfers sounds.. sketchy at least.
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by jlg23 9y ago
I don't think microservices are loved by developers so much because they are technically superior but because they allow for quicker/safer decision-making on management level - just like "agile development" imho only hel
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by jlg23 9y ago
Call me old-fashioned, but the only thing necessary for turning a side project into open source is to grant anonymous access along with a license. Well, that, and either too much disposable time or a strict policy how to deal with users or
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by jlg23 9y ago
One shock-therapy that at least had some benefit for a lot of my friends: Whenever you feel tempted to get out your smartphone in a public place, survey how many people around you are glued to their smartphones. Talk to the few who are not.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> It IS shitty marketing It grew by word of mouth to, IIRC, 12.000 attendees last year; it outgrew several locations and is now at a size where it is actually hard to find a location that can house the event. Maybe it is not "shitty
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by jlg23 9y ago
Yes, please pick those low hanging fruits wherever possible. If you do and I have to maintain your code later I'll send you a bottle of your favorite dram out of gratitude. But the article (and my criticism) is about the rather high ha
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by jlg23 9y ago
Understood. Just to be clear: I am saying that in most scenarios nobody understands the problem; people figure it out on the go. Overall I really like the article because it spells what is an essential feature of fp for me much better tha
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by jlg23 9y ago
I get the idea (doing fp for a living for 15 years) but the article lives in a bubble populated by mathematically pure unicorns: This strength/feature of fp can only weigh in where we have the mathematical formulas, arriving at those
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I personally know people who are planning to move into a van to work remote, and there's definitely no shortage of blogs and instagrams from those people. This is a very small minority. Even 10 years ago this was a hot topic in th
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Justifying downvote: "you told people to look up a topic but did not provide any link as a recommended starting point" (which is fine) https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jlg23 > But then: "I am actu
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by jlg23 9y ago
I am actually very familiar with the topic and I am thus aware that one can find many, seemingly contradictory, sources. But thanks anyway. I was simply justifying my downvote.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Direct link to full report: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?Ne...
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by jlg23 9y ago
You told people to look up a topic but did not provide any link as a recommended starting point nor any justification why Rwanda's history is relevant in the context of hate speech; now you just refer to yourself.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Careful, this could legitimize things like accidental denial of service. Depending on circumstances, even basic scraping could cause problems. I have to "deal" with that problem every day. Misconfigured scrapers are dealt wit
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Even for rare diseases, a sure thing would be funded. Only if there is a ROI. Which also means that even treatments for not-so-rare diseases don't get funded if the majority of patients won't be able to afford the treatment a
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by jlg23 9y ago
The limitations are not arbitrary but an artifact of its original purpose and design. A lot of those "interesting social media experiments" have been conducted before, with the same outcomes - at a time when SMS was still free and
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by jlg23 9y ago
It have been a few years since I read the code, but it was so beautifully written that I cannot imagine it was screwed up in the meantime: Edi Weitz' CL-PPCRE[1] is a beautiful implementation in CL and highly recommended if one underst
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by jlg23 9y ago
Quoting some sources would help a) my understanding and therefore b) your claims.
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by jlg23 9y ago
It has been for quite a while: Try finding a phone without camera that you can take with you into a security sensitive area...
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by jlg23 9y ago
I don't get how you make the connection from Torvald's arguments to what you say. His complaints are on a fundamentally different level: ~"Programmers over-abstracting are a timeless problem, the more complex the language&#x2
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by jlg23 9y ago
You mean, you are going to be politically active? "They" is an abstract entity, a set of rules agreed upon by your community - in essence: you agreed to them. Making someone's life miserable is not only a waste of one's
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by jlg23 9y ago
I disagree. I does not have to be unmaintainable. The difference between chaining map/filter and a single reduce is mostly a syntax transformation plus a little bit of thinking upfront: ;; N.B.: Code was written here in a commen
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by jlg23 9y ago
The advice you quoted is the most valuable of all, in my opinion. You give "map/filter/reduce" as an example and claim that theses approaches "typically result in passing over the data multiple times". No, sinc
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by jlg23 9y ago
> If you’re only testing UBI on a small population, then 1) it’s not even universal, and 2) there will not be enough “beta testers” to (in)validate these criticisms. Your point holds until history has proven who is right. Of course, any
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by jlg23 9y ago
First: Please don't use "Edit" for responding to responses to your comment; it make following threads much, much harder. On Topic: > Some people mention having original highest-resolution images are important. I don't
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by jlg23 9y ago
> If these programmers spent half as much time coding as they did bitching about their and others' programming environments, I think they'd get a lot more work done. Not to mention, be happier with life. Without this "bitc
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by jlg23 9y ago
>> Everything in our world is purely mathematical — including you. > —which isn't really so significant if you are implicitly ignoring any interior aspects. You are quoting the quite catchy climax of the introduction. The para

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