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by jlg23 9y ago
> just because we admit an external reality that is supposed to imply there is no internal reality? Do we? Were? I don't see that in the essay. > This is the typical omission made by the many people who have formed similar argume
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> It baffles me that people ignore the fact that they have subjectivity when making these claims. The author does not ignore that but states his assumption on the first page: The foundation of my argument is the assumption that there ex
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Licenses like these are a logistical nightmare. If someone deploys software under that license, paying that person for the job is the smallest item on the bill: Now I have to connect my legal department with my techies and with the finance
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by jlg23 9y ago
Given that English is already fragmenting (just read a newspaper from Guyana) and with the example of the Arab language (watch an Egyptian try talking with a Moroccan - bring popcorn): I am not sure your advice is a good one. English, lik
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by jlg23 9y ago
There are many stories similar to this one; wikipedia's list of last speakers of languages[1] is a good starting point for those interested in dying languages and the attempts at their preservation. [1] https://en.m.wikipedi
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by jlg23 9y ago
A slightly more informative link, IMHO, is the article on medium.com[1], linked from this teaser/signup page. TL;DR, I believe: They defined metrics[2], gather the relevant values from applicants and ask their algorithm: "How much
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> There's plenty that is uploaded without the person's consent (sometimes by a bitter ex)... That is not pornography but a crime.
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manical laughter Kudos, Mateusz Janek. manical laughter
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by jlg23 9y ago
The parent said: What I learned is that i'll still be an introvert at time but at least I can change how I respond to people. In general, behavioral therapy[1] does not aim to "fix" a trait, it tries to make interaction wit
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by jlg23 9y ago
It's been a long time I did biology in high school, but a quick fact checking on WP suggests I'm not too far off: This is true for most/all(?) fruit and yet untrue for humans because sucrose is broken down into glucose and fr
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Missing for me: Timestamps. A lot of data is sufficiently unique if prefixed with a timestamp, which could be as simple and readable as /2017/10/17/my-great-blog-post/
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> For Canny, I wrote some awesome code that I'm proud of that turns a "post title" into a unique URL. Did you mean "slug"? What you are describing is a basic feature of most blogging software since the inception
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A nice example of the the impotence of proofreading![1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ
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> Instead, they played Rick like a fiddle, burned out all of his talent and skill, and once Rick was considered damaged goods, kicked his ass to the curb for the good of the company’s productivity. How brave! How heroic! There is always
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by jlg23 9y ago
> who can blame a novice developer/DB user for making the mistake of thinking that LIMIT and OFFSET are a good solution, really? Who else is to blame? Should every vendor turn the documentation into a textbook on relational database
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by jlg23 9y ago
>> legacy code that has been gradually added to since the 1980s > 20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much. It's not "20k lines of code" but "n lines of code that grew organically over decade
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by jlg23 9y ago
> But it's trying to re-invent the compiler wheel (and the language design wheel) so that it can run on bare metal and "grow up to be a real Lisp machine" some day, and I think that aspect of the project is a fool's
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by jlg23 9y ago
Their pretty decent coverage is hidden behind the first link in the article, "Yemen": https://www.theguardian.com/world/yemen
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I fail to see the connection between ~"don't see exercising as a golden bullet against depression" and what you claim I've said.
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> This is an almost absurd criticism. [...] A reasonable amount of exercise is good for pretty much everyone. "Ok, if you say so" and "of course". But the general advice to do some exercises and the advice to exercise
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by jlg23 9y ago
Careful with that advice. It might have been good for you, it might be good for a lot of depressive people, but definitely not for all. Before I turned twenty I met two people my age who took your advice and exercised until ambulances had t
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by jlg23 9y ago
For those who prefer a more in-depth introduction than a blog post: Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expression"[1] covers the theory as well while still being very pleasant to read (I only know the first edition, apparent
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Yes, but they increase delivery time problems and developer time problems. Only in the first day or so. In my experience, that time is gained again several times over in the first medium refactoring.
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by jlg23 9y ago
I once ported a site designed in wix to plain html/css for a friend. Advice from the bottom of my heart: Wash your brain with soap after looking at the markup wix generates. Sandblasting might also be an option.
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> C/C++ is used to write safe code for medical and aerospace applications every day. How comes we still catch lots of errors in reviews there? How comes that the best paying gigs for c/c++ coders are all code review? Best pract
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I think omitting a case label for an enum value feels like a much lesser crime. This is not about the coding police coming to get you but preventing you from shooting yourself into your feet when you extend the enumeration. Quite often
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I disagree. Rather write nasty rants in comments that explain compiler-specific workarounds. It should not be too many anyway, if one adheres to KISS. Otherwise you surrender control over the correctness of your program "to the whims o
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by jlg23 9y ago
A heretic thought: Maybe the Nobel Prize only manages to ~"distort our perception of science" because the reporting about it can fill the void created by incredibly bad, superficial science journalism?
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> Trying to support a multitude of co-ops (and managing them to make sure they actually are sustainable and survivable businesses) would seem to be a nightmare. On the contrary, the moment you create a big scheme like that all the large
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by jlg23 9y ago
You'll find lots in areas where the allied troops did their exercises. Around "Feldberg" (Wetterau) you'll find plenty of them.

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