jlg23

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by jlg23 10y ago
> Having a broken work/life balance is "great"? Broken according to which cultural paradigms? Just because we have different ideas in the west does not make them better.
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by jlg23 10y ago
Uhm. No, no, no, no and no. > [Pattern 1] Solution: Split the method into two new methods. Voilà, the if is gone. And so is parametrization. > [Pattern 2]: Solution: Use Polymorphism. Anyone introducing a new type cannot forget to add
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by jlg23 10y ago
Indeed, I do. Thank you.
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by jlg23 10y ago
> He who controls the quicklisp controls the universe! Too true, that's my main complaint about ql since day 1. Give me a simple way to define a ql-repo hierarchy and I'll be fine with it. I did invest a few hours maybe 3 year
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by jlg23 10y ago
If the OP does product development like he writes articles then I too would prefer to gather the specs myself in long "conversations" with him. But concise writing is something one can learn: In 8th grade we got schematics of a bi
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by jlg23 10y ago
While I am actually not a fan of quicklisp for various reasons... just go for it? Emacs, slime & quicklisp and you are ready to go. As soon as you have created your first in-house libraries you'll want to look at asdf's config
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by jlg23 10y ago
That's a great short read on the idiocy of over-optimization. I get a lot of similar questions when people learn that I write common lisp for a living - in most cases they go silent when I provide a sufficiently efficient solution to a
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by jlg23 10y ago
The comment opened with a "huge disclaimer" and closed with a long paragraph that show that s/he is aware of this.
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by jlg23 10y ago
I'm not sure that this is a good way to demonstrate data mining skills. The survival rate for pancreatic cancer is abyssal: > While five-year survival rates for pancreatic cancer are extremely low, early detection of the disease can
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by jlg23 10y ago
You of course can still make a better deal with promotions, but slow travel and "buying two months in advance" don't mix well since it takes away the liberty to spontaneously change destinations or to leave a place if one doe
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by jlg23 10y ago
That really depends on the use case. We too have sshd listening on a non-standard port and the overhead to tell people what to put into their .ssh/config is negligible. We use SPA only on very few select servers that less people need t
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Tragic. I, personally, could not sit idly by and watch, or record, anyone suffering without attempting to assist. Consequences be damned, I would hope for the same assistance if I were injured & needing aid. Until last year I would
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by jlg23 10y ago
Not really relevant, the problem in China is that one has[1] to pay for a disabled person for all that person's life while a death incurs a one time payment. [1] IIRC the recently changed the relevant laws or are currently debating to
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by jlg23 10y ago
> You can travel through South American for a couple grand a month You are talking pesos, right? I've been doing this for 2 years now and the most expensive places in South America where French Guyana (about USD 2k/mo), Guyana
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by jlg23 10y ago
That never happened to me, even in hotels with guards wearing pumpguns and elevators that needed key-cards to be inserted if you wanted to go up (e.g. the Marriott in Paramaribo).
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Brazil’s Interim President Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office(theintercept.com)
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by jlg23 10y ago
> The most interesting thing to me was the evidence posted that other hackers had already penetrated these systems Some 20 years ago it was common knowledge among hackers that the reason critical IT-infrastructure has not been used to do
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by jlg23 10y ago
What happened to hacker ethics? Screw over 39 million people to protest the sorry state of the security of a service they have been using? Back in the good old days one would have secured the systems instead of harming the victims again. Gh
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by jlg23 10y ago
The most important part of this article is its last paragraph: "Joshua Kurlantzick is senior fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations." With that in mind it is understandable that the rest is a over-generaliza
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by jlg23 10y ago
Pretty pointless article: "Is it a myth? Yes, because!" Not writing this article would have saved the author an hour already without any loss of information....
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by jlg23 10y ago
> A group of people who spend waaayyyyy too much of their life on those platforms and by now identify with it way too much get power-hungry. Though, what is "waaayyyyy too much"? Someone who consistently responds to a question
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by jlg23 10y ago
I'd like to know how reliable the data on Rio is. Are there more Zika infections than in the poor north eastern part of Brazil or are (suspected) cases just much more like to be reported due to easier access to qualified medical care?
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by jlg23 10y ago
The title is misleading, though the original is not descriptive. Suggestion: "Higher education does not improve mental health, twin-study proves"
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by jlg23 10y ago
It actually is a travel guide (called itinerary on wikivoyage) ;)
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Why would anybody need your stuff? [...] Even if you carry an used laptop it's not a grand desirable item. That used laptop might be worth a year of disposable income in some parts of the world. And temptations are had to resist w
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by jlg23 10y ago
Yes/no - it's complicated, I just did some research into that trip[1]. TL;DR: No, there are no hop-on-and-off tickets, yes, you can buy tickets at any of the stations but you might be out of luck because it's fully booked, le
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by jlg23 10y ago
As long as you don't flash expensive items[1] and work on having a good relationship with your fellow travelers I'd assume you'll be fine. I just did the 12 day trip up the Amazon from the Atlantic coast to Colombia in cattle
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by jlg23 10y ago
Zero-width unicode chars have been used in exploit kits for a while now; just use hd (or something similar) when debugging.
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by jlg23 10y ago
broad smile This is border-line Poe's law; I really had to deal with web-3.11-for-workgroups folks who argued that this style is the way to go. Never felt this good to realize to have been tricked 8)
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by jlg23 10y ago
I really hope so, but I'm not sure :(

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