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by jnbiche 10y ago
> empathy is part of our legal system I don't see evidence of much empathy in the US justice system.
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by jnbiche 10y ago
OK, so I was also raising awareness of the issue, guilty. And no, this was the only time I've mentioned this on HN, and I'll never mention it again here, you have my word. Had no fucking idea it would draw so much ire (most downv
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by jnbiche 10y ago
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by jnbiche 10y ago
If you've disabled the StartCom CA due to concerns about lack of transparency[0] and are therefore unable to view pages like this one, you can always click the "web" link above and then view the cached page on Google. For con
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> I cancelled after one of the "professors" showed up hung over. For the record, professors occasionally showing up hungover is by no means means confined to ITT. I went to a fairly good public university, and I had a few prof
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by jnbiche 10y ago
So do the protections afforded by the French constitution apply to "all men, French, foreign, prisoners and enemies"?
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> But I'd rather US government didn't record my communications, constitutional or not. It is not a constitutional matter, it is a human rights matter. For the record, I agree 100%.
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Did you read the post? He's discussing the typical coursework needed for a math degree. I've not bought his book and am not interested in becoming a quant, yet I've found his site to be a useful source of tips and textbooks
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by jnbiche 10y ago
You're absolutely correct. I was thinking of what is called natural personhood. But I'm curious specifically how the German constitution differentiates the two.
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by jnbiche 10y ago
That's impressive. I guess that's the difference between a modern, progressive constitution written over 2 centuries ago versus one written 50 years ago. Semantic point, do you differentiate between a "human" and "p
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> But more importantly, your comment is off-topic. I'm just curious, how is it that you see this comment as off-topic? I'm confused.
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by jnbiche 10y ago
I'm as opposed to mass surveillance as anyone on HN, but I've been surprised by this kind of reaction. Why are non-citizens surprised at this lack of constitutional protection? Are there actually any countries whose constituti
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Your heuristic failed here. The writer here opposes raising taxes and even uses the favored fiscal-conservative term "expropriation" (her words: "expropriation is a one-time trick"). She exalts Adam Smith and the free
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> too but found it to be slower than Xfce. Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if Mate is slower than Xfce, since it's traditionally considered more featureful. Besides, even using a cheap $200 netbook, desktop environment speed is j
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> tldr; this whole breakthru in technology called the blockchain isn't a new idea at all I haven't read the article, and I been tired of blockchain hype for multiple years, but if this is an accurate tldr of the article, it isn
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> It's always been too buggy, by which I mean, obvious visible UI bugs immediately after installation. Really? I've installed Mate on ~10 computers, and have never run into UI bugs. I run Mate, my two kids run it on their com
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> and a fairly resentful one for a few more years --- he still misses the old GNOME user interface and loathes Unity Why doesn't he use Mate? Ubuntu Mate is readily available on the Ubuntu website. Is he aware that it's a con
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> Nobody had bigger balls than the astronauts who got in them. Yeah, they were really outsize personalities in every way (in a good way). Very unique time in American history.
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Yes, true. I'm probably overstating things. Just excited about the prospect of having these things in Ocaml. Scala is an impressive language but it's a big language. I prefer the relative simplicity of Ocaml and (even more)
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Hey, so when Ocaml comes out with modular implicits (hopefully soon!), will they be supported? If I recall correctly, Bucklescript is compiling Ocaml source, as opposed to Ocaml bytecode like js_of_ocaml does [this is incorrect, see below]
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> Practice. I bought a whiteboard, mounted it on the wall, and practice questions from interviewcake as if I were in front of a live audience. Do you think going through all the questions on Interviewcake prepared you well for interviews
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Most REST API frameworks that I'm aware of (e.g., Django REST framework) easily allow you to accept either the semantic HTTP actions, or an action parameter in the query string. Some also let you fall back to the `X-HTTP-Method-Overri
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> Yes, there are much better options out there than using the animation jQuery offers. No doubt. I haven't used jQuery to speak of in the past 2 years, and the only time I've found myself missing it was when I needed to do som
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by jnbiche 10y ago
That's classic, how had I missed that. And it's pretty old, doesn't even feature cool new DOM APIs like the Selectors API (ie, `document.querySelector`). Which allows the exact same syntax as jQuery (although it obviously r
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Thanks, you're absolutely right. Web Animation API is one of the few new JS APIs that I haven't explored much, and I see I've been missing a lot. I tend to use CSS animation in production for most animations whenever I can,
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Yeah, but then you just add velocityjs (as you reference). But I'm really referring to simple animations here, for anything complex I'd use Canvas or possibly SVG (although SVG can also have performance issues).
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Actually, looking over the new Web Animation API, it looks like jQuery doesn't even offer much of an advantage for animations as long as you're targeting new browsers that have the Web Animation API (yes, I was referring to the an
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Next time, try dropping jQuery, too, and just using vanilla JavaScript. Just for fun. Simple DOM manipulation is now as simple in vanilla JavaScript as jQuery, with the only big advantage jQuery has now is if you're animating. You m
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by jnbiche 10y ago
I strongly agree with these suggestions, if the creator(s) happen to read this. And while these suggestions may seem like nitpicking, they are not. While not everything around REST APIs is entirely standard, there's a great deal of agr
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Well, I've never worked in finance, but if these are like the mathematical models that I used to make predictions in grad school and for the year after grad school when I worked as a statistical analyst, I do. I presume these are pred

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