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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
In the context of an organization that has a formal QA department, it is very difficult for the QA folks to make the system throw all the relevant exceptions. It falls to the developers to test those code paths and then there are a million
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
The pragmatic programmer book has a great quote about exceptions. Something about how once an exception is caught your stack starts to unwind and a new program is now running on your system. Can't find it right now. The worse productio
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by johnwatson11218 10y ago
Anytime I hear about literate programming I think about how mathematicians worked for centuries to encode math symbolically. If you look at the ancient math texts it was all word problems and it was just awful. One of the coolest things ab
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by johnwatson11218 11y ago
In my opinion this is one of the worst aspects of the bay area and california in general. It is my understanding that it is very easy to get land set aside for environmental reason in california and that is used to stop development. Then I
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by johnwatson11218 11y ago
yes that sounds correct. I'm thinking of something where I take an existing db and train a NN on it, then populate a test db with things like "typical account", "typical delinquent account", etc. This db could then
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by johnwatson11218 11y ago
Does anyone know if this technique can be used to slurp up a database and produce "typical" records for populating a test database? This is a problem that I struggled with a few years ago and still haven't found a good autom
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
I don't have time to read all the links in this thread but I used to draw mazes all the time in school. My approach was to start with an "in" tube and start branching it, so long as I kept one branch open I could split and re
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
Would it be considered cheating if you found a pseudo random generator that took a small seed and expanded to the executable of the current first place winner?
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
I always plug the same site on these threads. www.zapreader.com/reader I use that several times a week to get through lengthy articles. What I really want is something that shows all the text in the background kind of blurred out. Th
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
I have been using zapreader at www.zapreader.com/reader for years now. Sometimes on the weekends I take about 20 long form articles and put them into the zap reader js form. I find that I get the main idea of an article much faster, I
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
this link http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem talks about the application to the torus. It states that it is possible to completely comb the hair on a doughnut. That is the point I was trying to make
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
Not sure if it was in the article or not but I think the Hairy Ball theorem from Topology would be important. Since earth is a sphere the wind can't blow all in the same direction. Some currents must oppose others. In a torus the wind
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
Has anyone ever done a project like this that builds test databases from larger production databases? I mean something that can look at a prod db and model the data in the columns and the relationships between tables and produce a much sma
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. Why doesn't what he was saying in the video apply to these offerings (which I can buy right now btw) http://www.sitbetter.com/view/chair/egc-ergo-saddle-stool/er... http:/&#x2F
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
One thing that I found confusing about writing mac apps was the vestiges of the old memory models. When I started a new project I just clicked the checkbox for Automatic Reference Counting and assumed I was coding in something like Java. I
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
I never see this word anywhere but here https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=conflate&start...
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
I have seen sql queries that were 30 pages long if printed out. The developer showing me this was looking for some other examples that he said were up to 100 pages long. These queries had multiple levels of correlated subqueries and tons o
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
oops - I was thinking of the "long tail" not the fat tail.
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by johnwatson11218 13y ago
I think the biggest fat tail distribution of all is the things that developers are asked to do on a day to day basis. The fat tail is where frameworks break down, where development processes and procedures break down. Most of the stuff I do
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
I bet there are people alive now that will be able to produce something like this sooner than we think. I agree that it is a difficult problem to solve ... I just think that we are the verge of being able to attempt something like this. St
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
Has anyone here ever thought about trying to get robots to be able to do skateboard tricks? It seems to me that unless they could be perfect every time you would first have to teach them to fall without damaging themselves. I bet that woul
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
One of the things to that I found confusing with the coursera classes was that each one seems to have its own set of rules for dealing with homework assignments, late homework, and partial credit. At one point I was signed up for two class
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
I think a tool like this should be able to inspect the real database and model the columns statistically. If my salary info is distributed a certain way I would like the fake data to have the same distribution. A tool could also build lang
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
I read the same thing, the article I read also said that Chinese encodes more info per sound so it sounds like the speakers are speaking more slowly. English was somewhere in the middle.
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
I am not sure about the details but Rodney Mullen has some kind of math/engineering background. There were old videos of him with what looked like calculus problems and books spread out on his table. I think he may have worked as an engine
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
Does anyone know of a better, more modern version of zapreader? I use that several times a week for getting through long articles from sites like the Atlantic and the Economist. I can't believe that nobody has picked up that idea and made
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
Mathematicians have been developing more abstract and concise symbols for hundreds of years and it looks nothing like English or any other natural language. If I had to guess I would say that future programming languages will look more lik
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
I just want to add that I recently took the plunge and bought levels 1-5 Rosetta Stone for both Spanish and German. I know there are a lot of criticisms about this system, mostly in terms of cost but I have found it to be a huge improvemen
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
Peep Show. It isn't from 2012 but I found it then on netflix. Best laughs, best writing etc. I loved the way it presented life in London especially the day to day grind. Definitely worth checking out.
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by johnwatson11218 14y ago
I just got into this a few months ago and it is amazing. my favorite is steel cut oats. I spray the inside with Pam skip any butter or oil. steamed veggies in the tray with brown rice is so healthy. The oats cook much faster this way and c

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