jonahx

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by jonahx 8y ago
"The worst injuries I've ever seen were in big factories with large, powerful tools -- not in home garages where people just use hammers and hand-saws." Powerful abstractions are... powerful. They're more difficult to u
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by jonahx 8y ago
The AWS docs are significantly worse than Heroku's, and in general you'll be likely to get tripped up and waste time figuring something out.
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by jonahx 8y ago
> What pain is Heroku saving you to justify being 5x more expensive than Lightsail/Digital Ocean/Linode? The pain of setting it up, applying security patches, making sure you set it up securely to begin with. The pain of havin
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by jonahx 8y ago
I was looking forward to reading the technical breakdown here: https://chybeta.github.io/2019/03/16/Analysis-for%E3%80%90CV... But I could not without my fans blasting and overheating my laptop. The page is
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by jonahx 8y ago
Talent is nowhere near evenly distributed. As this boy shows.
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by jonahx 8y ago
I'd just try a couple of those problems and see how much practice you need.
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by jonahx 8y ago
1. Solutions are typically written bottom up 2. The meat of the problem is understanding how to formulate it such that this "recursion" is possible. Point two is often non-trivial so your "just" -- while technically corr
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by jonahx 8y ago
> In my opinion ternary stuff is short handed eye candy Granted > not a great reason to discount a language The ternary quote exemplifies an attitude at the heart of the language designer's priorities. That is, the lack of ter
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by jonahx 8y ago
> Idiomatic Go would have you not put on one line what is more clear on two. This is the kind of silly aphorism that sounds enlightened until you think about it, and is emblematic of the bad parts of Go dogma. The problem is that excessi
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by jonahx 8y ago
Claiming that Go should excels in readability or ergonomics is pure, Koolaid fever-dream delusion. Is it cleaner than C/C++? Sure. It's still a painfully verbose language full of boilerplate and with zero concern for expressivi
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by jonahx 8y ago
> I think there's an unfilled niche in programming languages that's basically "Go plus some FP niceties." Nim?
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by jonahx 8y ago
Anyone know why chrome does not have an option to turn off the Referer header globally?
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by jonahx 8y ago
What reasons are there for choosing OCaml over Haskell, either from a learning perspective or a practical one?
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by jonahx 8y ago
Would you mind elaborating on this?
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by jonahx 8y ago
I'm unclear: what was the incorrect claim you're saying the author made?
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by jonahx 8y ago
That was not implied. A key skill in good programming is choosing tools at the correct level of abstraction for the problem. Here, the higher-level unix tools are clearly the better choice. Saying "that's cheating" because t
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by jonahx 8y ago
1 TB fits on a flash drive these days. If they were transferring semi-regularly when grounded and recording in SD, you'd be talking on the order of a few pounds.
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by jonahx 8y ago
Lots of negative comments, but whatever you think of the prices, this is very well done: - Clean, intuitive UI. - Clear, *short* copy. - A complex process broken down into easily digestible chunks.
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by jonahx 8y ago
Anyone know the significance of the diagrams on the book's cover? They're intriguing: https://i.imgur.com/24LEJyf.png
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by jonahx 8y ago
Can you elaborate on that?
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by jonahx 8y ago
Something similar to this is discussed and championed in The Humane Interface: https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing...
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by jonahx 8y ago
Could you elaborate on this?
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by jonahx 8y ago
Should I actually reconsider having my lasik touched up?
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by jonahx 8y ago
Great answer and I love the Kolmogorov analogy. > German has the word "Fernweh" which means longing for a distant place in the same way that nostalgia means longing for home. While I agree almost any concept can be translated i
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by jonahx 8y ago
Fair enough. I just noticed this is your field. So is it your opinion that Sapir Whorf is fundamentally just not true? What is happening when we learn a new concept or new word and start seeing things differently or noticing something mor
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by jonahx 8y ago
This quote from the article suggests that mechanism involved is specifically linguistic: """ To determine if words were being automatically (and perhaps unconsciously) activated, the researchers added the following twist: the
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by jonahx 8y ago
The article address this objection: """ To determine if words were being automatically (and perhaps unconsciously) activated, the researchers added the following twist: they asked their Russian participants to perform a verba
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by jonahx 8y ago
This is just a toy experiment that shows causal relationships between thought and language can exist. You can't look at the arbitrary number of 50ms and say, "Well, it seems small, the effects aren't important." The p
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by jonahx 8y ago
This is question more than a comment, as I have only casual knowledge of event sourcing... """ You wouldn't let two separate services reach directly into each other's data storage when not event sourcing – you'
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by jonahx 8y ago
This should not be getting downvoted, no matter how much you disagree with its claims. It is articulate, well-written, contains novel (for me, anyway) biographical information about Godel, and is respectful enough even its critiques.

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