jwhitlark

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by jwhitlark 5y ago
1bike1world ftw. The reason I started looking at Instagram.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
I've always loved that paper. Very readable, and gives good insights.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
He's not saying you have an obligation to document your code, he's saying if you're going to add it to a discussion, you need to give us a one-sentence description of what it is so we can see how it is relevant and decide i
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
A pro-Trump social media app is launched with a name (GETTR) that is one similar consonant away from "Get her"? Supporting a guy who led chants of "Lock her up", even before we get to all the sexual harassment complaint
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
I'm glad the mods unflagged this, as I do believe there is some interesting discussion here. Do you see your app as being useful to people researching more philosophical aspects of the Bible? (For instance: I'm atheist to the cor
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Spamming your environment is not the only path to evolutionary success.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
...therefore the Bible is infallible... That is a Christian position, but I don't believe it's the only one, especially outside the US. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_infallibility for discussio
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
More generally, sure. But it's not like you'd derive that from this tech, you'd just create it from some of the generic pieces that are already laying around. Finding people that are hurt and trapped and most importantly try
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Replying to myself because I can't edit the comment. As someone who has spent time in a combat unit, I can't come up with tactical or strategic advantages that this would create, even if you fully set morality aside. There are so
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
What's the nefarious use of finding someone who is already screaming?
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
This is actually one of my rare criticisms of Clojure. There's a patch, but there was apparently concern about perf. Personally, if I had to do a lot of interop like this, I'd pull it into a custom build, as it wasn't large.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
That sounds like it might work. I was commenting based on my experience of people deciding there had to be a single representation for an idea/type no matter what it was used for, across multiple projects and repositories. I was not di
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
I think it really comes down to how well the new semantics fit the problem domain. If it's a much better fit than the alternative, it's a net win. But just because you can define new semantics, doesn't make it a good idea. Th
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
I think he's referring to the fact that you have more information at runtime (the actual request) than you do at compile time. But your distinction about the theoretical limitations vs the practical capabilities of current type systems
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
My concern with all-or-nothing validation of the sort you're suggesting is that sometimes the invalid data is data that isn't your concern and doesn't matter to the task you're trying to accomplish. It doesn't even
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Just as bad are those that check in code that that works, but no longer makes logical sense when you read the code. The following is a simple case of what I'm talking about: var flag_is_unset = flag_is_set I generally land more on the
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Winning a vote does not exempt one from other responsibilities, such as obeying the law. There are places that do that, but it just means you're electing a king. Our system was/is explicitly designed to prevent this occurrence.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Can you please give an author's name for your reference on the book Traction? There seems to be several possibilities.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
I suspect heat is a bigger problem than you're assuming, but also, you would want a similar architecture to simplify the os code.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
IIRC English was phonetic/spelled consistently before the great vowel shift. The spelling solidified but pronunciation continued to change.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
One can always move if the value proposition doesn't seem worth it. There are certainly parts of the world where that isn't true, but California isn't one of them.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Fair enough. I'm trying to link up these liabilities with the growth I think they originally supported, but I'm not articulating it well, and likely read too much into your comment. Thank you for asking a question instead of resor
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Notice how much of the stock market is actually in their state. Even if the market is overvalued, there is still a tremendous amount of value created in California. I wouldn't make the blanket argument that you get what you pay for, in
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
In a sense, government is like medical care, the first question is "how do we make this right", then you see if you can afford it, or what tradeoffs you have to make. So having it is second to actually looking at the problems. Why
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
I agree. The way it's worded leaves out important information. They could have said "It trails only four of the five shuttles", because the fact that it outlasted one of them is an important data point.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Many writings of the founders were absolutely rife with references to antiquity and classical authors, it was a common practice of the time to write under a Roman republic era pseudonym, and off the top of my head, Jefferson and Adams knew
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Except the origins of American values and law went back farther than Christianity. An easy way to see that is to look at how many pamphlets of the time had (Pre-Christian) Roman pseudonyms. The author is claiming otherwise and failing to b
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Greece and Rome's civic and philosophical development was the source of how Western Civilization developed. Christianity was then transplanted on top of Western Civilization; it wasn't the source. The author is either mistaken or
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Useful, inconsequential, and profitable are orthogonal. Useful has a positive effect, inconsequential has no effect, and profitable is something else entirely.
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Mine were always from working on the house, but I guess it's at least somewhat or an activity.

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