kdmccormick

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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   Yikes. This case study isn't in any way conclusive, but it also doesn't claim to be. You need a better reason than that to write it off as "garbage". I have bipolar disorder. My uncle had schizophrenia. YEARS without an
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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   Proof that you can write something elegant in Haskell and use comprehensible variable names.
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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   You could say the same thing about weekends. I'd assume there's exceptions for things like "the site is down", though.
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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   I think you're over-generalizing. Yes, some people work more than 40 hours for social recognition without getting any more real work done. On the other hand, I know people who truly do work over 40 hours out of a feeling of passion or
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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   The original statement implied that profits always trump safety. The reply points out that, over time, safety has generally become more regarded. Of course there is still progress to be made, but it's silly to think that train crashe
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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   I'm 100% with you there.
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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   Yes, but the replier is saying that THC, the primary active compound in Cannabis, can in fact worsen some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. As someone with Type I Bipolar, which has many similarities to schizophrenia, I agree that this is o
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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   I don't see where they claim they don't know the recipient's address.
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   by kdmccormick 7y ago

   I can see a benefit in companies that provide their employees with laptops. If a subset of their employees want to run Linux, I can imagine that they'd be more willing to provide them with a ThinkPad with Linux pre-installed than allow
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    by kdmccormick 7y ago

    I think the average shopper would interpret "Staff Picks" as meaning "wine that the staff recommends" instead of "wine the store is hoping to sell." It's disingenuous at best. For the record, my friend ini
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    by kdmccormick 7y ago

    My friend works at a liquor store. His boss one day told him to label the poorly-selling wines as "Staff Picks". So your fear isn't exactly unfounded :P
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    by kdmccormick 7y ago

    I agree. My perception is that tools like awk are best used for one-off tasks, whereas anything part of a greater pipeline should be written in a more readable/maintainable language. I was just pushing back against the sentiment that a
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    by kdmccormick 7y ago

    To me, this sounds like coming up with an ad hominem argument to rationalize not learning something that one finds different and challenging. For the record, I do not know awk, but that's because I just haven't taken the time to l
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    by kdmccormick 7y ago

    Your last option us exactly what the author recommends -- pip-tools.
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    by kdmccormick 7y ago

    My senior thesis was writing a transpiler from Alloy to SMT-Lib. I attended the Future of Alloy workshop with my advisor. Very intelligent, passionate group of people who care a lot about the language. I believe that its current primary use
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    by kdmccormick 7y ago

    Thanks for that clarification.
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    by kdmccormick 7y ago

    All positive integers can be written as a product of primes, where a product is a sequence of numbers that are multiplied together. In the case of a composite number like 45, the primes are (3,3,5). When the sequence has one element, then t