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by kenko 10y ago
I can't reply to dan's reply to this, for some reason, but regarding "I don't see a distinction there. It refers to submissions, and Apply HN posts were submissions, a.k.a. stories in HN's sense (posts that aren&#x2
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by kenko 10y ago
> We're grown-ups and don't have to like each other to work together effectively. This times 1000. A working relationship is not a friendship nor does it require any particularly strong "rapport". Though the idea that
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by kenko 10y ago
This "vote brigading" thing is ridiculous. Are we to believe that no one else involved tweeted or otherwise publicized their candidacy?
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by kenko 10y ago
So compassionate and empathetic that you're concerned about people abusing this because of the subjectivity of hunger!
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by kenko 10y ago
S/He's saying that s/he enjoys writing interpreters. That is not related to the fact that Chez Scheme is a compiler.
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by kenko 10y ago
Man, those workplace disappointments sure aren't "predictable" except in a larger workplace ecosystem that's 100% fucked up.
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by kenko 10y ago
How is buying shares in Berkshire Hathaway for "true believers"?
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by kenko 11y ago
"the point we make in the book is that few employees expect or want lifetime employment at a single company;" Expect? Of course not, anymore; you'd be a fool to expect that. Want? Well, more complicated: if it's a matter
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by kenko 11y ago
The comparison of Rust's errors-by-return-values to Go's is really off-base.
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by kenko 11y ago
ditonal's comment (currently below yours) is relevant here. Doesn't look like they stumbled to me! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784180
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by kenko 11y ago
> I'm not sure this is helpful though. We've accepted "literally" also means "not literally" without creating a new language. http://waste.typepad.com/waste/2014/07/on-a-popula
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by kenko 11y ago
Why is that more appropriate than just defining all the currently undefined/implementation-specific behavior?
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by kenko 11y ago
> "\x01\x02".encode('zlib') for instance is a bytes to bytes operation. I think the inclusion of things like zlib (or rot13 or whatever) was a conceptual error that just fosters confusion.
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by kenko 11y ago
Just went to post this myself!
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by kenko 11y ago
Nothing about CPS ensures asynchrony.
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by kenko 11y ago
Huh, on my laptop (running OSX) it's SIGINFO. Read the man pages!
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by kenko 11y ago
> So why the quad i7, 32GB RAM, and 480GB SSD? "So… for what I need, a quad-core box with 32GB RAM is pretty ridiculous. But I’m hoping I can not do this again for quite for a years, so."
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by kenko 11y ago
Tomatoes are not generally considered culinary fruits, so there is, in fact, a sense of "fruit" on which tomatoes are not fruits. They are biological fruits, which is what someone who invokes a "technical" sense likely m
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by kenko 11y ago
Ha and I see that pinboard just tweeted sth relevant: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/665235613373718528 "Recurring theme this morning is Minimum Viable Education, how to train future tech professionals w
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by kenko 11y ago
You can hire and start training people now. They can start being useful fast . The whole bootcamp model proves this. If there's such a shortage businesses could just subsidize the bootcamps.
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by kenko 11y ago
The phasing out of on-the-job training is an atrocity, IMO, especially since what tends to replace it is training at a university, which ought (imo) be a place where people can get some education that isn't oriented primarily toward ma
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by kenko 11y ago
"under the table" work doesn't mean you're not getting paid, it means your pay isn't reported to the relevant tax authorities. That doesn't make it less illegal.
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by kenko 11y ago
"Your brain still thinks the sounds" is hilarious.
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by kenko 11y ago
kinds and typeclasses are rather different, are they not?
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by kenko 11y ago
Right, but since the context hasn't changed, they haven't increased the range of things you can convey in a given context, they've just changed what it conveys.
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by kenko 11y ago
It's rather off-putting.
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by kenko 11y ago
Could you say something about why familiarity with European-style games is relevant to distributed systems and applied ML?
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by kenko 11y ago
<em>Does Craigslist investigate every item sold to make sure it's not stolen? </em> No, but they probably should. Pawnshops, in many jurisdictions at least, are supposed to hold things that they buy in case they turn o
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by kenko 11y ago
OMG. If they're headquartered in London I assume she can sue them under British libel law.
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by kenko 11y ago
"What it means for a selection process to be biased against applicants of type x is that it's harder for them to make it through. Which means applicants of type x have to be better to get selected than applicants not of type x. [1

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