konstruktor

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by konstruktor 13y ago
I like that you can even explain why it is complex. I was just able to give an example, that is explained by your argument (a type system for a purely functional language as opposed to a mix of everything).
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by konstruktor 13y ago
This reminds me of one of my favourite Stackoverflow threads, where Odersky himself explains in just a few paragraphs why the signature of the map function in Scala is not overly complicated: http://stackoverflow.com/questio
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by konstruktor 13y ago
This is a very dangerous project idea. Have you, for one second, considered that this is not a sales funnel, where the only thing that counts is the "success rate" at the other end, but something dealing with people in a crisis? P
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by konstruktor 13y ago
The cost of the level of training airline pilots get (around 100kUSD) would be prohibitive for individual driving. Also, they fly with an equally well trained colleague who will run the checklists in an emergency and correct their mistakes.
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Very well said. The focus on convenience and cool features over safety makes me really sad, and want to force automotive engineers to watch some Alan Kay talks. He loves to talk how people who don't know the history and basics of their
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by konstruktor 13y ago
I as a non-smoker can buy an e-cigarette, so one should judge the safety of the product on its own, not compared to something that is clearly harmful. Methadone, for example, is used for harm reduction. It's only available as an prescr
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by konstruktor 13y ago
The burden of proof, in this case, should be on the e-cigarette industry. They are selling an addictive recreational product, consisting of a new combination of substances, with a novel delivery method (that involves deep inhalation). It wo
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by konstruktor 13y ago
"Über alles" will be primarily associated with Hitler's anthem of the Third Reich by most native speakers of German who know some history. Not a good choice for a title.
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by konstruktor 13y ago
> If you cut back on keeping them healthy, you're cutting the amount of food available for human consumption. You are cutting the amount of meat and dairy available for human consumption, not food. Eating animal products is not a te
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by konstruktor 13y ago
The rise of the lipid hypothesis wasn't the general scientific consensus being wrong, it was the US government cherry picking science based on lobbyist pressure. So while I fully trust science to advance, I don't trust the US gove
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by konstruktor 13y ago
The advice you get there is a political consensus, not a scientific one. Have a look at http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ , linked directly from health.gov: You will have a hard time finding a recommendation against any food
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Nice ad hominem, but it doesn't address my question. Also, what you are taking out of context here is the author describing her life falling apart after this incident, not her behaviour before the incident.
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by konstruktor 13y ago
The problem with "ask first" is that it is a self-defeating behaviour in current culture: Touching is an integral part of flirting and also common in interactions that don't involve sexual or romantic interest. And the curren
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Cool advice. Now please tell me about an industry where "drinking with the guys" is not a central part of the networking/socializing needed to have a career.
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by konstruktor 13y ago
We have a culture of alcohol being involved in most team interactions outside of work. Those mostly take place in the evening, a time when, usually, private socializing, including mate seeking behaviour, happens. That alone would be quite a
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by konstruktor 13y ago
According to the story, the other person involved was allowed to leave the company, saying it was his own decision. Nobody forced him to blog about it. He, however, chose to take the topic of his leaving the company public, in a way that on
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by konstruktor 13y ago
> One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income. I think that with basic income, this question would not make sense, and that's exactly the reason that
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by konstruktor 13y ago
I was, obviously, saying the very opposite, i.e. that what you are describing is an inherent flaw of democracy, and that some discrimination is just more obvious for cultural reasons. Usually, institutions like the supreme court save the da
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Women not being allowed to vote is actually an inherent flaw of democracy: Those who are allowed to vote decide who else may vote. All democratic countries make this kind of decision for many groups. Voting age, if and when immigrants may v
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Downvoted you because this looks like astroturfing. New account, seemingly random nickname, a persona matching the target audience of this site and several postings with purely positive content and a style that doesn't look right on HN
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Are you sure you are talking about the destructive potential of heroin itself and not the circumstances in which it is consumed? It is not necessarily an IV drug, but the price, driven by criminalization, makes smoking prohibitively expensi
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Madoff ran a Ponzi scheme and was convicted for fraud.
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by konstruktor 13y ago
On the Space Shuttle, four computers with identical software ran redundantly, and a fifth with independent software was used to detect errors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle http://www.hq.nasa.go
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Are you sure the people on the other side of the world, living in famine, also consider your ignorance bliss? What is more irrational: Choosing to ignore grave suffering that we have the resources to end, many times over, for the sake of av
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by konstruktor 13y ago
Your personal experience is not a source, keep your reddit speak where it belongs.
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by konstruktor 13y ago
I don't know a single PHP fanboy but I know good developers who maintain PHP applications, know and hate all the problems of PHP mentioned in the article, and many more. However, existing PHP applications fulfill needs in the businesse
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by konstruktor 13y ago
This is the status quo but doesn't address parent's argument. If corporations want the same rights as natural persons in one area of the law, it would be cherry picking to want to keep a privileged position in another, e.g. tax la
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by konstruktor 13y ago
For example via one of the many TB docking stations that have been promised for a long time.
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by konstruktor 13y ago
I absolutely agree with you about drone strikes being even more dangerous. The analogy I saw was the mindset that causes people to be enraged about US citizens being killed/spied upon while being rather indifferent to the same thing ha
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by konstruktor 13y ago
While consumers may be too lazy to care, cloud providers will lose a lot of business. You can bet that every trade magazine outside the US will have articles discussing if it is even legal to store data with US providers given the particul

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