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by kyralis 7y ago
It depends on context. The question is like asking "what's the difference between 'x + x' and '5'"; the former is 'code', an algorithm with placeholders for data; the latter is data. In another c
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by kyralis 7y ago
I suspect it's a result of the apparent politicization of Wikileaks. When it first appeared it seemed fairly neutral, but that neutrality appears to have vanished somewhere along the line.
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by kyralis 7y ago
Please do. The lack of capitalization made me close the tab after about two sentences; this just doesn't make it past my "worth reading" filter. Sure, maybe it's good, but I have heuristics like this for a reason, and I&
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by kyralis 7y ago
This is one of the issues that I have with how CS and software engineering is taught in universities. Yes, you could look at this as "vocational training" and not "education". But you could also look at this as education
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by kyralis 7y ago
Logging and print statements are phenomenally useful debugging aids. I think people get too caught up in what a debugger can give them and forget how much value you can get out of logging as well. I'm perfectly happy to fire up LLDB an
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by kyralis 7y ago
"Newtonion physics is a perfectly acceptable approximation in many circumstances" and "GR is less wrong than Newtonion physics" are not in conflict. Newtonion physics can absolutely be "more wrong" and "us
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by kyralis 7y ago
> However, a former Apple employee said it was possible the encryption project was dropped for other reasons, such as concern that more customers would find themselves locked out of their data more often. This. It's also the reason
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by kyralis 7y ago
Property taxes are inherently more regressive than income taxes, since since property (either directly or through rents) nearly always consumes a larger portion of the income/wealth of lower-means individuals.
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by kyralis 7y ago
Why? This is a real question. This is not a thing that has existed in the past; why is it necessary that it exist now? If you look back to the founding of the US, political discourse was done frequently through pamphlets. The government did
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by kyralis 7y ago
Not quite the same thing, but you might be interested in _The Forge of God_ by Greg Bear.
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by kyralis 7y ago
Modern MacOS in default configuration does not.
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by kyralis 7y ago
That's a great philosophy if your job is QA for the system or application in question. As a consumer? No. I'm not interested in QAing buggy software. I want it to not break my machine.
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by kyralis 7y ago
Honest question: Why are you driving down the road at 30mph brushing your hair?
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by kyralis 7y ago
This is how HealthKit data works on iOS as long as you have two-factor authentication on for your iCloud account.
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by kyralis 7y ago
Because Republicans hate public transit. (And, to be fair, we rather suck at infrastructure for a variety of complex reasons, which explains part of the Republican resistance to such projects.)
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by kyralis 7y ago
Personally, I felt this way about SC2 as compared to SC1. I think one of the largest changes I noticed was an increase in the hardness of counters as well as an increase in the APM necessary to properly wield certain units. For the first po
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by kyralis 7y ago
While it's possible that there are specific positions where this is a requirement, it is absolutely not a general requirement in SWE (Apple's Software Engineering group).
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by kyralis 7y ago
They're not stupid, for the most part. They just have a different set of priorities. Many of the individuals supporting the trade war and tariffs know that it's causing them problems, but as far as they're concerned it's
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by kyralis 7y ago
An opinion article with absolutely nothing to do with the Endangered Species Act is hardly a serious citation for such a claim.
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by kyralis 7y ago
Would you like to provide a source for "the continued existence of all species presently on Earth at this very moment has become some sort of moral imperative in the minds of activists"? Because it's certainly not generally t
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by kyralis 7y ago
There are a couple pieces here, I think. 1) Environmental regulations and property rights are frequently viewed as in conflict by the rural population, examples of government reach onto the property owner's perceived absolute rights up
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by kyralis 7y ago
It's worth pointing out that quoting this list is a little disingenuous. Considering only items on the list starting in 2000, only a third (8) appear to have involved firearms.
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by kyralis 7y ago
And yet not a single one of those covers the industries discussed in the article. Regulatory capture can absolutely lead to monopolies, but to claim that "all American monopolies are due to protection policies" is incorrect. Monop
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by kyralis 7y ago
Ah, the tragedy of the commons. There are aspects of life where this philosophy is great. There are also aspects of life - in particular, items touching on exhaustible resources - where a community-level decision making process really is ne
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by kyralis 7y ago
Protip: If things get this far, it's the manager's fault. I've been remote before and also managed remote ICs, and you learn who needs the frequent checkins and status updates and who can be left more to their own devices. I
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by kyralis 7y ago
This is disingenuous. The store next door isn't providing you with any services beyond the grocery transactions you engage in. A country, on the other hand, largely does. If you actually move from one country to another legitimately, c
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by kyralis 7y ago
Actually, when it comes to the link between natural disasters and climate change I think the science is still significantly less settled. There are certainly suggestions and indications that a warming world will increase the likelihood or
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by kyralis 7y ago
I explicitly tell candidates that they should use pseudocode. Nitpicking stupid syntax that the compiler can catch in a whiteboard interview is pretty pointless.
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If you look at the history of Microsoft across platforms, with the exception of the Xbox they've been pushing the unified paradigm for decades. It's one of the things that really set the iPad apart at release- a tablet that didn&
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by kyralis 8y ago
Actually, you've got that history a little backward. The original iPhone had no App Store and had only web apps; that was the promoted way to develop for the platform. It was only after the phone's release and the mad clamor fro

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