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by lambda 11y ago
Don't use it day to day; we use Google Docs at my company, so that's what I happen to use for most of that kind of stuff. But one day Google Docs happened to be down while I was doing a phone screen using Google Docs as a whiteboa
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by lambda 11y ago
When talking about a publicly traded company, "most valuable" generally means "market cap", and indeed, that's what it means in this case.
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by lambda 11y ago
Of course, now that increasingly more work is being done on the client side, or by communicating with microservices, Rust makes more sense for a pure API backend. There's a lot less ecosystem needed there; mostly just bindings to whate
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by lambda 11y ago
I don't really see why it would be odd, other than the ecosystem not having quite caught up yet with some other languages. It's an expressive, high level language, which makes being explicit about error handling very easy, the typ
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by lambda 11y ago
I don't necessarily think that it's an either/or situation. I started out with dynamic languages, then did a mix of dynamic languages and C++ for a while (C++ engine with Scheme based scripting language), then went back to dy
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by lambda 11y ago
He's a professional 2 Dan in the Chinese Weiqi (Go) Association (source: http://gobase.org/information/players/?pp=Fan%20Hui ). EGF and AGA have only just in the last couple of years started giving professiona
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by lambda 11y ago
When someone calls that, they wouldn't expect the input to be consumed. >>> list = [1,2,3] >>> sum(list)/len(list) >>> Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line
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by lambda 11y ago
> first neural network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_neural_analog_reinf...
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by lambda 11y ago
Like the difference between crossbows and longbows, they were superior in some ways and inferior in others. Since they were composite, they were dependent on glue and cord holding them together; they were somewhat more susceptible to weathe
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by lambda 11y ago
According to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy#The_Frenc... , and of course take with the same grain of salt applied to anything on Wikipedia, I don't have the sources on hand to cross c
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by lambda 11y ago
Hmm. I'd be interested in seeing your source for that. Yes, the power imparted to the arrow is the integral of the poundage supplied by the bow or prod, over the distance that it is propelling the arrow, and that distance is shorter on
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by lambda 11y ago
First, this research paper is about a game theory analysis about a political situation that may have made the French and Scots leery of being vulnerable to usurpation by arming a large population. The material on pages 691-693 is all backgr
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by lambda 11y ago
I think that the way this paper discusses on the longbow as being the superior weapon may obscure a key fact here. Man for man, a crossbow is a superior weapon; requires less skill to operate, has longer range, much easier to aim, better pe
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by lambda 11y ago
From the comment history, I don't think they are the same djb.
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by lambda 11y ago
I've seen a few articles on it recently, and know of at least one couple in my social network that does separate beds. It seems like my grandparents' generation slept in separate beds a lot, my parents' generation swung to th
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by lambda 11y ago
The guidelines say: Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points and: Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. I think the idea beh
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by lambda 11y ago
I love how he says that it's not throttling, while comparing it to economy mode on a car. Which is, well, literal throttling to give you less performance but better economy. I would not mind them offering the feature if they were hones
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by lambda 11y ago
You can't make the 'necessary for terrorism' argument when the surveillance directly subverts the domestic government. What prevents a member of the domestic government from being a terrorist, or having ties to
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by lambda 11y ago
SSN and credit card numbers should not be considered secret. Anything that must be shared with a third party in order to make some kind of transaction cannot be considered secret; compromises happen, and once compromised, there is no way to
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by lambda 11y ago
Wouldn't implementing bash/zsh completions achieve the same result?
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by lambda 11y ago
Thanks!
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by lambda 11y ago
You're right, I don't think that it's particularly novel. Just that it seems the misogyny aspect of "MGOTW" is more important than the celibacy aspect.
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by lambda 11y ago
This sounds like architecture astronautics. Lots of things that sound good in theory, but there's no analysis of how useful they would actually be in practice, what actual tradeoffs there are with current designs, etc. Lots of wishlist
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by lambda 11y ago
Not really. This is more organized misogyny than voluntary celibacy. If you take a look at their forums, they are more concerned with criticism of women and feminism than celibacy.
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by lambda 11y ago
It appears that that's the intent of using an obscure acronym like that; people can drop it casually in conversation, and then people search for it, and then someone edits the Wikipedia article to crow about how many people are searchi
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by lambda 11y ago
I think he's saying that in this document, "creat" is sometimes spelled with an "e", indicating that the OCR process overcorrected. 3.5.2 Create To create a new file, the following call is used. f
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by lambda 11y ago
When I say "at some point", I don't mean that that's the timeline for a particular movie. I mean at some point in your life, it is better to let go of the idea of walking into a movie in a completely pristine state with
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by lambda 11y ago
At some point, you have to stop considering any discussion of a movie as spoiler. The term "spoiler" should be reserved for a reveal that actually spoils the movie; where some crucial element of the movies emotional impact can be
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by lambda 11y ago
Take a little time off from checking HN?
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by lambda 11y ago
Right now, I need to manually find someone who is carpooling. If there happens to be someone on my street that I know and is going to roughly the same place, that's fine. However, there are many trips which have overlapping segments th

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