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by learc83 6y ago
That's the thing, it is useful, so I don't blame companies for wanting people who know CS theory. And when I hire people, even though I hate doing adversarial whiteboard coding, I will probe to find out if people understand a bit
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by learc83 6y ago
Calling the European Economic Area a single market is also a stretch. Sure from a regulatory point of view it is, but practically it’s not. Cultural and language differences between countries are often a larger barrier to your product than
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by learc83 6y ago
Yep I remember I had a Voltron toy that was die-cast metal. It was heavy and would have probably lasted for decades (it went to goodwill at some point).
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by learc83 6y ago
>Personally I have also found basic graph theory to be immensely useful for representing and reasoning about things. I agree! The graph theory portion of my algorithms class (more than half of the class) was the third most useful thing I
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by learc83 6y ago
Mostly for user interfaces and modeling business processes. But I’ve also done some work on a super simple language for some of our non technical people to use for data transformation, and a templating system for form generation.
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by learc83 6y ago
Web development, embedded systems, and game dev. I use FSMs, pushdown automata, and hierarchical state machines all the time.
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by learc83 6y ago
I use CS theory all the time in my professional career. Automata, was the most useful class I took (the 2nd most useful was Programming Language Concepts).
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by learc83 6y ago
That’s hardly a reason not to include a maybe type. In that particular case, instead of a maybe you can use a combination of sum and product types or just an additional ShortRead type. NormalRead | ShortRead | Error This case is also an exa
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by learc83 6y ago
You can't which is a big part of the problem. You have to trust that the function will only return either and not both. Except in cases where a function does return both. A maybe type would have been a much better solution. I wish peop
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by learc83 6y ago
>Bezos could hire a small army of mercenaries and defeat any cesar/king/emperor of the past. The kind of army that governments would allow Bezos to own couldn't defeat the strongest rulers in the past unless he got very lu
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by learc83 6y ago
>No need to be insulting yourself. I was asking for evidence of the personal attacks and you listed them. There was already plenty of evidence if you actually read the quote the and setup that it was the answer to a question about the at
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by learc83 6y ago
That's true as a percentage of total world wealth, but if you're using money as a proxy for productivity, in absolute terms $200 billion probably outranks all of Egypt 2000 years ago. And if you're talking about how much weal
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by learc83 6y ago
He was being asked directly about the insults. >"We experienced similar attacks in the past. The lack of monitoring on these platforms have a role in the rise of this sort of immoral behaviour. These platforms do not suit this count
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by learc83 6y ago
That's not what's happening here. There's as much proof as you can have without reading the mind of Erdogan. He had entire press conference where he referenced the attacks as justification for regulating social media. "W
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by learc83 6y ago
> The author doesn’t know whether there’s causal relation between the possible insult and the plans to control the social platforms. I don't know--seems pretty clear to me. “Do you see why we oppose social media like YouTube, Twitte
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by learc83 6y ago
Low temp solder paste, a laser cut stencil, and a hotplate makes it pretty easy.
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by learc83 6y ago
I think it’s just your perception. I can easily spot when a movie or TV show was filmed in a North Georgia forest. And when driving from Atlanta 2 hours west to Birmingham, 2 hours east to Augusta, or 2 hours south to Columbus you can tell
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by learc83 6y ago
I remember a few years ago when kudzu bugs first showed up. There were swarms of them, and I remember for a few weeks I'd get them on me when walking from the car to the front door. Then the next year I thought they'd all vanished
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by learc83 6y ago
HN bans people too as well as just marking comments as dead.
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by learc83 6y ago
>15x more chance of facing "prosecutable assult". Several issues with that statistic. 1. Police are much more likely to report an assault than average citizen is. Just by the nature of their job, very nearly every single assaul
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by learc83 6y ago
10.8% faced “assault” is a very misleading statistic because “assault” as reported here is completely up to the discretion of the reporting officer. Only ~1/10 of these “assaults” are even prosecuted. If prosecutors aren’t even willing
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by learc83 6y ago
Some large companies have customized rails, and since Hey is built by the company behind rails, I assume DHH meant to imply that they are not using something special that everyone else won’t get access to.
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by learc83 6y ago
dang was this flagged for some reason? It seemed to be pushed off the front page really fast.
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by learc83 6y ago
>Joules are joules. When talking about battery failure how quickly the energy is released is important. >A "grid scale" compressed air tank going pop is going to do a lot more damage in the immediate vicinity but won't
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by learc83 6y ago
Compressed air is much more dangerous than most other storage methods though. The failure mode tends to release stored energy very quickly.
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by learc83 6y ago
>None of them were displacing American workers -- we would have hired just as many (or more) qualified American workers if they had been available too. Did you try increasing salaries until you could find applicants. I'm virtually c
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by learc83 6y ago
>Lower fees = lower barrier to entry = crapware Up front fees sure. But how exactly does charging 10% instead of 30% of sales, encourage lower quality software? Where is the cutoff for this? Why 30%? Would 50% encourage even higher quali
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by learc83 6y ago
>The type of people who want a curated mail experience might just happen to be the type of people who like the curated iPhone experience. >Even if this were true (doubtful), that doesn't mean there is a segment. If you're as
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by learc83 6y ago
>wouldn't stop people from using the curated app store. >Yes you would How? How does "allowing a competing app store, more easily allowing side-loading apps, or not forcing apps to use apple pay for subscriptions" preve
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by learc83 6y ago
>Honestly, I don't think that segment really exists. The ones that would search that out will just as likely be on android as iPhone. Why. The type of people who want a curated mail experience might just happen to be the type of peo

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