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by lectrick 11y ago
It totally makes sense that a highly concurrent system would need to start getting really nitty-gritty with time values...
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by lectrick 11y ago
It would not have happened if that logic was covered by tests :O
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by lectrick 11y ago
Hacker News is serious business
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by lectrick 11y ago
It's articles like this that make me sad that I never took linear algebra (I would have loved it, but I flunked the advanced calculus course prior, so that ended any major ambitions that had a math requirement)
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by lectrick 11y ago
I think the idea is that there is a theoretical graph where the X axis is "effort to act safely" and the Y axis is "chance of an accident" and it's shaped like a crooked L and although it plateaus, it starts out at
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by lectrick 11y ago
How is that? Are you saying that the current discussion on woodworking safety is muddled and based on belief more than facts, or that ANY evaluation of safety is doomed to be irrational? Because I disagree with the latter (I don't know
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by lectrick 11y ago
Kay : Dijkstra :: Ruby : Haskell Dijkstra was correct in saying that you don't even need a computer to do "Computer Science," all you need is a pencil, paper, and a mental model of what you're trying to do given computer
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by lectrick 11y ago
In an office setting, this is definitely more convenient than "Siri, remind me in 1 hour to grab some coffee" :)
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by lectrick 11y ago
Ha! Yeah. The older I get the more immune I feel to arrogance; to me it's a symptom of frustration coming from high skill colliding with the rest of the world's lack thereof.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Came here to highly recommend http://choosealicense.com/ for new projects and since you're probably not a lawyer. Clear explanations and guidance!
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by lectrick 11y ago
waves hand "These aren't the webs you're looking for." grins
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by lectrick 11y ago
Glad to see this, as I was surprised that there was an entire post about the harm that "considered harmful" essays caused without even citing the original reference that started the whole hoopla, the very-opinionated, very-brillia
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by lectrick 11y ago
Oh how the mighty have fallen
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by lectrick 11y ago
Conflict of interest is arguable, but these regulations paint a false portrait of an "all-powerful professor" picking and choosing students to deflower as he pleases, which is most definitely the furthest thing from how it actuall
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by lectrick 11y ago
> (and yes, many of the findings are very much evidentiary and demonstrable) You saying that there's evidence, is not the same as citing even a single instance of said evidence. :P I haven't seen anything that is actual evide
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by lectrick 11y ago
Can you elaborate? Adultery being a betrayal of the family is arguably a negative (insofar as the traditional legally-enforced-monogamy marriage arrangement isn't fatally flawed... lol. I predict the default will be "open" in
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by lectrick 11y ago
The victimless-crime police strike again Seriously though... Unless there is an evidentiary, demonstrable long-term negative/harm to any given voluntary adult human interaction (say, to an institution, or to society at large, or to t
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by lectrick 11y ago
Insist on reasonable work hours. Argue that it will maintain your performance long-term. Say it like you mean it, and don't settle for less. Be ready to leave if you must, in fact, and do not let the glitz/glamour of a well-know
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by lectrick 11y ago
Changing git history is simply and utterly wrong unless you are the sole developer, for the reasons you already understand. I would even go so far as to say that even with a sole developer, this shouldn't be part of a workflow, as 1 de
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by lectrick 11y ago
The entire philosophy of this goes against Git. Editing history (including comments) without a new commit is basically a revert to mutable history, which means shared git history suddenly becomes a problem.
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by lectrick 11y ago
The "creator class", i.e. many devs, and probably most open-source devs, are on an OS X laptop these days.
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by lectrick 11y ago
I think that your ultimate goal is to rely on Capybara for your testing as little as cleverly possible. Push all your logic into separately-unit-testable JS, perhaps use a DOM emulator, anything to get away from slow, barely-deterministic f
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by lectrick 11y ago
Lack of a runtime exception model would be one huge thing. So you basically have to check for errors after every operation, and whatever errors you don't check for just... get lost.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Be my guest and convince all of the record companies of that.
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by lectrick 11y ago
I like the fact that if I get a new machine or have multiple machines, I can install/manage the same game everywhere. Installing over the internet via digital download is not going to go away, and until someone comes up with a decentra
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by lectrick 11y ago
That episode was pretty amazing.
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by lectrick 11y ago
> you don't want dynamically-generated code controlling your x-ray machine... I don't see how it follows that you can't have a functional language controlling an x-ray machine. You can make an appeal to complexity, I suppo
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Details give the precision : no recursion allowed. Functional languages are out, there. > Func languages give no warranty on that either. Actually, what you can do in this case is when you call recursively, pass back an incremented
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by lectrick 11y ago
"National Security" to me screams "control". Control = security. And I'm sorry, but total control is (and should be) out of the question. If you don't control, then you'll be forced to gasp negotiate! Th
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by lectrick 11y ago
Color me corrected.

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