lectrick

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by lectrick 11y ago
> Well, I'm confident you could find science that demonstrates positive physiological effects of prayer, too. No. No, you cannot. At least, I've never heard of any. Stop begging the question. > The suggested break activities
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by lectrick 11y ago
Meditation is as secular as informally promoting Apple Macbooks. There's plenty of science to back up the advantages of meditation, which you are free to Google. It is no longer religious hokum.
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by lectrick 11y ago
What's your opinion about bloggers that enjoy getting a bit of ad revenue from their posts?
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by lectrick 11y ago
I just want to take a moment to hat-tip a legendary dev. I've heard of you at LEAST since MORE for the Mac rocked the sales charts when I was a teen (I also FONDLY miss Macworld Expos, attended a bunch of them!) Thanks for being an awe
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by lectrick 11y ago
Something something head and shoulders pattern, don't you see it?
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by lectrick 11y ago
It is infeasible (IMHO) to deal with all physical manuals ever in this way, unless you are literally a Manuals Library that is supported by the county or whatever. I think the only way to go forward is to digitize the shit out of everything
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by lectrick 11y ago
> intrinsic value My experience with Bitcoin has caused me to smile every time this turns-out-it-is-completely-bullshit concept is thrown around All values are subjective. All of them. There is no "real" or "intrinsic&qu
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by lectrick 11y ago
> This is the opposite of how useful research and/or data science works. Data should be taken as is and then learned from. It certainly should not be gathered in an effort to directly prove a conclusion that you are already "co
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by lectrick 11y ago
I am convinced (although I do not yet have enough data to prove it) that continuous exposure to a lack of ideologically-diverse information is actually very long-term-bad, leading to unnecessary deaths (i.e., war, people killing each other
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by lectrick 11y ago
Someone ping me when JS removes mutability.
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by lectrick 11y ago
You can theoretically succeed at this as long as you stay within a statistical random probability and can maintain absolute secrecy. This is essentially what Alan Turing realized he had to do with the information decrypted from Enigma... He
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by lectrick 11y ago
aha! Yes, OCaml. And F#. Although I think, OCaml was first.
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by lectrick 11y ago
I want to try this game but > rail shooter has always been a turnoff for me :/
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by lectrick 11y ago
So folks like WhatsApp basically do homegrown solutions?
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by lectrick 11y ago
As a guy who's been doing Ruby for 10 years, syntax matters very much to me. > and made all the things that matter harder and more expensive ... Explain? > Raw Erlang is better for anyone used to more than three languages. While
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by lectrick 11y ago
Are there any tools to help with "multitude"-level scaling? It's been my experience (across all langs) that every new order of magnitude of scaling requires a new technology/technique/architecture...
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by lectrick 11y ago
> but the syntax is too weird Ah, I've finally found someone in the wild who thinks Erlang's syntax is less weird than Elixir's! ;)
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by lectrick 11y ago
I see that appeal of Haskell, and I think the strict focus on typing does catch many possible bugs... but I don't think it catches all the types of bugs that an actual unit test would, so I'm almost afraid that it's leaned
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by lectrick 11y ago
This is all a bid to control information. We should airdrop millions of copies of a Chinese translation of "Fahrenheit 451" all over China... http://ebookbees.com/fahrenheit-451-free-ebook/
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by lectrick 11y ago
As a developer, what this means to me is: For every piece of code you write, there should be a unit test covering it that you can run fairly instantly with 1 keypress which catches at least internal-consistency errors. (Integration tests
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by lectrick 11y ago
I'm of the opinion that argument values should never be modified by their methods, because that would result in what I've been calling "backflow" or premature state propagation backwards up the call stack. I think this
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by lectrick 11y ago
1) I specifically said not a Taser. A Taser has a number of negatives- short range, need for both contacts to penetrate adequately, small chance of death of subject 2) I do not know of one that exists, but I am sure that one is possible w
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by lectrick 11y ago
I am really disturbed by the difference between the report filed and the video. I almost want to say that we need to start thinking about mandating video recording whenever deadly force is used... for example, the cops could deploy this thi
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by lectrick 11y ago
Someone needs to invent a "shoot to incapacitate" weapon (that is not a Taser). That said... we have the technology, today, to make a gun that automatically targets, in a split second and with high accuracy, the arms and legs (a
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by lectrick 11y ago
> I think the hard part of writing side effect free code is that it often involves more allocations Are you saying this in spite of the existing implementation of decent persistent data structures, at least in some languages? https:&#x2
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by lectrick 11y ago
My path was not nearly that long to getting one. Your healthcare is shitty, dude. But I can tell you that getting one, if you have serious sleep apnea, is life-changing. Here are the differences in my life 5 years later: Income has doubled.
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by lectrick 11y ago
wow. so what I predicted has basically already happened. sigh.
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Why is nobody stopping it? Why does this generation assume someone else is going to fix the problems they see?
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by lectrick 11y ago
> if they are (1) successful with internet.org no self-respecting third-world intellectual is going to be satisfied by a catered whitelist of websites they can access. to me this seems like an attempt to repeat what we did with confusing
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by lectrick 11y ago
> arrogant people like you I spent 5 years working with ASP (very similar to PHP especially in the ability to create spaghetti code). In PHP's defense, I wrote an eBay-like site in one night using it. I also know Lisp, some Haskell,

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