lmitchell

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by lmitchell 11y ago
Well yeah I guess so :P but I can still wish it were otherwise!
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by lmitchell 11y ago
I love Hacker News, but my least favourite thing about it all is how we glorify 'startups'. It's honestly just a really weird business model, that seems like it's bound to inspire things like the recent Zenefits scanda
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by lmitchell 11y ago
Is that definitely the way it works? I don't think I've ever configured anything on HN and I see dead comments. I also think it's really nice - as grandparent said, it's a very clear indicator that I'm dealing with
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by lmitchell 11y ago
Modern C++ could use lambdas: auto a = [] {frob(-1,0,0); grob("a"); blah(...);}; auto b = [] {frob(1,0,0); grob("b"); blah(...);}; auto c = [] {frob(0,-1,0); grob("c"); blah(...);}; ... i
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by lmitchell 11y ago
This is the one thing I really took away from (way too much) recent reading about Scalia and textual originalism - in my opinion, it's almost downright foolish to obey 'the letter' of the original law, and it's completel
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by lmitchell 11y ago
The Pinterest link to the statue submitted earlier ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049681 ), if it's supposed to be a depiction, makes the dog look pretty damn big by today's standards. I would not fancy
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by lmitchell 11y ago
MonoDevelop's Vim mode just kills me - probably the worst Vim mode I've used in any editor.
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by lmitchell 11y ago
> (1) lots of companies have job postings on their own web sites; This is mostly where I've had luck when I'm searching - find companies in the area that you're interested in and check out their careers page!
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by lmitchell 11y ago
Or you just posted mid-afternoon in the Americas and fairly late evening in Europe, instead of hitting American prime time right on the nose... :)
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by lmitchell 11y ago
I'd love some background on the problem - I'm a big fan of well-explained proofs like this, but I'm not a mathematician by trade and I like hearing a little bit about why anyone is thinking about this stuff in the first place
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by lmitchell 11y ago
And maybe it is just busywork ( maybe ). But it's busywork that, for whatever reason, we will have to do in order to legalize marijuana.
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by lmitchell 11y ago
These are nice thoughts, but you're brutally oversimplifying a lot of things. > (re: advertising laws) None. Why should there be? Done. Well, we have them around alcohol - and around tons of other things - mostly so people can&#x2
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by lmitchell 11y ago
This is basically the problem with the whole Internet though ;)
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by lmitchell 11y ago
See, now this was my first thought - if I were googling for back pain relief, I would be way more willing to click saveyourself.com than I would be to click painscience.com. One of those is clearly a help page, one of them seems a lot mor
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by lmitchell 11y ago
The article does label key escrow as 'technical means that badly compromise their users’ security'. Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an expert, but saying 'well, you can use key escrow' ignores the f
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by lmitchell 11y ago
The article does imply that we know that. > The photo-sharing, some of which took place in school,
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by lmitchell 11y ago
And I thought open source software was bad... ;)
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by lmitchell 11y ago
> provides “persistent wide area surveillance” for “30 days at a time.” > massive, milk-white blimps can be grounded by bad weather I mean... it seems like there is literally no way this could ever perform its stated mission. But th
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by lmitchell 11y ago
Thank you for sharing this - my girlfriend has ADD and this is the best explanation of what it really feels like and how it affects you that I think I've ever heard. I honestly feel like I understand her better now, which makes me real
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by lmitchell 11y ago
And learning from past works of science and engineering is how we keep learning and growing as a human race. So yeah, history - specifically science history, which is arguably even more important than your average history.
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by lmitchell 11y ago
You're right, of course - they're incredibly talented though.
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by lmitchell 11y ago
I've lurked on the OSDev forums he credits on his website for a long time, and both Omar and Muazzam (mentioned as well on the website) are goddamn impressive for barely-teenagers. Someone hire those kids!
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by lmitchell 11y ago
I did something very similar for work last summer and we basically realized the same thing - null-delimited fields seemed like the only way to really be safe.
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by lmitchell 11y ago
It's pretty arbitrary, yeah, but why 'obviously faulty'? Seems to me like it's just a different threshold than you or I might have picked, I can't think of a better metric to judge by though. It would be interesting
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by lmitchell 11y ago
I on the other hand almost just stopped reading - I absolutely hate sad stories and I was sure it was going to be so sad :( I'm so glad I finished it though, it was incredible to read and I want to read the rest of the book very badly
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by lmitchell 11y ago
I would say that's a problem with the system if it doesn't allow for a professor to have those interactions with at least a majority of their students. And the system definitely does have that problem. (Source: 100+ students in al