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by lotyrin 10y ago
Did they search for "Riot chat" first? There's another software company named Riot that currently dominates results there despite chat being auxiliary in their products. Hopefully they can shift that in their favor.
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by lotyrin 10y ago
What do you do when your reservation app gives two people the same table? What do you do when your auction app thinks there are two winning bidders? It's not about "perfect academics" it's about risk management. How do y
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by lotyrin 10y ago
PHP extensions in C are pretty rare since it's so hard to distribute them (outside a few exceptions that exist in common package management systems), so in that sense, I guess? But no, a PHP extension in C can have a memory leak like a
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Not really relevant, I didn't have to subscribe to NYT in order to stay in touch with my friends and family.
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Yep, it's not a public utility, it's not governed by a neutral third party, it's not open, transparent or free. What did you expect? It's a surveillance and marketing platform that you subjected yourselves to out of conv
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by lotyrin 10y ago
The whole FS has a limited number of inodes, additionally some FS have limited number of files or directories inside a directory. If you don't control the FS chosen by your customer, I'd design conservatively (find the dumbest set
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Appears to be machine translated?
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Things can be imprecise, and can be modeled as such. Things can be chaotic, and can be modeled as such. Technologists tend to think in a binary between things that can be represented by a single number and those that can't, but that do
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Certainly, an unbiased symmetrical appraisal should be the goal? If the premise is that the effects upon your past success are equally likely to be general or specific regardless of their sign, and any asymmetry between your appraisal of th
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by lotyrin 10y ago
I feel like this is a really good point. These "synthetic imagination" engines with thin plot are exactly backward. The human capacity for imagination is better than the machine's, but we seek novel narratives, something this
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Thanks. I wonder where this other "droll" usage comes from, drone + dull?
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Absolutely. I just wanted to put in a mention for actors.
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Actors (classes that call with true async messages, potentially over the network) composed of objects (classes that call with simple sync stack) which use pure functions whenever possible. Explicitly handled state + mutations, polymorphism,
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by lotyrin 10y ago
There is such a thing as truth, and while we can't have a perfect method of arriving at it, we have methods better than polls. People legislate taste, they ignore big problems because "we've always done it like that", et
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Here's the crux. We currently decide both values and facts by deciding for actions and policies, and decisions using popular opinion will therefore make errors about facts. How we negotiate facts and values should be different. We coul
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by lotyrin 10y ago
There certainly are decisions which are wrong, and the majority can certainly make those.
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by lotyrin 10y ago
You probably don't actually believe that popular opinion constitutes truth, it's just convenient pretense for your argument. If you really do, pick up a history book or some modern polls. When the majority decides that a minority
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Can the majority not be wrong? It seems like they are in a number of states, on a number of issues, should we not desire a correct government over a popular one? Whether it's a majority that is wrong, or a representative class that is
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Maybe you can answer: Why assume that vocal sounds -> mouth movement dissonance is more grating than stimulus -> reaction dissonance and character -> behavior dissonance (combined with dub-cliche)? Is there the general sentiment in
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by lotyrin 10y ago
It is for the house-as-investment. If you don't expect the value of your home to outpace inflation, then it has an opportunity cost compared to investing capital in investments that will.
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Right, there's a whole spectrum between "a prototype worked once on Bob's laptop, how do we get that live" and "We invented 12 new declarative DSLs that encompass our problem domain, and formally proved their implem
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Management doesn't invest in things they don't understand. They rarely understand tech (even if they are technical people, tech is misunderstood). If you care about the outcome of a craft, you'll get craftsmen, and they'
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Minimize error (for a given size and run time constraint.) or minimize some function with error, size, and runtime as factors. Just minimize size/run time is "return;"
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Thank you! I somehow dead-ended before finding these.
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by lotyrin 10y ago
If only the software itself weren't so fragile. Because of the hype around conversational UI lately, I was curious to start up an example of such from a half century ago, hook it up to Slack and provide people some historical context,
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by lotyrin 10y ago
There's no "logic in theory" and "logic in practice" there's just logic and people failing to apply it in practice. If you can't come up with a small, stable interface between the the 20 applications and t
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Lots of similar tools, but it seems that really solving the human part of the equation, attention and motivation, could be killer, not sure if this is making significant leaps in that direction though.
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by lotyrin 10y ago
Putty has some pretty strange design choices. They coupled the terminal emulator and the SSH client, and (at least used to have) really bad default configuration (blue color was unreadable, windows codepage instead of utf-8, etc. etc.). Now
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by lotyrin 10y ago
In my experience, no standard is too simple for someone to mess up implementing.
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by lotyrin 10y ago
For repos to be independent, they need to have a defined interface, be able to test themselves against that interface as well as the expected behavior, and specify interdependencies with versioning (semver helps reduce effort on this point)

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