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by ludston 9y ago
This sounds like the inverse of cowboy coding. The classic cowboy move is to tackle all of the easy parts incohesively, so the end program does may three quarters of what it is supposed to. Unfortunately implementing the last quarter will u
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by ludston 9y ago
Any build system is as good as the local projects configuration for it. Any solution is good so long as when I press build everything that I wanted to build get built.
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by ludston 9y ago
Australia treats it as barter, which means that it can be taxed as capital gains. Source: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-tax-office...
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by ludston 9y ago
No, I was using IValidator, IValidator<t> as an example of a non generic base type being necessary when interfacing with existing libraries... Honestly if you can that clojure library I linked a few posts ago without using this techni
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by ludston 9y ago
> Task/Task<T> does follow the pattern but they could have simply introduced a Unit type in the BCL and replaced the non-generic Task type with Task<Unit> instead. Microsoft could have added some unified Unit type but
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by ludston 9y ago
You are thinking that using reflection and casting at runtime is not a sensible thing because it is not optimal, but you must consider that constraints in existing code bases will often make writing optimal solutions too costly. An example
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by ludston 9y ago
This is about ego and pride, not America. You could swap out 'America' with any title or organisation and it would still be equally asinine.
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by ludston 9y ago
> Americans aren't the problem. People are. I immediately feel resentment towards this style of nationalist defensiveness. Firstly, this is cognitively dissonant because Americans are people so you ought to say "Americans are n
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by ludston 9y ago
A friendly titbit for you: factoids are untrue, unlike titbits.
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by ludston 10y ago
I do not understand why there is cognitive dissonance here? NN gives users power. Privacy gives users power. There is no dissonance in wanting both of these things that have the same end. Are you suggesting that all government regulation
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by ludston 10y ago
> In a worst case scenario, if we go full solar, but are unable to slow a climat change that induce more cloudy weather (because more global evaporation) we are actually solving nothing. In the worst case scenario, all of the nuclear rea
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by ludston 10y ago
I can see why the title of the article might trigger anxiety, but why do the studies upset you? Is the data invalid? Is it wrong to gather data that may not be useful?
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by ludston 10y ago
In order to feel smart, deliberately misinterpret what someone says. This is easy if there are multiple possible interpretations. Just pick the one that makes the least sense. That way, instead of having to address their statement you can j
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by ludston 10y ago
Righteo. You go build a house in the middle of Vancouver, and I will go make a shirt. (The race is on)
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by ludston 10y ago
> But it's bloody impossible to notate and very difficult to orally communicate It's really easy to orally communicate. You can just sing it! (I know what you mean, is it's difficult to describe using a computer keyboard.
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by ludston 10y ago
Which in durations are represented spacially, which in my opinion has two negative effects. The first is that spacial recognition takes more effort than symbol recognition, because it's comparative. The second, and more important being
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by ludston 11y ago
Also, you can trivially define something like: (<- I tried once in college but lisp is not my style)
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by ludston 11y ago
It's not against HN rules. :)
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by ludston 13y ago
Is it so unreasonable to believe that non-conscripted veterans deserve exactly the same financial status as their equivalent non-veteran counterparts? (Disabled or otherwise). This argument comes from anti-nationalist, pro-equality-of-oppor
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by ludston 13y ago
I wish you were the person I were addressing. I'd like to challenge the following assumptions: "The target" didn't think before he posted. There is value in silencing "the target". "Ridicule often gets thr
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by ludston 13y ago
Hey, I'm wondering about what effect you're trying to achieve. Do you mind spending a few moments telling me about it?
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by ludston 13y ago
Is that really necessary?
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by ludston 13y ago
No need for sarcasm.
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by ludston 13y ago
Playing music is left and right brain activity.
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by ludston 13y ago
Above me is a beautifully sarcastic and eloquently crafted comment.
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by ludston 13y ago
| On the other hand, maybe there are just <1% people who don't identify them self with being male or female. Huzzah for logic. But note that the question was, "Do you have 1 apple" and not, "Choose a statement: '
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by ludston 13y ago
Why is that not ok?
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by ludston 13y ago
> Accent is intrinsic to a person's sense of self This is a bit of a truism don't you think? > You can still be clearly understood with a strong foreign accent. cf. Gandhi. I hesitate to argue on behalf of someone as esteeme
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by ludston 13y ago
I find it very hard to believe an attitude like that would be overtly displayed. Bankers should be attributed some empathy shouldn't they?
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by ludston 13y ago
Apologies for wording that in a a way that allowed you to avoid the point. It's because criticising handwriting is a waste of life.

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