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by lukeasrodgers 9y ago
It's a bit of a tangent, but if you find it pleasing (stirring might be a better word) to contemplate large numbers like this, and are curious about why that may be so, you may be interested in Kant's reflections on the aesthetic
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by lukeasrodgers 9y ago
I believe Discord uses Elixir, and I think that counts as "major."
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
I can't speak for the author's intention, but yes, these "koans" highlight some of git's worst UX warts; or, arguably, not just UX warts but conflicts internal to the conceptual underpinnings of git ( http:/&#x
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
I can't speak for it being immoral, but basically, using rude and offensive language tends to undermine rational discourse. If your purpose is get at the truth, then it is prudent to avoid such language. However, a lot of writing (acad
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
You're right that they are very different takes on irrationality. Whether they are a comparable "at all" is obviously just a matter of context. If I'm interested in research on loss aversion, looking at Freud and Ariely
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
My one quibble with this article, which I think is otherwise spot on in many regards, concerns this claim: "It is more common now to regard humanity as lucid about its interests, and rational in its fulfillment of them (a few behaviora
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
I think it may be hard to point to bad "experiments" of Freud's, since he didn't conduct psychology experiments the way we think of today, i.e. the gold standard being double-blind randomized controlled trials. In part,
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
The author states "Nor is [poor education performance in America] due to high levels of inequality: the proportion of American children coming from under-privileged backgrounds is about par for the OECD." I'd be interested to
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
I think initially "pro" actually meant "for professional users," but it's clearly now just a marketing term. As a professional user, I want at least a mixture of port options (hdmi, usb) and a keyboard that supports
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
Not sure, but I believe that part of XP is having devs do more/all of their own testing and getting rid of the developer vs. tester roles (note that this doesn't necessarily mean getting rid of QA), and this aspect of XP is increa
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
I think part of the problem with this approach is that there are infinitely many hypotheses (due to the infinitely generative nature of language) that are compatible with the behaviour, so to test and refute them all would be impossible. E.
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by lukeasrodgers 10y ago
Personally I find trigger warnings annoying sometimes as well, though I believe it is mostly for irrational reasons and so I don't let it stop me from reading anything preceded by a trigger warning. Even if you believe you have good re
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
Our team started using reviewable.io a few weeks ago, and I quite like it so far. It solves the "squash/rebase->force-push->lose history" problem with Github PR review.
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
As a Canadian raising a small child in America, I echo the sentiment expressed by the author. It may be slightly irrational (e.g. statistically I should be more afraid of my kid getting hit by a car), but I don't think the author is ju
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
I tested my ubuntu 12.04 and it did not seem to be affected. server: vagrant@precise32:/tmp/CVE-2015-7547$ sudo python CVE-2015-7547-poc.py [UDP] Total Data len recv 36 [UDP] Total Data len recv 36 client: ./CV
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
As someone with a fair bit of ruby+rails+redis experience, I don't think this is blasphemous, but I also don't think the performance issues of ruby/rails having anything to do with the failure. Generally you would cache/
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
CSS techniques like this display some impressive ingenuity, but I wonder if anyone actually uses them in production. I would never let this kind of code into a production application because a) it mostly involves things I would call "h
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
As a Canadian who was living in Canada at the time the previous government enacted said policy, I don't find this story overblown at all, and am very happy to see the new government moving so quickly to remediate this problem. There wa
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Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design(nngroup.com)
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
Up to 30 per day sounds crazy. My 2-month-old goes through 5-8 per day.
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
Thanks for the tip--the server supports that cipher though, it was just an issue with my client.
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
If you're having trouble following the instructions to secure SSH on OSX, try following the directions here: https://mochtu.de/2015/01/07/updating-openssh-on-mac-os-x-10... Without using the brew dupe an
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
If you're willing to trade very high latency for high bandwidth, could be worth it, see https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ .
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
Cool project. Out of curiousity (and having no experience with scala or akka): is the lack of support for transactions and atomic Lua scripts a consequence of the overall architecture (one actor per K/V), or some other technical limita
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
I am a man, and feminist, and have spoken with many other feminists over the years, and read a lot of feminist literature, philosophy, cultural criticism, etc. In my experience I'd say less than 1% of feminism/feminists have anyth
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by lukeasrodgers 11y ago
Agreed -- the paper mentions "there are a number of issues with respect to making these systems [Spark and Samza] work in its current form at our scale" but unfortunately does not outline go into any detail.
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by lukeasrodgers 12y ago
The episode with the poker-assisted demonstration of the "simplicity of matter" could probably be interpreted as an expression of Wittgenstein's belief that metaphysics (which presumably a discussion of the nature of matter w
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by lukeasrodgers 12y ago
For those who don't write C, could you explain what is significant about this change? I'm guessing the earlier version was some kind of subtle bug?
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by lukeasrodgers 12y ago
I doubt that scientifically reputable research into this would is possible. How would you design the study? Start a bunch of successful large corporations then randomly staff their executive positions with different mixtures of men and wome
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by lukeasrodgers 12y ago
Maybe the point was about specifically "trivial" questions. The article's author may have been attempting to draw an analogy between the questions we ask in interviews, and asking a doctor to state the normal range for human

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