mack73

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Is the Swedish judicial system turning into spagetti code?(medium.com)
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by mack73 10y ago
They went from XBox (0) to 360 to 1. Why would the next number be 2? It should be 4, no?
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by mack73 10y ago
I'm a c-sharper and I wanna learn D. It looks nice. But where does it shine? I'm looking for a language, preferably c like, that optionally has pointers and with a good support for HTTP.
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It was a beautiful gesture but in the end they realized what a tremendous waste it would be on such good weed not to smoke it. There was a seed, I saw it in one of the pics from the article. What if it was viable? What midevil type of weed
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by mack73 10y ago
What about the possibility of Google being scared of being outrun or innovated out of its position in the AI race? Google does not have a monopoly on smart people.
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Yes, there are lots of those, because the travel industry realized people want to compare offerings before they make their priciest purchase of the year. Customers would themselves do manually what all those aggregator sites do automaticall
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by mack73 10y ago
Sure, but what I was saying was that what good is a new ranking method, when you only have at your disposal the same set of metrics as the method you are trying to replace? A new ranking would quite often mean adding new metrics. For exampl
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by mack73 10y ago
That is a lovely idea. Unfortunately, a scoring scheme has one foot in the indexing process (that thing that the google bot does) and another in the querying part, so switching schemes would often mean you would need to re-index your data t
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by mack73 10y ago
What we really want is a system that classifies your query as being one of "forum/blog/shopping" and then makes a scan only over that class of pages. So on launch-day you would have checkboxes. On the one-year anniversar
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I'm sure there is a significant amount of people in the US who work two shifts per day. I get the impression this is rather common in the lower to lower middle class. Voting seems hard for these people. But someone here said US compani
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by mack73 10y ago
Extra means the oil contains no more than 0.8% of free oleic acid. Virgin means the oil comes from a mechanical process, not a chemical one. The purest grade extra virgin olive oil is the first cold pressed. It's neither filtered nor d
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Sir, btw, I need a rule that I can use intuitively when deciding on wether to concatenate two words and when to put a dash between them. Do you have one?
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by mack73 10y ago
Yes, I see what you mean. But surely, just adding Programming to the curriculum of businessmen, who I'm sure are quite intelligent or else they should be considering other occupations, does not equate to a person having to learn Anothe
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by mack73 10y ago
But what you should realize is that the person who wrote this beautiful piece of code is someone who is at the peak of their career, a thinker, an artist, and that it must be ok to not ever rise to his level, because this is close to a mast
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by mack73 10y ago
If you and your parent poster are right about why Excel is so prominent, and I personaly think both of you are, then we might be able to see a shift in economics and businessmanship and in the way Excel formulas play a large part of what it
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by mack73 10y ago
> It's not even possible to make commercial truffle oil with real truffles, because the flavor doesn't last longer than a day or two. Actually, the reason it's not possible to make real truffle oil is because (drum roll pl
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by mack73 10y ago
I'm sure that's true for your average Wordpress publisher, but the big guys will either slap you with a law suit or take other measures to make you stop crawling their site. Scraping and crawling is the same thing btw. I absolutel
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by mack73 10y ago
I have nothing good to say about COM, but I'm seriously thinking about gRPC [0] to get away from the sloppy json endpoints we code around today, at work. Before I dive in I would love to hear, what it is that makes that architecture a
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by mack73 10y ago
Corporations will abuse your personal integrity whenever they get a chance, while abiding the law. Corporations will cry like babies when their publicly available data (their livelyhood) gets scraped. They will take you to court. They consi
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by mack73 10y ago
> big data is that it can't fit in memory on a single machine A Lucene index can be much larger than your current RAM. It can be 100x that. The data will still queryable. Lucene reads into memory the data it needs in order to produc
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MongoDB was initially designed to beat other nosql systems in benchmarks, is what I take away from reading about it. Someone took issue with that and wrote an article. "MongoDB lies" and "is slow" were some of the claims
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by mack73 10y ago
That makes sense to me. If your MongoDB cluster under preasure will only actually persist 90% of your writes and this is something you anticipate, then MongoDB seems like a good choice, if writing in this style is faster than other nosql sy
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by mack73 10y ago
If "their troubles with durability have largely been solved" were true then I'm sure HN would be flooded with posts about "MongoDB solves durability with an entirely new architecture". I might be wrong here. How did
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Fire-and-forget is awesome for when you do not care at all about your data. I'm sure those types of writes are super (duper) fast. What exactly is the use case for that? Serious question.
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At this point in time, making a statement about MongoDB on HN should almost be considered trolling. We already know about the short-comings of that code-base. It will work fine until it doesn't and you'll loose some of your data.
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by mack73 10y ago
First time I read a blog post about react and saw it's artifacts so to speak I threw up in my mouth. Js AND HTML, mixed! Wtf? I spoke about this to lots of front-enders who laughed and called me old. I agree with your point. If markup
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I don't believe React to be mostly hype. It's so frequently being used by skilled and informed teams that I would consider anyone who make this claim to be ill-informed. But the claim and current consensus around web development i
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My two kids (6, 9) fell in love with the regular show years ago. It's the only show I can watch with them. The writing is strange and psychadelic with hidden messages I'm sure only I pick up on and the artists (is this show comput