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by marklgr 9y ago
I call these books candy for the brain. That audience just love to feel smart, wise or "aware" (depending on the specific subgenre), and these books give them just that -- pleasant feelings. Napoleon Hill is perhaps the poster chi
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by marklgr 9y ago
What are the best, up-to-date books to learn Clojure for an experienced developer pretty familiar with FP?
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by marklgr 9y ago
I'm not sure I get the Dirty Writes example about not always being able to rollback: it first says going back to state A would lose w2[x], so it stays in state C. Then it says that aborting t2 can't go back to states B or C, concl
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by marklgr 9y ago
Obligatory "x slides to zero": while (x --\ \ \ \ > 0) printf("%d ", x);
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by marklgr 9y ago
In the same vein, you can also check sc-im: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
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by marklgr 9y ago
What's the alternative, lock all books related to cryptography lest someone might do something in production? Educating is fine, and people reading relatively advanced technical books like this one should be considered as responsible,
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by marklgr 9y ago
There are downvotes on HN, you just need to reach some karma (500 if I'm correct) before being able to do so.
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by marklgr 9y ago
Exactly. And by disrupting the bazaar, we're not talking small time tactics like some guy creating a handful of accounts, but mass scale abuse with army of bots and scientific methodology to maximize the impact and influence on unknowi
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by marklgr 9y ago
Oh yes, it's hard. Reputation and ratings are abused by "brigades", groups of people who upvote all posts of other members and downvotes those of opponents. Eventually, it's a batlle of the most zealous and organized gro
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by marklgr 9y ago
You conflate censoring ie. forcing people to shut up, and giving anyone a giant soapbox. One can regret doing the latter without suggesting doing the former.
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by marklgr 9y ago
Please, let's leave Hitler out of the discussion.
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by marklgr 9y ago
Rarely happens here, in my experience. Significantly downvoted content almost always has severe issues, either in form, tone, or quality. We sometimes might happen to agree with some controversial opinion that has been downvoted a good bit,
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by marklgr 9y ago
'histappend' just makes the shell append its history list (from current session) to the history file, instead of overwriting it. This still occurs at exit time, not immediately. Besides, since you load the HISTFILE at startup, you
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by marklgr 10y ago
Those benefits have a cost--financially, emotionally, and time-wise. So the whole question is, is it worth it, past a certain point.
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by marklgr 10y ago
One of your point is that three things to memorize is more difficult than having just one, but sometimes it's just not the case: adding vivid images and funny/silly backstories actually makes remembering easier, as research sugges
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by marklgr 10y ago
I doubt most people type their passwords multiple times on a daily basis, so dismissing mnemonics with "just use muscle memory" doesn't look practical to me. And they're not incompatible, actually: you can eventually com
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by marklgr 10y ago
Diff, cherry, commit. But avoid blaming.
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by marklgr 10y ago
> insurance is specifically about transferring risk from people who can't handle it to those who can. It is probably true for eg. real estate insurances, but there are also quite a lot of extremely overpriced insurances for all kind
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by marklgr 10y ago
> There's a decent argument for drug patents (drugs cost a fortune to develop; makers only recoup losses if they can mark up the cost of drugs massively; competition gets in the way of that), but I'd argue this is a better argu
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by marklgr 10y ago
> multiple cursors: is nothing compared to the confirm flag in `:%s/foo/bar/gc` Why is that? I'm a long term vim user, and I prefer multiple cursors to 's///gc' for many operations. Unfortunat
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by marklgr 10y ago
Or you press `<C-v>` before the `j`.
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by marklgr 10y ago
Most terminals support bracketed paste, and vim can automatically toggle pastemode based on the special sequences. Eg. https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste
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by marklgr 10y ago
Sarkozy is prosecuted for several charges regarding the funding of his electoral campaigns (who cost far more than what the law allows), and it is now extremely likely that Gaddafi is illegally involved. Prior to that, Chirac had strong tie
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by marklgr 10y ago
The muscle part is mostly historical, up to the '80s maybe. Now it's more about money eg. to fund campaigns. Cf. Berlusconi, Sarkozy. Scandinavia is the poster child for ethics, and from what I know I would say rightly so, but it&
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by marklgr 10y ago
No, they make sure that what's left as unions is pretty much harmless.
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by marklgr 10y ago
I don't know about India, but in a large part of the rest of the world, money funds campaigns and buys influence, which is extremely correlated to winning elections.
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by marklgr 10y ago
Organized crime have had a _tremendous_ influence in Europe, and most countries of the world, up to the very top of governments. In wartime, or when the government is in a weak position domestically, they don't hesitate to resort to th
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by marklgr 10y ago
> its allowance for political opposition without fear of retribution as a modus operandi. Are we talking of the country of COINTELPRO, that killed civil rights activists, or obliterated unions and the US socialist party by force and shad
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by marklgr 10y ago
That's Internet culture for you: being lovable trumps pretty much anything else.
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by marklgr 10y ago
> what Erlang's releases do for the ERTS platform That's the difference between an industrial-strength platform like Erlang, and a dev-centric deployment nightmare like Python. Java is normally on the enterprise side of the spe

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