mickronome

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by mickronome 8y ago
I have ADD, and at least one form of meditation clearly helps me makes choices better for me when I do it regularly. Many people are clearly motivated in a way that is detrimental to them, and if it helps them in a similar way, they might v
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by mickronome 8y ago
He's clearly, and obviously not talking about using it as a hash, or even to consider it as a secondary hash as someone mentioned. The use case according to the article is strictly to replace integer modulo to map into buckets for case
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by mickronome 8y ago
It's almost certainly a hoax, but any book substitution cipher is very sensitive to errors both in counting, and in exactly which book. From that perspective, if you remove the spaces, it's almost intelligeble even to a non native
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by mickronome 8y ago
Agreed, and I also think this investment/lottery/entitlement mindset is toxic because it devalues the actual work. Human progress, our progress, comes from the work being done, not the money that can be made from it. While money a
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by mickronome 8y ago
If it is necessary with defensive patents for a new company to enter the market with an obviously not - in a quite literal sense - copied product, then it probably is something comparable to a racket. If it is also the case that patent hold
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by mickronome 8y ago
No, AFAIU it only implies that such an attacker would have to face the multi million dollar cost of renting enough hashing power to guarantee that no-one could steal the 'loot' before the attack has settled. I didn't study th
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by mickronome 8y ago
I've never really met or talked to anyone that had both actually used autotools, and liked them. I find it positively invigorating how enormous the span of human perception and affinities seems to be. While autotools mostly solves a ve
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by mickronome 8y ago
Maybe it's a cultural thing? I don't find the language as being particularly abrasive, only as having personality, and quite expressive. But then swearing and cursing seems to be much more accepted in most of Scandinavia than it i
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by mickronome 8y ago
I'm very much for accountability, although I fail to see exactly how it is relevant to this issue. Nevertheless, one could retort, without much of a stretch, or none at all, that if you need to store enough PII about your readers for G
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by mickronome 8y ago
For big applications with high concurrency and long lifetimes where reducing working set sizes compared to available CPU cache sizes, it probably won't. But for a lot of smaller applications, or applications where you need to do a lot
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by mickronome 8y ago
Nowadays they do seem more content with absolutely destroying the usability of every product they own. Except visual studio code, but then they have always tried to appeal to developers through their tools. They just forgot about it for a b
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by mickronome 8y ago
As far as I can tell they have actively been working at looking better to developers, at the same time they have had to be essentially forced by public opinion to not silently, and by default send your entire life to their server because yo
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by mickronome 8y ago
Maybe not, but they won't get my money anyway, not yet. Companies rarely change, how they want to be perceived, how they present themselves does change.
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by mickronome 8y ago
Your probably right, but it's because Microsoft understand enterprises many others, like me, want nothing to with them. Because you are not the customer they want, however, they really try to make you think you are. They seem to very d
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by mickronome 8y ago
IDK about bitbucket, maybe it's just me, but the page loads are like watching paint dry. So slow. Don't get me started on their redesign, making everything blue doesn't magically make it usable. Code review using -u style di
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by mickronome 8y ago
I'm sure they'll try to 'Microsoft' it. They could never keep their hands off any UI in any product, no matter if it works or not, and especially lately, leaving a rather spectacular trail of destruction in their wake.
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by mickronome 8y ago
If it's true, I'm cancelling my paid account immediately. A monopolist tried and found guilty of monopolization shouldn't own the company where many of their future competitors have their private repositories, it's frank
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by mickronome 8y ago
UI would be a solved problem from an engineering perspective if someone could define what was necessary for building a good UI, for all time, without working directly with pixels, and without completely obliterating the at least somewhat se
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by mickronome 8y ago
While It's rarely hard to read a particular piece of code, the combination of duck typing, only structs as receivers, and interfaces can make it as hard to understand as any dynamic language. There are quite a few traps for the unwary,
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by mickronome 8y ago
Does that really follow? That purely software based solutions are doomed because hardware based solutions failed? Wasn't most fixes done at least partially in software?
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by mickronome 8y ago
Same reason I can collide with someone on the sidewalk while the universe is expanding at tremendous speed. Over short distances, the expansion can easily be overcome by others forces like gravity or my muscles excerting force through frict
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by mickronome 8y ago
That's how some US tax/banking codes already work, so it's not without precedent. I don't remember exactly what it's called. But allegedly it's a hassle for everyone involved, both banks and customers. Ah, foun
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by mickronome 8y ago
Developers often are a soft target, esp. in small/medium companies, but in my experience it's more of necessity by imposed expectations from management, than people actually wanting to have "root" everywhere. But I and m
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by mickronome 8y ago
It sounds like someone who knows what they want and who like to get their hands dirty in a job market where they habe that choice. Not all developers are irresponsible, and not all ops people are impossible to work with. But both certainly
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by mickronome 8y ago
No, many people even as young as 35 tend to have tremendous nostalgia regarding the music of their youth, to the point that I who rarely exhibit any form of nostalgia often have trouble connecting with them. Regarding other things, yes peop
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by mickronome 8y ago
Eeasy, given the politics and history of the region in question, anyone in the relevant positions knew Ireland tax break was a long term risk, but worth it short term. Chasing tax breaks is always a gamble.
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by mickronome 8y ago
The algorithm could be simple. Evaluating all failure cases, analysing them, and getting the whole lot approved certainly isn't simple.
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by mickronome 9y ago
People actually do care a lot about the fact that you can't have type safe and thread safe code, or abstractions without tons of synchronization code repeated ad nauseum throughout the code. Multiply that by 10 if you have several juni
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by mickronome 9y ago
While I find it deplorable that several companies are essentially using people, although in this case apparently willing, participants in testing auto pilot or autonomous driving software. I also find the lack of prominent road markings, si
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by mickronome 9y ago
While I understand the issues, it's still much better in the sense that it doesn't kill anyone while failing to learn how to drive. The fact that we fail to develop something without exposing people to risk doesn't create a r

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