milesvp

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by milesvp 9y ago
LOL! I'd say it's a fairly minor assumption to say he probably doesn't have small children. The sheer amount of time and effort that children can consume is mindblowing. A six month old gets bored in ways I didn't think
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by milesvp 9y ago
I still dream of a day where the compiler largely handles this kind of thing for you. I'm starting to suspect that this day may never come, but it feels like a logical extension of the jit. To have code that self modifies not just itse
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by milesvp 9y ago
What makes npm particularly bad, is that JS has such a teribad stdlib. When you need to write your own lpad() at some point its easier to include a stupid little package that has dealt with all the edge cases you don't want to care abo
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by milesvp 9y ago
From the people I've talked to it gets even worse than this when you cross domain or language barriers too. There are all kinds of implicit assumptions about variables that can get used in subtly different ways by convention, which wer
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by milesvp 9y ago
Yeah, I'm curious about this. This thread has me thinking that it may be in a city's best interest to enact taxes on empty commercial zoned spaces. Something that increases more the longer a space is empty. I'm not sure how y
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by milesvp 9y ago
Which was consistent with Mr. Robot's tone and theme. I have to say, that like it or hate it, the show does hark back to days of programming yore, and I could totally see it seducing devs into doing foolish things like releasing an add
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by milesvp 9y ago
I actually just ran across this article talking about the romanticization of hunter gatherer cultures. http://quillette.com/2017/12/16/romanticizing-hunter-gathere... The tl;dr; seems to be that there was one
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by milesvp 9y ago
This makes a lot of sense. Doing a major refactoring while migrating to a new language/platform is much harder than refactoring a codebase so that it more closely mimics a line by line translation to a new language, and then doing th
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by milesvp 9y ago
I can tell you the units you supplied are off. You need at least 2 more dimensions to get a volume of topsoil, otherwise it's a meaningless number. do they mean 3cm^3 of topsoil, because I guarantee that doesn't take 1000 years. I
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by milesvp 9y ago
Learn python. Seriously, I fell in love with python when I noticed it looked just like my psuedo code. As to your question of depth, I start at the highest level if abstraction I can get away with, assume that some magic function exists and
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by milesvp 9y ago
Wet dream or not, my marginal billable hour is in the triple digits, as is my wife's. In my household, recycling is hugely expensive. There is no way it's cheaper for me to sort my garbage into piles of garbage, so that someone mi
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by milesvp 9y ago
Yeah, except orthogonal has a very precise meaning in mathematics, there is no other word that can be used to replace it when describing a multidimensional vector that is perpendicular to every other vector. This is a very important feature
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by milesvp 9y ago
I think there may be a couple other actions that can reopen the statute of limitations, might be worth double checking. I know for libel, having a public timestamp get updated on a news story can reset the clock for that story.
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by milesvp 9y ago
Quite possibly. I will assert, though, from my experience, and the wisdom I've garnered from talking to people around unit testing, that as code assypmtotically approach 100% code coverage, the complexity of said code will tend to go u
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by milesvp 9y ago
I'm surprised no one here is talking solutions. The fundamental problem is someone can connect to me and I have no way to trace it back to an organization who I can charge/sue. The first step is to start adopting standards that ar
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by milesvp 9y ago
1 year in the bank (CD/savings) is for multiple reasons. Mostly it's for that really nasty scenario where there's a major recession leading to household job loss, when it can be particularly hard to find an equivalent replace
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by milesvp 9y ago
You may be missing the point if the post. Good software asymptotically aproaches bug free over time. Meaning it should require fewer and fewer updates less and less frequently. But reduced frequency of updates is percieved as death of softw
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by milesvp 9y ago
My understanding is that 3d printing has greatly transformed product design work. You can do a lot of fast prototyping that used to take a lot of manual labour and turn around designs much faster. Then once the design is finalized you build
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by milesvp 9y ago
What makes this the most retarded is that the plan is to tax something that doesn't exactly exist. It'd be like trying to apply sales tax in the MSRP, and not on the actual money changing hands. Which might be ok, except the MSRP
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by milesvp 9y ago
In the EE community, it's generally understood that if you use ebay or amazon, you're probably going to get counterfeit electronics components. Mouser and Digikey are largely considered safe places to order components from, and pr
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by milesvp 9y ago
you should read patio11's recent post on dealing with this kind of thing. He's talking specifically about dealing with credit agencies, but the same paper trails are likely to be the standard way of dealing with any legal hassles.
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by milesvp 9y ago
For me, buying a house wasn't so much about house values going up, as rents started going up faster than mortgages in my area. That's why I finally bought. That said, I might have bought sooner had I realized the mind shift that h
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by milesvp 9y ago
it's often not about expressivity, it's about conciseness. It's much easier to say a correct statement than it is to prove the statement correct. This seems to be the main cost to stongly typed static languages, all the time
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by milesvp 9y ago
Sadly it's easy to do lots of things "no matter what it costs" when you're swimming in ad revenue. The demise of journalism is largely tied to the deep pockets being gone. Gone are the days of being able to afford to hav
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by milesvp 9y ago
My personal experience is that long term sleep deprivation took me several months of recovery to even approach the mental capacity I had previously. Having kids really fucked up my sleep schedule, and I was not getting enough rem cycles for
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by milesvp 9y ago
There's a planet money episode about a guy who started raising chickens due to noticing soil differences on 2 sides of a fence. I wouldn't rule out the increase in horse poop as a significant factor in soil health for this farming
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by milesvp 9y ago
Bonus points if you make sure you team is building the right thing. Sadly it's too easy to spend lots of dev time on something that will never make the company any money.
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by milesvp 9y ago
This seems like an assertion that may need to be challenged. I'm not convinced a team with no downtime is working at maximum output, let alone maximum efficiency. My experience is that teams that are constantly busy are rarely working
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by milesvp 9y ago
I think the reaction had more to do with the intended negative connotations of a word being perpetuated by people trying to justify their existence. I'd prefer we call them huggers, not pirates, and that they are hugging content rather
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by milesvp 9y ago
Yes truly. Especially since most classically trained economists don't tend to believe that income inequality actually matters, and those that do, tend to argue it only matters because people think it matters. My bigger concern about th

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