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by mojuba 8y ago
Just FYI (has been said a gazillion times on the Internet): no state on this planet was ever communist. Communism is a society without money, no such thing existed on a state level anywhere. The states you are referring to were 100% sociali
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by mojuba 8y ago
> We believe that interpersonal skills are at least as important as technical skills. So most people on the autism spectrum are out. And then later: > We must make room for people who are not like us [...] > Our success and value i
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by mojuba 8y ago
That's an interesting point but I don't think it explains why music as a whole is going where it's going: from melodies and harmonies towards a more general art of sound. After all DAWs are created to accommodate the need, no
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by mojuba 8y ago
How about: we have achieved the right work-life balance now with ~40 hours a week as a species, a balance that allows us to be most creative. We don't work to survive anymore (with the universal basic income on the horizon), we work to
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by mojuba 8y ago
I'm very curious about the resolution and quality of the implant and how does it affect how you hear music. Can you distinguish half tones? Can you hear differences between similar sounding but different instruments (i.e. think of vari
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by mojuba 8y ago
Just recently, been looking for code samples on how to send APNS (old-style) push notifications in PHP. Every single blog post or SO answer had such a low quality that was barely usable at all, let alone in production. Ended up writing my o
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by mojuba 9y ago
It seems very subjective. There are letters where you start with the curve and end with the straight line, like lower case d. So for the mirrored B there's nothing wrong with starting with Ɛ and adding the straight line afterwards. So
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by mojuba 9y ago
It doesn't explain though how ꓭ became B.
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by mojuba 9y ago
Couldn't find any information on this. The historical answer may be something simple and silly, but I'd like to think it's to do with the fact that our brain is not initially wired to distinguish straight images from mirrored
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by mojuba 9y ago
I usually prefer explicit if...else blocks even when all or some of them return, because it's always good to see the big picture with blocks that are executed only on certain condition. In other words, see the code tree almost literall
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by mojuba 9y ago
Why is Google putting $300 million of their own money into this? Does anyone have greater than zero trust in what Google is trying to do in this space?
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by mojuba 9y ago
> Unfortunately this is something that no compiler I know of does Turbo Pascal (and Delphi), originally influenced by Wirth's books did exactly that. It was an incredibly fast compiler that generated surprizingly decent binaries.
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by mojuba 9y ago
> Don't let the compiler repair poor programming style ... This includes some cases of common subexpression elimination, loop invariant code motion and copy propagation Unfortunately in languages like C++ these inefficiencies often
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by mojuba 9y ago
No, it's not the same thing. A compiler without the AST phase itself is more compact and arguably more beautiful, but again not every language is compile-able this way (C++ being a notable example).
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by mojuba 9y ago
> My view is that learning and writing a simple compiler will make most of developers on notch better. Agreed. One of the interesting insights I got while building my own compiler was that despite what every compiler book says, there are
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by mojuba 9y ago
> I also happen to know people who have done “important new things” and they mostly don’t match that description I'm curious what exactly that person is doing. You seem to be describing a leader but not necessarily tech/science
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by mojuba 9y ago
Sounds like an evolutionary explanation, or part of it anyway. We produce and radiate heat that is mostly wasted, so shared bodily heat like you said does make sense from the point of view of physics. At the same time letting someone close
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by mojuba 9y ago
Though if you think about it, if you want to survive in a potential societal/structural apocalypse then a remote secluded island seems like the best option. NZ seems to be advanced enough to support decent lifestyle, and isolated enoug
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by mojuba 9y ago
I think the Web could come up with a robots.txt-like standard where all the requirements for passwords, usernames, maybe even form field names etc. would be published in a parseable form.
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by mojuba 9y ago
I think it is unfair and even wrong to compare GT to the job of professional real time translation, because the latter is probably one of the most challanging jobs that I know of, next to astronauts and film stuntmen. Instead, what we mean
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by mojuba 9y ago
“The brain is just a neural net” plus real life experience, in fact years and years of experience. Pretty much every example that automated translation gets wrong is when a real life context is required. Our language is not just a sequence
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by mojuba 9y ago
> although Google Translate is extremely useful (and I use it all the time), it is true that it does not usually match the skills of the best human translators I think it is safe to say that Google Translate almost never macthes the sk
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by mojuba 9y ago
It's amazing how so many people have been misled to believe that HomePod is limited to Apple Music, which is not true. I think it's both a failure on Apple's marketing part, and our own fears that Apple can deliberately lock
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by mojuba 9y ago
Which is not a great achievemnt with audio over WiFi really.
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by mojuba 9y ago
... and the fact that you can only use the Sonos app with it.
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by mojuba 9y ago
Two things that came to mind while reading this essay: - The effect of a surprise when facing unexpected complications/details is because our brains tend to simplify things, or rather simplify the model of the world that we maintain. W
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by mojuba 9y ago
To be fair I can't imagine anything more inseparable than IE and earlier versions of Windows (not sure about the latest ones, haven't used Windows in more than a decade). The HTML engine was literally part of the system in the for
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by mojuba 9y ago
I think the confusion comes from the formulation of the problem itself. It is incomplete. Here is a task that I think is solvable: - C should be on the ground; B should be on top of C; A should be on top of B
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by mojuba 9y ago
> Remember this buffet quote It’s better to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful Everyone is fearful about the blockchain bubble right now, it seems. Time to be greedy? :)
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by mojuba 9y ago
I've built my own compatibility layer once that could hide the differences across Cocoa and UIKit. It was easier than I thought actually, though I made it only for the things that I needed and not more than that. It came down to mappin

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