molyss

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by molyss 11y ago
you're right, it doesn't have to be a zero sum game. They could be cooperating. Only the propensity of either of the competitors to claim their success without acknowledging the other's advancement makes it look like a winner
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by molyss 11y ago
it feels to me that the fact that most of the weight is at the bottom of the rocket, ie near the pivot point, means that small or tall rocket are pretty much the same thing to land. While the tall guy has more weight far from the pivot poin
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by molyss 11y ago
Out of honest curiosity, can you explain the nature of the "lower level work" BO is focusing on that SpaceX is not ?
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by molyss 11y ago
Am I the only one finding the last 2 BO videos highly disingenuous ? As mentioned numerous times, there's the whole "reaching space" vs "going into orbit" before landing. More important to me is the fact that SpaceX
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by molyss 11y ago
I profoundly disagree with that. Comments always end up not following the actual implementation. In this example, "self documenting" the code would be to name the function "unbufferedRead" or something similar that shows
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by molyss 11y ago
I have no inside knowledge, but I'd suspect Orbcomm paid next to nothing for this launch. Between "You'll be the first launch since the last one... You know, that one with a small anomaly..." and fact that this was the f
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by molyss 11y ago
I would be very, very, careful about using PRNG to generate unique IDs. If the ID indeed needs to be unique, I would stay as far away as possible from PRNG. That a PRNG is cyclic with some cycle size that's larger than the number of at
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by molyss 11y ago
> Worse, you may not spend a lot of time reading code out loud, but when you read your brain still thinks the sounds. Probably correct. But then for names you are not familiar with, the name gets mapped into the equivalent and known conc
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by molyss 11y ago
and so should an investor in a privately owned company. the "shareholder" could be an employee with equity and no voting rights, in which case the article is just here to surf on the buzz surrounding theranos and adding to the bad
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by molyss 11y ago
I can't help it but disagree with the author. His example shouldn't make someone think "god, I wish I didn't have to specify the type here", but rather "wait, there's a problem here. There's way too m
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by molyss 11y ago
I believe there are some treatments out there aimed at slowing down the progress of the disease. Diagnosing early might mean slowing down the nasty stuff earlier, thus improving the life of the patient. Also, this sounds like something that
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by molyss 11y ago
what a terrible video ! the sound cuts everywhere make the whole thing sound like a political parody where you stitch together words from different meetings... Seriously, Boeing, you couldn't afford more than a single shot on this. Or
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by molyss 11y ago
I've been in this situation where I was the "jerk". I've only changed when I pushed for a promotion and another manager blocked it based on my behavior. When I asked people who I knew could have influenced my promotion t
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by molyss 11y ago
immutability is some clear gap in java, but I'm curious on what immutable has that checker framework [1] doesn't. Looks like immutables transform the code in even more spaghettis. Just looking at the "get started", it lo
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by molyss 11y ago
if a class definition contains a Map that's declared final, nothing prevents anyone from mutating the map itself, if there's a public getter to it. In order for a class to be immutable, all its fields need to be be immutable and f
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by molyss 11y ago
I feel like there's 2 sides to the story : 1st, as you mentioned, external investors would have money in the country that they couldn't get back because of the low position on the priority list. On the other side, I feel like chin
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by molyss 11y ago
Here's the original paper on super optimization by Alexia Massalin : http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse501/15sp/papers/... I ran into it a couple years ago, after hearing from other resear
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by molyss 11y ago
I might be sounding as taking Uber for overly cynical, but it really sounds like yet another way to kill all competitors. And if it is, I am wondering what will happen when all competition is indeed killed. Will they keep burning money on i
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by molyss 12y ago
any company a little bit serious will do some statistical analysis on expected lifespan of their product. Without speaking about planned obsolescence, you want to know what warranty to give to your customers, which parts will break first an
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by molyss 12y ago
I feel like planned obsolescence is much more common that we initially think. For example, on the phone market, battery lasts on day out of the box. If we consider the battery losing .05% of its total charge after each charge/decharge
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by molyss 12y ago
unfortunately, product reviews don't give any information whatsoever on the lifespan of any product, instead focusing on the instant gratification, ease of use and shiny new things. Maybe that's what the consumer wants, but maybe
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by molyss 12y ago
I'm just wondering something probably very stupid. Shouldn't an FOIA request turn back all information that the article claims the FDA is refusing to give away ? Looking at the FDA FOIA exemption list ( http://www.fda.go
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by molyss 12y ago
All black persons look like monkeys, said a crazy fascist french politician. By writing "All black persons look like monkeys", can I be qualified as a racist myself ? My point is that the only to write about racism is also to defi
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by molyss 12y ago
The drawing is a reference to a nationalist leader comparing a black minister to a monkey. There's a reference to the "rassemblement bleu marine", coined in reference to current nationalist leader marine le pen, transformed