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by mtrimpe 13y ago
That's exactly what I thought as well. I'd very much prefer having the 10x engineer meme replaced by that of the 0.1x engineer: the one that gets the same task done with 10% of the code and effort. The times I've felt by far
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
In case anyone is wondering; this guide does wonders with GIF size reduction: http://blog.room208.org/post/48793543478 It helped me to go from 6 MB to 100 KB for my specific type of video to animated GIF conversion.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Indeed. Although the use of confluent data structures where possible combined with immutable data stores combined and 'live' functional reactive programming across device boundaries -would- drastically simplify cases like these.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Indeed. This isn't about premature optimization, but about preventing the equivalent of what I've seen happen when you give desktop developers GWT and get a public facing website with a 3 MB JavaScript app that polls a hard to gen
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Keep in mind though that (according to Odersky) Scala's data structures are based on an improved version of Okasaki's research. It's still very much a mind-twisting and expanding book though!
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
They're actually fancy Latin words.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
From my experience working with a major Indian outsourcing company at a previous employer this seems common practice across the board. In fact the more tolerant managers experienced this transition very quickly and managers that stayed cons
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
You're saying that just as technology has brought us very near to the tipping point for world-wide self-governance though. I still think people are vastly underestimating the impact the first 3-billion-like Facebook post (or equivalent
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Whenever somebody lists the traits of great developers the number one trait is invariably: "They're like me." I'll cut the author some slack here though since the article is over two years old by now.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'm not saying it's spam; just explaining where the comment probably came from.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I think he's referring to the Google Plus message you sent to everybody from the Hacker News circle that was started ages ago.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The future is actually externally-verified personally signed data systems, which could cover most of these fairly easily.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
No; it's probably based around using confluent data structures.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
They were already in beta in the Netherlands for a while actually. Given that we're quite similar to Germany except for being a bit more focussed on international trade, we might have been a test run for German deployment though.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Except that I already know excellent recruiters that work just like you describe. The problem is that I know two or three of them, but have interacted with hundreds by now.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Interesting article, but it basically boils down to calling the best recruiters matchmakers and reserve the word recruiters for the bottom of the barrel.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Yup, that's because the NoFlo way isn't going to be the paradigm-shifting development; it's just graphical sugar on the same old thing. If it'll ever become big then it'll be more like what Javelin does by adding FR
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
This comment deserves a book.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Thanks for the information; so if I understand correctly US democracy mostly comes from which officials inside each party you vote on? As for Wilders, you could say that the dominant parties were all colluding on treating low-wage earning i
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
But from what I know democracy had no hand in the rise of the Tea Party, apart from the Tea Party consisting of the dêmos. In general, simplifying the situation, PR-systems simply give the population more degrees of freedom in steering the
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Having witnessed a party going from nothing [1] to becoming part of the coalition and the biggest party in the polls [2] in under a decade I'd beg to differ. That's not even taking into account the influence tiny parties can have
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> first-past-the-post systems of the UK and US Also known as the 'choose between two dictators every couple of years' style of democracy.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
When you're working across cultural boundaries you realise that most problems stem from an incorrect assumption. In this case Khalil probably held the incorrect assumption that an actual demonstration of the bug would be how Facebook w
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The article is also the first of it's kind I've seen that gives salespeople comprehensible and actionable advice on how to improve. If they're salespeople worth their salt they'll be able to help leverage this newfound u
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
You wouldn't predict it but if you assume decent code/data locality, which isn't an odd assumption in this case, the Mill's concept of scope and execution is close to a hardware implementation of Lisp's apply. FYI;
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The Mill CPU [1] that was discussed a while ago is quite close to being the perfect architecture for a Lisp though, so hopefully many of other parts of these ideas will also come back in even more impressive forms. [1] http://www
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'm pretty sure this thread will be filled soon enough with people debating the degree of inappropriateness of the grant, but I for one applaud them for taking an initiative. To put it differently: I'd rather live in a world with
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
From what I heard it's actually mostly done by friends, minus the raping part. I know that's how it happened to me once with MDMA. From what I understood it seemed that it was more about 'lightening up and having some more fu
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
That's also a massive opportunity though, since whomever could capture the attention of that 50% and get them to vote could become the biggest party overnight. To me that just sounds like an underserved market waiting to be addressed.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It's quite likely however that Lavabit, being a service that focusses on privacy, delivers enough emails directly to the target server over a secure protocol to cause problems for the NSA in this investigation.

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