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by mvc 6y ago
Funnily enough I see remarkably few people using the comments on my Strava feed to organize an insurrection.
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by mvc 6y ago
It would have to be a special "software engineer" edition of family fortunes otherwise 99% of contestants wouldn't have a clue who he is.
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by mvc 6y ago
Definitions matter. A repl is a read, eval, print, loop. That means the code you enter at the prompt is converted from a String into literal data that can be evaluated (read). The data is then evaluated to produce a result (eval), and the r
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by mvc 6y ago
When people talk about "the modern game", I think most would agree we're talking about passing to players running into a better position further up the pitch The first rules established in England allowed no such thing. Forwa
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by mvc 6y ago
> The modern, codified game more or less resembling what we have today was invented in England. Arguably Scotland but we're used to England stealing our inventions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_Game
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by mvc 6y ago
The idea has been around for a lot longer than that. The discovery by Derrick Rossi that led to the formation of Moderna was hailed way back in 2010 as one of the top medical breakthroughs of the year. http://content.time.com&#x2
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by mvc 6y ago
> It tells us that this is as old problem as human civilization is Only if you presume human civilization started with the bible. Fair bit of civilizing went on before that.
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by mvc 6y ago
Usually when bringing in a library dependency, you don't use all features from the library. If the updates to some library relate to things you don't use, and the rest remains compatible, then why update?
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by mvc 6y ago
Capital depreciates at varying rates. I assume by "consume the capital" the parent means allow the total amount of capital in the economy decreases over time because the savings/consumption ratio is not high enough to compens
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by mvc 6y ago
Don't see where parent is saying anything about Labor from a central org. He's just saying Uber has to up their bid in order to win the services of said Labor.
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by mvc 6y ago
> just like Amazon had to sell off data centers to operate them in the EU You're saying amazon don't own their EU data centers? That's surprising to me. Got a source for that?
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by mvc 6y ago
You think China is the only government that engages in state aid? https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-moderna...
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by mvc 6y ago
> It will make Turkey an international pariah and raise questions about other issues, such as their treatment of their Kurd minority. Like how Israel became an international pariah for resettlements in the West Bank?
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by mvc 6y ago
> even in a million people city Wuhan's population is an order of magnitude bigger than that.
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by mvc 6y ago
Dunno if I'm a hacker but the only censorship I have issue with is censorship backed by government force. As private companies, Facebook and Twitter can do what they like. Likewise people are free to - use their services (or not) -
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by mvc 7y ago
> Juniors just thrash around from one design pattern to the next I contend that one of the ways a junior developer becomes a senior developer is learning about what works and what doesn't that comes from thrashing about in a codebas
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by mvc 7y ago
I think the author's point was that you don't need to have exceptional talent to get into that 5% range. Basically that consistent hard work will get you there. I think this actually would apply to football scholarships. Remember
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by mvc 7y ago
Would you show this comment to your kids once they're able to read?
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by mvc 7y ago
Worst thing is when one of these average fuckers from FAANG decides they want a change and is now your director of engineering at $medium_startup despite knowing fuck all.
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by mvc 7y ago
The information schema is part of the SQL standard so the queries should be the same in all the databases that support that (which is quite a few). Here's the doc links for MySQL and PostgreSQL https://dev.mysql.com/doc
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by mvc 7y ago
> without risking making yourself completely unemployable Can you provide some examples of people who have been made "completely unemployable" by the twitter lynch mob?
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by mvc 7y ago
Adversarial justice systems require that people have a right to be defended by a lawyer when tried by the state in a court of law. This is because court procedures are complicated and idiosyncratic and most people would not be expected to h
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by mvc 7y ago
Here's some free life advice. If you're 40, and wish to retain the respect of your peers, both are off-limits.
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by mvc 7y ago
Was rms defending Minsky in court?
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by mvc 8y ago
I don't have an MBA but I imagine it involves hiring a few of the folks who currently regulate your operations while leaning on your political friends to cut regulation funding and spinning up an "independent" company prepare
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by mvc 8y ago
But remember that debugging is twice as hard as programming so if you build a system as complex as you are able to build it will be too complicated to debug. :-)
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by mvc 8y ago
There is no easy way (in any platform as far as I'm aware), of discovering and updating all clients that depend on some data structure if you plan to change the data structure in an incompatible way. Better to "grow" your dat
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by mvc 8y ago
Make it an explicit part of the data model.
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by mvc 8y ago
I'm all for more lenient immigration laws. But I'm not sure where this idea comes from that people with H1Bs are like indentured servants. I moved jobs twice in 6 years. Getting one in the first place is a lottery but once you hav
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by mvc 8y ago
> I am not anti immigrant but the immigration system disproportionately hurts American software engineers and American tech Cry me a river. Do you also complain about internal migration towards cities like San Francisco and Boston. It&#x

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