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by mybrid 6y ago
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of informatio
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by mybrid 6y ago
What if one is printing the output of a function? Then one is left with reverting to positional formats. Mixing positional and named formats is less than robust. One of the common cases for function output is using pprint. As someone who ha
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by mybrid 6y ago
I have another question, is profit a motive for HN? It does not appear to be. Before HN there was slashdot.org, whicj is still around. Slashdot lost the thread I think because of revenue concerns and change of ownership. If this place is tr
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by mybrid 6y ago
Well met. Just curious if one has approached this site from a usability perspective? For example, one formality in usability studies is that of personnas. The name "Hacker"suggests a preconcieved personna? Who is this hacker? My u
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by mybrid 6y ago
Thanks, you gave more information than is being publicly disseminated. I'd like to see CDC publications on the long term bounds cited. Random people on the Internet is not compelling. Also, mRNA vaccines have been ongoing for years. We
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by mybrid 6y ago
The only problem is from a communication with the public is that as many people has physically possible will be vaccinated. How is this "emergency" approval any different then a general approval if the end result of the same? &quo
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by mybrid 6y ago
How do they classify something like this as safe for the long term if long term experiments are not conducted? Is there any substitute for time trials for drugs other than these new vaccines? These are the questions my relatives are asking
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by mybrid 6y ago
DRY is just a another way of saying the best practice of don't reinvent the wheel. The difference being reinventing the wheel is applied to third party packages and DRY to you own code. The friction from blindly applying both is the sa
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by mybrid 6y ago
Firefox on Android still only has 10 Add ons. Ten. It just seems to me Mozilla is deliberately killing Firefox off.
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by mybrid 6y ago
But hey, the NASDAQ and DOW are setting historical records. Nothing to see here, move along.
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by mybrid 6y ago
The crux of the problem is that for much of the US population any porn is unethical and immoral. Since the advent of the Internet the % of population declaring no religious affiliation has jumped by 25%. Once the US hits near 50% non-religi
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by mybrid 6y ago
The law of unintended consequences applies. By not not processing porn payments the credit card companies force porn companies to generate revenue via advertising that works best if they give the content away for free. My surprise here is t
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by mybrid 6y ago
npm is terrible. Why? because the color and formatting outputs all kinds of escape characters. Guess what happens when Jenkins or other build systems try to render spinning ascii characters? What happens if color and spinning punctuation i
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by mybrid 6y ago
Ouch! My eyes! What is up with the Mark Up web site? They seriously need to hire the Norman Nielson Group to give them usability feedback.
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by mybrid 6y ago
Given 'pwd -P' may very well print out a different but equally usable path then it brings to my mind the need for two separate commands: rwd "relative working directory" (no sym link resolution) awd "absolute workin
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by mybrid 9y ago
Opinion is not fact. Given this is Scientific American should we expect something, say, more scientific? Let's put this under the heading, "One Size Does Not Fit All". The underlying assumption of this opinion is that there i
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by mybrid 10y ago
"Semantic is a development framework that helps create beautiful, responsive layouts using human-friendly HTML." Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. I'm not singling out Semantic UI here except to
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by mybrid 10y ago
This kind of question is meaningless in my opinion without the workload being defined. For example, is this for transaction processing like for banking or web programming of social networking like with Facebook? One also needs to consider t
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by mybrid 10y ago
Follow the money. The notion that databases have failed the web was put to Mike Stonebraker of Ingres fame at a seminar I attended back in the late 1990s. The actual question was this: "Why aren't database vendors building object
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by mybrid 10y ago
Thanks! for the paper reference!
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by mybrid 10y ago
This article reminds me of a couple of things. 1. Wasn't Feynman the one who was promoting replacing classical mechanics with relativity for freshman physics? How has that turned out? 2. Fuzzy logic makes a similar argument. Bart Kowas
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by mybrid 10y ago
I think the scope of this trolling concern needs to be expanded to include the latest science on confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance. The fake news of Hillary running a child prostitution ring out of a pizza parlor is an example of w
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by mybrid 10y ago
As an Ancient Developer I see the problem with Javascript as not being the language, but the ecosystem. 1. Async programming. Async programming is hands down the aspect of programming that college students do the worst on. As a TA at Berke
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by mybrid 10y ago
http://reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/
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by mybrid 10y ago
Well met! Reading all the rigor applied to new ideas in this article brought a tear to my eye. If only such rigor, even just a smidgen, were applied to internal projects within corporations... Best of success!
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by mybrid 10y ago
Testing cost money. I find it very unusual to talk with developers who regularly modify their testing practice based on time and money. The most expensive is to do it all: unit testing, integration testing, component testing, system testing
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by mybrid 10y ago
Understand the workload. Take the workload difference between in house versus public usage. If one releases software into the public domain then one has no reasonable expectation as to the kinds of data driving your code. For this kind of g
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by mybrid 10y ago
I found the art of testing is more tied to the reality on the ground as opposed to the testing methodology. 1. Do you have a a QA department doing manual or even automated testing? 2. Do you have performance testing? 3. Is the code base la
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by mybrid 10y ago
Engineers are a holes. How the negativity manifests itself is different between genders but the fact remains, Engineers are a holes. Nonstop, 24/7. As a software contractor I interview more than most I can tell interview horror stor
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by mybrid 10y ago
History tells a different story. When the income tax was first implemented it was not long ere any income over one million dollars was 100% taxed. During Eisenhower's two-terms in the 1950s the top tax bracket was 75%. It is interestin

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