namirez

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by namirez 7y ago
> TODO, XXX, or the like should not survive past the review stage I'm afraid if you stick to this principle, you will never have any code ready for review. Using TODO is not an excuse for writing buggy code, but an indication of f
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by namirez 7y ago
> it is really difficult for me to understand why someone would give to their relatives some of their income. This is an interesting mindset. I don't want to judge you either, but I never understood the value of keeping my money a
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by namirez 7y ago
Agreed! But I believe the admins are ignoring their own rules by allowing the link to remain on the front page.
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by namirez 7y ago
Sadly this is true. A big pillar of the left politics is labor unions and profit sharing, which is totally absent in the US discourse. Instead, we just hear about safe spaces and bathrooms.
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by namirez 7y ago
To be fair to PG, perhaps, someone else shared his post on HN so he didn't break any rules. On a different note, I guess in the age of Facebook, it's not possible for tech to remain silent on politics whether we like it or not.
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by namirez 7y ago
> For some reason the far right tend to ignore moderates rather than despise them as backsliders. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it means that the far right is less ideological than the far left. Or perhaps that they are more confident,
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by namirez 7y ago
> despite the wishes of the parents This is a complex subject and you're entitled to your opinion, but please don't misrepresent facts. The kid and the mother want the treatment, but the father is trying to block it. Source:
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by namirez 7y ago
> * The primary criticism against safe spaces is that they are an excuse to censor dissenting opinions. A common example is that people opposed to sex-reassignment surgery are not allowed into discussions about transgenderism* What a str
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by namirez 7y ago
> The cutting device should be a small vacuum attached to the camera that can suck up a few strands at a time and trim those precisely. Like Gerty in the movie Moon [1]? The problem is that it only works for straight hairs. [1] https:&
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by namirez 7y ago
I think by the "Pelican Effect" you really mean the ground effect [1]. Ekranoplans are ground-effect-vehicles [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics) [2] https://en.wiki
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by namirez 7y ago
You'd be correct if people used editors for opening only source code files. The problem is that people usually open data files too which can be not only larger than L3 cache, but larger the entire system memory. The magic of a good edi
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by namirez 7y ago
These kinds of aircraft are built for special missions. This is not the first of it's kind. It reminds me of Super Guppy [1]. They are not very efficient aerodynamically due to the large frontal area. In addition, these are designed to
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by namirez 7y ago
Good point! Dynamic languages are different in their terminology. AFAIK strongly typed languages have a clear definition of arrays. The OP was talking about arrays having " horrible performance if the user inserts text anywhere other t
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by namirez 7y ago
> there's no real need to make your implementation more complicated than a single array. I think you are misunderstood about the concept an array. An array has 1) an interface that is easy to use. On the other hand, by definition,
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by namirez 7y ago
This has been posted here a few times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21699498
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by namirez 7y ago
> They have derived gravity through quantum mechanics? Sort of! The problem is that the solutions of the existing quantum field theories are not renormalizable so infinities arise in the solutions. The whole point of quantum gravity is
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by namirez 7y ago
Then you need to look at the GDP per capita (PPP). The numbers are not that different.
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by namirez 7y ago
> wanting to preserve their current lifestyles You know the GDP per capita in Vanuato and Tuvalu is about $3000, or roughly one tenth of the poorest US state, Mississippi? Source: https://www.google.com/publicdata/
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by namirez 7y ago
I keep hearing this kind of sentiment a lot recently. Not that I have any sympathy for the Twitter mobs, but there is a huge difference between government-sanctioned "legal" censorship, and some unorganized group of trolls harassi
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by namirez 7y ago
> There is no physical phenomenon that causes the log-linear trend, its just a model that happens to fit for a small select period of history. Of course it's a model. Please look up the Kardashev scale and correlations that people
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by namirez 7y ago
> even though they had no clue that China would become such a powerful force in terms of CO2 emissions I think you're making the same mistake that you're attributing to the story. It really doesn't matter what China does
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by namirez 7y ago
They have factorized another challenge number [1]. It doesn't have any surprising impact. As computational power grows, it becomes easier and easier to factorize semi-primes (ignoring quantum computers). So either we have to use larger
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by namirez 7y ago
Because you can also add "!b" for bing, "!w" for wikipedia, "!a" for Amazon, etc. Unless you think typing URLs in google's search box is easier.
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by namirez 7y ago
I always felt the Fortran exponentiation operator (* *), which is inherited by javascript and php, was more intuitive notation.
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by namirez 7y ago
> If you think about it, contraceptives are extremely similar to an antibiotic whose target is human beings. We don't really know that. There are environmental stressors that lead a species to adapt; there are also stressors that
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by namirez 7y ago
> Give the world-champions each a copy of AlphaGo on equal computers. Have them play Go against each other WITH computer assistance. I guarantee you that a more beautiful and perfect game will result. Probably for a few years. Very soo
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by namirez 7y ago
> As the article says, climate change won't destroy human civilization. I think most reasonable people agree with this statement. I've personally never heard about the collapse of human civilization in the near future due to
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by namirez 7y ago
Your claim is correct only between 1985 and 1995. Since 1995, Japan's economy has stagnated but UK's has grown significantly. source: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
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by namirez 7y ago
> " Galileo and Darwin are famous examples of this phenomenon, but it's probably always an ingredient in the resistance to new ideas. " The problem with this logic is that for every Galileo and Darwin, there are thousands
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by namirez 7y ago
I'm not sure if this is supposed to be humor or not, but this post doesn't add any valuable insight to the paper it's citing. Of course a linear fit is not the right approach here.

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