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by nialo 13y ago
Just one note on this, as someone with a "Mechanical Engineer" job title: The majority of people (including me personally, all my coworkers, my parents, etc.) working with "engineer" in their title, and presumably calli
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by nialo 13y ago
The problem isn't that it's possible to make good advertising that reddit disagrees with, it's that making advertising that's good in this context is either difficult or risky or both. And that trying and failing is worse than just burning
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by nialo 13y ago
I don't know what it is, but it's actually visible at everything below 100GHz, for whatever that is worth.
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by nialo 14y ago
Because the majority of advice is coming from the _wrong_ sources
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by nialo 14y ago
My apologies for the slightly dumb question, and perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, but: These sound like a really good thing, but what if I want to use map and not reduce? Is Clojure smart enough to understand that some other functio
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by nialo 14y ago
PG says in several of the Arc essays that HN exists because he found that programming languages turned out better when their creators worked on the language and some problem being solved in that language together. HN exists because he need
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by nialo 14y ago
What exactly do you mean when you say "due process"? can you explain without using the actual words "due process"?
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by nialo 14y ago
What should someone actually do when they really do need something done as soon as possible? It clearly shouldn't happen, but it still does. Edit: re-reading TFA, it seems like his "Now" means what I thought "ASAP" should mean, so perhaps
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by nialo 14y ago
if it's not quoted the list will be treated as an expression, and evaluate "Useless", which is probably not what you want.
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by nialo 14y ago
I personally think I agree that it is a better approximation. I'm just trying to help get the discussion pointed in the right direction. My main point is that I think it's better to frame this as "this is a better approximation" than as "r
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by nialo 14y ago
it's not really about the reduced brake wear so much as avoiding the sudden change in stopping distance when the battery stops charging.
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by nialo 14y ago
Regarding stating goals clearly: The problem is that the real goal is something like "maximize future student happiness" or perhaps "maximize future student income", and any set of test goals is therefore necessarily an approximation. I t
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by nialo 14y ago
I don't think it's anywhere near that complicated. People argue about languages because languages become part of their identity: It's common to think of oneself as for example a "Lisp Programmer". And if a language is part of your identi
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by nialo 14y ago
The previous HN thread claimed that it's better to have a bracelet or necklace or similar than a tattoo, and in particular that tattoos may not actually be followed as consistently as bracelets etc. I'm not interested in the debate as to wh
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by nialo 14y ago
The problem here isn't that programmers aren't like other engineers, it's that a software "design" is closer to what other engineers would call a specification. A better comparison to the finished non-software design is a finished piece of
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by nialo 14y ago
This particular post is a new version of an older article, not a completely new article, so it seems mostly likely that you read the old version already.
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by nialo 14y ago
The obvious and totally impractical solution is to construct a look-up table between deck states and log2(52!) bit long strings. I imagine there's a better algorithm, but it's clearly possible.
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by nialo 14y ago
My understanding is roughly: the settlement amount should be thought of as $n per song that they actually intend to litigate, not $n per song that was available for download, which at least seems like a coherent position to me. The numbers
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by nialo 14y ago
'tptacek on Matasano the name: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684845
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by nialo 14y ago
HN traffic just needs to grow more slowly than computing power, which seems reasonably likely
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by nialo 14y ago
Having a thing that you can talk for 5 minutes about and being able to actually _pick just one thing_ under sudden pressure are very different things. I understand the time pressure issues, but understand that you are also testing this oth
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by nialo 14y ago
the timing isn't precise to more than perhaps +-1 day, missing that particular couple minutes when the text would arrive doesn't matter
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by nialo 14y ago
I think the explanation is actually pretty simple: because of the combination of how they had to break the tiles up into smaller tiles and the dragoon's relatively large size. The AI imagines it can get through spaces it can't, or a gap t
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by nialo 14y ago
viewing the source seems to indicate that it is, in fact, just an endless array of divs. (disclaimer: I don't actually know any html, just how to click 'view source' in Chrome)
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by nialo 14y ago
The reason people say silly things like this is that "software design" is used for slightly the wrong thing. What is called a "design" in software is much closer to a relatively low level specification in physical manufacturing, while a co
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by nialo 14y ago
Re: clearance, while .001" clearance isn't something I'd want in a design particularly, modern machine tools are good enough that you get flatness and surface finish good enough to not have problems at .001" clearance basically free on any
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by nialo 14y ago
You just run more tests, such that 25% of tests run still turns out to make $$$$ at least.
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by nialo 15y ago
So it's not quite what you're asking for, in that you'd probably need to add something to automatically generate many color options or whatever, but http://www.mynaweb.com/ seems close and uses better math than A/B testing anyway.
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by nialo 15y ago
This sort of thing seems to me to be just you stumbling on the spaced repetition effect by accident: you look up the same thing several times, at varying intervals as you learn it more. I personally think multiplication is actually a great
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by nialo 15y ago
It turns out that if you quote a weekly rate clients are willing to pay more money.

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