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by nickkell 5y ago
Gifts for the fair folk
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by nickkell 5y ago
Thousands of years of evolution and we're still swinging clubs
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by nickkell 5y ago
> 13. Body modification and tattoos Why do you say that? People have been doing it for hundreds of years and in the west it has become completely acceptable. > 22. Treating 18-year-olds as full adults In the US this isn't absurd
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I’m not for or against these leetcode style tests, but I think the difference is that they see a correlation between admission test score and how well they’d actually do on the course. Can the companies using “leetcode” tests prove the sam
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by nickkell 5y ago
Do you happen to know whether the staircase rotated clockwise or anti-clockwise? It could have been a deciding factor in how the events played out
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by nickkell 5y ago
A relative of mine was clearly mentally ill, although was never diagnosed (he would never seek treatment). He hoarded garbage in his house until it was uninhabitable. Finally he ended up begging on the streets, until about a year ago when h
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by nickkell 5y ago
Normally I'd agree with you, but that website is a particularly horrendous shade of green. I had to put on sunglasses to read the article
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by nickkell 5y ago
I had exactly the same issue with this book. It brought back memories of seeing teachers solve problems on the board and skipping some obvious (to the teacher at least) step. This prompted me to check out khan academy. Man, that is an incre
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by nickkell 5y ago
I thought maybe Haskell also prohibited circular references, but looking it up they do something called “tying the knot”, which is enabled by the language’s laziness
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by nickkell 5y ago
There are companies like flaschenpost now that deliver the bottles and collect them when they’re empty.
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by nickkell 5y ago
A friend of mine has moved to Sweden for a one year graduate degree. I'm not sure if he's allowed to get one of these IDs as it's a short-term stay. In the meantime he's in a kind of limbo where it's difficult to do
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by nickkell 5y ago
Which tax are you referring to and in which country? Is this especially applied to deliveries?
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by nickkell 5y ago
I'm glad to hear that somebody's using it in the wild. It was rejected at my place of work in favour of a BPMN-driven process engine. The thinking was that it's too difficult otherwise for business-people to understand the pr
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by nickkell 5y ago
If I've understood correctly it's the foreign key column itself that isn't indexed by default. Deleting a record then requires a table scan to ensure that the constraint holds
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by nickkell 5y ago
You might be thinking of Orleans, but it's not exactly core.
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by nickkell 5y ago
It's nice to see a reply from an actual educator. Maybe you could elaborate on your experience. How was the language selected? Did you ever try a language specifically designed for pedagogical purposes? I can't find anything on th
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by nickkell 5y ago
Woah, woah, let's not get ahead of ourselves! Nobody's touching a keyboard until they can prove to the professor they can write a bug-free compiler with pen and ink.
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by nickkell 5y ago
I would’ve also assumed his job was perfect, but he’s the best judge of that! This is basically what Erik Meijer did isn’t it? He worked at Microsoft and produced some really nice things that had a big impact, like reactive extensions for e
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by nickkell 5y ago
It’s a good point about rxjs. I’m a massive fan of rx, but the learning curve is steep and I had the feeling none of my colleagues knew how to use it properly. Having multiple ways of returning (imperatively and declaratively) values from c
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by nickkell 5y ago
That didn't stop the AI in the matrix from using humanity as an energy source!
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by nickkell 5y ago
It’s an absolute steal
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by nickkell 5y ago
They may be obvious to you, but you'd be surprised at how many people out there are doing stuff without optimistic concurrency control, locking or transactions. I mean Mongo only added transactions for updating multiple documents relat
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by nickkell 5y ago
The factory was used as a punishment detail, not just for manufacturing. Plus if the aliens are a race of AI constructs, maybe they consider using organic beings to be a form of automation!
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Ask HN: How did you transition to a new programming language?
3 points by nickkell 5y ago|1 comments
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by nickkell 5y ago
I have tried to do this. I stopped learning math when I was 16 - huge mistake! What I would really like is something like a study group. It’s kind of difficult when you don’t understand something and there’s no one to turn to
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by nickkell 5y ago
It felt like my soul was leaving my body at the end! Maybe it’s just because I don’t handle heights that well though
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by nickkell 5y ago
These are still problems developers face when learning that language for the first time, even if they have experience with another language
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by nickkell 5y ago
I don't think they want recipe tips, they're just highlighting there's a lot of produce missing from the shelves
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by nickkell 5y ago
The people posting here may be wealthy, but I’d wager the vast majority aren’t Concorde wealthy
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by nickkell 5y ago
It's similar to database backups - hopefully you'll never need it, but at some point you might. At that point you'd hope your data was intact

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