nicops

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by nicops 8y ago
That's all fine and dandy, but conceptually it's wrong to say the average of an array is 0, and can and will lead to wrong results in a variety of cases. I'm sure you can think of a lot of these cases yourself. I think in the
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by nicops 10y ago
And it's not like any other language you can choose from for working in the browser is perfect.
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by nicops 10y ago
But maybe bringing fruits up it's irrelevant in some context, depending on what we're talking about. This is one of these contexts. The very same phrase you quoted from the article clarifies it's not talking about "perfe
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by nicops 10y ago
The irrationality studied by Dan Ariely et al it's not comparable _at all_ with the freudian irrationality. The former brings to the forefront our fauly heuristics and biases. The later is about how culture and our psyche actively make
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The Many Facets of Quality(blog.10pines.com)
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by nicops 10y ago
Agree with the attention to details. Details are crucial. But in my experience there is a kind of so-called "perfectionists" that won't work well in complex enviroments where: 1. they actually have to weight in the importance
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by nicops 10y ago
> If you need to a 'chill' with the original researcher to get critical details, that's not science anymore. Certainly there is always the possibility that there was some details misunderstood, something that needs to be c
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by nicops 10y ago
Agreed. I guess everything is subjective, but when I read the article state: > While the [ctrl-r] method is more powerful, when doing some redundant task, it’s much easier to remember !22 than it is to muck with ctrl-r type searches or e
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by nicops 10y ago
Let me tell you a story. When I do frontend nowadays, I mostly develop with angular js. People like to complain about angular and having to know so many libraries, and frameworks, when the past was simple. But what is simple, really? Let&#x
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by nicops 10y ago
Curious. What do you suggest?
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by nicops 10y ago
I think that those are valid names in a good context. e.g. if you have a function like "substring", then you can name "str" as the parameter and "result" the variable where you accumulate the result. Any other
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by nicops 10y ago
Probably because the author doesn't use them and thus has no idea of what their problems are, so they seem "perfect" from a distance.
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by nicops 10y ago
I would think that in 2016 this should be something everybody knows....
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by nicops 11y ago
ok, but we were talking about alphaGo here, and what does it represent as an example of progress in AI.
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by nicops 11y ago
It's progress, very neat progress, but it's not even progress in the sense that there are new kind of problems being solved. AI for Go and similar games has existed for a zillion times, but, given the huge space of the game of Go,
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How, What, Why: The Three Essences of Software Development(blog.10pines.com)
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