nikofeyn

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by nikofeyn 6y ago
i personally can't get past it. i've hated every second of developing in python in my jobs, and i just sit there wondering how nice it would be if i could move off of it, especially when debugging and finding yet another inane des
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
i think this is rather dishonest to call this "SICP in Python" and the same goes for the title of this post. this is not SICP and is not simply a port of the code found in SICP to python with the text unchanged. it's simply
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
in the software world, one can avoid the monster that is c++ rather successfully, but it's gotten to the point that no matter what, python is thrust upon you to deal with. "hey here's this thing that is barely working" (
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> any sort of censorship is scary to me i agree. but at the same time, why do people not get up in as much arms about manipulation? of course, censorship is a form of manipulation, but the u.s. media, advertisements, corporate culture, p
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
you conveniently left out number three in that you connected (1) and (2) via analogical reasoning. of course, i suspect that's what they disagree with.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
no. i think it's ideas are harder to get funding for. everyone wants results and wants them now. this short term pressure creates noise, and noise is expensive.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
compilers do a known thing. security means protecting against unknown things.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
i think that the optimism comes from you're the one telling the incomplete truths or lies and not the one hearing them. when i was in graduate school for mathematics, it indeed felt that i had been lied to in undergraduate school. also
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
this has nothing to do with stat at home orders. literally nothing. and the fact that you quoted rights for immigrants tells me a lot about your already existing position. immigrants have rights. they don't have the same full rights as
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
how does this help? if you can test at home, so what? how does that change anything? it's not being tracked, can you trust results, etc.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> I am afraid this is going to accomplish precisely the opposite of what he set out to do. this is not meant to accomplish anything other than to garner him votes for his re-election and to further the republican assault on immigration.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
none of it, and you know it. i will concede that the media and his enemies have exacerbated his and the administration's behavior, but they are not the cause. there is plenty of treasonous behavior that he does out in the open that d
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
this and his other positions are so inane that they aren't even worth arguing against anymore. trump is a domestic terrorist, pure and simple, and he is completely despicable. i have been downvoted on hacker news for stating the u.s. i
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
you know, i'm pretty tired of people hiding behind "constitutional rights" in support of domestic terrorism. i'm the least fan of corporations, but you know what also can't stand for long? a president executing auth
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
but people should be careful assuming they have it. people should do as you say and simply see professionals about it and be tested for it. stress and anxiety can present symptoms that overlap with ADHD symptoms.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> To repeat: don't take this as a sign that Korea believes it has successfully managed the outbreak. but they have successfully managed it. it's just that they're still managing it and are not done.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> The question assumes that there is a difference between invention and discovery. There isn't. Invention is a kind of discovery. this is self-contradictory. if invention is a kind of discovery, then they aren't equivalent as y
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> It really would look bad for NASA if SpaceX then does manned missions that NASA can't do. that's been the case for almost a decade now. just replace spacex with the soyuz rocket.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> I particularly liked Max's answer who neatly makes the distinction between the structure (we discover) and the language (we invent). We're free to invent the names, but not the structures. i came here to give my opinion, but
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> Unlike in other types of say, physical labor where a top performer is just a few (X) more productive than the average performer -- in software, a top performer can be orders of magnitude (10-100X) more productive / more creative t
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
i am curious. do people not google their product name ahead of time before the final name to get a sense of how searchable it will be?
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
that's a separate problem and unrelated. zynq is a trademarked product name for another technology company that makes both software and hardware, and a major one at that. your never hearing of it, which while surprising, doesn't c
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
gmail was just recently rewritten. it was the rewrite that made it so slow. and i say rewrite from the perspective of the user. i have no idea what they did. it was just that there was a version that, while quite old in design and lack of f
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
other phones never got rid of it, such as the lg v-series, and other phones have brought it back, such as the sony xperia 1 ii. these phones are just as thin or thinner than the iPhones with the same ip rating. why is this downvoted? these
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
thanks for the detailed response. your counterpoints and data are helpful. what i meant by "support structures" is a sort of catch all for governments that are additionally well organized and prepared beyond just having universal
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
are you asking deaths per capita or death rate? i don't know what death rate per capita quantifies. in either case, that's easy: south korea, germany, denmark.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
there is no deep untruth in what i said, and i said it civilly. you should read the guidelines because i find your newly created username to be disturbing.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
there are plenty of ways to slow the spread that doesn't unnecessarily break up families, keep people away from their jobs, create job loss, keep people stranded, and harbor poor goodwill towards another country. the travel ban has upr
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
it is coming from an administration that lies with nearly every word, and they aren't even constructed lies. they are lies equivalent to what you make up on the spot when you forget your proverbial homework. it really isn't surpri
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> we (the US) still don't have adequate testing or tracing capabilities, and no cure in sight. this is what is crazy. the u.s. has quite literally made the decision to make the effects of this virus the worst possible ones and to le

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