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by nilkn 7y ago
Is there actual evidence of this? My experience is those in r/the_donald claim the numbers are artificially deflated by Reddit, and those on the other side claim r/the_donald is mostly bots. I suspect both views are wrong.
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by nilkn 7y ago
Those subreddits tended to be very small and inactive in comparison. r/the_donald is one of the most active communities on the entire website.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I suspect this isn't going to accomplish much of anything and may even backfire. According to published statistics by Reddit as of this writing, this subreddit has 755k subscribers and over 45,000 members online right now. For comparis
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by nilkn 7y ago
I sense some unnecessary aggression in your post. Either way, 13.4% is pretty low. One would expect a rate about double that, if not a bit more.
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by nilkn 7y ago
a, b, and c are generic types. You need to supply an implementation of f that doesn't know anything about a, b, or c. How many such implementations are there? Can you supply at least two, both of which finish running in a finite amount
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by nilkn 7y ago
I suspect you probably just need more experience with the base language. And I don't mean that in a bad way -- Haskell is a bit of a weird language, and it's something that you'll need to spend some time with. But indeed that
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by nilkn 7y ago
I don't really understand. I thought this was an extremely interesting post, and it was very easy to follow. It's clearly not written for a complete beginner, but I don't think this is intended for experts either -- not even
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by nilkn 7y ago
While I don't live in SF or even CA, I'll try to offer an explanation of why this might make sense based on what I've observed. I'm 29, which puts me sort of at the intersection of two age groups right now. I'm star
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by nilkn 7y ago
I would amend this to say that time spent in a career represents a commodity that one can invest in oneself, and different folks invest that commodity in different ways and to different extents. Some folks coast and fall into the category o
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by nilkn 7y ago
GHC does have a runtime system, conveniently called RTS. This page has some more details: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...
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by nilkn 7y ago
I would certainly consider this a "gotcha" because it's unexpected that map both deviates from the norm and the language makes it so easy to misuse and hide that misuse. This reminds me of "array set" in Tcl (a lang
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by nilkn 7y ago
The post could have been written with a different tone, but I think it makes a good point that can't be purely dismissed as simple snobbery or belittling. I think the reason some folks get defensive on this topic is that it's some
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by nilkn 7y ago
Unfortunately, this sort of ignores that many academic departments are often crippled by overwhelming internal politics, and they rarely scale beyond a few dozen people at most. Moreover, many academicians within a department often work on
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by nilkn 7y ago
Sure. We might as well allow public speech in cities and towns to be controlled and limited as well, and if you don't like it you can always just go settle your own town somewhere. There's tons of open land in the US available for
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by nilkn 7y ago
This is what is necessary for me to buy an iPad Pro. I really like the idea of the device, but I can't justify the price unless I can share it and have personal and work stuff on there too.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'm generally shy and quiet, especially in a stranger's car, and I can attest that it almost certainly does have a noticeable negative effect on one's passenger rating. However, 3.9 is lower than I'd expect merely on acc
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by nilkn 7y ago
Uber has went from something magical to a pretty stressful experience filled with paranoia about how two people are silently judging each other for perceived transgressions that don't fit with unstated and unwritten expectations. For i
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by nilkn 7y ago
The art world has a history of subverting what people think art is. If this viewpoint becomes common, I think we can expect to see entire high-end exhibits of only AI-generated art at some point in the future (if this hasn't already ha
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by nilkn 7y ago
I had an original Rift (with Touch and three webcams) and a Vive. I ended up giving up on both of them for two primary reasons: (1) Lack of inside-out tracking. The basestation solution for the Vive was at least slick and clever and not ter
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by nilkn 7y ago
You can read the corresponding thread and see that not many folks there were really talking about that at the time. I think this analysis is too retroactive. E4 had many issues, particularly centering on Jaime, Brienne, Euron and the Iron F
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by nilkn 7y ago
Maybe. This isn't exactly scientific, but E4 was actually the lowest rated episode of the season so far here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/bpc20p/spoil... Those numbers do actuall
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by nilkn 7y ago
As a counter point to this, S8 was despised before E5 aired.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I didn’t make any comparison or in any way imply either of these wasn’t an issue.
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by nilkn 7y ago
This is going to sound weird, but I think it makes sense: this would be a more compelling statement if instead you added that you’ve also given negative feedback to women, put women on PIPs, denied them promotions, or fired women for incomp
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by nilkn 7y ago
This is strongly stated but that doesn’t really cut it. Height discrimination is well-known and documented. I’m sure there are many short people of all genders here who have experienced it. It’s one of few physical characteristics that Amer
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by nilkn 7y ago
Do you have more information on this?
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by nilkn 7y ago
It’s the sheer number of trackers online that really pushes me to use lots of security extensions. I really can’t support that kind of malicious behavior.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I can confirm that, at least in my career so far, the management and technical tracks have never been completely equivalent -- even when great effort was spent trying to make them so. Very high-level IC roles are possible that are roughly e
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by nilkn 8y ago
Considering how much is not in the book -- and that the book is not even that large as far as textbooks go -- part of me feels this criticism is somewhat disingenuous. I'd agree that the direction of the final part on research topics f
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by nilkn 8y ago
The section on linear algebra moves quickly. I don't see how a book including extra prerequisite material is an example of it being half-baked or rushed. Surely that would actually be an example of the opposite? That section is a nice

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