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by njharman 7y ago
YANGNI You've replaced a "could be costly" (rewrite if we need to) with a always costly (over engineer for expansion). Also, when you don't know the requirements completely is the prime time to do/write as little co
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by njharman 7y ago
> Writing elegant and artful code that is hard to understand You do not know the meaning of elegant. At least in context of programming and maths.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown
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by njharman 7y ago
> Code written for Python 3.7 might break on older versions of Python That's a truism. For all versions of Python. If you use feature of python ver X, you should not be surprised that it doesn't run on versions less than X that
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by njharman 7y ago
Spanish Flu is on list. And it killed 50 to 100 MILLION. Way, way more than the typical yearly flu did in the two years it was active. And probably more than all the years since, combined. It also killed many healthy people possibly due to
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by njharman 7y ago
I find it hard to get perspective on how devastating and society affecting the Spanish Flu was. Fifty to a hundred million. Dead. 3-5% of the world's humans gone. More from the prime of life than typical for disease. This on tail end
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by njharman 7y ago
I too think its the most interesting. But of course its their business to know who usess their service and choose whom to allow to use it. Facebook use is not a right!
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by njharman 7y ago
There's no correlation between how easy or widespread knowledge on something is and it's illegality. Everyone knows how to strangle someone. Every one can trivially learn what to use to poison someone. Murder is still illegal. We
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by njharman 7y ago
Why? Because evolution has made us fear for our children. Rational self-interest is not evolutionary useful after reproducing. Expendind all your resourses ensuring your offspring grow and spread is. Irrational overprotection such as feel g
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by njharman 7y ago
You're missing a key factor. It's not "knowledge of what they don't have" that advertising brings. Advertising is highly sophisticated psychological manipulation, refined over that lat 100 years, that invents &quot
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by njharman 7y ago
"Diplomacy". Its all about deal making, negotiation, compromise, trust and betrayal. Nothing will teach you how the world actually works faster. You tube Matt Colville diplomacy
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by njharman 7y ago
Inaccuracy and hyperbole are the tools of click baiters like OA.
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Google search
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by njharman 7y ago
What law in The US? In ancient times, like 40+ yrs ago, before the first big extension / copyright automatically granted at moment of creation. It used to be req to send copy to LoC to earn right to enforce copyright. I've publish
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by njharman 7y ago
> attention-seeking persona with nothing to say aside from “Look at me!” Obviously not (according to OA)! Remains anonymous, interviews rarely, none of her works involve/portray her (just props / hired actors) and for long time
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by njharman 7y ago
We are smarter, whatever that means. But not by that much. Our main differantor is technology. If you went back in time and looked at a feckless human tribe hunting it would not be that different than orcas, wolves or any other social mamma
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by njharman 7y ago
Not suprised. Discounting humans, wild pigs dominate in large parts of Texas. Pigs are smart and ruthless, like or as.
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by njharman 7y ago
re augmented memory, from 22 years ago, http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/wear-ra-personalt... Is what got me interested in wearable computing.
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by njharman 7y ago
In all the ways having a known good/not hacked working linux computer with all your diagnostic and recovery tools installed. Extra its not reliant on external power, periphials, and is very water resistant and environmentally sealed (
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by njharman 7y ago
That is such a complicate movie plot threat. Far more direct to just spread those rumors through social media. Which more people pay attention to and believe than .gov. Or just make actual bomb threats.
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by njharman 7y ago
What a crap fluff piece. The wikipedia is much more informative. Like explaining why it took 8 years to open Suez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet
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by njharman 7y ago
It's also ignorantly false. Never is a very long time. They were the same peoples or coexisted peacefully for the majority of known history. Only "recently" has there been divisiveness.
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by njharman 7y ago
That is due I in part, perhaps largely, on the nature of software developers. We are problem solvers, analyzers, focused on finding more efficient/elegant/faster/etc solutions. We pick things apart, to understand them, so we
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by njharman 7y ago
I've found "developers", people who work extensively with plain text and mark up languages, mostly hate WYSIWYG. Because it just gets in the way of / works differently than the skills/knowledge they already have. I
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by njharman 7y ago
You don't need to qualify it with "in the west".
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by njharman 7y ago
HIPPA and privacy laws. Communications have to be secure.
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by njharman 7y ago
Space is mind boggling large and sparse. Millions of years is not a long time to be traveling through it.
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by njharman 7y ago
I would definitely characterize more than 3/4 of appealed cases being overturned and within 10% of the most overturned court as "not particularly fond"!
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by njharman 7y ago
> The system recently passed impact tests, where it prevented a 7,200kg lorry travelling at 32kph from penetrating less than five metres. That does not sound great. 32kph is slow and 5 meters! easily crosses entire sidewalk/roadway&
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by njharman 7y ago
This is why I wish HN had downvotes. This article/author deserves no attention/spread. It is a waste of our time.

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