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by nolemurs 9y ago
So, this tool is intended for users of macs who are comfortable using a shell and use `brew`, but are not comfortable with `ssh`? I'm not even sure I see how this is much easier than ssh if you know the basics.
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> The current rise of "bots" that I'm seeing being developed of late seems to forget one really crucial thing about humans, especially in a time of need: We need to talk to another human. I don't think this is true at
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Was that a long time ago? I've heard stories about things like that a bunch of years ago, but my impression was that things have changed.
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> Yet this is apparently "standard required knowledge" for interviewing at google, amazon and co. What makes you think that? My experience is that Google at least would never ask a question about red-black trees. I doubt Amazon
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> life tends towards patterns of similarity I would argue that this is only true to the extent that there's a reason for the similarity. Similarities arise when they serve an adaptive purpose. And, to be fair, those clonal fish ar
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> Why should we expect the effect of Random to be large enough to create easily identifiable personalities, or more accurately, behavior patterns? Well, my main reason for thinking it is that complex systems tend to be chaotic unless the
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Ohh, absolutely. I'm glad they did the study. I'm just responding to the expectation stated in the paper. I really don't understand what sort of mindset would lead someone who has actually given it serious thought to expect w
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by nolemurs 9y ago
This study's result should really not be surprising to anyone. The idea that somehow genetics + big picture environmental conditions are determinative of outcome seems so superficially unlikely to be true to me that I'm kind of ba
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> Also, adding to the fact that I am entirely self taught I sometimes wonder maybe I am missing out on a lot of theoretical stuff they teach in a CS degree. A CS degree is useful for a software engineer, but most of what you learn is onl
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> Good developers engineer repetition away. Great developers share what they build. Hence Git Town. Sure, but a handful of of bash and/or git aliases handles that just fine while also being better suited to a user's particular
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by nolemurs 9y ago
It's actually a bit of a misconception that signatures (digital or otherwise) have any particular legal significance. A contract just requires an agreement between some parties. Signatures only matter to the extent that they serve as p
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> the defendant seems to think (for some reason I do not understand...) that you have to sign something in order to have a contract I know, right? I'm really baffled that any lawyer would even try that argument. That's like, fi
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> Suing for damages on the basis of a breach of copyright law clearly does not require any contract. I came here to say basically this. To make this really explicit - this result is completely and utterly unsurprising and does not set a
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by nolemurs 9y ago
I couldn't help but notice that the top three counties (Summit, Pitkin, and Eagle counties in CO) are largely empty space with some of the country's best ski resorts. I suspect that the life expectancy there may largely be driven
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by nolemurs 9y ago
I totally agree with everything you've said. I came here to post more or less this. > On the other hand, Go is a bit tediously boilerplate heavy. I'm still looking for the right balance. I've been working with Django (in P
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> I'm not sure how they'd have enforced it In a lot of cases they probably couldn't. The purpose of this sort of clause isn't that they can actually use it to claim truly unrelated work you did on your own time. The m
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by nolemurs 9y ago
This article is just a series of strawman arguments. It sets out misconceptions that proponents of strong AI mostly don't believe, then argues against them. I'll be honest, I didn't read the arguments in detail (since they&#x
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> I'm of the opinion that that's an assumption being made. Not so much an assumption as a reasonable guess. Is it logically possible that there's something magical about human brains? Yes. But there are countless examples
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by nolemurs 9y ago
The vast majority of users in any country don't know how to change those sorts of settings and won't figure it out unless they absolutely have to. In the US is just happens that everything we get comes correctly configured for u
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by nolemurs 9y ago
So, I may be wrong about this, but my guess is that a lot of non English speakers browsers are not sending the "Accept-Language" header with the correct language. Getting that language right requires configuration that most users
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by nolemurs 9y ago
For anyone who came to this article hoping it might contain any actual concrete or interesting information about the nature of human intelligence: it doesn't. Go ahead and skip the read. The article is just a tiresome romanticized reha
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Tmux is a great program, especially when trying to edit on a remote server. But I think it's worth pointing out that for most purposes, Tmux is basically just a Tiling Window Manager that only works on your terminals. Tiling Window Man
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by nolemurs 10y ago
FOSS != GPL. Saying the linux foundation is "[n]ot a Friend of Desktop Linux, the GPL, or Openness" because they published a piece that is negative about the GPL is sensationalist and absurd. There's a legitimate debate to be
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by nolemurs 10y ago
I would think diffing trees would be necessarily more complex than diffing lines - you can think of the line-by-line description of a file as a tree with at most one child per node, so any algorithm for diffing trees should also automatical
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by nolemurs 10y ago
> I wonder to what extent this is driven at the level of the algorithm. Almost entirely. Most programming diff algorithms operate on a line-by-line basis. That means that a single character change in a line marks the whole line as change
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by nolemurs 10y ago
The issue that comes up is when you go to add a line to that 'block' it's easy not to notice that it's not actually a block, just a single statement. Then you add another indented line, and now you've got something
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by nolemurs 10y ago
Other people are complaining about the 80 character line limit, but personally, I'm shocked and dismayed by the preference for no braces on `if` statements with single line blocks. It is so easy to accidentally add a line to what loo
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by nolemurs 10y ago
In truth, longer lines would probably be fine, except that 99% of the time when your line is more than 80 characters long, there's a better way to do it with shorter lines. I've made a habit of reducing lines to 80 characters or l
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by nolemurs 10y ago
> On the other hand the one lisp guy produced cool working programs you are not able to understand, It's this precise attitude that turns me off Lisp. First, it's not actually that hard to understand. Sure, it's harder tha
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by nolemurs 10y ago
One of the things that slows me down is that whenever I see Lisp code, my mind goes to the equivalent Haskell code, and the comparison is basically never favorable. I'm a firm believer in the value of learning a functional language, an

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