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by nvader 10y ago
This effect was the a key plot point in Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time.
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by nvader 10y ago
This is one of those interesting concepts that are inherently meta, since any reference to a successful target, ipso facto, voids the success of the technique. Even the order to forget person X is paradoxical, because its own existence guar
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by nvader 10y ago
One source that I am always delighted to see pop up each week in my Feedly reader is The Codeless Code: http://thecodelesscode.com/contents Each article is a parable or koan that aims to convey some kind of programming best
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Why Go interfaces are so strict(danverbraganza.com)
1 points by nvader 10y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 10y ago
Might as well ask for the concepts of arithmetic, the necessity of work, or the 24 hour cycle of day and night to be banished. Machiavelli's aim was to catalogue how people actually acted, rather than dictate how they should act. He ma
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“Interviews and Instagram” – GitHub is not your CV(matthewgatland.com)
2 points by nvader 10y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 10y ago
Since this hasn't been posted yet, "Why I'm done making Desktop Applications" by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is going to be a useful read: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-ver
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by nvader 10y ago
I'm really glad that it's not up for a popular vote, then.
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by nvader 10y ago
The phrase I use for this is "cute aggression"
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by nvader 10y ago
In most cases[0], Js "looks" at the next line to see if it could continue the current statement, in which case no semicolon is inserted. [0] Not true for "restricted productions", which include naked returns, and some ot
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by nvader 11y ago
I would be willing to spend up to USD 50, for a chrome plugin (with an optional extra solution that worked on mobile) that automatically summarized articles into Inverted Pyramids. Of course, if you actually had this technology, my money wo
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by nvader 11y ago
I was having an internal tug-of-war about whether to visit the gym when I read this comment. Although I knew this already, this just gave the activation energy to get out of my chair and out the door. Thanks!
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by nvader 11y ago
I just wanted to echo this sentiment. I also had a similar "aha" moment when a colleague introduce me to React, whereas prior to that I had invariably hacked interfaces together with very ad-hoc jQuery code. Since backend code is
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by nvader 11y ago
Maybe freight would be the initial area to introduce them, as the risk of loss of life is minimised.
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by nvader 11y ago
The article says most flying is automated these days. I can see the need for a human in the loop for special conditions. However, humans do make errors, and sometimes act maliciously. How far are we, do you think, from self-flying planes?
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by nvader 11y ago
I think it's a case of the outstanding share numbers being much easier to get than how much these companies are actually worth right now. I can see an overworked journalist who out of expediency decides to include these meaningless num
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by nvader 11y ago
I really like this idea of a subterranean highway that houses a self-driving fleet of electric cars. It seems like it would let commuters bring their own certified cars to use the system, while passengers who simply want a ride between dedi
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by nvader 11y ago
People without children have a way of turning into people with children, sometimes unexpectedly.
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by nvader 11y ago
The essential difference between Javascript and Go is that in Go, the semicolons are inserted by the lexer[0], while in JS, they're inserted by the parser. I don't know how Rust does it. This means that Go's semicolon inserti
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by nvader 11y ago
One last comment and I'll stop talking to myself[0]. But that LICENSES file is so long, it just scrolls and scrolls! [0] Not a promise.
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by nvader 11y ago
To add further information to my own question: it would appear that the kubernetes project performs this a third way. The top-level license file is their own Apache license, but their GODEPS folder contains a file, LICENSES, that is very lo
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Ask HN: When vendoring for an OSS project, how do you handle licenses?
3 points by nvader 11y ago|3 comments
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Estimate the cost of a meeting with this calculator(hbr.org)
1 points by nvader 11y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 11y ago
I feel like the author is missing something fundamental about the appropriateness of "cheat sheets" to certain domains of knowledge. The poll on that page shows an overwhelming majority (>75%) of people are ambivalent or skepti
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by nvader 11y ago
I think this was an April Fool's Gag, although I'm not 100% clear on this. It certainly should be, if not :P
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by nvader 11y ago
Just to pick at a nit with you, it's a little meaningless to say "100% test coverage", without specifying whether you're talking about line coverage, branch coverage, path coverage... This is especially true for one-line
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by nvader 11y ago
I couldn't find any license information. What license is this released under? You may also want to add that as a LICENSE file to your repo.
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SaveTheInventor urges people to lobby for stronger patent laws in the US(savetheinventor.com)
2 points by nvader 11y ago|1 comments
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by nvader 11y ago
Thinking of Mountweazels and trap streets, I wonder if a similar concept exists in software. Maybe patents with non-obvious but critical flaws or useless embellishments put into the documents, or interfaces with extra fields or methods to t
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by nvader 11y ago
Consider the analogy raised by the parent, reapply your advice, and it should make you cringe.

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