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   by olooney 8y ago

   "Reduce friction to start" is a huge one for me. Especially if "starting" is a bunch of busywork like writing a Dockerfile, initializing a git repo, creating package metadata files, etc. I've found it helpful to jus
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   by olooney 8y ago

   That's not surprising. Voltaire's caricature of Leibniz was politically motivated too, or religious, which was all tangled together during the enlightenment. Basically a liberal/atheist criticizing a conservative/religio
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   by olooney 8y ago

   This essay is pretty sensationalized and doesn't really paint an accurate picture. Leibniz did build the first 4-operation calculator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped_reckoner https://en.wikipedia
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   by olooney 8y ago

   steam store link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/
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   by olooney 8y ago

   538 has an interactive toy that lets you play these kind of games: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/ More background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
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   by olooney 8y ago

   This has been known for a while. It's even the subject of this 1968 documentary: http://goo.gl/2DSnQ5
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   by olooney 8y ago

   Be sure to read "Appendix 2: Changes in Python 3" at the very end of the document! I was preparing a long "Actually..." rant before I saw that.
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   by olooney 8y ago

   Liebniz is something of an unacknowledged grandfather of computer science. Everyone knows Babbage for designing but never finishing a universal mechanical computer, but a century earlier Lienbniz materially advanced the state-of-the-art by
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   by olooney 8y ago

   I don't think anyone's said it better than Joel Spolsky in his 2006 article on why bad developers are over-represented on the job market: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/06/finding-great-deve.
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    by olooney 8y ago

    “Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,” said Vorbis. “So I understand,” said the Tyrant. “I imagine that fish have no word for water.” Terry Pratchett
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    by olooney 8y ago

    I don't see the problem here. The code you quote is correct and guaranteed to allocate the minimum amount of memory for which the hardware can support the requested functionality. It passed sizeof(std::atomic<uint64_t>) as the le
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    by olooney 8y ago

    It was touch and go for a couple of years there but yeah, Python 3 is now well and truly over the hump. The Python 3 Readiness Project now lists [341]( http://py3readiness.org/ ) of the 360 most common packages as Python 3 co
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    by olooney 8y ago

    I can think of only two C++ "quirks" that meet the definition of "just mental clutter; nothing fundamentally interesting about them." 1. Nested templates closing brackets conflicting with `>>` operator, necessi
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    A.I. Downs Expert Human Fighter Pilot in Dogfights(popsci.com)

    2 points by olooney 10y ago|0 comments
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    by olooney 10y ago

    The natural sex ratio of chickens is 50/50. Chicks are sexed when a few days old and excess males are disposed of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing There is strong evolutionary pressure that keep sex rat
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    by olooney 11y ago

    Learning an entirely new language for a project, no matter how simple that language is, is certainly a barrier to entry.
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    by olooney 12y ago

    There is a level beyond what is shown on the chart: the mythical O(1), constant time, which those who speak of do not know, and those that know do not speak of...