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by oxryly1 10y ago
Ah, and Python uses whitespace and colons to disambiguate, which would ruin the efficiency of this form.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
But "condition" is just a placeholder. A concrete example would be: msg = if (status == 0) "done" else "error"
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Yup. And Python is certainly one of Stroustrup's two kinds of languages: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Why didn't Python do this: x = if condition a else b ?
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by oxryly1 10y ago
What's the easiest way to get OpenVMS these days?
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by oxryly1 10y ago
As have I. Interestingly, sometimes that cleanup was an intentional part of the process and looked more like maintenance and extension of rapid prototypes. It still felt like I was compensating for all those bad habits of Mr 10x.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
If a team didn't perform as necessary and all it's rankings were high, that would be some damn useful information regarding the manager, the teams it interacted with or depended on, and/or the companies goals, deadlines, and
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by oxryly1 10y ago
An absolute scale of ranks for each discipline, and some clarity on what types of performance result in increases or decreases in that scale. AFAIK Google uses this now, and many traditional or government software companies use this (e.g. S
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Isn't the solution to some of these problems to assess the teams results overall? If they are performing as required or expected (i.e. hitting targets) whatever the team metric, then wouldn't that explain rank inflation? The ranki
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Each one of these videos from Boston Dynamics is a little bit cooler and a little bit (or a lot) more scary than the last.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
That can fail in a most face-palming way. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG1_hw7UhsM
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Or not at all.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
There's a bit of a theme in these comments that make it appear that the founder-investor relationship should become a suicide pact in the face of problems.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Maybe I'm not parsing your comments correctly, but it seems like you're claiming that Uber has a real cultural problem and that problem is endemic to tech in the Valley (if not in general) -- but you're arguing that confron
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by oxryly1 10y ago
She made specific allegations with reference to evidence (emails, screenshots) that is all entirely within Uber's purview. While this isn't a court, I have reasonable expectation that Uber would refute individual specific claims o
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Do you know of an example of that?
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by oxryly1 10y ago
In related news, app.net will shut down in March ( http://blog.app.net/2017/01/12/app-net-is-shutting-down/ ).
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Oddly, when I clicked on Linus's G+ link it redirected me to a G+ advertising sequence, complete with web popups. I had to click a second time to actually get there. I think that may be my biggest issue with G+ (despite so few people u
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by oxryly1 10y ago
No, the reduced quality of life for existing dogs isn't enough justification for euthanization (except maybe in extreme cases). I'd say it's probably unethical to breed more brachycephalic dogs, and by extension unethical to
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Ok, indulge me for minute... it sounds like you're saying that choosing to live somewhere like Chattanooga will -- by itself -- result in less people suffering.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Or at least better quality of life :p
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by oxryly1 10y ago
IMHO ethics will effectively be the defining characteristic of AI in the future. The companies who innovate AI, however, will probably never mention it except as marketing copy. That leaves literally everyone else holding the bag in regar
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Agreed. I stopped clicking on TC links long ago.
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The pickpockets there are magicians themselves. I watched* my friend get his phone lifted on a nearly empty Barcelona street at 5am, and neither of us had any clue. *: more like I was looking in the exact direction but not actually seeing w
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by oxryly1 10y ago
For the typical reviewer, replication is probably downright impossible. http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-...
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by oxryly1 10y ago
True. And until then if you resist such things you're labelled as a crank, luddite, anti-science, etc. etc.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Yes, especially how it, being a press release, was written with a potentially large -- but unknowable -- bias towards minimizing those failure modes.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
The days of sieges and naval blockades are behind us now. Probably.
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by oxryly1 10y ago
Some (likely outdated) idea to do with treating farming capacity as a strategic reserve.
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VW engineer pleads guilty to diesel emissions scandal(detroitnews.com)
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