pacaro

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by pacaro 10y ago
In particular splay trees do this by rotating elements to the top whenever they are accessed (IIRC) and while they aren't formally balanced, they tend to be "balanced enough" -- if you only ever access a few elements, they wi
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by pacaro 10y ago
Whilst I disagree with the tone of this comment, there is value in the content. It behooves all developers to learn multiple languages, there is particular benefit to learning languages with differing paradigms. Even if you only use one lan
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by pacaro 10y ago
Well, arguably the FTSE went up because the pound plummeted.
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by pacaro 10y ago
At some point anti-trust should kick in, regardless of the origin of the monopoly, the theory behind anti-trust is to protect the consumer
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by pacaro 10y ago
I remember my first exposure to this as a child in the early 80s, a friend of my parents was long term unemployed and I couldn't understand it. My mother's (somewhat unsympathetic tbh) explanation was that he wanted his old job ba
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by pacaro 10y ago
I just noticed this last week. I was trying to work out how to use MathJax directly from within JS to render math inline with rendering the rest of my content, rather than asynchronously after the fact. I love MathJax, but I'm now rend
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by pacaro 10y ago
One approach that I like is to think about scaling in terms of epochs. Each epoch of your system should handle maybe 3 orders of magnitude (let's say users, epoch 1 is 1k - 100k, epoch 2 is 100k - 10m, etc — epoch 0 was your MVP/P
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by pacaro 10y ago
So QR codes are great as part of a designed workflow where the reading app is well understood. The challenge comes in more ad hoc scenarios. Also QR codes hit a certain practicality limit with size (2953 bytes to stay in spec) Perhaps a met
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by pacaro 10y ago
I freely admit that it's a stretch, but I'd rather scan/photograph a public key than try and copy it by hand (which base32 is also better at). And I won't put a USB device of unknown provenance into a device I use. So so
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by pacaro 10y ago
I think that if a disaster destroys your city, moving may be the only option for survival. These city locations are often abandoned for hundreds of years at a time
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by pacaro 10y ago
I understand their reasoning, but base62 is obnoxious to deal with. I'd prefer base32. 1) case insensitive, 2) works better with OCR (assuming a sensible variant is chosen), and 3) can be processed with simple bit-shifts
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by pacaro 10y ago
Hard to reconcile this with Luke 23:43 https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Luke%2023:43
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by pacaro 10y ago
Last time I put a resume together I did it in react[1] (because) and I just collapsed older stuff and more detailed stuff, so if someone wants more data it's available, but if they don't want to be overwhelmed its not in their fac
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by pacaro 10y ago
Everyone should take an improv class. Improv is about making offers, and responding to offers, and using that structure to build something unexpected So the aim is to avoid "no" which just closes everything down, "Yes, and…&q
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by pacaro 10y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi-mahi Mahi-mahi is a fish
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by pacaro 10y ago
It's complicated! The crazy feature bloat is a real negative for Word, and yet also a huge strength. It's interesting look at documents produced and consumed by different industries to get a real grasp on the variety of use cases
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by pacaro 10y ago
The Fourth Generation Languages where supposed to take over from the Third Generation Languages (C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, COBOL etc.) for higher level work (like business computing) Many have been successful within niches, but Java was a br
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by pacaro 10y ago
I remember all too well. Sun had mindshare at the time too, in a way that the far bigger IBM didn't. I'm just glad none of the 4GLs won
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by pacaro 10y ago
I think "Sun Microsystems marketing muscle" was what made me raise an eyebrow
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by pacaro 10y ago
I'm going to define "long timespan" as being ~40 years (roughly how long the boomers expected to work for) I don't think it's "hard" per se, but it does require intentional effort. I can also see how, with
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by pacaro 10y ago
This is true, but embedded within it contains a huge challenge for the industry. Hiring through people's networks and referrals has potential to really harm diversity. Hiring is an expensive process by any measure. But whenever we find
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by pacaro 10y ago
Doesn't look like the F-35 is going to be able to VIFF then! Popular culture has it that this was a key capability of the Harrier in the Falklands War, where they were up against the much faster Mirage, but VIFFing allowed the harrier
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by pacaro 10y ago
My understanding is that vertical liftoff is mostly for show. Operationally it tends to be more STOL, the V is only there for when the mission parameters demand it, at the expense of the heinous fuel cost of (particularly) take off
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by pacaro 10y ago
I think that the fundamental problem is not the one technology. Election systems have this odd requirement (compared to most stuff we build) they are used both very intensively and very infrequently. These 15 year old systems have probably
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by pacaro 10y ago
There were some places, where only machines would interact with them, that we used urn:uuid. But we had UI, code, and log files etc, where developers needed to interact with them too
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by pacaro 10y ago
I worked on a project that used "regular old URL" just like you suggest, for contract and service identifiers, which needed to be human read/write/generatable Tag URIs would have been better because: a) not everyone owns
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by pacaro 10y ago
While there is nothing wrong with adding up, down, roll, pitch, and yaw commands (I guess yaw is already provided by RT and LT) it feels like you are missing the point of LOGO when you make statements like these. The turtle graphics are gre
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by pacaro 10y ago
Right, and on the flip side, when I was at Cambridge, if you failed you would be "sent down" (expelled) there were no resits. It's possible that the pass fail mark was really low though, because I did spectacularly badly in m
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by pacaro 10y ago
I'm thinking more of the "You cannot be Mommy!" scene from the movie Ratatouille
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by pacaro 10y ago
Also, pre-internet I learned from books. I lived in a provincial town, so I would go to London, buy a book and then devour it, but if I didn't understand something, I had to either keep plugging away until I did understand it, or wait

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