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by patrec 8y ago
I assume you actually managed to compile the code and run t.b? What invocation did you use?
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by patrec 8y ago
I'm wondering if we're talking past each other because each of us has a different idea what "delegating" means in this discussion. I'm not against consulting various "fact checking" services to help inform
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by patrec 8y ago
You still haven't given any indication what those mid sized hosting companies would hope to compete on for the "long tail customers". Even if all the scale advantages Amazon and Google have currently don't translate in
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by patrec 8y ago
You'd need to have some damn clever and hard to copy idea to have any competitive edge. When Google and Amazon are not making their own specialized hardware (good luck implementing your own TrueTime or TPU or competing with them with
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by patrec 8y ago
Maybe we need more delegation experts? Recursively? ;) Anyway, you originally wrote: > you can't trust any organization to evaluate news sources. That can't be true. But it can. Successful delegation requires alignment of ince
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by patrec 8y ago
Is the election of Trump largely a result of independent expert advice? Would you like to see more adoption of a similar system for news curation?
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by patrec 8y ago
The "preferred parties" is a bit of a sleight of hand here. Why not delegate the choice what party you should prefer to experts, too? Works for China!
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by patrec 8y ago
Maybe we should just directly delegate voting to experts? Or are you saying that you can't trust any organization to evaluate political candidates and programs? That can't be true. We delegate all kinds of judgements, many more
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by patrec 8y ago
I'm so glad to hear that should Amazon ever really go overboard with memory-holing ebooks, I can always rely on Apple to distribute the really edgy stuff no one else would dare to publish!
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by patrec 8y ago
It's not in the least hyperbolic. Physical books are going away. You can't buy ebooks on amazon. They have close to 90% of the us ebook market already.
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by patrec 8y ago
There are just two phone makers in existence: Google and Apple. If you care about privacy and security, there is just a single phone maker: Apple. The only difference between different brands of Google phones is how much additional insecuri
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by patrec 8y ago
Of course market makers wouldn't want to compete in a market where they are forced to make much slower trades than anyone else. But market making existed long before HFT, so it can't possibly be a unique benefit of it. You can arg
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by patrec 8y ago
Your first point is literally just market making, which requires absolutely no HFT. Your second point (arbitrage to keep prices in line) also doesn't require HFT and I find it awfully difficult to imagine that (actual) people would nee
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by patrec 8y ago
> Knowing the build was reproducible tells me nothing of value. It means you can uniquely address what you wanted by what you got (and vice versa). This makes storing and retrieving things much easier, scalable and secure. It also makes
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by patrec 8y ago
People rightly fear being labelled as X-phobic for various values of X because it can easily ruin their careers or lives. This fear likely constitutes a more effective mechanism for turning large numbers of people away from genocidal hatred
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by patrec 8y ago
Are you saying you tried to come up with a counterexample but couldn't or are you saying that I shouldn't make this claim without one?
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by patrec 8y ago
> There is no flip side to that where fear of something else would counteract that. This is so obviously untrue that I find it difficult to believe it would take you long to come up with counterexamples yourself if you tried.
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by patrec 8y ago
Even people working for Google on Android tell me the tooling is pretty garbage, so I'm less surprised than you might think ;) The interesting thing with Kubernetes is that it's basically a re-imagining of Borg, which one assumes
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by patrec 8y ago
One wonders if there'll be a similar talk in a year... > The audience walks away feeling empathetic that they aren’t alone in their journey to writing idiomatic Go and is now equipped with strong refactoring techniques developed by
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by patrec 8y ago
I've used both. I've also used ipython's autoreload functionality with various custom tweaks etc. In both cases the experience was much inferior.
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by patrec 8y ago
Matlab is much nicer to use than python for problems that fall well into its (much narrower) niche. It's super easy to bash some matrices together with nice syntax, plot the results and interactively and iteratively develop code. Profi
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by patrec 8y ago
As far as I'm aware any setup of Redis, including Redis cluster uses asynchronous replication, so you will lose some window of data.
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by patrec 8y ago
Your data, eventually? If that's OK, some of the time, then Redis might be fine and will be much faster (since not losing data involves much more work).
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by patrec 8y ago
What do you do when Redis dies on you?
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by patrec 8y ago
Devil's advocate: I've seen Redis used lots but by people who mostly didn't seem to know what they're doing: NoSQL bandwagon or other magical thinking: "It's fast". Yeah, but only because it does nothing t
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by patrec 8y ago
"The AWK programming language" has already been suggested and is great. But awk is actually pretty simple. Imagine everything having an implicit loop like this around it like so: # BEGIN{ ... } would go here for $0 in input.
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by patrec 8y ago
> But developers don't need to make any code changes or redeploy anything to mitigate those security issues Right, so all deployed Active X based software magically became both secure and continued working as before after everyone i
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by patrec 8y ago
Your vision is only workable for software for which there are no security concerns. This might improve to the extent industry slowly moves away from utterly irresponsible technologies like memory-unsafe languages and brain damaged parsing
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by patrec 8y ago
So what makes it unethical in your opinion?
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by patrec 8y ago
Nope, it's not the opposite case, I was just to lazy to spell it out. Which way around it is depends on whether it's a return value or parameter. Covariant vs contravariant. If it's a parameter an API change from T to Option[

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