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by plonh 11y ago
The pando article says 150,000
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by plonh 11y ago
Is $1 a large project?
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by plonh 11y ago
Military = "government contracting connections" Legal Boies = "government regulatory connections" Engineering = passing the Bechtel test. [That one is a bad joke, sorry]
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by plonh 11y ago
Holmes is all they have: a PR-friendly cargo-cult attempted zuckalike
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by plonh 11y ago
Strange to cite a "friend" when stating a basic fact about how web browsing works.
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by plonh 11y ago
You think mobsters can't learn black hat infosec?
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by plonh 11y ago
Because mobile browsers are bad at layout, except Opera which knows how to reflow text on zoom. The only problem Opera has is that the comment input box is to wide.
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by plonh 11y ago
The NYT managed to put together an absolutely massive printing and diatribution operation. If editorial cared about putting a citation in a story, they would do it. Getting a journal citation right is no harder than spelling the scientist
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by plonh 11y ago
There are many body functions besides muscle growth and fat burning. These functions require vitamins.
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by plonh 11y ago
Why are they trying to gain weight? They can't convert donut into muscle. Donuts for a sugar feed while working out, sure.
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by plonh 11y ago
Newspapers usually don't cite their sources because they don't want to drive traffic away or get their facts proven wrong. Subarine PR and native ads are where sources get cited.
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by plonh 11y ago
Facebook is a scary example. Facebook is 1% open source contributions funded by 99% proprietary walled garden. Scaled down to something like rubinius, the scale fraction would be something like working a proprietary company/job all ye
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by plonh 11y ago
Indeed, I have read that women can be the most rigid and cruel sexists.
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by plonh 11y ago
The compilers thing sounds like a made up story to give her am interesting bio. None of the news stories about it have any details. She obviously didn't write a C++ compiler worth selling at that age in that time period , so at most it
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by plonh 11y ago
Is everyone at FB so young that they don't remember 2G in America?
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by plonh 11y ago
The Guava authors believed Iterable would be confusing without calling .asSet() first.
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by plonh 11y ago
@Nullable already does that.
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by plonh 11y ago
The most profitable companies on earth got their by having a time horizon of longer than 8 months . there are critically important things that you can't measure on a multiple choice test
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by plonh 11y ago
New Math assumed young students had a capacity for mental abstraction that most young students simply lacked. Also, like every other reform, it suffered because math illiterate parents (who know basic by rote by more) didn't understand
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by plonh 11y ago
"How" and "Why" in headlines are standard clickbait tactics, just like "7 Ways". HN bans the latter, and should ban the former too.
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by plonh 11y ago
What does he do where he needs creativity some weeks and not not other weeks?
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by plonh 11y ago
Ultimately, there are certain patterns of thought that are both instinctive and harmful. (For example, ranting about a problem without solving it.) Becoming aware of when you in one of those patterns , via meditation or CBT or listening to
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by plonh 11y ago
Are you saying that staying employee as a programmer is correlated to being unmarried?
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by plonh 11y ago
Magnesia also lacks nipples.
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by plonh 11y ago
If it made the front page of Hacker News, it wasn't a "private" joke.
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by plonh 11y ago
Reread parent post. It says "conspiring to do economic harm", which they did.
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by plonh 11y ago
Not all humans are cute, either.
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by plonh 11y ago
Applicative didn't exist in 1998, so 1998 code won't have any Applicative code that conflicts with the new language spec.
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by plonh 11y ago
You mean production code doesn't look as pretty and toy code. Production code that performs well is well written and idiomatic if it follows the common practices of production code.
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by plonh 11y ago
Bangs are well written and idiomatic Haskell code. Haskell is a default-lazy language. Good code uses lazy algorithms (to avoid wasted work) and strict data structures (to avoid space leaks), so efficient data structures need the bangs.

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