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by reagency 11y ago
You don't see the code run in your head, though. You get a feel for how this design pattern works at a glance (intuition), or you carefully step through the code like a debugger.
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by reagency 11y ago
I can sketch you a graph of (x-1)(x-2)(x-3)(x-4), but it isn't because of intuition. It is because I know how to measure key characteristics of a polynomial (roots and asymptotes) and can smoothly interpolate (simple interpolation is m
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by reagency 11y ago
This is very important. Many students hit a wall when physics passes beyond lay intuition and whatever may they already know well. Advancing in mathematics is essential to feeling comfortable in advanced physics.
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by reagency 11y ago
That quote is silly, it completely justifies fraud. There has to be a balance.
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by reagency 11y ago
Would lotr have a deeper meaning if I read a wwi history or novel first?
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by reagency 11y ago
The alien-vs-human issue was covered in the beginning setup and then the end of ender's game, when ender realized what he had done. Do you need a whole other book to drive the point home?
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by reagency 11y ago
Anyone have an actual citation of a methodology?
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by reagency 11y ago
Summary: "no commercial use" is impractical and counter productive; giving something (digital) away for free and then telling people not to resell it, is a misguided form of jealousy. Use GPL-style "share alike" instead
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by reagency 11y ago
Why would you even start down this hideouslly complicated system instead of just getting a T-Mobile or Boost or similar plan, and buying a retail phone. (Preferably a $200 Anroid , or a uaed iPhone, instead of a $600 iPhone) The "hustl
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by reagency 11y ago
1 is a long confusing extended metaphor, not an explanation of the search issue.
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by reagency 11y ago
"Reference"-style humor is not upvoted on HN, since the audience lacks the common context, and the site doesn't provide a way to hide minor comments for those looking for major comments, which makes them expensive to readers.
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by reagency 11y ago
It is uploaded to arxiv. It won't be published in a journal, since it is a trivial and non-novel result that _broadcasters_ have a larger audience than non-famous people.
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by reagency 11y ago
Because each node's view of neighboring nodes is a biased sample of the global data set. A related example: the average person is less popular than their average friend, and therefore feels that they are below average popularity. This
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by reagency 11y ago
If you Bing [Nazi Holocaust] , it may unperplex you. Free speech is never an absolute right, and recent massacre of millions of people and losing a huge war is pretty much a textbook compelling national concern.
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by reagency 11y ago
Canonical article explaining the phenomenon and people's misunderstanding of it: http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2009/01/fan-death-is-real.htm...
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by reagency 11y ago
What's wrong with 3? It has a lot of options because the user needs control. They are well organized.
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by reagency 11y ago
Apple's HIG from THIRTY years ago say to not use Yes/No in dialogs.
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by reagency 11y ago
Google puts a lot of time and money into copy Apple UI and then overdoing it, not into building a usable UI.
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by reagency 11y ago
Craigslist allowed third party to map listings 10 years ago, and CL http://www.housingmaps.com/ CL makes no effort to stop people from publishing or viewing ads on other sites. Many multi-posting tools exist, especially for
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by reagency 11y ago
And it works :-( judging from the slacktivist chatter among my less intelligent (previously determined, not judging based on politics) but still technologically geeky FB friends.
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by reagency 11y ago
Porter also likely benefited from emotionally manipulating his clients to buy stuff out of a sense of charity. That works on the general public face to face, but not other parts of industry.
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by reagency 11y ago
The style guide doesn't actually use block scope for if/loop. Many items in the guide are...reasonable, but the explanations are gibberish or don't match the code.
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by reagency 11y ago
Every sane linter has //NOLINT support.
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by reagency 11y ago
Google's Tricorder http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43322.html
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by reagency 11y ago
And vice versa.
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by reagency 11y ago
There is no reason for Facebook to impose their politics on their users. FB can create general tools for users to customize and share.
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by reagency 11y ago
You can greatly improve your performance by setting up internal and external reminders to check your assumptions and commo falacies. Related: read The Checklist Manifesto.
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by reagency 11y ago
You vastly overestimated NYT's estimate of the cleverness of their readers
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by reagency 11y ago
That highlights a great point: on this simple decision rule, using random test data will draw the solution more quickly than human cleverness.
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by reagency 11y ago
Not entirely fair. The Haskell is example is more complicated code (using type classes and type variables), and the error message provides more detail. But Haskell would benefit from better wording and not relying on symbols like ~

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