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by repsilat 8y ago
This should be the case on the web, too. If I put together a blog post and someone wants to correct my spelling, it should be easy for them to suggest a correction (and see it when they read without approval.) Maybe you'd have to worry
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by repsilat 8y ago
Yeah. And the scales have to get pretty crazy before "rails on postgres with some in-memory caching" stops cutting it. Your average developer will never see it.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Bezos obviously knows how to run a company, but the only "brand" he has is (I think unfairly) "exploitative capitalism". If Bloomberg can't be president Bezos probably can't either. And probably wouldn't w
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by repsilat 8y ago
Most of the time when I'm going to an unfamiliar restaurant in my city I don't want "directions" though -- I want to know "It's on street X between Avenue B and C." If I have to walk up 10 blocks and acros
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by repsilat 8y ago
Exactly. Actions that spread information make the market more efficient, which is good for the business, their customers and the economy at large, if perhaps not for existing employees. The same goes for skills/training/policy. Ge
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by repsilat 8y ago
Talk about the title isn't terribly productive. I think the link to FP is on the money, though. A lot of code is easier to read and reason about as a pipeline (or DAG) of data transformations, usually as top-level functions on "ra
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by repsilat 8y ago
A level playing field makes sense, and domestic companies are at a disadvantage if their local profits are taxed while foreign companies' "local profits" are taxed offshore at a lower rate. That said, this doesn't level
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by repsilat 8y ago
Ah, that's exactly the trick I was thinking of. I think I learned it from [1], but I'm pretty sure Protothreads predates that post. Thanks for the link! 1: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutin
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by repsilat 8y ago
I guess it would be balanced if the rule was, > 1 when your bus turns up, -1 for every bus going the other way.
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by repsilat 8y ago
This reminds me of a mathematical paradox that makes me doubt your conclusion: "In this country, every couple wants to have one daughter. They keep having children until they have a daughter, and then they stop. What gender balance sho
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by repsilat 8y ago
In C++ you could also make an object (per thread?) and use member vars instead of static vars. Also, if you're going to use static vars in multithreaded contexts doing this, better to write thing = 5; (via that macro magic) tha
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by repsilat 8y ago
Not tooo uncommon either. It's a "reasonable" way to write generators in C (if you're masochistic Python programmer, I guess.) Switch on the last return point at the top of the function, and make all variables that nee
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by repsilat 8y ago
> they'd serve everyone else worse That doesn't follow. It could be positive-sum. Just from the checkout (without customer identifiers) they can find correlations. "People who buy salsa tend to buy corn chips. Let's
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by repsilat 8y ago
> an eternal database of everything you buy owned by a third party. Lots of people pay by credit card, or use store cards to get discounts. I wonder if it might be worth volunteering that information without any convenience/price
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by repsilat 8y ago
I thought it was about being able to see the footer if you wanted to.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Even so... try dividing. If it looks like division truncates, check the product. If it looks like floating point division, check if rounding/truncation changes the value. Or keep two extra counters that you increment every iteration an
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by repsilat 8y ago
> How do you tell the difference between an object that is the String class, and an object that represents the String class? Hah, I think "an object that is the String class" begs the question :-). I think that `String.class` i
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by repsilat 8y ago
Sure, I'd say that fits my second suggested wording -- `String.class` is an object that represents or wraps the `String` class.
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by repsilat 8y ago
I guess I'm not sure what "object" means in Java, then. In languages I'm used to, an object is a type of value, and values are things that you can store in (or refer to with) variables. The only vaguely object-like featu
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by repsilat 8y ago
Honest question: Can you write Class foo = String; in Java? If so I guess classes really are objects, if not I'd say "there are some objects that represent (or wrap) some classes somehow."
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by repsilat 8y ago
Mm, and it's good to know it's etymologically closer to "three months" than "third-length period". (TIL also that "semester" means "six months". I'm an idiot, I thought it was "hal
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by repsilat 8y ago
Raising at a high valuation means more money for less dilution. Sounds good for the founders and maybe "good for America" too to me.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Why have I never heard of any software team ever saying "There's nothing for you to do right now, so just wait"? In addition to Parkinson's Law, there's this one: "A poem is never finished; it is only ab
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by repsilat 8y ago
> "do no evil" Not that it matters too much, but the motto was the much less ambitious (and more achievable) "Don't be evil".
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by repsilat 8y ago
"Drop" is now the most difficult verb to interpret for me. My guess is for Gen X and up it tends to mean "abandon" and for millennials down it means something like "release" or "provide". Did the Demo
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by repsilat 8y ago
Funny, in Hanoi I noticed a similar tactic -- make it absolutely clear that you can't see the oncoming car. Look at the ground. Walk steadily. This is "precommitment" to not flinching in the game of "chicken" (in
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by repsilat 8y ago
It's super easy to prove if you assume the Halting Problem is undecidable. Basically, 1. Assume every either T or ~T is provable for all theorems T, and that our logic is consistent. (The opposite of the incompleteness theorem.) 2. For
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by repsilat 8y ago
When they list on the NASDAQ you should see them under the ticker "NIU" in RobinHood. The filing says they want to IPO ASAP, but I don't know how soon that is.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> simple apps for non-technical people To be honest I'll probably use Retool for my next programming project for - A "migrations dashboard", - User management, - All kinds of other annoying ad-hoc data tasks that don&#x2
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by repsilat 8y ago
Not only are criminals misusing technology to have conversations that the Australian Government can't listen to, they're also taking clever physical countermeasures like having conversations in person -- sometimes completely out o

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