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by repsilat 8y ago
Concrete solutions to Stallman's objection in lexically scoped languages include, - Callable objects that store `FOO`, and - Closures that capture `FOO`. I'm pretty leery of argumentum ad populum. I think we went with lexical scop
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by repsilat 8y ago
Isn't that what document fragments are for? If your changes are all one tree you can build it then insert it all, right? (Or set inner html? :-)
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by repsilat 8y ago
> the refusal of the US to trade Venezuela is refusing international aid. There are sanctions on their government bonds, but the lack of private sector trade is basically caused by - the lack of private sector industry, - a lack of har
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by repsilat 8y ago
Amazon is nothing like a monopoly. If you want to sell something online you can do it in any number of places, and you can do it yourself (and fairly painlessly). If you want to buy something online, you can go to any number of retailers. Y
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by repsilat 8y ago
> an algo for finding the longest palindromic subsequence (!) Not irrelevant to my professional career, to be honest. There have been a few situations where being able to see a tricky, unfamiliar problem and after some thought say, &qu
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by repsilat 8y ago
Yeah. Passengers pick tickets based on sticker price, often/usually through price search engines. Connections and travel time are also factors. Baggage isn't. Leg-room isn't. Food isn't. Even "the most convenient ai
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by repsilat 8y ago
Yeah, a lot of software engineering schools of thought are just based on superstition, but they're all somewhere in the neighbourhood of "productive practices" regardless of how different they are from each other. If you do *
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by repsilat 8y ago
An increase in long term interest rates will also bring house prices down. That won't make an 80% mortgage more affordable, but it'll make saving for a 20% deposit easier (and will make houses cheaper for people who pay a larger
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by repsilat 8y ago
If there's a limited amount of money to be spent, "most bang for your buck" is a moral imperative. We do it to some extent -- measures like the "QALY" ("quality-adjusted life-year") attempt to quantify &qu
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by repsilat 8y ago
> If Tesla is the first to crack autonomy they will win, regardless of ride-hailing. I think that's a bit strong. People don't replace their cars all that often, and no massive increase in demand for Tesla's cars is goin
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by repsilat 8y ago
Union activities are essentially price-fixing. We let employees in unions "collude" and "exert anti-competitive influence" because we want to give them more market power relative to companies. When you talk about giving
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by repsilat 8y ago
> The author's musings ... struggle to make a coherent point... > So then he raises the archetypal story of the DMV Maybe read it again? The author raises a coherent hypothesis, then questions it as a widely explanatory pri
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by repsilat 8y ago
Scooters are cheap enough and slow enough that the benefits to scale - aren't hard to reach for anyone with funding, and - can be maintained over relatively small geographic areas (neighbourhoods/cities, not states/countries&
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Then it's 1.1%/year. Still, if you assume something like a 4% return (maybe comparable to the bonds behind them?), that 1.1%/year amounts to another 27.5% on top of your gross pay. And that's not considering the l
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by repsilat 8y ago
Well, at least the article doesn't take itself too seriously. Most bikeshed discussions, especially wrt code style, are excuses for guys to trot out some toxic masculinity in the workplace. They aren't telling you to alphabetise y
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by repsilat 8y ago
My (half baked) analogy is a sealed fish tank half full of water. The water is the company's non-cash value and the air is its cash. Shares are imaginary vertical slices of cash and non-cash value. A dividend "lowers the lid"
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by repsilat 8y ago
Founders do not treat their company as "just a paycheck". They're not just turning up to punch the clock. Early on, the company is their life -- their efforts determine its success, and their company's success is their o
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by repsilat 8y ago
> it’s just a paycheck This is probably part of why it's hard to find a good first engineering hire -- for better or worse, most engineers aren't a good fit for that stage of a company's growth.
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by repsilat 8y ago
It's not either-or, really. If you run an exchange you can bet on it (maybe depending on jurisdiction.) Then you get the commission or the winnings. IIRC matchbook.com do that though I may have been misinformed.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> This has pretty much always been standard As someone who has worked in the industry, I agree with one caveat: > The basic idea with bookmaking without risk is that you want your books balanced This is not the business model of e
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by repsilat 8y ago
People are complaining about price controls being relaxed (a bit) on fuel, too. Look at this[1]: > Mr. Maduro hasn’t specified when gasoline prices may start rising. Some of his detractors have started to call his plan a “neoliberal” au
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by repsilat 8y ago
What would a hiring manager say if you told them "I'm going to finish my job hunt, if yours is the best offer at the end I'll submit another application" ?
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by repsilat 8y ago
> you'd be stuck at two without the relays. You mean if you had two ants walking side-by-side? If it's two ants wide you can have one lane in each direction and use all the ants you like.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Most of your time is wasted walking back and forth If the tunnel is two ants wide then the relay is basically the same as a long circuit. Every bit of dirt needs to be carried the entire length of the tunnel, so it doesn't reall
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by repsilat 8y ago
Mm. Also: it seems just as easy to me for self-driving cars to have exactly the opposite effect on how we view jaywalking -- if the cars are more attentive and more careful than human drivers (or if they will be), then jaywalking could be
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by repsilat 8y ago
It varies by jurisdiction. TFA says, > Ng’s quote itself suggests he doesn’t understand crosswalk laws. Every intersection is technically an unmarked crosswalk And that's only true in some places too. Laws vary from place to place
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by repsilat 8y ago
Linking this explicitly to safe harbour like you've done is important -- the knee-jerk response online is often to condemn Facebook for not policing content but to defend content hosters for not being able to filter out all instances o
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by repsilat 8y ago
> No one likes scaling factors to their identities. Sure, I totally agree. Doing things this way would make some things more intuitive (Hz would "work right") and some thing harder. As you point out, the identity e^(ix) =
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by repsilat 8y ago
Funny, almost every r-tree in the codebase at a former job of mine eventually became a performance problem and got replaced by square fixed-size buckets. Of course, it helped that most of the queries we did could be phrased like "Find
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by repsilat 8y ago
The spelling of the pepper and the sauce both vary by region.

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