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by repsilat 8y ago
It helps for intrinsic motivation, but (in my experience) that normally isn't too lacking. Where it doesn't help is the motivating effects of feedback. Having made a physics engine is cool, but having a working physics engine that
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by repsilat 8y ago
Probably just an example. The real condition could be a hiring policy that is technically illegal, a question about prodict that is a trade secret, or questions about business sustainability that might be secret etc.
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by repsilat 8y ago
You can also open `<(yes '\007')` or something, or use `mkfifo` if you don't want to rely on bash. Not as fun as a kernel module, though :-)
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by repsilat 8y ago
Caps-lock could work too. As a weird ctrl+c vimmer I probably wouldn't notice. I think my uses of escape in the past year fall into two categories: - Ctrl-shift-esc (opens the task manager in Windows), and - Trying to close dialogs whe
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by repsilat 8y ago
Filesystem performance is a bit crap and you can't run Docker in Windows Home, but otherwise I found WSL pretty great. The Docker thing finally turned into a dealbreaker for me though, so after about two years of WSL I'm back to l
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by repsilat 8y ago
I'm not sure why, but I always instinctively deny notifications and location-tracking on websites, but always seem to allow them on mobile apps. I don't know if others are the same.
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by repsilat 8y ago
And inside the Bay Area you can get a car or a bicycle for less than a million dollars too.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Nobody complains about Google Docs being "an app". If a program like that doesn't have "normal scrolling" and a functional "back" button people will tend to forgive them. Most sites aren't that, thoug
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by repsilat 8y ago
You've misunderstood. Nobody is saying content uploaded by users should be inviolable. The points of contention are who is legally responsible for users' infringements. This law tilts the balance from "users are responsible
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by repsilat 8y ago
The worst I've dealt with is a site that allows + within an email address for signup but not unsubscribe. They've been hitting my spam folder for years now...
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by repsilat 8y ago
> [bar(x) for z in stuff if (x := foo(z))] Someone showed me this in a previous thread: >> [bar(foo_z) for z in stuff for foo_z in [foo(z)] if foo_z] Not a common idiom, though. Neither snippet is perfectly clear to me, but yours i
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by repsilat 8y ago
Doesn't seem to do full-text search for me. Maybe you have a newer version of Chrome than I do though.
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by repsilat 8y ago
There are two ksplice posts on this page. It's long enough already...
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by repsilat 8y ago
Are you ListRunner? One of you copied a lot of text from the other's job posting.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Your first line is a bit confusing in the context of other posts here -- made me think that the job had something to do with Series B funding and the pay range was 15-30 million dollars a year.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> they're still in my history Funny, Google has some perverse incentives here: it might be nice to have a good "history search" built into a browser, but as a search engine provider they won't build it into Chrome. No
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by repsilat 8y ago
Also: induced demand is a good thing. Even if travel time were the same with three lanes instead of two, that's 50% more people moving down that road. That's a quantifiable social benefit.
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by repsilat 8y ago
I'd hope people using it wouldn't have chosen it unless they had measured performance -- doubly so if the switched to it from something else. On the other hand, common third-party benchmarks may not be useful for measuring these s
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by repsilat 8y ago
Look at what China is doing to airlines -- "Say Taiwan is a part of China or we won't let you operate here." They have essentially the same policy as everyone else -- we'll force you to follow our laws, and if we can&#x2
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by repsilat 8y ago
Right. "You don't get worse at living after a certain point." Sounds like big news to me even if the "half life" was shorter.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Twoish years ago I moved from Linux full time to Windows at home and whatever the Apple OS is called at work. The Apple one was a pain. Command line tools are almost but not quite right (zcat in particular just doesn't work) and I fou
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by repsilat 8y ago
Thanks for writing back, sorry if my tone wasn't great before. > optimization was no good because the schedules it gave were "too tight". This matches fairly well with my experience -- getting a good objective function can
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by repsilat 8y ago
> these problems are commonly in the class NP "Is the input empty" is in the class NP. You mean these problems are NP-complete. (This means "In NP, and all other problems in NP can be reduced to them in polynomial time.&
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by repsilat 8y ago
I disagree. For use as a tool, for some use-cases, if it "works as advertised," all we really need to know is whether it's efficient enough for our purposes. One (horrible) use for something like this is in a framework like R
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by repsilat 8y ago
Yeah, "America is a big place" covers a lot of ground for this company. I'm not sure that gives them much, though -- restaurants are pretty capital-intensive, and on those economics the marginal savings of not having burger-f
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by repsilat 8y ago
The Wall Street Journal refers to the DJIA more often than the S&P 500, and they have a reasonable business section. They mostly do it because they're tied up with it, though. No great loss to them, TFA notes that they're well
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by repsilat 8y ago
Sure, but it's probably not all being executed, so you don't really pay for what you don't use. (OTOH, while you may not find yourself waiting on instructions, you'll no doubt spend all of your time waiting on data...)
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by repsilat 8y ago
On mobile you can read about 20 characters before hitting the edge of an iframe. It isn't even good for code.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Perhaps not absolutely, but in a Bayesian sense it should make us less sure of the theory's truth. "Falsification" is really just severe scepticism, after all, nothing can be absolutely proven in any direction.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Yeah, see Netflix for an example of this -- they leave their product "lying around" and people are plenty happy to pay for the convenience of getting it legitimately because it's so low friction, because it just works all the

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