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by repsilat 9y ago
I think we can do a better job of teasing apart the essential from the incidental complexity. There is a great deal of essential complexity. Programmers deal with corner-cases more often than most other people, and having an eye for a &qu
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by repsilat 9y ago
Building a big tower could decrease your property value, but upzoning and by-right construction should increase property values (because now the person who wants to buy your house wants to replace it with more than one house.) Local gover
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by repsilat 9y ago
Hah, "could in theory" vs "could in practice" -- depending on the hash function, it could take hundreds or thousands of processor-years. Maybe Google could do it. http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2
724.
by repsilat 9y ago
Some people now boot an OS to serve each request, and reinstall the OS to deploy new changes. It's funny, even the objections to PHP haven't kept up with the trendy software practices. I guess the objection to "spinning up
725.
by repsilat 9y ago
The money quote from the end of the introduction: >> We find that the introduction of the new composite racquets temporarily helped younger players at the expense of older players, reduced the rank correlation in player quality over
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by repsilat 9y ago
The "real functional" map/reduce/filter functions tend to be discouraged by programmers and linters too. It is becoming (has become?) an established part of the culture -- "Lambda in a `map`? Use a list comprehensio
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by repsilat 9y ago
At a casino your "bets in flight" could be considered securities... If the roulette wheel spins for a year while your bets are down, maybe you could claim long term capital gains on your winnings because you held the position long
728.
by repsilat 9y ago
It depends a lot on how many items are in the list. If there are less than 10000 items in each sorted set you should probably let the client handle the ordering and just do bulk inserts with order index in a denormalised JSON col or somethi
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by repsilat 9y ago
Why would you do it manually? Write a two-line script to do it. Downloading a framework to run an npm script that does the equivalent of running `zip` followed by `scp` (or `aws s3 cp` or whatever) seems crazy to me.
730.
by repsilat 9y ago
There are theoretical models of random-access machines with fixed-size caches, on which data structures like B-trees and others can be (and are) analysed for asymptotic performance. It's usually not taught until late undergrad or gradu
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by repsilat 9y ago
I'm not sure I buy this. If - your network structure is fixed, and - you always evaluate the matrix in a given order, and - you are careful/smart about how you train the weights (Ok, I haven't thought through the ramification
732.
by repsilat 9y ago
Trademarks are quite different to the other two -- they protect consumers as much as they protect producers.
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by repsilat 9y ago
> doesn't get any obvious break point Well, aside from the imperative to euthanise the least happy regardless of their absolute happiness, I guess :-). And making most individual actions normally called moral or immoral difficult to
734.
by repsilat 9y ago
Can you mention one or two alternatives? Summing something like log-happiness doesn't help (and really isn't much more than objecting for the sake of objecting.) Thresholds for dignity just raise the zero-bar, and inequality metri
735.
by repsilat 9y ago
Depends on whether it's the death of the society or the dwarves you're optimising for, I guess? I don't know the game well enough to say, but suicide could be the most reliable way to minimise death. I prefer "maximise h
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by repsilat 9y ago
Probably Cython. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't work (doesn't like generator comprehensions iirc) but mostly it provides a "sliding scale" into C or C++ land -- after the first compile, you can start littering
737.
by repsilat 9y ago
Some places do "blind" reference checks, where they contact people you've worked with themselves (through Linkedin or similar.) The idea being that the references you provide are likely to be more positive than representative
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by repsilat 9y ago
Disclaimer: I don't program in C++ day to day, so maybe my experience is atypical. Moves and rvalue references (and whatever a PR-value is) and even RVO scare me. They make me want to pass pointers around, because at least I know for s
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by repsilat 9y ago
If the company is closely held the shareholders may not be able to meaningfully affect the composition of the board of directors, and so may not be able to extract any value from it except in bankruptcy.
740.
by repsilat 9y ago
A really fun one is having `bash` execute its output using a FIFO. It worked when I tried it last, but it'd obviously be more than crazy to rely on it (for more than one reason.)
741.
by repsilat 9y ago
I agree. And if the speed metric is well-designed, and if making not-slow pages is easy enough (and it really is) then the Nash equilibrium is "Everyone gets the most relevant page and it loads quickly."
742.
by repsilat 9y ago
I think it was just an aggregator: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
743.
by repsilat 9y ago
Really this just points to a lack of vision on the part of operating systems people. There is no reason downloading, possibly "installing" (mostly caching?) and running "traditional software" couldn't be as friction
744.
by repsilat 9y ago
> maybe like 0.1% of people in SF are candidates for walking to work Everyone says SF is seven miles a side. Walking speed is maybe 3mph. If you want a commute of 40 minutes each way, you need to live at most 2 miles (straight line) away
745.
by repsilat 9y ago
Yeah, if "tech" just means "many employees are programmers" or "has a large online presence" it seems obvious that tech is going to become a larger portion of the market, and rebalancing to cut down the "o
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by repsilat 9y ago
It's a de facto standard because markets for common stock generally don't exist for private companies. If you're comparing Uber against AirBnb it makes sense to compare valuations based on preferred stock, if you're comp
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by repsilat 9y ago
Most human-driven trains use coloured circular lights for signalling. Determining the presence of a coloured circle in a known location is about the simplest computer-vision problem known to man, so we could probably practically solve this
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by repsilat 9y ago
If most papers have dozens of citations, shouldn't each paper on average be cited dozens of times? Obviously with massive skew.
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by repsilat 9y ago
I don't have a horse in this race, but this argument seems to do double-duty: > "Violent crime without firearms went down, maybe it was just people getting less violent." > "Violent crime without firearms went up,
750.
by repsilat 9y ago
The amount of prayer I have put into RVO and moves happening "right"... As someone who isn't a C++ programmer, is there anything better than looking at annotated asm? Templating everything and trying it with something that is

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