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by ronaldx 13y ago
The video seems jerky in a way which suggests the engine is taking longer to make decisions at certain points in the cycle. Is that plausible? Or just my imagination?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Since I've been using native Javascript, StackOverflow has become a pointless visit for this very reason. The comment or answer to any Javascript question seems to be essentially 'use jQuery' (and sometimes just that alone).
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I recently heard that the French offer relatively few post-natal services in terms of baby care, but do offer vaginal exercise classes for new mothers: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2012/02&#x
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's not exactly clear what you mean, or you need to be more specific: a curriculum is curated content. Good curriculums are covering over a lot of poor teaching. Writing a good curriculum is hard and it's exceptionally difficul
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The choice of login provider is one of a few consequential things - for most tech services, it's extremely important to minimise friction and get people to use your service. If you've decided on Google+ as your login provider, you
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I graciously admit that is correct, but not my objection. If you make a big deal about being gracious, that's the opposite of gracious.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Would you prefer to have a road/more dense urban space/a parking garage? I agree with you in that I wouldn't find my own personal lawn satisfying, but lawns are not nearly the worst option. Humans need outdoor space - the law
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I actually found it somewhat less than gracious. I read it to say that the wrong decision has been made, but accepted - an attempt to gain political points for the next round. If you have to say you're being gracious, you're proba
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Take your point, and it's probable that the employer had other concerns and picked a covering excuse. (Some Objective-C flavour: NSXMLParser is a more appropriate solution than the one described) One reason I picked 90 minutes for my e
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You seem to have missed the point. Consider the following two developers. Who would you rather hire, and who will get hired under this system? 1. Developer completes the task, unfamiliar to them, in 2 hours, or 2. Developer completes the ta
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>If you test one person and the the test is positive, then that person is the president (p=0.00001). >If you test a thousand people, and the test is positive for one of them, then that person is the president (p=0.01). I am frequently
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I will make the same point again but using your analogy: A new employee must be given sufficient advice/training on how to file a bug report.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> DuckDuckGo, which were listed as organizers, did nothing to their homepages. This is factually incorrect - the Duck was (is still) being watched by a surveillance camera.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
OK. I'm prepared to agree with the headline in principle. However, here's the deal/problem: I am willing to encrypt outgoing mail only in cases where I can identify that the recipient are capable of decrypting it (with 0 fric
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Wow. There are a lot of negative comments that I find surprisingly imbalanced in how they view the employer-employee relationship. Employers have the balance of power in almost any working relationship, and should take some responsibility i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Legal tender has a very specific definition that many people are not clear about; Scottish notes are not legal tender, not even in Scotland [0]. Although, they are convertible with English notes. (IANAL, this is my lay understanding and
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Today I learned that "Gibraltar Pound", "Falkland Pound" and "Saint Helenian Pound" each count as separate currencies.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
In this case acronym is not being used jargonistically, it's being used to avoid writing out "Proto-Indo-European language" and perhaps more importantly acts as a useful indicator that this is not a novel concept in the fie
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You are stuck in classic gambler's conceit[0] (Essentially: when you are behind you believe that you can quit while you're ahead, but when you are ahead you feel confident and prefer to press your luck) In general, if you are inve
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>A well-taught computer science course will not force anyone to rote-learn algorithms. Agree but with the correction that you mean well-structured computer science course. The UK national A-level syllabus for "Decision 1", that
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I find sorting algorithms a bizarre and damaging introduction to computer science. If, as suggested, you ask an interested teenager how they sort a list of numbers on paper, they can usually give a reasonable algorithmic explanation, e.g. &
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This argument seems to apply equivalently to VAT/sales tax, which in my mind makes it weak. (Consumers are already taxed on their income etc) There's no reason to believe total taxes collected will decrease. If actors still benefi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The author's point is clear - that HFT adds no value to society ("socially worthless"). I don't believe that he wants to prevent anything, but he suggests that trades should be taxed to create some value to society fro
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It depends. A high-volume, low-margin retailer would save a huge amount from 20% on transactions. If Amazon were motivated to take on the risk of building the infrastructure, this could happen quickly. But, they have other things to focus o
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You correctly note that I said likely, not required. So, we're not in disagreement. I agree with you about the risk to life having some effect, but this obviously doesn't apply to people alive today. Anyone can move to Asia and h
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Anyone who is working or has moved overseas is likely to be among the most ambitious of their peer group from back home. Also likely to be from a wealthy or otherwise privileged background: wealth offers opportunity and permits risk-ta
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You mention that healthcare costs have increased by ~15% per year. But using this percentage (assuming it is true) is misleading. How does that cost-of-healthcare increase change the overall cost of employing someone? Clue: it's a lot
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> just existing costs the world "100 externality". If living to the fullest costs "110 externality"... 110, OK, here your point makes some sense. But what about when living to the fullest costs "850+ externality&
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by ronaldx 13y ago
"Don't Break The Chain" can be dangerous on its own. Whenever I do break the chain, I feel unmotivated to start the chain again ( especially if I've done a good job, because it seems overwhelming to pick it up again fro
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Having a central body which sets government digital policy on how to provide information across departments is great. That they're doing a fantastic job of providing content to users efficiently, using appropriate technology and withou

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