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by rovolo 6y ago
Here's a story supporting your statement. > But Trump wanted to be able to tweet and call people at will—neither of which is a feature of either DMCC-S device. So initially, he stuck to using his personal phone. … But he continued t
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by rovolo 6y ago
Isn't alt-BS "delete word"? cmd-BS is "delete to beginning of line" for me.
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by rovolo 6y ago
> [People don't learn] when they read the right answer, or are told they’re doing it wrong
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by rovolo 6y ago
The author is saying that the cold water represents the technological limitations in the past. "What old people don't realise is that sometimes, circumstances change."
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by rovolo 6y ago
Here's the "unknown unknowns" quote [0] in context. Rumsfeld is responding to a question on whether Iraq had any connections to WMDs. He's justifying the invasion by saying that inspectors aren't allowed in the coun
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by rovolo 6y ago
If you're asking for a example you'd be more likely to use, JSON is a pretty good example. The GSON interface [0] has isArray()/getAsJsonArray(), isObject()/getAsJsonObject(), etc. for determining the type of an element,
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by rovolo 6y ago
> complain about the only ways to lower them. When you say "the only way", you are ignoring other solutions > When one parent is in prison and the other is working nonstop Should we be putting that parent in prison? Should w
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by rovolo 6y ago
The sibling comments are talking about performance, but there's also a conceptual disadvantage to overriding. There are two different ways to create a subclass in OOP. Java treats the subclass and the superclass as the same object. If
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by rovolo 6y ago
That's correct. I used Optional because it's included in Java and it's simpler. With Optional I could explain handling the presence of errors, but not the inspection of errors. A full replacement is the Result type (a special
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by rovolo 6y ago
> Most of my code is error checking and handling. > Plenty of noob code ignores errors. You can encode errors into the return type of the function to force people to deal with errors. Here's a good example: byte[] read() thro
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by rovolo 6y ago
It's inconvenient because null could be considered a case switch(s) { case null: return false; case "y": return true; default: return false; } The broader issue is that Java handles null inconveniently. 1
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by rovolo 6y ago
Monoids: Map-Reduce and Hadoop Monads: future chains, streams/sequences Immutable data structures: the transaction log for distributed databases
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by rovolo 6y ago
You aren't going to see entirely functional applications "in the wild" because it's convenient to keep the top layer procedural. But, it's generally useful to use OO and functional design for components. Then you co
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by rovolo 6y ago
When you say to leave F and K alone, is that because of the bumps on the keys for locating your hands? I'm not sure I've seen a keyboard with F and K keys with bumps because that would be the index finger on the left hand and the
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by rovolo 6y ago
That is half of the criteria the IAU decided defined a planet. The problem is that our moon is rounded by its own gravity and would be classified as a planet under that just criterion. The other half is meant to exclude moons from the &#x27
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by rovolo 6y ago
You can have polymorphism without inheritance. A single class can implement multiple interfaces, and multiple classes may implement the same interface. What is your background? C++ combines interfaces and abstract classes, so this may be th
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by rovolo 6y ago
I am interested in hearing more about your experience tutoring. Questions: - Which aspects of algebra do the students have the most trouble understanding? - What are some good examples of tables, graphs, and functions the students need to i
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by rovolo 6y ago
> Nonetheless the empirical observations made in this article seem to be in direct opposition to multiple other sources of data we have. That seems bad. More specifically it suggests the article is suffering greatly from selection bias a
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by rovolo 6y ago
Any discussion of parenting and Native peoples needs to include the context of the Indian Residential Schools. The state (Canada and the US) would force Native children to attend boarding schools with restricted parental visitation rights (
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by rovolo 6y ago
Here's the video link: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct... Unfortunately there's no transcript on the official video
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by rovolo 6y ago
Saying "Yes man" probably derailed my thesis since it's associated with the higher rungs of the corporate ladder. I thought that this would be uncontroversial. I'd like to focus on Dating because I disagree with your off
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by rovolo 6y ago
> We should be moving on from this. … I'm absolutely disgusted by the modern tendency to reduce everything to race. The color of someone's skin is not important … "White" is not a cultural concept. You can't disc
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by rovolo 6y ago
The National Museum of African American History & Culture is an American institution. The tweeter Bryan York lives in Washington DC. Your other comment about the Australian experience was interesting and it's useful when comparin
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by rovolo 6y ago
Are you saying that "dismantling White supremacy" would have been racist in the 1960s because "dismantling Black supremacy" wouldn't have made sense? Black and White are not interchangeable. For your rule of thumb
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by rovolo 6y ago
> Then why call them white at all? Is his a cultural, or a racial definition? Do you believe the two can be separated? White is a cultural definition in the US which used to be legally defined and still carries cultural implications. It
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by rovolo 6y ago
I think you're assuming the infographic is saying "non-white people can't share these values". I see it as saying "non-white people are punished if they don't share these values" or "non-white people
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by rovolo 6y ago
A different way to view this is that being desperate makes you behave badly. For example, someone desperate for a job won't push back against bad decisions and will become a "Yes Man". Someone desperate for a date won't
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by rovolo 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions
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by rovolo 6y ago
That graph is misleading because you're plotting cumulative inflation on a linear graph rather than a logarithmic graph. The basic issue is that you should expect every 20 pixels to have the same weight, but you feel the impact of infl
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by rovolo 6y ago
> Excluding a final state when all temperature values are identical, at no point is the temperature value equal to the average of the surrounding values. You aren't describing and evolution if its inaccurate for all points except a

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