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by rualca 6y ago
> That's why you need to add tables I would say that that's why you need statistics. It's literally the field dedicated to reliably make sense out of data.
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by rualca 6y ago
I feel that's not a good example. Parameter identification is a standard tool to try to figure out what factors might have been at play.
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by rualca 6y ago
> My friend told me at their company they'd commonly convene the "variable naming committee" for such occasions, and I can't help but think of it every time I find myself in the same place. You better call it the bike
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by rualca 6y ago
> A chair is a chair, in real life. But in terms of data-transformations, in terms of what we do, these classes are really only superficially similar. In the context of a game, we have a Chair, a PhysicsChair, a StaticChair, a BreakableC
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by rualca 6y ago
> From your comments and the article, seems like the WGU model could completely disrupt the normal 4 year university experience, for self motivated learners. I don't agree at all. The "normal" university experience is desi
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by rualca 6y ago
> I feel like the focus now should be on architecture rather than patterns. It's really the same issue, isn't it? specially if you follow a component-based design. The difference is only in the level where the discussion is set
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by rualca 6y ago
> I've heard design patterns described as "missing language features" and when you look at the GoF book, many don't make sense in languages other than C++ because they're already built-in or unnecessary. I'v
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by rualca 6y ago
>>Blaming bad developers and hoping for them to try harder isn't going to make anything better. Well, but it does, doesn't it? I mean, the first step to solve a problem is to identify it. Clearly, the problem with design pat
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by rualca 6y ago
> Sorry, this is a strawman. It really isn't,and you cannot hide Mercurial's failings by trying to move the goal post. It's a fact that Mercurial's non-standard interface created a mental load for basic ops that is co
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by rualca 6y ago
>>Should we call passing a boolean flag "The Flag Pattern"? You mean like a bit field? Did you realized that with only two words you can convey amultitude of information regarding it's use and implementation and propert
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by rualca 6y ago
> Design Patterns are a massive code smell. Are you really trying to argue that a collection of terminology aimed at describing high level concepts, or standard solutions to commonly repeating problems and requirements, is a code smell?
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by rualca 6y ago
> Debian is looking to be my CentOS replacement. To me, Debian sounds like it should be hands down the de facto standard for production environments. It's rock solid, and it sets the bar on reliability.
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) and you avoid all of the rebase/cherry-picking craziness of Git. What's that rebase/cherry-picking craziness?
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by rualca 6y ago
> Underlying technology aside, mercurial has (I think) quite objectively better cli interface. I disagree. The fact that mercurial relied extensively on extensions to implent basic features, thus exposing a non-standard interface to the
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by rualca 6y ago
> So yes, a commit is just a snapshot, a copy, it is simply saved in a much more efficient way. Not really. Although it might be helpful to explain to someone entirely new to git that a commit marks a revision, and a revision is kind of
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by rualca 6y ago
> Now that the precedent is well and truly set with elections and vaccines having Official Truths, (...) What's your opinion on the massive wave of disinformation and blatant lies regarding elections and vaccines? Should some people
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by rualca 6y ago
> There is a huge difference between you doing something for your in-house use, and Amazon doing something in order to turn around and re-sell it. There really isn't. If you make your work available to the world so that everyone has
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by rualca 6y ago
> Give me $1 for every time I see a whole python script with loads of dependencies for the simplest sed/awk/jq task with pipes. I'll add good old Make to the list. It boggles the mind how some people prefer to reinvent the
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by rualca 6y ago
> Ricky Rubio Ricky Rubio is famous for playing elite basketball since he was a scrawny 14 year old. And Ricky Rubio has pretty much the same height as Steph Curry.
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by rualca 6y ago
I've used kate a lot in the past but my favourite editor pick has to go to Visual Studio Code with the vi extension, followed by vi. Visual Studio Code feels like what kate promised to be but never was, mainly due to all the bugs and l
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by rualca 6y ago
> Personal protection is just that: personal. If masks are not adequate to protect you from others who may not be following best practices then I think the PPE standards need to be adjusted. That's not the point of using a mask at a
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by rualca 6y ago
> I don't know what the difference is, but I can second GP's statement that the experience you and GGP had isn't universal. How frequent should that problem be until it's recognized as a problem? From where I'm s
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by rualca 6y ago
> Of course this risk profile isn't for everyone but that's the beauty of personal liberty: the freedom to make the choice that's right for you. But your personal choice does determine if you put the lives of not only ever
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by rualca 6y ago
> And even if we'd get different instruction sets, we have much better toolchains/compilers to work with multiple architectures now than we did in "the home computing landscape of the 80s / early 90s" (GCC and LL
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by rualca 6y ago
>>Without writing a "toy" from scratch, one would never understand professional programming or codebases either. They wouldn't understand why they oftentimes poorly designed, full of bugs, etc. Tracing own "from sc
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by rualca 6y ago
> My main point is that the spin is so strong (...) There is no spin. It was a violent riot. There is no way around it. Oddly enough, you're the one trying to spin the news to somehow hide the violent nature of the protest, and inst
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by rualca 6y ago
> They rioted and destroyed property. You're describing acts of violence. > No one was injured. My point is that saying it was "violent" implies that there were people hurt. You're trying to play the humpty dumpty
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by rualca 6y ago
> It is a departure from colloquial use to describe property damage as violent and it is counterintuitive to describe a "violent protest in which no one was hurt." I don't believe your assertion is remotely true. The term
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by rualca 6y ago
> I've noted a trend recently where the traditional, long-established meaning of words is being cast aside so as to present normally unacceptable actions as "not really so bad." The good old euphemism.
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by rualca 6y ago
> There aren't any "literal" defintions of words. Pretty much every single dictionary managed to get all their definitions of "violence" to point to the same meaning, which includes destruction of property. http

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