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by sago 10y ago
I'd love to hear a 'honest trailers' style reading of things like this: "Marketing Copy without the Marketing Wank" - I think that example couple be better in a few places, but it is instructive how little actual co
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by sago 10y ago
> them all being rendered in the same perfect font That annoys me. Book typography is a sophisticated art. Selecting a typeface for a book is a skill, positioning it, sizing it and kerning it for that book makes a big difference. Books a
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by sago 10y ago
We've visited for a few hours, this is about putting a colony on it. That's orders of magnitude more difficult. Why do something orders of magnitude more difficult on a planet orders of magnitude more difficult to reach? As I said
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by sago 10y ago
Doesn't that argue for doing the moon first? If you say "yeah we've not climbed any hills yet, but we're totally gonna try Everest" that might not show much common sense. And if the aim is to just try to do the hard
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by sago 10y ago
Other than PR, what would a Mars manned mission provide that a moon-base and 'cargo flights to the moon' wouldn't? If the aim is to perfect human survival off-earth, then surely the moon is a better goal. I know we've be
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by sago 10y ago
Maybe you can read the article and correct yourself? 1/24 patients died during the trial (no causal link was specified), and the treatment was given to progressive MS patients (PPMS or SPMS).
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by sago 10y ago
Also known as the "Let's Straw-Man Obama because we Really Hate Him Act".
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by sago 10y ago
> meaning you can build functions like this: Is it just me, or is that code example incredibly byzantine? I know I'm only a Swift dilettante, but that struck me as the kind of code we want to actively avoid building. The conceptual
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by sago 10y ago
'obviously'? The code looks fine to me, c.f.: $ node > undefined || undefined || 4 4 > undefined || 9 || 4 9 The || operator evaluates to the first of its two operands if it is truthy, or its second
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by sago 10y ago
Odd that you read the article, and came to the conclusion they were against 'ad-supported media', since one of the three possible business models they recommended was ad-supported! The clue was in the first line of the article: &q
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by sago 10y ago
In my experience the 'traps' left by the DM, actually reflect the inherent complexity of the problem domain. Complexity it took months or years to fully understand, made out of corner cases and strange usage patterns that were nev
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by sago 10y ago
Every day hundreds of thousands of people fly in and out of Brazil to and from all corners of the world. Rio Galeão alone handles 17m passengers per year, much more than the total number of Olympic tickets available (most of which are sold
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by sago 10y ago
> Just because someone wants to die doesn't mean that we should let them die. I think it does mean we should let them. In most places it isn't illegal to commit or attempt suicide. By having a process to end your life we'v
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by sago 10y ago
Allowing someone to die of dehydration (a process that takes many hours and involves gradual shut down of organ function) might be marginally more kind than letting someone die more slowly, but is only fractionally so. Fortunately most doct
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by sago 10y ago
Metaprogramming in Lisp is easier than in other languages I've used (though I tend to use Scheme, not CL). Grokking apply/eval and the code-is-data nature of the lambda calculus is the key enlightenment. I stopped thinking of meta
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by sago 10y ago
Not quite what I meant. I meant the set of people for whom Kotlin would be a good fit is largely (but not totally, I'd guess) a subset of those who would gain from using Scala. Therefore for any developer auditing languages, Kotlin and
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by sago 10y ago
Good point, and one I've got a blindspot for because we're not coding for Android (other than via Unity). So yes, that could be enough of the 'killer app', if Android stays with Java. Do you have any intuition for why &#
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by sago 10y ago
I don't think you're being unreasonable. In my experimentation I concluded that Kotlin was largely chasing a subset mindshare of Scala, so I see it being at a long term disadvantage. That said, one killer app can make a language,
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by sago 10y ago
But that is nonsense for Rio, which has already spent its capital outlays for the games. Overall Rio may and probably will lose money, but if the games were cancelled, it could be financially catastrophic. You're right that it isn&#x27
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by sago 10y ago
I find myself wanting to sing "pitagora suichi' at the end of every screen.
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by sago 10y ago
There are times when subduing our emotions is important for quality communication. We should rise above our instincts. There are other times when the emotion is what needs to be communicated. When our instinct is to empathy, not tribalism.
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by sago 10y ago
I'm a (non-expert) skeptic fascinated by this. My skepticism, personally would be met by two elements a) A message identifying himself signed with a key from one of the original blocks. b) Testimony of one of the early BTC people who i
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by sago 10y ago
"Are there no Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" "Both very busy, sir..." "Those who are badly off must go there." "Many can't go there; and many would rathe
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by sago 10y ago
I suspect the US are very aware of this, and it is one of the reasons for the secrecy. They start with overly harsh demands, then can 'concede' back to a favourable position. Pre-seeding your concessions is important. If you publi
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by sago 11y ago
I think it is a good analogy. The line in the Graduate was played for a laugh, but it was frighteningly prescient. Look around, even the wood has plastic coating and veneer. We'll continue laughing and shaking heads over AI tech, ruing
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by sago 11y ago
`mcs` to compile code, rough equivalent of javac `mono` to run it, rough equivalent of java. We code for the Unity game engine, but use command line mono tools for testing and feature development.
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by sago 11y ago
> if not legally in all jurisdictions Yep, you'd be screwed there too. If your agreement with the gym said you would unsubscribe by mail, and you just stop paying without doing so, they could recover the money. Gyms make their money
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by sago 11y ago
I reported a software bug in a commercial package (Allegorithmic Substance Designe) a few months ago. The support guy told me that, to help me, he wanted me to install a VNC server, send him my id and password, and let him have access to my
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by sago 11y ago
I know !, I was all "oh jeez, not Murray too, how did I not hear about that!". Okay, panic over.
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by sago 11y ago
Yes, they are providing a service: access to their content. Whether you read it or not is not their fault. It's a silly situation that arises because of the (almost) zero marginal cost of providing digital media. It makes sense in the

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