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by sago 11y ago
Genuine question, not passive aggression. Why do static site generators always revolve around blogs? Blogs are around, sure, but they're a bit old-hat now, right? There are other ways to arrange content. I've got my own single-fil
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by sago 11y ago
The problem with this scheme is that it still involves trusting the ad platform, the advertisers (some still show), and the ad strategy of the website. Trusting them to not serve anything nasty, trusting them to account for our money correc
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by sago 11y ago
If there are 6 ads on a page, do you visit 5 pages on average a day? I don't think that is many. These things multiply quickly.
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by sago 11y ago
Oh, I wasn't trying to make a massive point on gender, beyond pointing to the fact that fictional spies tend to be male. My interpretation of 'grey man' is not so much blending in, as not being the kind of person one would ex
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by sago 11y ago
I watched a fascinating interview with a former MI6 manager. This was probably about 10 years ago. The interviewer made some comment about the men she had to manage: the agents. She said, effectively 'men?'. The Grey Man principle
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by sago 11y ago
Fascinating, thanks for the links!
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by sago 11y ago
I did not know this, do you have a source?
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by sago 11y ago
The Church of Scientology is transcribing L. Ron Hubbard's writing onto stainless steel plates, encased in titanium capsules and buried in the desert[0]. So in the event of a global apocalypse any future survivors or aliens may think t
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by sago 11y ago
The Jewish scribes who copied the Masoretic text of the Hebrew bible did use a system of integrity checks, in a traditional apparatus called the 'Masorah parva'. It wasn't perfect, and didn't have checks throughout, but
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by sago 11y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. It goes from 'wavelength' to 'chromaticity and intensity' to 'three dimensional cartesian coordinates' without explanation. The 'color in one paragraph' paragraph would be inco
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by sago 11y ago
This hurts when they deal with equations like x^2 + y^2 = k and can't even begin to understand how you could graph something like that. It took me a while to grok it, so I second his experience of this not being well stressed (30 yea
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by sago 11y ago
Good points. Some quibbles: > game units shouldn't necessarily take the shortest path to their goal They shouldn't? This can in specific cases lead to weird looking behavior, but nobody is suggesting it is an 'abstract mov
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by sago 11y ago
I agree, though the issue, I think, is wider than 'purposeful' design. The dungeon could be a range of things, but this one doesn't look like anything except an 'algorithmic dungeon'. Is it: a) an underground city (
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by sago 11y ago
> Because they are a very useful abstraction? Doesn't that beg the question? Saying they're useful just invites another 'but why?'. Other than being familiar to Haskell programmers, what do monads allow a programmer
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by sago 11y ago
Nods You're very unlikely to be continually reseeding your own DBRG with new entropy, so it will be less secure than /dev/urandom, which is. Suspiciously bad advice, there, from what I can see.
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by sago 11y ago
Define 'template'. I'm sure there is a definition of 'template' such that they aren't using them. They're not, for example, using templates in the Wordpress sense of 'here is where blog post goes&#x27
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by sago 11y ago
Language is so very flexible. Saying 'no templates' could mean 'no fixed templates' or 'we use styles not templates, a style is a general set of rules for how things are laid out, not a rigid structure'. Not in
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by sago 11y ago
You're misunderstanding his point, I think (or I'm being overly generous in interpreting him!). Though I admit he over-eggs it to a confusing degree. The two coins metaphor illustrates the anti-correlation of two particles and w
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by sago 11y ago
I don't think it is a joke. It is classic AI marketing. From what I can tell their 'AI' chooses colors, and fonts and does some basic layout. All three bits can be done very simply. So you choose a template, it stores a few b
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by sago 11y ago
It's a no-true-scotsman fallacy at heart. Pretty common though: North Korea is a democratic state (according to its name), but not real democracy. National Socialism wasn't really socialist. The UK isn't a real monarchy. It&#
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by sago 11y ago
I've found this a helpful way of explaining ranges in Python to students, it also makes Python's negative indices understandable for the same reason. But it is contextual. When it comes to languages like C, where arrays are more d
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by sago 11y ago
I couldn't find anywhere that said the BBC were dropping the Met Office. Is this FUD / standard media hype? From what I gathered the BBC has decided to put forecasting out to tender. To which, the Met Office is very welcome to bid
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by sago 11y ago
> the idea that someone with the same name could wipe me from all of google's results is ridiculous to say the least Yup, it is ridiculous. It is also not what happens, not what the law provides for and not what the article is talk
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by sago 11y ago
I agree totally about subsetting of C++. I worked for many years in the games industry when it was C or C++. And subsetting was the only way to make progress in C++. But it was painful at times, and required a tech lead who could really enf
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by sago 11y ago
Like a 105, yeah, nicely spotted. I do love those 1980s / early 90s Casios.
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by sago 11y ago
I love his wristwatch, just perfect. I hope there's more of this interview computerphile will release in due course. It is a fascinating time to hear about from the guys who -- essentially -- engineered our profession.
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by sago 11y ago
I agree on the first line. I think there are very simple cases where hardcoding HTML in Javascript might be okay, but it is dubious. We use templating (both an internal simple templating system which is literally 20 lines of code, and in so
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by sago 11y ago
I couldn't work out what point you're making in this response, sorry. I was referring to the claim that React is declarative. Not my code. Things aren't declarative magically. A declarative system is one where you declare a
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by sago 11y ago
I've used React in anger, thanks. So how do I tell from React where my model was changed, in what bit of my code, that I couldn't tell just as easily in my own function? React is only declarative in as much as it provides an imper
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by sago 11y ago
Was that because you now structure you code in a better way, or was it because of React's functionality? And what aspect of the functionality was the most productive? The templating system? Did you used to hand-code your HTML in jQuery

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