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by sago 12y ago
I agree. The most damning thing I heard on this was a story about the military planning in the US after 9/11. During the practice roleplaying in the state department, in advance of its diplomatic efforts, the staffer 'playing&#x27
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by sago 12y ago
Sorry that phrasing was overly terse. In many regions of the UK the police won't come out to petty car or property crime, let alone conduct an investigation. They will issue a crime number by telephone. If the stolen goods are identifi
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by sago 12y ago
Any policing priorities set a precendent of expectation. For example, because of the way car and property crime are (not) investigated, a petty car criminal can reasonably expect to get away with their crime. There are plenty of other crime
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by sago 12y ago
I agree "not charged" makes it sound less serious than it is (he hasn't been charged, but a warrant for his arrest on those charges has been issued). Interestingly, though, if he sits it out for another 5 years, for another £
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by sago 12y ago
> The UK budget is about £700 trillion, if I remember correctly. Almost, but the GDP of the entire world is less than 10% of £700t. You're remembering £700b, which is roughly the UK gov't spending. Whatever the number, a huge c
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by sago 12y ago
It still amazes me it works, not it amazes me it still works. I just mean that even knowing why and how it works it still looks like it is malformed.
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by sago 12y ago
You're not very self aware, are you?
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by sago 12y ago
Hey would you look at that, I could have sworn that didn't work for me earlier. Hey ho!
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by sago 12y ago
Miaow, nice passive aggression. It's the first one people have come across with no way to navigate without a keyboard. It seemed to people a very odd UI, given that many web connected devices don't have them. s/people/I&
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by sago 12y ago
In case anyone else is sitting looking at the first slide, clicking, scrolling and so on, and seeing nothing else. Press left and right arrow keys.
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by sago 12y ago
The authors of this code seem to be using "Duff's device" to mean the unroll, plus the mechanism of jumping into the unrolled code. I agree, both are not Duff-specific in assembly. And anyway, not as impressive without the ca
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by sago 12y ago
Yes, and not just numbers, you can enter mathematical expressions too.
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by sago 12y ago
Ah, the "obviously the most important discussion to have about this is what the exact meanings of words are" derailment tactic. Honestly you could play mansplaining bingo in here.
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by sago 12y ago
It's right up there in quality of advice with "don't dress sexily if you don't want to be raped." Or, as the bible puts it "Women should be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate cl
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by sago 12y ago
Nice victim blaming there. So she was too dumb, and she got what was coming? Or even worse, with the "if you don't want people to look at them" hint, perhaps she wanted this. Maybe deep down. Subconsciously or something. That
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by sago 12y ago
We forget sometimes that the mind both thinks about stuff and thinks about thinking. If you think about making a breakthrough, it is a two stage process. First you have to think the thing, then you have to assess that thing and come to the
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by sago 12y ago
There's a benefit of prototypal inheritance that isn't touched on here, but is significant enough that I've implemented it a couple of times in game engines. One of those things that, once you've seen it, pops up again a
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by sago 12y ago
This is the textbook way to empower yourself using a moral panic. It worked in the Salem witch trials, where vast satanic conspiracies were uncovered as individuals were forced to implicate others. It worked in the McCarthy hearings of the
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by sago 12y ago
This is how NaturalMotion started. I remember their CEO Torsten evolving muscle controllers on the Mathengine physics engine (1999?). Get it right, and you get to build a pretty nice business out of it!
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by sago 12y ago
Welcome to punctuated equilibria.
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Ask HN: Finding idiomatic code or mentoring
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by sago 12y ago
Rewriting your language, like any other piece of software, is a great way to lose your market position: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by sago 12y ago
@bane - can I ask why you don't switch to Python 3?
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by sago 12y ago
I know of a large Python 1.6 code base still in constant use. I don't think this is unique to 'major breaking updates' or Python 3. Hell, there are codebases still in Fortran 77 doing key work. And why would you need to fork
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by sago 12y ago
Right. In fact the only people I see talking about this are feminists (SJWs if you like). The only time it comes up in MRA arguments is as this kind of attempt to find a defeater.
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by sago 12y ago
I think that making it about 'censorship' immediately betrays a kind of knee-jerk status quo defending. There are some folks who would want to see censorship of this kind of material, I'm sure. But I've not met them. And
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by sago 12y ago
Wow, I'm not sure who you're responding to. I was remarking on the diversionary tactic of using impersonal markets to avoid taking responsibility. Perhaps I hit a nerve.
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by sago 12y ago
That's the problem with these dialogues. Often right-leaning types see them as ways to avoid having to take any responsibility or action for anything by claiming the real issues are things that are the neutral mechanics of an impersona
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by sago 12y ago
Ah, sorry. Earlier on it gave the version I was responding to. Still I think in science it is better to not assume universal qualifiers unless they are explicit.
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by sago 12y ago
But that's just evoking the misunderstanding that in evolution the primary competitors are species, rather than individuals.

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