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by sago 8y ago
> Pulling code from random developers machines might sound pretty neat Isn't that just a straw man argument? To the extent that it applies to distributed version control, it seems like an invented problem (i.e. I don't know any
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by sago 8y ago
Git is a distributed version control system. Every repo can be the master repo. 'Master' is purely a function of convention. It is worth stressing that you need no software to 'host' git. Every git repository is 'se
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by sago 8y ago
`exec` is a python built-in (in py3, it was a keyword in py2). Variables that would clash names with keywords / built-is are conventionally followed by an _, so `exec_` is expected. I agree on your first example.
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by sago 8y ago
Thank you for the response. > I thought it was clear that I was expressing my own opinion I didn't get that sorry. When you said "I don't think [it] would be considered a good poem", it sounded like you were using a p
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by sago 8y ago
Both polestars are 'new', in the sense that precession brings different stars closer to the pole axis over time. Sigma Octantis (mag 5.47, ra 21h09m dec −88°57′) is the best South Pole star within (optimistic) naked-eye range. As
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by sago 8y ago
> I don't think the lines you refer to would be considered a good poem. It's a poor imitation. You'd be wrong. "Geometry" is a highly respected poem of (Pulitzer Prize winning, Poetry laureate) Dove's. (Only
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by sago 9y ago
Jupyter is an amazing and useful piece of software. I agree that its openness is important, that its flexibility in producing content is excellent, and that it deserves to be the current hotness. But I'm afraid > Now, Jupyter is the
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by sago 9y ago
YT earnings up to $20 per 1k views, with $7 average? Who is earning that kind of money? The pros I know bank $1/1k (excluding sponsorships, referrals, Patreon, random demonetisations, and so on).
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by sago 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, sorry. I've seen email notifications, but to me they are just as bad as subscribing to a lot of sites by email. That's kind of what RSS is for: aggregation. So yes, it means you don't have to
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by sago 9y ago
We don't need it to have comments. But I think the lack of commenting is the big problem of an RSS focused ecosystem. Shooting comments off into the ether is fine by clicking the page and commenting there. But, if you have a couple of
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by sago 9y ago
Wouldn't that just make Disqus the new Facebook?
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by sago 9y ago
RSS is awesome. Bring on its resurgence. But. It is fundamentally not fit as a Facebook or social media replacement because of it's lack of simple commenting support. It suits some curmudgeonly old farts like me, perhaps. But even I wa
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by sago 9y ago
> he hadn’t agreed with those words even when he wrote them I'm struggling to see why anybody thinks this is a reasonable defence. There is no indication he didn't believe it. The company's behaviour is consistent with it.
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by sago 9y ago
That is one kind of problem. The 'Genie' problem: be very specific what you wish for because the genie will misinterpret you. But it's not the only kind of problem. There are inherent biases in evolutionary systems. One examp
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by sago 9y ago
With respect, I don't think that was his complaint. The problem is pretending to demonstrate by experiment something that involves abstractions to the real world. It's the same thing with 'demonstrations' that a heavy ob
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by sago 9y ago
My car doesn't need leather seats, carbon fibre, or chrome bumpers. My watch doesn't need numbers as well as hour markers. My seafood dinner doesn't need the milk crisp arranging like a sail. My jeans don't need rivets.
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by sago 9y ago
Sorry to do the picky thing and criticise a completely unrelated feature, but I wonder if we have, or are about to, reach peak "happy mandolin and animation" marketing videos. That is starting to feel old to me, early 2010s. As fo
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by sago 9y ago
> The past is literally filled with examples of a new technology replacing people, and those people eventually found other things to do. For a comment so seemingly proud of its historical knowledge, this seems a very bizarre claim. Peopl
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by sago 9y ago
This is a sensible move, I think. Of all the cryptocurrencies, ETH at least has a story about why it might have intrinsic value in the medium-term, beyond pure speculative passion: i.e. its use as a platform for smart contracts. But that po
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by sago 9y ago
A business mentor of mine once gave me this wisdom: The best selling diet books don't contain the best diet advice. The best selling dating books don't contain the best dating advice. The best selling business books don't con
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by sago 9y ago
You could potentially tell whether someone has been to a third-party site. Person goes to a porn site, get's file #A. Spying site, offers file #A, but never delivers it. If a person already has #A (i.e. doesn't request it), spy si
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by sago 9y ago
A static site generator is just a build tool. You need some way to say what your output files are, and what source files are needed to create them. This is usually hardcoded (with some parameters and ad-hoc hooks) in something like Jekyll,
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by sago 9y ago
I agree. My first idle thought reading the article was "I could have done that.", My second thought was "I totally wouldn't, I would've made it way too complicated."
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by sago 9y ago
> [SPA Pro:] frontend is decoupled from backend I was very surprised to read that. Very often validation and context-sensitive behaviour needs to be performed on the client and (since you can't trust the client) on the server. You
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by sago 9y ago
There are lots of these. In fact, Amazon even has a tool for creating your own. As for regular CYOA interactive fiction, there are lots, And lots of tools for making them. Even start-ups promoting them. But so far there is no long-tail. And
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by sago 9y ago
I think it is no coincidence that in your final paragraph you don't specify the question. Can you formulate a specific question in such a way that an nihilist might answer "No", but you feel that the correct answer is &quot
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by sago 9y ago
It isn't. The problem with a vernacular pronunciation guide is that you need to think about ambiguity. /a-sim-TO-ti-klee/ is a much better syllable break, but /TO/ is likely to be mispronounced /'tu:/
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by sago 9y ago
The aim is communication. When the aim is very precise communication between knowledgeable parties, a technical language is reasonable. Expecting people to learn that language before they're allowed to have even a basic discussion is a
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by sago 9y ago
Particularly as the pronunciation is strange. Strange place to break syllables, and I'm not sure the second vowel is a 'e' in most pronunciations. /a-sim-TOT-i-klee/
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by sago 9y ago
It's not the quality I was referring to. Look at the main image sequence. The images from 0 to, say, Day 5 show the kind of progressive refinement I expected: the network is improving its image over time. Each image is a refinement of

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