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by sambe 9y ago
Imagine what how soulless the human species would be if we forced people to engage only in the work judged to be productive by a minority of people.
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by sambe 9y ago
This pre-supposes a team of people who care about technical debt. I remember Eclipse in the early 2000s was already doing this (FIXME, TODO and something else IIRC). In my experience there are lot of productive programmers who, overall, add
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by sambe 10y ago
They aren't banned in the EU. Do you have a link to any individual nation state bans being based on scientific evidence rather than public/media outrage? Because the EFSA has been against the bans.
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by sambe 10y ago
Is anyone else doing good quality home-testing/monitoring devices for other metrics? I occasionally look around for e.g. cholesterol and find that home kits are not thoroughly reviewed or unreliable if reviewed more thoroughly. In addi
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by sambe 10y ago
The places I've lived. Not just BT; literally every company I've dealt with since getting back has been somehow ragingly incompetent. How about a welcome letter with account number asking you to sign up online, followed by support
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by sambe 10y ago
Lots of people commenting to say "of course not, article is stupid". Ignoring the fact that the article doesn't really say it will, that view seems unnecessarily dismissive. At the very least, finance is massively important t
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by sambe 10y ago
Damn. Just been forced to switch to Mate at work and find it like living in the past. Lots of defaults seem ugly or unusable (hunting through menus for programs etc.).
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by sambe 10y ago
They are used all over Europe. Maybe some countries have opted not to use them, but I go through them every time I fly. In some cases there might be an opt-out for passengers, but they are certainly not banned.
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by sambe 10y ago
Who on earth are you arguing with? The article doesn't say you should care or that the banks should be bailed out. In fact, it's a neutral analysis of the status quo with a positive slant towards a green solution.
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by sambe 10y ago
I guess the optimum has to be some kind of "area under the learning curve" but I think it's pretty clear if you made a binary choice optimising for people who already made the effort makes a lot more sense. Is Clojure really
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by sambe 10y ago
The policy avoids encouraging/endorsing clickbait. Aside from that, headlines are not purely functional. Preserving the author's creative choices seems valuable to me in cases such as this. If I haven't got time to skim the s
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by sambe 10y ago
Your comment suggested that the title and reputation of a scientist was the fundamental reason you are "told" (in a somewhat conspiratorial big-brother fashion) to listen to them. And that - because sometimes mistakes are made - y
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by sambe 10y ago
Is this an intentional straw man? No, you're not told to trust the people because they have a certain job title and trustworthiness. You're told to look at the data, which is overwhelming and consistent across multiple years and t
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by sambe 10y ago
In this context: because the article is about total calorie consumption, not timing.
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by sambe 10y ago
The link I posted said that's for roughly 30% of people, to receive completely free care, so yes, it's fairly low. Skimming further than that page suggested the remainder was still heavily subsidized. Most European countries I&#x2
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by sambe 10y ago
What does "socialised medicine" mean? Many European countries have mandatory health insurance premiums on top of normal taxation (for example: Netherlands, Switzerland). The original poster says claims Ireland doesn't and whi
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by sambe 10y ago
Completely unusable, perhaps the worst in recent memory of any front page article. Strange thing is that previous Go presentations have looked almost identical aesthetically but worked well.
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by sambe 10y ago
Also Celsius for me, seems likely to be region/locale based (as it should be, I'd say).
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by sambe 10y ago
I haven't tried it, but I get that familiar feeling: you are stepping outside of your core business in a way that will be easily shut down if not making targets. See Carousel in Dropbox's case (nice product, very few complaints, p
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by sambe 10y ago
The whole series: https://honeycomb.io/blog/categories/instrumentation/
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by sambe 10y ago
The follow-up article mentioned by another poster ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13494463 ) mentions cancer as a risk of the treatment.
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by sambe 10y ago
Even ignoring counter-intuitive probabilities, the law of large numbers is often surprising: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=347059.347561 If you deal with large data, you might have experienced such issues already - ho
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by sambe 10y ago
This all seems a bit sensationalist. Mozilla tried a few other things, mostly didn't work out, maybe a bit distracted from Firefox. The decline from 2010 was about Chrome, not neglect (& maybe mobile, where they lacked a device). I
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by sambe 10y ago
And your comment sounds exactly like the author to me: "I can't move transparently from languages I know well to ones I don't". Would you be able to whip up same in Haskell or Erlang? How many people claiming this would
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by sambe 10y ago
Not sure if your comment was intended dismissively/jokingly, but I think also somewhat insightful. I find myself much less often really thinking about how to do something these days; if it seems remotely standard or potentially trouble
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by sambe 10y ago
Luminal boom, surely?
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by sambe 10y ago
Agree so much. I had a very theoretical course and am often shocked at how reluctant my peers are to investigate a problem in a language they don't already know (normally just one or max two). Also, if they need to quickly munge some t
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by sambe 10y ago
I can't believe you get down-voted for stating the obvious; so many otherwise-smart people jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon for this one. Lots of bad parts to TPP, but the "secrecy" was not one of them. You are being distra
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by sambe 10y ago
Why would they want to tie them back to you? The suggestion is: "these search terms returned unsatisfactory results".
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by sambe 10y ago
People legitimately disagree about value. Investment horizon is a large factor. Two teams can do the opposite side of a trade and both profit on different horizons. Usually the agreement or disagreement is statistical, executed by a program

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