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by stiglitz 7y ago
“You might consciously check in some bad code temporarily, intending to upgrade the code at some future point.“ The problem is how often devs forget about “temporary” code.
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by stiglitz 7y ago
Survivor bias
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by stiglitz 7y ago
Yes, it’s correct to say that they “perform burnouts,” because “burnout” is being used there as a noun.
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by stiglitz 7y ago
This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right. NOUN: burnout shutdown failover VERB: burn out shut down fail over Just about any verb+adv
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by stiglitz 7y ago
Agreed- a replica of this thread seems to be produced on a weekly basis on HN.
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by stiglitz 7y ago
“That 22-year-old communications major has had to make way for data scientists, mathematicians, and computer programmers who, behind the scenes, use statistics, calculus, and linear algebra to optimize advertising campaigns, by micro-target
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by stiglitz 7y ago
Feeling good is not the point of news. The point is being informed. I cant help but think of the saying, “ignorance is bliss.”
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by stiglitz 8y ago
A lifesaver or a crutch.
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by stiglitz 8y ago
This is the most concise statement of the problem with communication technology I’ve ever read.
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by stiglitz 8y ago
It’s hazardous and frankly inhuman to boil down human interaction into metrics like “number of participants.” I’m amused by this notion that “it may feel like loneliness but it’s actually the richness of our new modes of communication you a
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by stiglitz 8y ago
Skaevola didn’t say “expressed preference.” He/she said “revealed preference.” I.e. revealed by actual purchases. This is more meaningful than any other “expression.”
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by stiglitz 8y ago
Some people really mean “the code is the design” when they say “there is no design.” The point being that it’s easy to come up with a vague “design” that falls apart (or comes together, but as an unmaintainable mess) when you try to impleme
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by stiglitz 8y ago
Add a code comment to that single line of code.
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by stiglitz 8y ago
You mean quadratic, not exponential.
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by stiglitz 8y ago
The caffeine content claims about hojicha are apocryphal and in my subjective experience it has as much caffeine as other teas.
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by stiglitz 8y ago
I like the tool but I'm aggravated to see that the sysinternals trope of printing BROUGHT TO YOU BY MARK RUSSINOVICH [ovich... ovich...] on every use persists. Pompous.
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by stiglitz 8y ago
Ultimately we are talking about a feature whereby someone steals my card and buys something, and then I contest the purchase and don’t have to pay for it. So abstractly, is there really a difference? Edit- Is the crucial difference that the
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by stiglitz 8y ago
I refuse all such games. It’s like Thoreau said: you judge your wealth based on what you can afford not to worry about. It means giving up money, but on principle these “points” are disgusting to me. Especially credit cards, which are also
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by stiglitz 8y ago
“IP warmup.” Is this an algorithm to send broadcast emails at the maximum rate that avoids ISP spam detection? I find this concept disturbing. Morals of spam aside, we have two systems clearly working at odds rather than doing productive wo
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by stiglitz 8y ago
I can choose C or C++ in my workplace. I prefer primitive rather than clever (i.e. pompous) solutions to problems and therefore choose C. I also do not want to spend a significant portion of my time in the hallway discussing language featur
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by stiglitz 8y ago
My friends often complain about how early the holiday season starts. The advice in this article sort of explains that phenomenon: competition drives up advertising prices near the holiday, which makes earlier days more valuable for advertis
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by stiglitz 8y ago
I think it’s a thought experiment and not a suggestion. And the transmitter is for the person being videotaped, not the person creating the video. Though of course you raise a good point about anonymity of the video creator.
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by stiglitz 8y ago
Would work in some but not all scenarios. Perhaps the video is legitimate but embarrassing for the represented party, so the represented party declines to sign it.
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by stiglitz 8y ago
That configuration is already possible in Windows with the “DelayedAckFrequency” parameter and in Linux with the “quickACK” setting, but it’s unrelated to congestion control, and it will neither “solve” bottlenecks nor “turn TCP into UDP.”
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by stiglitz 10y ago
[nit] Windows Subsystem for Linux