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by tcgv 6y ago
The title chosen by the OP is contained in the second half of the article: > “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today,” Meier says. “I’m not sure even I would play it. It wouldn’t fit in the zeitgeist. It asks a lot of the player,
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by tcgv 6y ago
Another useful concept of memory organization is what's called a "schema": > A schema is any pattern of relationships among data stored in memory. It is any set of nodes and links between them in the spider web of memory
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by tcgv 6y ago
> Supposing you have a directed graph of every human who is willing to publicly vouch for the credibility of some other human, you can run something like PageRank on that to determine the degree to which you should trust some random repo
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by tcgv 6y ago
He forgot to add up the cost of bad publicity due to car crashes. If not somehow thrown under the carpet it would harm the car's credibility reducing overall sales (and profits)
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Hurrian Songs(en.wikipedia.org)
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A mental framework for investigating bugs(thomasvilhena.com)
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Disabling TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1(thomasvilhena.com)
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by tcgv 6y ago
> since some kind of autoregressive time series forecasting system seems pretty unreliable. A few months ago I tried to evaluate autoregressive behavior in stock returns. To my surprise it seemed strong on some periods, but then weak on
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Boris Johnson dodges questions on £11.8M Covid-19 contact tracing app(expressandstar.com)
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Markov Chains(kevinbinz.com)
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by tcgv 6y ago
A reliable fake news detector that my older relatives can use easily, and maybe more importantly, that they feel inclined to use instead of just believing and sharing every piece of information they receive.
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Ask HN: At which point should a startup build a dedicated security team?
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by tcgv 6y ago
That's a valid point, and a though one. But without affirmative action policies we may never be able to change the status quo and promote social inclusion. The challenge is making sure these actions don't create new social gaps.
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by tcgv 6y ago
Exactly my thoughts when reading the original comment. In his case he was already handing in his resignation, so he didn't care too much. Someone who isn't willing to risk their jobs should be careful while proving a someone else
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by tcgv 6y ago
Complexity classes of problems (P, NP, NP-Complete and NP-Hard) was a subject that I often had a hard time trying to get my head around it, trying to remember the concepts from college, so last year I decided to write about it [1] to improv
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by tcgv 6y ago
I have been increasingly seeing cookie banners that provide more options than just the typical "Ok" or "Accept" buttons, such as a more restrict cookie tracking configuration. Not sure if selecting the more restrict conf
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by tcgv 6y ago
The article is very shallow on technical details indeed. It seems they are trying to promote MongoDB as the solution to their failed attempt of standardizing their application/data model: > Historically, (...) HSBC did have an appli
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by tcgv 6y ago
> The problem with restaurants (globally!) is they have zero responsibility or incentive to serve food that fits the nutritional needs of their customers. I will have to disagree. Maybe this is a cultural thing (I'm from Brazil) but
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by tcgv 6y ago
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. So, if I understand you correctly, it appears that the book might've had a positive impact in aligning the mindset of your team during that project, helping things move smoothly. Did you and
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Ask HN: What're little-known practices that make for great development teams?
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by tcgv 6y ago
> When a startup becomes wildly successful, you'll have the funds to pay off tech debt. I'm against holding this view. Sure, if (and that's a big "if") your startup becomes wildly successful then you'll be a
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by tcgv 6y ago
> I lost another family member yesterday. A young mother of 2 girls. I'm deeply sorry for your loss. > the military government will start to fudge the numbers even further Just to clarify to those who aren't familiar with th
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by tcgv 6y ago
I think it's only fair for people with disabilities to be offended when someone that's not been through the difficulties that they've been through make use of their disabilities for comparisons in making a point. "mnemon
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by tcgv 6y ago
> I know of the localized versions of StackOverflow but they hardly are worth visiting. Portuguese is my native english but I never use the portuguese version of StackOverflow. The english version content is just so much better that I do
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by tcgv 6y ago
Probably because paying 5 figures to the account owner was cheaper, faster and safer than recreating the production env from scratch
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Data replication in random regular graphs(thomasvilhena.com)
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by tcgv 6y ago
A way to mitigate this issue is to ask for a confirmation before marking the email address as unsubscribed, showing the retrieved email address in a large font as to prevent someone who received a forwarded email from mistakenly unsubscribi
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by tcgv 6y ago
There are also plenty of people who weren't born rich, played the game well, and "made it". Probably not as much as those who were born rich and got a head start.
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by tcgv 6y ago
> your dream self can't tell what these other dream-people are thinking, even though they're all part of your mind That's a great proposition! Nevertheless I'd be more inclined to believe that these dream-people are n
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by tcgv 6y ago
To correctly apply the LSP when designing subclasses it's not enough to just ensure syntactic safety but also behavioral correctness. The Bag example you gave is an example of not ensuring behavioral correctness. > Doing the opposit

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