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by thedufer 9y ago
Yes, I intended "could force them to" as a description of a court order.
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by thedufer 9y ago
> I would just contact amazon and find out where the money went I like to think that Amazon won't give its users bank details to random people. A federal officer could force them give it up.
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by thedufer 9y ago
Property dividends are a thing. I would be quite surprised if ETrade got away with swiping property dividends from its clients.
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by thedufer 9y ago
It isn't clear how that passes points 2 or 4. Maybe if you explain why you think it does, you'll get a better answer.
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by thedufer 9y ago
Time _complexity_ is unchanged, but laziness makes it difficult to reason about when the time will be taken. This, more so than the space usage, is the reason laziness is avoided when run time is important. > Strict evaluation is often
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by thedufer 9y ago
Do you really need to do the double-blind study, though? The median person cannot program at all, so using rnd() couldn't possibly have better than a 50% success rate (certainly lower; 50% is just a round number that I'm sure is
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by thedufer 9y ago
This title seems to imply something pretty bad about MIT and gender diversity. This feels like a good argument for putting the date on older articles in square brackets rather than parens. Brackets are commonly used for editorializing quo
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by thedufer 9y ago
Why can't everyone make money on the stock market? It's not a zero-sum game.
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by thedufer 9y ago
Some lotteries that accumulate when there are no winners have weeks with better-than-even odds. By this logic, you should wait until the odds are sufficiently in your favor and then dump your entire savings account into lotto tickets, for
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by thedufer 9y ago
I'm not sure post-spending is the right thing to look at. One of the many reasons working at a startup is an awkward sell is that it means giving up money during your lowest-earning years in hope of getting more in your higher-earning
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by thedufer 9y ago
Does the "we" pronoun not make this sufficiently clear?
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by thedufer 9y ago
Last time you listed symbols that were missing dsacco showed that they were not. Why should we believe these?
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by thedufer 9y ago
Is that true? I thought most functional programming languages did call-by-reference. I mean, if you have immutable data you can't tell the difference (outside of performance).
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by thedufer 9y ago
Being clear on reference vs value is certainly important, but you lose the ability to honestly call it a programming quiz. Those questions make it a Python quiz - which is fine! But not what you've sold it as.
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by thedufer 9y ago
> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Y
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by thedufer 9y ago
Just having to pay for the training is not what the person I responded to seemed to be suggesting (it sounds like indentured servitude was exactly what was being proposed, in fact). That is, as others have mentioned, reasonably common, and
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by thedufer 9y ago
I suspect such a contract would be unenforceable in most first world countries. It certainly would be in the US, which is not exactly a paragon of worker protections.
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by thedufer 9y ago
The section "OCaml Blocks and Values" at https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/memory-representation-... is a good explanation.
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by thedufer 9y ago
Presumably most of the people in this thread already have a smartphone. So it isn't really one _more_ thing.
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by thedufer 10y ago
The Either pattern for errors works great in OCaml; most of the code I write uses it. I'm not sure what problem you're referring to.
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by thedufer 10y ago
How much leverage is the right amount? Regulators seem to think it is somewhere around 10x.
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by thedufer 10y ago
I don't see anyone arguing that your past salary should have any effect on your future comp. On the other hand, the position that a candidate seems to be with X, but is actually worth Y << X if they've down themselves to be
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by thedufer 10y ago
It isn't that hard to open a court case with a TBD defendant. If the USG thought they could get a subpoena, I have every faith that they could have figured it out.
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by thedufer 10y ago
The wording seems to pretty clearly say otherwise, but I appreciate the confirmation that I'm not missing anything.
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by thedufer 10y ago
Can you explain how named curried functions differ from ocaml's named arguments? It looks exactly the same, other than the syntax.
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by thedufer 10y ago
I think it is worth seeing what's out there even if you're happy. Maybe there's something better! The standard process where the first two steps are some ordering of a 1-hour interview with someone technical and a chat with
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by thedufer 10y ago
This phrasing may sound like entitlement, but try turning it around. Most of the people who will turn down a homework assignment are the ones who can afford to do so, because they already have a good job or know they can find one. Is that
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by thedufer 10y ago
> Not when you move them from board to board That's not true. Did you try it? > I recall (can't test this) that moving a card is not logged. Moves between boards and lists are logged. Moves up and down a list are logged, b
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by thedufer 10y ago
> A house doesn't provide dividends. Unless you are talking about investment properties, which, again, isn't what we are talking about here. A house pays you by saving you rent, which as I pointed out farther down is mathematic
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by thedufer 10y ago
> A house has a more important primary purpose Aren't houses purchased for the intent of renting them out investments? This would argue that they are not. Seems to be proving too much. Despite the title, this section of the articl

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