thehardsphere

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by thehardsphere 9y ago
What makes it outdated besides the publication date?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I think these are good questions, but I don't think they could replace the questions in the Joel Test because they're very specific to host-your-own-SaaS-product development. The Joel Test questions are applicable to pretty much a
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
You've missed the point I and the GP are making completely. GP is making an argument about what is happening to displaced people, not about what is happening to the coal industry. The claim in the GP is _not_ that coal "is dying t
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
You mean like, turn Appalachia into the Silicon Valley of the East? This is an old idea, and implementations of it almost never work. It's usually because there's some other facet of "the fish" that is difficult to repli
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Really? We should subsidize broken economies in perpetuity, by allowing people to stay in them forever? I think that's only going to cement what we're already seeing, unless people use their UBI to buy luggage and bus fare.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
The Democratic Party Presidential candidate in the last election openly boasted about plans to "put the coal companies out of business" after she would be elected, so it's not entirely a straw man to say that there are people
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
> unlike certain countries that heavily fund culture in rural areas so that perpetually unemployed people have [places] to spend their time at productively Could you cite examples of what countries these are who pursue these policies for
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
The call center can afford an internet connection; it's cheaper than the people they'd be hiring.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
"Any more beer?"
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Then you may not be working in the same problem domain as the person who asked the question. I mean, my experience is pretty much the same as yours, to the point where if someone blames the language for poor performance I'm immediately
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I'm mainly operating on what I remember from when I studied this in grad school years ago. This FAQ about MWI seems pretty detailed, and includes references to other sources: http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
You can use GPL for a library. Just as long as you don't care that the user needs to release their code under the GPL. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Contrary to popular misconception, the Observer Effect and the Uncertainty Principle are not actually the same thing. The Observer Effect is something that can happen in all sorts of experiments, classical or not, and is a result poor exper
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
It is not a philosophical debate in the arbitrary way that you suggest. "Observation" and "measurement" are not used by physicists in this context as common words, but as jargon with very precise meaning. Depending on wh
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
That is an exceptionally useful answer for me because I'm considering this for a strategy game with tilemaps. Thank you.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
That looks like a nice way to add support for other libraries or optimize certain operations. But I'm more interested in a comparison between dynamic languages for quickly writing game logic. It's a pattern that seems fairly commo
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Do you know how the performance of GDScript execution compares to something like Python embedded in an engine where the more costly operations are run in compiled C or C++ code? Or even how the real Python performance in Godot compares to t
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
If it's incorrect, you likely have bigger problems than where to send the pin. And I think there are ways to correct the address. If it's outdated, then it simply goes to your old address. If you moved, the Post Office will forwar
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Maybe bandwidth went up in the same period the price went down? Just a guess.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I wasn't aware that anybody on Hacker News had an implicit moral obligation to "not harm the morale of new programmers", especially in cases where it might be a open question if said programmers are "wasting their time.&
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
It's not just as available to add to; you can only add to Central through one of three approved hosts unless your project has a special exception. And those hosts all involve an actual review of your artifact, its signature, and your P
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
And "Vice President" is a relatively low seniority title at a bank, which the earlier firms seem to be.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
No, we get cases A, B, and C, because those cases are really easy for anyone to understand. What you're missing is that some of the "ycombinator crowd" have worked with enough "average Equifax Joes" enough to know t
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
What is the non-tech industry supposed to do?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
It's easy to understand once you get just how simplistic it is. The VP will deliver a dressing down if the company loses money and the blame can be placed on the director. The cost of an outage is very easy to quantify (revenue per min
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
If you can't trust the package author at all then you shouldn't use their package.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
It's less of an issue, but it still could be an issue. Deployed Maven artifiacts from Central are to required to be signed with a PGP key and are only supposed to come from approved hosts. I don't know how strictly that is enforce
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
State actors do not limit themselves to government and military targets; many of them target civilians for all sorts of purposes.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I thought Maven enforces signatures? Though that doesn't fully mitigate the risk as you still have to trust the signer.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Actually, in some cases it is a distinction with a difference. US Immigration law still prohibits members of the actual Nazi party from obtaining permanent residency, and people looking to live here still have to sign statements under penal

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