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by thwd 9y ago
When I think about the generics discussion in the Go community (and even though I am personally for them), this is the kind of exponential complexity that I wouldn't want to see in any implementation thereof.
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by thwd 9y ago
> place cells Suiting, given that your username means "place" in German :)
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by thwd 9y ago
Shame how such a cool project as node.js can drown in political fingerpointing. The only measurement that counts (in my opinion) is cold hard code contributions.
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by thwd 9y ago
They should know that not all cars break down two times a month on average and that black smoke is definitively not a feature.
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by thwd 9y ago
Argumentum ad populum; people just don't know better. Also, I doubt it's really hundreds of millions (of people, as opposed to installs).
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by thwd 9y ago
Just like peer review is a necessary step for a study to be taken seriously, replication studies should be regarded as the direct next step. There needs to be incentive to reproduce the experiment.
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by thwd 9y ago
On the other hand, #3 might in this case be exactly that: Small companies creating accurate & precise modeling techniques using only a limited amount of data, while giants continue to rely on the sheer and blunt volume of it.
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by thwd 9y ago
Hochdeutsch is, in my experience, relative. Swiss people call the language of Germany Hochdeutsch, regardless of region. The southern Germans I've met seem to collectively agree that they do not speak Hochdeutsch and that Hochdeutsch i
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by thwd 9y ago
On my Google onsite (in Zürich as well), one of the interviewers told me that if he gave me a 4.0, he'd have to argue on my behalf if the hiring committee wasn't sure of hiring me.
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by thwd 10y ago
Very cool! One thing I noticed is that if you lock all colors except one and press 'generate' repeatedly, each call produces a different color. Why is that?
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by thwd 10y ago
There's a joke: Mathematics is just applied Philosophy. It bears some truth :)
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by thwd 10y ago
To master a lot of the most "hard core" programming concepts, dive into parsers and compilers. It will give you a perspective and generality that will permeate the rest of your career. It gives you arguably the most high-level per
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by thwd 10y ago
@rspeer used sarcasm, implying everything you said in your two posts and more.
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by thwd 10y ago
I understand what you mean and agree. But then, you don't need to compile JS into Dart. Rather, JS into DartVM byte code.
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by thwd 10y ago
Dart can compile to JS, so that edge is covered. Dart bytecode is arguably an easier target for other language compilers than, say, assembly. The DartVM's byte code is fully specified, there is some adoption, it's openly accessibl
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by thwd 10y ago
Thank you for answering the question seriously. All the down-votes were giving me the impression that the answer was "you don't". It's good to hear/read that the Java community is moving on from those practices.
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by thwd 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious: what is considered light-weight in the land of IAbstractFactoryCreatorBeanSingletonProviderDecorator? I.e. how do you consolidate OOP abstraction practices and conciseness, performance and usability?
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by thwd 10y ago
> So, have any of you ever been in the same situation and do you have any advice on how should I overcome this? I haven't, but a good friend had a very similar experience. He worked in telco, stayed at the same company for almost
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by thwd 10y ago
This sentence stood out to me: > Now that this gag order has been lifted, Cloudflare is able to publish a more accurate transparency report to its customers and constituents. A _more_ accurate report, not necessarily a completely accurat
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by thwd 10y ago
as C does: with a \00 end marker.
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by thwd 10y ago
Agreed, but the payload from the article doesn't seem to have suffered from astral radiation. Rather, random attempts at quote-escaping by someone who doesn't understand what they're doing. Also notice the "nan" val
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by thwd 10y ago
I think they mean that if you realize you're talking to a non-techie then you should make an effort to use simple words. Your TCP hex opcode knowledge does not impress someone who doesn't know what hex or TCP is. Figuring that the
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by thwd 10y ago
Yes, there are. Difference is radar/lidar both emit the radiation they use to see themselves. It's hard to illuminate a car's outside completely from within the car.
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by thwd 10y ago
Don't know about the American thing but what I do know is that while in Europe they teach us to turn our heads and bodies when driving, the modern world caught up with blindspotless mirrors and teach you to use them. It's much saf
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by thwd 10y ago
To illustrate my point: If I implemented some network program which converses with a remote server in multiple steps in an language with exceptions and something fails I might get a stack trace and the message: "Syntax error, expected
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by thwd 10y ago
True, you can discard errors on purpose by assigning them to "_", which is an explicit way of saying "I do not care about this error happening". If you do that and get a panic down the line, you already know where to sta
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by thwd 10y ago
How does Go completely ignore run-time errors? For all I know it forces you to deal with them by treating them as values instead of exceptions.
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by thwd 10y ago
That's just clever wording. > We won’t post or share your WhatsApp number with others, including _ON_ Facebook. Is just saying that your number won't be visible to your facebook peeps. Which does not mean that Facebook (the com
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by thwd 10y ago
A slice is a view over a continguous array. deleting an index in a continguous array is inherently O(n). Go doesn't obscure this. The pain of writing it out reflects the complexity of the operation.
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by thwd 10y ago
Compiling a Go program is really quick and painless! Nothing like a similar C/C++ project.

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