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by tinco 5y ago
I don't think jrochkind is correct at all, if you want to make a library that has a datastructure that you want to implement custom iteration on, then it is most definitely idiomatic ruby to implement `each` for it. Your article was sp
902.
by tinco 5y ago
Well that's a great point of discussion. My illustration was that you could spend all the same budget and actually have 10 staff and a bunch of real hardware on your balance sheet, instead of just an enormous AWS bill. That's staf
903.
by tinco 5y ago
Where did I gloss over them? I literally suggest spending 2 million a year on staff.
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by tinco 5y ago
The things you mention are ostensibly true, yet still they don't make sense to me. It might make sense when you're a startup that's growing, but when your SSD costs are so large you can save millions on them, then the numbe
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by tinco 5y ago
So a hero in the dictionary sense of the word? In the sense of the commonly agreed upon definition?
906.
by tinco 5y ago
Because it's disrespectful, and dismissive of the effort Aaron made to make our world a better place. It's also overly pessimistic, sure there's trash people on the planet and they're often in positions of power. But the
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by tinco 5y ago
Alright, it's maybe a bit hyperbole. If I'm thinking about what characterises Haskell, it's not that it has closures, it's that it makes control flow and side effects explicit through monads. Blueprint has a very similar
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by tinco 5y ago
Blueprint is already basically Haskell, I've done both and the similarities are striking. I think the world is ready for a proper visual programming language that plays nice with git, compiles down to native code and has all the nice a
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by tinco 5y ago
Because it's hard and ultimately imperfect. Even a simple constraint as a max value (which inherently all integer values should have) requires the compiler to have good understanding of the code for it to recognize explicit bounds chec
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by tinco 5y ago
The more crypto mining is banned, the better it is for Bitcoin. The more it is banned, less money is spent on mining which means transactions are cheaper and less CO2 is emitted per transaction.
911.
by tinco 5y ago
I don't think they haven't figured out anything super fundamental. There's a bunch of fusion companies all with aggressive time schedules that are aiming to generate electricity within the next 5 years or so. What you've
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by tinco 5y ago
There's a 40% chance Mr. Bond here would have died before his latest film "No Time To Die", if he had a 2% chance of death in each movie ;)
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by tinco 5y ago
Almost all modern programming languages have parsers for that language either as a standard library feature or as a package available in the ecosystem. That means it's very easy to run a production quality parser over an input string a
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by tinco 5y ago
Ha that's great. He'll be pleased to know that having your cellphone out on a bike in Amsterdam is now illegal and strictly policed. He was right to point it out, it was (and still is) really dangerous.
915.
by tinco 5y ago
I'm involved, I still think people are falling into a psychological trap comparable to a Ponzi scam. I was also involved by holding TSLA, still think that's the same kind of trap. I just think this kind of trap can possibly be sus
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by tinco 5y ago
Your argument is cleanly refuted by the article under the header "The operator must lie to investors about the source of profits.". No one is saying anything that goes up in value is a Ponzi scheme, that's an absurd statement
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by tinco 5y ago
That argument only makes sense when you don't mention any numbers. We try to see this as a black and white, Ponzi or not Ponzi. 1 or 0. You look at the original Ponzi scheme, earnings over market value is clearly zero. For a regular st
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by tinco 5y ago
Yet it is valued in the trillions. Likewise, our society uses billions worth of services from financial institutions. Bitcoin and more strongly Ethereum compete for that same utility. Sure they have some utility. The current block reward of
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by tinco 5y ago
> By that definition, gold too is a ponzi. The explanation for why gold is not a Ponzi holds true for Bitcoin itself too. At the very end, Bitcoin has a (tiny bit of) value as a means to establish the global ledger. Just like with gold t
920.
by tinco 5y ago
Exactly, the acronyms should be viewed as tools for the interviewer, not as trivia for the interviewee to know. Asking the interviewee to explain ACID or SOLID is fine, but if they don't know the acronyms that shouldn't be an inst
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by tinco 5y ago
The goal of the book is not to find quick wins in reducing CO2 output, the goal is to give a complete overview over what is necessary to achieve carbon neutrality. And MW/km2 might be a bottleneck if we're to replace all oil &
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by tinco 5y ago
Instant subscribe for me, what's wrong with the presentation? If you don't have anything nice or productive to say maybe refrain from commenting in the future. This guy obviously put a lot of effort into this video, it's a co
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by tinco 5y ago
In expert level RTS play, if you take even a tenth of a second to think about any decision anytime during the first 15 minutes you will most likely lose the game. After that it gets more interesting but many games don't last that long.
924.
by tinco 5y ago
Sort of same here in the NL, at some point over a decade ago they introduced overdraft mode for your account. It was 800 euro initially, and now it's tied to your income somehow. It's free but there's interest payment on the
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by tinco 5y ago
We just survived the worst crisis of the century, which was totally foreseeable and would have been a lot less bad if we had properly prepared as the experts advised us to do for decades. So let's definitely hold off on preparing for t
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by tinco 5y ago
As far as I know, legally speaking it would be a private message if the members were all members of a legal entity like a business. I.e. subject of this HN article is a private message to the Facebook organisation which clearly has over 100
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by tinco 5y ago
Well not to be inflammatory, but aren't you making your life more difficult by doing development on Windows? You could just run Windows in a VM if you need any Windows specific software, and have your main OS be something more suitable
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by tinco 5y ago
Browsers don't usually break older pages. The only time this happens when you rely on unstandardized features. At least, I have not noticed any page breaking in the past 15 years except for the ones I built using unstandardized API&#x2
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by tinco 5y ago
Not certain if I support your friend, but he is right in one regard. If people who push back against Zuckerberg were not part of Facebook, we would not have all these leaks. When they announced that they would be cracking down on leakers, t
930.
by tinco 5y ago
Something like this happened on Reddit, with the /r/the_donald subreddit. At first it was jokes at expense of the man, then it transformed into jokingly supporting his presidency. Then it became some quasi-intellectual support of

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