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by tmoertel 14y ago
My FiOS service has this problem as well. If the problem isn't isolated to TWC, what's really causing it?
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by tmoertel 14y ago
In this case, however, I don't want to use something like `git add -p` to pick the sledgehammer's good effects from the bad. That there are bad effects means the original sledgehammer was wrong. I want to fix the sledgehammer. Yes, I cou
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by tmoertel 14y ago
The reason I don't use `git add -p` to incrementally approve the "good" changes is that the sledgehammer is not incremental: it expects to be applied to the original clean slate. Using git stash will get me back to that clean slate. Using
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by tmoertel 14y ago
I actually tried that at first, but the Typo-flavored Textile in my old posts wasn't reliably interpreted by Pandoc. (That's also why I had to clean up the posts after I used Pandoc to convert them into Markdown.) Since I had manual edits
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by tmoertel 14y ago
> Why not just commit after the first step? Good question. In answer, there are two reasons: First, a stash is a commit, just one that doesn't get in your way and that you don't have to keep track of yourself because it's automaticall
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Indeed. Whenever you drop the sledgehammer, you have the obligation to exhaustively review its effects at least once to be sure there wasn't collateral damage. The beauty of the second-order diff is that, once you do an exhaustive review,
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by tmoertel 14y ago
GP here. You're right that the final diff, in this case the second-order diff, cannot by itself prove that my final adjustment fixed all of the broken sentence-end links. But I wasn't merely going on that evidence. The whole point of using
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Although it's the source code for the Atari 800 version of PCS, it seems to have been built on an Apple II. From MAKE1 [1] for example: CALL -151 3F2:69 FF 5A BLOAD GPAK.OBJ,A$1300 BLOAD CDRAW.O,A$2480 BLOAD PCSA800.P
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by tmoertel 14y ago
What worthwhile benefit does society receive for underwriting the cost of rebuilding property in flood plains? I mean, if you build a house where it's likely to be destroyed, it obviously benefits you to make your inland neighbors pay fo
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Scatterplots are only a "terrible" choice when the underlying data set is concentrated; in all other cases they are superior. Do you not realize that using a 2D histogram on a sparse data set is every bit as foolish as using a scatterplot
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Using a 2D histogram when there isn't overplotting is just throwing away good data. Why do it unless you need to?
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Histograms are great for visualizing relative density, but they have problems when items don't sort neatly into bins. They also make it hard for viewers to accurately estimate the portion of the distribution that falls within arbitrary ran
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by tmoertel 14y ago
If you want to see how I recreated the OP's graph, just fork my GitHub repo. It has R code and the data sets, too: https://github.com/tmoertel/nyva-cursory Anyway, here are the variables I used to identify comparable observations:
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Important expectation-calibration note: I'm not making any claims about teacher performance, the usefulness of the value-added idea, or any lofty topics in general. I'm just trying to figure out how to recreate the first graph in the ini
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Sorry about the mix-up. Anyway, here's the data for anyone interested: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/156599/now-available-...
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Do you have a convenient link to the data set you used to generate the first plot in your article?
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Let J be a random variable ranging over software jobs and distributed as in nature. Now let c ( j , k ) be the penalty for having to work around a lack of knowledge k while holding job j . You seem to be saying that for certain values
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Colin, if we start with the hypothesis that "any developer really ought to be able to solve [that problem]", we get a testable prediction: If a person cannot solve that problem, that person is not "really" capable of being a developer. This
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Software development final exam answers: Part 3(daemonology.net)
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by tmoertel 14y ago
But deferring the error means the implementation does not work equally well: it sacrifices safety. When a programmer tries to combine strings X and Y that are incompatible, it's because he misunderstands what X or Y actually represents. Thi
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by tmoertel 14y ago
It's important to realize that safety is not a property of a string but a property of the relationship between a string and a use context . Thus all "solutions" that rely upon marking strings as clean work for only one kind of context.
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Yes, a compiler can do that for you. One example: http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/10/18/a-type-based-sol... (That was written over six years ago. Today, there are even better solutions that don't just apply static types to strings b
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by tmoertel 14y ago
For me, the strongest overlooked argument for strong static type systems (like Haskell's) is security. With them, you can make the compiler prove that your code is free of certain commonly exploited classes of security problems (e.g., XSS
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Please help me improve my comments: Why the downvote?
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by tmoertel 14y ago
This makes a great example of conflating correlation and causation. (I don’t mean this as a criticism of the original post. Rather, I think it’s an opportunity to discuss something that’s fascinating and counterintuitive and that even res
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Some friendly, candid feedback: If Legit is not intended for beginners, why not say so on the project page? "Git Workflow for Humans" "optimized for workflow simplicity" "branch workflows are dead simple" "Nice and simple – the way it shoul
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by tmoertel 14y ago
There are other messages that one can draw. For example, the most obvious to me is this one: Change happens, so be adaptable. (Other strategies haven't fared so well.)
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I think I now understand your argument and, while I have a hard time believing the claims upon which it rests, I believe that reasonable people could believe them.
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by tmoertel 14y ago
Can you help me understand why you believe that my example was a poor choice? I offered a sentence in English and made the claims that (1) it was powerful and (2) not admitted by the grammars that govern such constructions. I thought that
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by tmoertel 14y ago
My claim wasn't that there was no rhyme or reason to human communication but rather that grammar does not capture that rhyme and reason, just a small part of it. That is, there is no "rule set" in reality. Nevertheless, you can create a rul

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