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by vog 9y ago
It is really a pity that in the US, net neutrality was never established by law, but "just" on institutional level. Here in the EU, things are much slower and the activists were somewhat envious how fast net neutrality was establi
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by vog 9y ago
We had very good results with Asciidoctor and Asciidoctor PDF for reports and especially for manuals. In Asciidoctor PDF, we occationally ran into minor issues, but most of the time we pleasantly found out these vanished in the latest versi
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by vog 9y ago
Since this is about treating human beings, of course the best qualified people are physicians. More precisely, medical psychotherapist and related professions. Among various treatments, behavior therapy is quite common, but there are others
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by vog 9y ago
A similar phenomenon are the various ways people try to trick their procrastination habit, not with money (fake price) but with time (fake priorities). However, as you correctly noticed, these techniques don't work well. That's no
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by vog 9y ago
> when I spend £30 on a single book, damn right am I going to finish it. That's an interesting exploitation of the sunk cost fallacy. [1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_th...
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by vog 9y ago
> reasoning about the correctness of complex code, however the tradeoff is difficulty in reasoning about performance That's what drove me to languages like OCaml and Rust, which try to solve this tradeoff in a different way: Same
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by vog 9y ago
I first thought that this is quite expensive (250$ are roughly 230€), but then I had a look at local offers here in Berlin. Here it is 210€/month, so only slightly cheaper. However, you can get a cheaper place if you use it only part-t
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by vog 9y ago
> I tried cafes and libraries but, oddly, they no longer worked for me—the noise and the people walking by suddenly became a huge distraction. I see that issue with cafés, but I never had such an issue with libraries. At least the libr
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by vog 9y ago
I get the impression that the p and ggp comments are part of a misguided experiment in automatic text generation.
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by vog 9y ago
> It doesn't stop at forward-mode, and reverse-mode, because finding the optimal mode relates to a complicated graph problem, which, IIRC, is NP-hard in general. Yes, there are combined forward-reverse-mode approaches as well as &
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by vog 9y ago
Note that the simplistic approach doesn't scale well, as terms tend to "explode" in size and hence computation time. There is a whole sub field of mathematics / computer science called "algorithmic differentiation&q
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by vog 9y ago
> I don't think I could conceive of and write TensorFlow in 10 years of work. Don't understimate the human ability to learn. 10 years are plenty of time to learn the math and to find good code structures.
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by vog 9y ago
> Show me your well structured code and well named unit tests and I won't need your flow charts. Please note that the quote uses old language. With "flowcharts" they actually meant what we know call "structured code
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by vog 9y ago
Note that "tables" in this statement had a different meaning than today. That one wasn't about relational databases, it was about tables as in-memory data structures. In today's words, "flowcharts" means "
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by vog 9y ago
> I don't understand why [...] corporations [...] getting their brand name as a TLD, and then [...] not use their TLD I hope this doesn't sound too snarky, but: Maybe they know how worthless that TLD is, and just want to ensu
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by vog 9y ago
Not just unique ranges (which is trivial), but also non-overlapping ranges!
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by vog 9y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but is Quora still a thing? I thought it was largely made obsolete by the various StackExchange sites and networks.
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by vog 9y ago
I think this happens all the time. Since good programmers can automate practically everything, they tend to automate as much as makes economically sense for them. So programming, almost by definition, always involved all tasks that are not
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by vog 9y ago
Another example is the query planner of a good relational database (PostgreSQL, etc.). Here, SQL can also be viewed as a lazy evaulated programming language, due to its declarative nature and the fact that the execution order is not defined
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by vog 10y ago
> Java is a bad example since it could (theoretically) do all kinds of optimizations based on runtime profiling under the hood Isn't that true for every language? No offense intended, but this strongly reminds me of the "Suff
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by vog 10y ago
What's wrong with the title? I'd prefer the term "Shoa" over "Holocaust", as that this is AFAIK the term preferred by the victim groups. But apart from that I don't see any issue with the title. Do you car
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by vog 10y ago
Still, I have often heard that people change their view of the "world", once they had an impressive experience regarding our place in the universe. After people are "infected" by the "space virus", and often ad
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by vog 10y ago
Why do you think so? The coin was flipped multiple (n) times, so the probability of total success is 0.5^n. For 10 coin flips, it is already less than 1/1000. Alternatively, you can view it as a game that is repeated until one person i
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by vog 10y ago
That's strange. Such a huge discussion here on HN, but very few explaination and discussion on ExplainXKCD: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1827 Is this because people prefer discussion threads over
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by vog 10y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by vog 10y ago
I also found Riot very practical, mostly because I got up and running very quickly. I had a well-structured Riot app done faster than grasping all that ReactJS boilerplate. And this was possible even though the Riot documentation was sub-op
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by vog 10y ago
Indeed, during the last three years there were 4 article. However, 2 of them were less insightful and more marketing pitches. Anyway, I still have his blog in my RSS reader, so I won't miss if he writes a new article. Even his more mar
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by vog 10y ago
I don't buy that argument. If "customers and reputation" were sufficient, we wouldn't need regulations on the safety of e.g. medical stuff, food and cars. (And history, as well as comparison with other countries, confirm
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by vog 10y ago
Sorry, typo. I meant "sufficient", not "relevant".
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by vog 10y ago
> True, but not much team follow these Isn't this a very good indicator that the Joel test is still sufficient? Only once almost all companies pass the Joel test with 12/12 points [1], a modernization is needed to distinguish

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