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by wcarss 9y ago
Hey so, your argument rests on the assumption that the ultra-micro applies to the macro, which you've just taken as a given, and which is likely false. Even if it were given, there are further problems in there. So that's not grea
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by wcarss 9y ago
I recently learned of a pretty surprising chrome console interpreter bug that was reported as early as 2010[1], fixed by 2012, and at some point seems to have degraded again. console.log lazily evaluates complex values at first-expand-time,
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by wcarss 9y ago
In my opinion, the non-hashable version which you moved here from a now-deleted response below is a perfect example of code that is harder to read, harder to hold in one's head, and most importantly harder to modify. The most pythonic
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by wcarss 9y ago
Thank you for providing this insight -- I'm one of the seemingly rare few who hates ligatures in my Latin-script fonts, and when I saw this submission my brain leapt to "augh, why!?" -- you've given at least one very cle
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by wcarss 9y ago
I agree, this statement seems like the most interesting one in the essay. It reminds me of expected value calculations: extremely low probability events of tremendously high impact could actually out-rate moderately probable events of moder
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by wcarss 9y ago
building something _at scale_ is basically the approach ITER has taken, and there is a different kind of problem in it: people & project management at that scale are very tough. Maybe tougher than the engineering even is. When you need
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by wcarss 9y ago
While thinking about this problem in the past, I've ended up using the phrase "participatory meta-content" to describe this kind of content that's built around the audience's participation in the viewing of a show.
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by wcarss 9y ago
Can you elaborate on the Canticle for Leibowitz connection? Not doubt motivating me, just curiosity as I've never made the connection and enjoyed both works.
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by wcarss 9y ago
If you want to listen to ~7 hours of Sid Meier being interviewed about Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, Civ, the move from Microprose to Firaxis, and more, these podcasts[1] are awesome. They're done by Soren Johnson, creator of Offworld Trad
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by wcarss 10y ago
I'd like to think that this headline is a clever rhetorical [ab]use of Betteridge's law, but that may broadly give the editorial staffs of the world too much credit. (for any who haven't heard of Betteridge's law, "
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by wcarss 10y ago
odd sighting: your first youtube link has a brief cameo of the scream mask in the stock footage of delivery trucks: https://youtu.be/1GpaAF3_lKA?t=31
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by wcarss 10y ago
edit: hn didn't show me all the responses that came in as I wrote this -- it may overlap with some others. Hi -- there's a very important piece of information missing from your take, and I think it might make a difference to you:
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by wcarss 10y ago
I've come to look forward to these articles a great deal each week. For those of you who haven't been to Jimmy's site before, definitely check out the Hall of Fame and Table of Contents sections -- he's written nearly 5
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by wcarss 10y ago
Is there a definitive angular versus react versus ember (or others) pros/cons/community status page out there somewhere?
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by wcarss 10y ago
And even their code is still often bloated, maddening hacks on hacks.
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by wcarss 10y ago
This is an interesting thought but it does not get into the motivations for why a real political party might make the choice to operate this way -- there likely needs to be some perceived comparative advantage to the potential users of such
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by wcarss 10y ago
My understanding is that it is purely to improve the short term outlook on paper. I agree that it does not seem wise for the actual health of the entity.
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by wcarss 10y ago
The Dell/EMC purchase may have been just to buy and then sell VMware, which EMC owned. If I recall correctly, EMC and VMware had both lost meaningful value after uniting and it was commonly held that VMWare was worth much more, so Dell
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by wcarss 10y ago
The loss and subsequent banning of maps and map users made nearly everyone I know stop playing, especially in the total absence of an official replacement or a compelling reason to continue. Hearing my map ding was enough cause to make me l
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by wcarss 10y ago
My grandfather was an RAF pilot during WWII, who lived in Saskatoon and Kamsack from 1920ish until the 1990s -- I'm not sure if he was stationed there during WWII (I think he might have been put on the east coast) but if he was, he&#x2
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by wcarss 10y ago
There seem like so many ways to make this more secure than a public-but-hard-to-guess URL. Am I missing them? Does anyone have ideas on why it's a bad idea to for example require a login? Edit: just want to append that this is really n
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by wcarss 10y ago
Not out of disbelief but rabid curiosity, if you happen to have a link to a gamasutra article or gdc talk or something similar where bethesda folks talk about their AI experiments running amok I would love to read it.
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by wcarss 10y ago
When I'm reading a web page or code, I occasionally stand or sit with my mouse in my hand and my arm relaxed at my side, or across my chest. It changes the extension of my arm considerably and sometimes makes things much more comfortab
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by wcarss 10y ago
I think this response is exactly what he was trying to preempt at the end of the talk, when he noted that these ideas in particular aren't his point: his point was that all of these ideas hatched in a short timeframe long ago, and they
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by wcarss 10y ago
Spoilers: The talk is presented as though the year is 1973 and Bret Victor is reviewing some of the great stuff that's happened the last decade and four major trends that he can imagine will define computing in 40-someodd years. They r
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by wcarss 10y ago
Joist had a San Jose office, which was also closed.
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by wcarss 10y ago
The content is served in a span in a span in 11 nested divs in a span in a section in 2 more nested divs -- at least it looks nice. The "discuss on slack" feature is pretty neat. The thought of being able to hop into a discussion
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by wcarss 11y ago
I'm amazed at how well my phone handles this.
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by wcarss 11y ago
I feel that in almost any discussion about slack, someone pops up with essentially my parent comment's message -- listing the ills of the app, which I interpret roughly as "people's communication styles are a bother, and inte
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by wcarss 11y ago
> The main problem I see with flask is that it isn't obvious to people picking up the library the right way to structure and scale an application code base. I wholeheartedly agree! Do you have any resources in mind (even perhaps not

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