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by wellpast 9y ago
> Amazon and Goodreads ratings, and numerous online book-reviewing sites, have all contributed to and reflected the democratization of the arbitration of literary taste. But such democratization is not intrinsically a good thing. Same ph
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by wellpast 9y ago
Having the choice to pin versions separately per module is a desirable feature, especially for multi-module builds with different deploy artifacts. So this is no problem at all; deciding which versions to pin per artifact/module is
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by wellpast 9y ago
— “SELECT...” is not an abstraction for “for...”, by the way. Abstractions are not for specific implementations. “SELECT...” is an abstraction for specifying Sets etc. — Maven is simple, not arcane. I’ve produced countless “custom” builds
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by wellpast 9y ago
Maven at its core is very simple. The lifecycle is well-documented and so is the dependency resolution. Many coworkers I've worked with have called it complicated and then I find out they really haven't learned the (very simple) l
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by wellpast 9y ago
When you picked your original door, you had a 1% (1 in 100) chance of picking the winner. Consider the 99% cases that you got the original choice wrong. Then the host has no choice, he must close all doors but the winner. So 99% of the ti
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by wellpast 9y ago
Try the same problem with 100 doors instead of 3. You pick a door, the host closes all other doors except one. Then ask yourself would you really stay on the door you originally picked?
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by wellpast 9y ago
Words and vocabulary aren’t enough. Not the colloquial/dictionary sense, at least. So if we’re talking about “facts” in an “ontology” — these are still (they must be if they are going to be processed by a machine) concrete formalisms -
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by wellpast 9y ago
I agree w/ you. So in that sense it’s not truly at my loss—that part I was being (somewhat) rhetorical about. However it has definitely been the case where I’ve contended with some Senior Engineer who has found the light in OO progra
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The CPU does not care about your abstractions. Abstractions are entirely wrt the human dealing with them. A good abstraction is only “good” with respect to some context/purpose—there is no such thing as a universally/generally goo
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I can relate to the pain of going through an interview knowing that the interviewer is expecting a specific approach/answer (an OO answer!) that my hard-won experience has already long ruled out. And morals and/or my sense of id
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by wellpast 9y ago
Been poking around. I like his thinking. Apparently, "Paul Graham is a weenis," though. http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm#...
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by wellpast 9y ago
Is there a market for a screenless phone with voice interaction only (which would not obviate at all many usueful apps "texting", maps, note-taking, etc, btw) -- I know for certain that I would replace my iPhone with (a sufficient
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by wellpast 9y ago
Really? It seems like there are a plethora of options. See an endless list at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376242
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by wellpast 9y ago
http://idlewords.com/about.htm
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Poll: Are you invested in cryptocurrencies?
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Essentially 0% invested
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Less than 0.5% invested
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Between 0.5% and 1% invested
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Between 1% and 2% invested
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Between 2% and 5% invested
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Between 5% and 10% invested
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Greater than 10% invested
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Well I would consider any puzzle type problems technically "unnecessary" but I thought the adventofcode puzzles in 2016 were fun, well designed and tapped into some good CS algorithm and theory stuff.
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> 1. I don’t care about the work > If you don’t care about the work, it’s going be a long and agonizing journey to completing this task and its descendant tasks in the future. I'm sure there are some good life hacks to trick you
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by wellpast 9y ago
> Flexibility is great, but if anything the lesson mongo taught us over the past few years is that stability and safety are more important, and will cause you less of a headache in the long term. It sounds like you don't really need
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> The latter just encodes the possible states directly and explicitly. The very concept of "possible states" is the problem. By deciding that your domain entity has possible valid states in all situations (which is more or le
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> ADTs allow you to clarify and safely handle otherwise vague data. This is false. You can program with clear, strong, safe semantics without needing to taxonomize/classify your business domain/entities with ADTs. In most busin
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by wellpast 9y ago
This post is painfully confusing the important concepts of complexity & "complecting"/coupling. Javascript's this semantics may be confusing and hard to reason about but that is a different charge than the complect
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Aka, separation of concerns. There's a lot of literature on this. But the key point is that it's an objective measure. Given two equally functional solutions to the same problem, one will be objectively more, less, or equally co
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This comment is predicated on the idea that each problem can be solved/handled in isolation. Each isolated solution can be weighed against another and deemed better, vastly better, etc. I think in many cases an optimal product can only

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