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by yan 17y ago
Whoa. My condolences. I always appreciated his input and he was one of the usernames I seeked out when browsing comments pages.
842.
by yan 17y ago
All I'm saying that evaluating every research language out there and seeing how well it suits your problem would just take too much time. Getting acquainted with a few well-known languages and a few DSLs or cult-followed languages should be
843.
by yan 17y ago
Then people would spend a lot more time electing better choices when they could have spent time working on solving their problem.
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by yan 17y ago
This was instrumental in getting help to tough problems over IRC when I was still learning the ropes. Screen is an amazing, amazing program.
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by yan 17y ago
You're totally right. Now that I think about it, zero-tolerance always equates to zero-thought, as the point of zero-tolerance to create a shortcut through judgment and rules.
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by yan 17y ago
I'm not saying they're a good idea, but countering an anecdote with another isn't a very good way to affirm your point. I doubt letting everyone go who tries to shoplift a book from the library in hopes of them becoming characters more fit
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by yan 17y ago
Image recognition in what domain? Do you want to be able to look at a photo and determine what objects are represented, or do you want to be able to do OCR or do you want to filter biometric data or something else entirely?
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by yan 17y ago
To me, "software engineer" means you can come to a large, existing project, look at their open tickets and begin to attempt to fix the issues. "Senior software engineer" means you can design such a project, push the first commit and supervi
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by yan 17y ago
While this sounds like good news to me, as a current fan of NPR, what exactly does hyper-local mean and how is it different from just local? Usually these stations cover metropolitan areas, so how local can you get?
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by yan 17y ago
For lining up arguments like that, (esp with long objc calls), I use spaces after indenting to the level the code is indented. For instance, [\t]int val = 0; [\t]callSomeFunction(someOtherVal, [\t].................val); Anywho, i
851.
by yan 17y ago
Tabs. It drives me nuts to see people use spaces for everything. Tabs are there for exactly that purpose. If you want your code to line up properly, just comment on how wide your tabwidth is, and the reader of the code will adjust according
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Driven to distraction(economist.com)
10 points by yan 17y ago|6 comments
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by yan 17y ago
Nope, I don't think the downvoting came from dissent, it came from you shitting on other people contributing helpful technical documentation while adding no value of your own.
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by yan 17y ago
Related: http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/ComputersCantThink.t...
855.
by yan 17y ago
Don't like it? Don't use it. Others, who basically edit text for a living, like to explore their options. You don't rant at every ad you see, do you?
856.
by yan 17y ago
Is that an IOCCC entry? Off topic: are you still in the NOVA area or overseas?
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by yan 17y ago
Mine's not very advanced; .gvimrc for MacVim: set guifont=Pragmata:h14 set guioptions=egmrLt set nohlsearch set number set ts=3 colors vividchalk syntax on Pragmata is a delicious, delicious font.
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by yan 17y ago
God, seeing straight C programs that don't use any superfluous libraries or stupid coding tricks that just obscure the intent of the programmer is so refreshing. Just one C file that anyone with a barely working knowledge of C can understan
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by yan 17y ago
I would also like a similar service. If anyone wants to bounce ideas off me, I'm game :)
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by yan 17y ago
I don't know which one you'd pay a premium for. You'd see which one you're selling more of and charge a premium for that. The reality is, foods aren't indistinguishable. They have different tastes, different marketing, different cultural va
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by yan 17y ago
"efficiency" is a vector, not a scalar. I think rolling out deals, new products, and promotions is made a lot cleaner by having that be generative. There's definitely a lot of value to having images assigned to products and not to products+
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by yan 17y ago
I know this is far less politically correct than discussing subsidies and prices, but can it be that poorer communities just assign less value to eating well and staying healthy and are not necessarily looking to maximize nutrition per dol
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by yan 17y ago
"Richard Feynman, [Murray] Gell-Mann's chief competitor for the title of the World's Smartest Man but a stranger to pretension, once encountered Gell-Mann in the hall outside their offices at Caltech and asked him where he had been on a rec
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by yan 17y ago
Your peers. I always thought that had a huge effect on your happiness and perception of your status.
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by yan 17y ago
Does this imply that success without goals is impossible?
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by yan 17y ago
That's not very inspiring
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by yan 17y ago
Thinking about it, that would be the ultimate hack. If the core file does indeed have all the regions mapped when the core was dumped, you can theoretically load them as before then back-step each instruction since they are fairly well defi
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by yan 17y ago
Does anyone know how much of that $170m actually went into his pocket? After investors took their share for their equity, taxes, and etc?
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by yan 17y ago
Because the state of a process is undefined after a seg fault.
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by yan 17y ago
I was approaching this from the opposite direction; writing and debugging shellcode will be more pleasant. Or rather, when I have spent time writing shell code, I wished for such a feature.

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