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by yason 12y ago
This would simply translate to the choice between a) using Uber with the driver relying on a navigator unit and possibly driving slow and/or unoptimal routes but with a cheaper price vs. b) traditional taxis that cost more but really k
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by yason 12y ago
Anonymous (or inner) functions aren't really valuable per se but syntactic sugar for writing the code into a static function somewhere in the same file: closures give anonymous (or inner) functions the power which is what makes them us
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by yason 12y ago
There is no right or wrong, just acts with unescapable consequences and your freedom to learn something from your choices.
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by yason 12y ago
Less than an hour, I'd say. A warm summer day can easily be 25-30C, typically 20-25C. That's enough to go to 50C in an hour, windows closed, even on a half-cloudy day.
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by yason 12y ago
What happened in the article was just plain crazy. I'm from Finland and being five minutes somewhere outside the car -- nobody would blink an eye. But things would also escalate gradually, depending on the situation. People would gathe
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by yason 12y ago
I fit the multi-active category and living in Northern Europe and working with Americans makes it sometimes difficult. Now that I read the article, it put the words in my mouth. I value encounters, discussions, meeting someone and time has
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by yason 12y ago
That's how idiomatic one-way-to-do-it generic languages slowly win. They raise the bar for the specialty languages so that, for example, after R the next statistical language really, really needs to shine in what it does in order to ju
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by yason 13y ago
The killer feature in Chrome was and is the multiprocess implementation. I use Firefox for intranet browsing at work and Chrome for personal browsing: the former is a sloth compared to the latter, and hangs even for seconds when loading a b
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by yason 13y ago
I think that "Mostly functional" is actually the sweet spot. Going to any extreme makes some things horribly difficult and going to another does the same for other things. So, optimally, multiple paradigms coexist in the single co
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by yason 13y ago
This is how things come to an end but they had started slowing down a lot earlier. For any practical purpose, Nokia was dead around 2005-2006 at the latest and dwindling at least couple of years before that. Sure they sold lots of phones of
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by yason 13y ago
On the other hand, it's not your responsibility to arrange for your dad what you think is best for him. He's an adult and will try to make the most of his life and will succeed or fail to be happy on his own. I'm a father and
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by yason 13y ago
I generally, whatever I'm writing, start with bash or considering bash. Usually that means I start with bash, excluding the obvious cases such as graphics or doing heavy data processing where I know from start that line-based approach
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by yason 13y ago
Programming for non-programming works best when they don't know they're programming. It's easy if you don't know you're doing it.
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by yason 13y ago
How I'm not surprised. Python 3 didn't offer anything that would have been so useful and desirable that people would've jumped on it the moment it was released. In fact, it was actually a bit worse than Python 2 when it was o
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by yason 13y ago
I've loved Ubuntu One for years. This is too sad, I would've wanted to have Ubuntu use it automatically for all kinds of things such as home directory backups etc. Are there any good open-source self-hosted options that I could ru
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by yason 13y ago
Turning off the engine doesn't have to be attached to the mechanical ignition switch. There are already cars where the ignition switch is completely wireless and software-controlled. For example, many cars offer a start-stop feature wh
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by yason 13y ago
With the endless and quite arbitrary rules and limitations they impose on the F1 cars each year I sometimes wonder what would happen if they hadn't done that. What would the teams have built if it weren't for the weigh, power, and
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by yason 13y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive comparison. Pass does have advantages, I think I'll evaluate it myself too. The main selling point is the clipboard support.
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by yason 13y ago
I've considered a password management system many times but I can't think of something that's not over-engineered. So, for the last 20 years or so, I just have a single GPG encrypted file that contains the list of my password
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by yason 13y ago
It's kind of funny that now that everything in a car is effectively software-controlled something like a mechanical ignition switch is still left to control a main circuit that's so crucial it will stop the engine if broken. To th
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by yason 13y ago
If I'm not mistaken ONO wasn't a public company so I'm wondering why should basically anyone care except the parties involved? Reading about big acquisitions of non-public companies (or public companies whose shares you don&#
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by yason 13y ago
The reason why he had ended up in a toxic environment is the key. Change jobs and you'll find you're in the same situation a year later, but with different people and different schemes. Change your mind and you'll find you mi
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by yason 13y ago
The reason why this was asked is baffling to me. If you don't want to go, then do not go . I assume the AP was an adult. Adults don't need to resort to tricks like trying to get rejected: adults can just reject the invite themsel
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by yason 13y ago
I wonder if they already allow binding commands and window manager functions to super key? They didn't and that kind of put me off Unity right from the start. Good keyboard controls are a must for any desktop environment and the super
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by yason 13y ago
Facebook needs to either reinvent itself or go back to its roots and I'm afraid that buying success stories with billions isn't going to help in that. Facebook is currently rather incapable of delivering what I originally signed u
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by yason 13y ago
I'm cursed with the gift of being slightly better than most in nearly all things but not at all stellar in any single one. I never learned to study in school because I've always learned things on my own. This has carried me far bu
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by yason 13y ago
For any programming language or platform without macros, a Lisp frontend appears.
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by yason 13y ago
Learning to code is a prerequisite for learning computer science. You will not ever get interested in how to sort numbers in an efficient way until you've had to try to do it yourself because you needed it in some of your own projects.
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by yason 13y ago
The word "work" is too often confused with "paid work to do boring things, because nobody would do them for fun" these days. And then people wonder why everyone is procrastinating at work.
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by yason 13y ago
There's basically just one golden rule: a programmer tries to minimize his total amount of work (because then s/he has more work capability available for any of the more interesting stuff). This applies to throwaway code vs. maint

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