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by zachrose 8y ago
Good point. This is exactly what JavaScript does with NaN and the set of numbers, and errors are harder to track down because of it. Computer numbers in general have all sorts of issues like this where clean mathematical theory is broken. N
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by zachrose 8y ago
Yeah in general it’s good to avoid sometimes returning a value and sometimes undefined. There’s an equivalence you can make between a type and a mathematical set, where you say that the type is the set of all possible values for that type.
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by zachrose 8y ago
I’ll go the other direction. Public libraries have large and networked collections, physical and digital, that they let you borrow for free. Why do we need to buy from Amazon and subscribe to Netflix when in theory the libraries could provi
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by zachrose 8y ago
U.S. Representative Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at Obama’s first state of the union address. Seven months later, Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs to say Beyoncé had the best video of all time. A few da
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But is Linus actually telling anyone to go away for the good of the project?
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by zachrose 8y ago
I meant that if you were to declare a similar War on Jaywalking, you'd see jaywalking rates skyrocket.
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by zachrose 8y ago
Forgive me for not having more details on hand right now. So far in my reading of her book, Alexander’s thesis has three main prongs of support. The first is historical. When we look back at Jim Crow, do we say that grandfather clauses and
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by zachrose 8y ago
> Drug prohibition has been a categorical failure in every outcome it was intended to achieve. The following flavor of comment has been made many times on HN, but since I’m halfway through Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow I’m i
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by zachrose 8y ago
There are some weird corners of JavaScript that I went years without knowing. Did you know object literals support getter and setter methods[1]? As other commenters will point out, such quirks are as easy to look up as they are irrelevant t
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by zachrose 8y ago
Maybe I missed something, but what problem is this setup the solution to?
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by zachrose 8y ago
Devising a new, more familiar name for something like hashing is a good idea here because it communicates that “this is a complex thing handled by specialists, but it’s implications are important to us.”
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by zachrose 9y ago
Can you explain that a bit more? What if candidate A was sourced internally, had a slight edge over B, and wanted 20-33% more in pay?
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by zachrose 9y ago
Let’s see, $10 is enough to pick from a few dresses at Walmart[1]. A haute couture gown might cost $100k[2]. It’s not apples to apples but that’s still a difference of 10,000X. [1] https://www.walmart.com/browse/clothin
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by zachrose 9y ago
This is excellent work, and all of the source files and fonts permissively licensed and available on GitHub. https://github.com/IBM/plex
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by zachrose 9y ago
> Steve correctly notes that front-end programming is hard, but leaves out maybe the single most important reason why: It’s super-hard to unit-test properly. Can anyone elaborate on this?
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by zachrose 9y ago
So wait, shouldn’t your argument be that the plastic bag bans don’t do enough and therefore we should ban/price other kinds of plastic too?
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by zachrose 9y ago
OpenSCAD. It’s not feature rich but it does its thing very well with a clean user interface AND a nice language to work in.
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by zachrose 9y ago
He also wrote this epitaph for himself in his 20s: The Body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly
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by zachrose 9y ago
Could you unpack this a bit for the relative layperson? I once heard a guy at a Haskell meetup say that “codata is the categorical dual of data” but I didn’t know what that means then and I still don’t know.
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by zachrose 9y ago
And even on a bicycle or motorcycle it's not that simple. At low speeds you can turn right to go right, but any faster and it's you do the opposite to initiate a lean and the lean does the turning. This goes unnoticed on bicycles,
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by zachrose 9y ago
Not the answer you’re looking for, but if you think about short-term and long-term political willpower, “shouldn’t” and “can’t” turn out to be the same thing.
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by zachrose 9y ago
Yes, but using Elm has convinced me of the significant difference between runtime checks and compile time checks. In a large enough codebase, reaching every code path is non-trivial. It’s very easy to write code that only runs when it gets
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by zachrose 9y ago
In my experience there’s a difference between being production ready and claiming to be production ready. Quite a few projects (Node.js and Backbone) achieved wide adoption before 1.0.0. For the record I’m not sure the Elm project has any c
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by zachrose 9y ago
It’s as much about what Elm _doesn’t_ have. The biggest thing here is that Elm does not allow mutation. This turns out to be great because it eliminates little pockets of state that make your app’s behavior hard to predict and that eventual
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by zachrose 9y ago
It’s a bit unfortunate that Elm will always be left out of lists like this. Yes it’s a different language that compiles to JavaScript, but unlike other languages that do this, Elm exists solely to excel at front-end web development. Ironica
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by zachrose 9y ago
Bubble argon through the water for 1-2 hours, removing all the dissolved oxygen.
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by zachrose 9y ago
Interesting, how explicit is explicit? So much of literature is implied references. Assuming that later works are always “linking to” earlier works, could you not use page rank for, say, rap lyrics?
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by zachrose 9y ago
That System76 disables Intel ME is pretty cool.
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And yet Elon Musk is going to build a colony?
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This is a temporal version of the No True Scotsman fallacy.

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