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by zukzuk 7y ago
These situations are rare despite what the occasional outrage-inducing news story would have you believe. Here in Ontario for example, the average wait time for urgent patients is 1 day, for high-priority (target 10 days) it's 15 days,
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by zukzuk 7y ago
In Canada, these "executive scans" are a service sold by private clinics. As OP pointed out, they will often find things that are entirely benign. However, since in Canada you can't charge money privately for services that ar
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Cities in Motion and its sequel were pretty good and pretty serious transit simulators ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Motion_2 )
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by zukzuk 8y ago
The Tezos blockchain / dapp platform is based on OCaml. This to me makes it really appealing, if I were to find some actual use case for a blockchain application :)
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Not when your employer is paying. And your employer will usually be happy to pay, as from their point of view buying things off the shelf is cheaper than having their devs build it from scratch.
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by zukzuk 8y ago
npm (and yarn) literally does exactly all of this, via `npm init funkyproject` and `package-lock.json`.
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Akira | Senior Ruby Engineer | Toronto, ON | On-site | Full-Time | https://akira.md Akira is a fast growing Toronto-based startup in the medical technology space. We operate a next-generation telemedicine service that lets Canad
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Nah, there are still some patterns, especially around metaprogramming, that TypeScript doesn't support. One example is the inability to refer to the current class inside a static method. This makes it really awkward to write things lik
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Great book about these and other geographical oddities: https://www.amazon.com/Unruly-Places-Spaces-Inscrutable-Geog...
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Ruby is, if nothing else, "very expressive".
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Their migration-to-Scala-that-wasn't being another great example.
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Nope
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by zukzuk 8y ago
I think you missed the part where I said that Git intentionally _doesn't_ take a stance. Or rather, it defers the commitment, a bit like Schrodinger in regard to his cat. I guess what we agree on is that the problem goes away (kind of)
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by zukzuk 8y ago
I think you're missing something really profound here. I wrote my masters thesis on identity problems in version control systems (Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and the like). These systems are forced to take a stance on the Ship of These
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Regarding your 3rd point, there was a recent study that made the rounds here finding that fasting may actually be beneficial to intestinal wall lining (but no word on stomach lining): http://news.mit.edu/2018/fasting-bo
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by zukzuk 8y ago
This! I learned more trigonometry in 2 weeks when I was tasked with a digital signal processing project than I did in years and years of (objective-less) schooling. An important addendum to this is that the objective has to be closely tied
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Marxism is widely identified as the intellectual underpinning of Communism, but Marx's philosophy has been hugely influential beyond just that particular economic model. For example, Feminism is often said to be rooted in Marxism, so i
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by zukzuk 8y ago
"This time it's different" is literally the last things always said right before the next recession kicks in. A nice, 500 page overview: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8973.html
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Columnar data stores tend to be used in applications where performance is the primary concern. Abstractions tend to be leaky, but especially so when it comes to performance. This is maybe comparable to the way high-performance applications
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by zukzuk 8y ago
I think it very much depends on where you're doing it. There are many approaches to cog sci, so your experience will likely be different depending on your profs, their schools of thought, and the kind of research being done at your ins
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by zukzuk 8y ago
Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter I personally wasn't disappointed — I'm really glad I did this as my undergrad. AI research however tends to go through periods of hype followed by disill
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by zukzuk 8y ago
I got my BSc at U of T, in Artificial Intelligence (and Cognitive Science)... in 2006. So ahead of the curve! This was right before the big deep learning explosion, at the very end of the last AI winter. Our lecturers spent a whole lot of t
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by zukzuk 9y ago
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... , I suspect it has more to do with average wealth / standard of living combined with wealth inequality. "Social cohesion", whatev
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by zukzuk 9y ago
... and ex-Uber drivers — meaning drivers who were kicked off Uber due to poor user ratings. This would explain what's going on with Lyft's intro to Canada right now. Awful customer service every time I've used Lyft.
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by zukzuk 9y ago
Incidentally, my experience with Lyft here in Canada has been pretty dismal. On average pretty terrible drivers. I have a feeling Lyft is getting all the Uber rejects. If that's the case, this is going to derail Lyft's Canadian de
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by zukzuk 9y ago
Android's "MVC" layer is a joke, and not a very funny one. An argument for React Native, at least as a replacement for native Android, is that it lets you circumvent the nightmare that is Google's Android SDK and toolcha
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by zukzuk 9y ago
There's a medical term for this — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia . Alexithymia can overlap with ASD, but it can certainly occur in individuals who do not otherwise meet diagnostic criteria for ASD.
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by zukzuk 9y ago
And this is exactly why "agile" has become a religion more than anything — if it's not working, it's because you're doing it wrong. You just need to agile harder.
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by zukzuk 9y ago
How is it that the Jevons paradox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox ) hasn't been mentioned even once in this thread.
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by zukzuk 9y ago
Syncthing is pretty nice. It's not a filesystem, and it doesn't deal with conflicts particularly well, but it's as close to a cross-platform, distributed solution that "just works" as I've been able to find.

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