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by zwkrt 8y ago
A classic 'multidimensional' preference is a set of roommates all of whom have to decide both what space they want to take in an apartment and how much they want to pay for that space. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by zwkrt 8y ago
That sounds a lot like bloatware to me
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Other people's gripes aside, I enjoy that the authors approach to avoiding out-of-bounds errors almost exactly mirrors Java's nio Buffer interface.
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Programming as a profession is strange because we each do such different things but all tools are available to us all the time. Imagine if this were true in the physical world; you would read arcticles written by accountants like "Dyna
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At what point did the market care for that?
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Are you thinking of "white label"? Private label means Amazon-branded. They could still have QC issues though.
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Think about the cottage industry of programmers who produce and maintain Wordpress websites for their clients. I think just like any other industry, there is need for products on many points of the [mass produced <--> bespoke] spectru
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It is possible to support a partner without treating them as an investment
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I think people are just used to a certain page, just like they are/were used to their favorite local news station. I doubt most people periodically run tests to see which search engines return the most relevant results for them. Plus,
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by zwkrt 8y ago
If anyone else watched that video feeling they understood the "what" but not the "why" like me, let me try to give an explanation. The Riemann Zeta function is fundamentally the link between the counting numbers and the
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I would promote it on the principal that I would like to see more smart, character driven movies. You don't have to have to have your mind blown to like a piece of art, and this film gave me an excuse to talk about paperclip maximizati
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That first one. As mentioned above Facebook is also breaking the law
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If you ever have a child you might find you want to spend more time with her than doing math. This isn't a problem, it's part of being human
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by zwkrt 8y ago
This move to Bluetooth very much seems like planned obsolescence. In sure in a few years all the issues people have with Bluetooth will be "solved" by a whole incompatible spec. The only problem with the 3.5m jack is that it'
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Podcasters tend to bring out this feeling in people as well, like a one-way friendship.
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complex numbers are not interesting because they are 2d; otherwise we would just use xy coordinates instead of bringing in this whole sqrt(-1) business. Complex numbers are useful because the definition of complex multiplication fundamental
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by zwkrt 8y ago
To play devil's advocate: is the fact that 16-24 year olds hold drastically fewer jobs than in the past really something that can be brushed off? On the face of it that sounds like people who would otherwise be starting their careers a
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I don't think there is a single malicious force making google products sucky on browsers other than Chrome. However, I'm sure they do poor testing (any at all?) in Firefox, and are quick to adopt extensions to HTML/CSS that t
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I see complaints/worries about overtourism, housing prices in cities, overfocusing on restaurant reviews, and other problems not as arising from the use of Instagram as some people think, but more basically as an unavoidable side-effec
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I think one aspect that is forgotten is that the artist/programmer of generative art still provides value in curation. One of my favorite corners of the internet is http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ . On the face
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by zwkrt 8y ago
You know I would think so, but I had a roommate who compplained when I cooked with red bell peppers. I would make Italian food with garlic and onions and he would leave the apartment. Some people--and Midwesterners stereotypically--truly ha
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Read A Deepness in the Sky for a dystopian/cynical view of this technological advancement.
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For me the "killer app" of Google search is location based searches. DDG is great but when I want to find a Petco nearby I don't want to use Yelp.
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It is not possible for two ring shapes to interlock in 2D so there is no directly isomorphic trick.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Sorry I jumped three steps in my head. If browsers are truly beginning to implement OS features, pretending that the web is a series of 2d sites rendered through the dom into a series of tabs may be an overly restrictive view of the world.
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The decision to add SQL on top of S3 probably had a lot to do with a very common use case: people had structured data in S3 but no way to query it. However, it is also very useful if the following two things are true: 1. You have a very lar
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by zwkrt 8y ago
You joke, but I've been thinking. Tabs were mind blowingly good UX when they first came out, But with WebAssembly et al, are tabs still the right abstraction?
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Douglas Hofstadter has made a career out of arguing that human consciousness is founded on the ability to interpret analogies. "This is like that except..." Kind of like a generalization of the story theory.
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I gather the exact opposite opinion of you: when something is aesthetically pleasing people will come up with rationalizations for why they like it, even if the real reason is difficult to describe. Similar to how in a focus group you can j
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I think we will in time find someone cracking the code and creating a "requests" type library for graphql interaction. Either that or some graphql++ language will make things better. Maybe automatic/declarative DB integration

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