EliAndrewC

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by EliAndrewC 6y ago
Just wanted to say how cool this was. It's been awhile since I've done any C/C++ programming but the pointer syntax and work really takes me back!
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by EliAndrewC 8y ago
At my job we say "hit by the lottery bus" to make it clear that we're using a euphemism for "what if this person quits".
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by EliAndrewC 9y ago
Last time I checked, their hot wallet had less than 5% of the bitcoins on their books. A catastrophic data break would leave most of their customers without either their bitcoins or any way to be made whole from the loss.
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by EliAndrewC 10y ago
Alternate title for the article: "Lists of lodash features replaced by ES6 if you don't mind throwing an exception when given invalid input such as null or undefined". All kidding aside, a lot of our lodash code ends up looki
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by EliAndrewC 11y ago
I was on the "Python 3000" mailing list while it was being planned, and the prevailing attitude seemed to be "it'll probably take 5 years before the community moves to Python 3". (That's paraphrased and not a
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by EliAndrewC 12y ago
Here's the standard argument, as I understand it: - There are something like 100,000,000,000 neurons in the human brain, each of which can have up to around 10,000 synaptic connections to other neurons. This is basically why the brain
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by EliAndrewC 12y ago
> What about people that can separate their personal from their business? Eich never did anything at all at Mozilla to push his point of view on gay marriage. If #1 is true, then that plays to him not doing so as well as CEO. Right, we d
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by EliAndrewC 12y ago
grellas makes two basic arguments in the post I replied to, which I will attempt to summarize: 1) Refusing employment based on beliefs has been historically bad, e.g. Christians refusing to hire or do business with Jews, and blacklists for
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by EliAndrewC 12y ago
grellas' argument doesn't sit right with me either, but I disagree that his argument was tactless or intended to derail anything. When grellas writes: > Principle is more important here than a particular outcome. What happens
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by EliAndrewC 12y ago
Debates on Brendan Eich and Condoleezza Rice seem to boil down three separate questions: 1) Is there any belief or action not directly related to someone's job that should disqualify them from their position? 2) If the answer to #1 is
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by EliAndrewC 12y ago
Guido explains in an old blog post ( http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358 ) that he considers all of the possible implementations of multi-line lambdas to be un-Pythonic: > But the complexity of an
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
Definitely, which means that hospitals soak up a lot of uncompensated E.R. costs associated with people whose long term health issues are not being treated. Those hospitals are not required to actually provide that long-term care, e.g. che
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
> Also I thought the Klingons were part of the Federation at one point during DS9 era? Or perhaps that was just an alliance... There was indeed a military alliance between the Federation and Klingon Empire against the Dominion. A friend
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
> War-like cultures would still exist even if the Federation believes they themselves have moved beyond that type of thing. An alternate take compatible with patio11's irreverent theory: war-like cultures exist only in the sense tha
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
A neat trick for helping you write in the style of a particular author: use a list of all the words in their collected works as the dictionary in your word processor. Then you'll see any word that e.g. Jane Austin never used as a miss
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
There are a lot of middle-ground options, such as "buying back" taxi medallions before opening the floodgates and letting anyone run a taxi. This is obviously a tricky approach for a lot of reasons, but certainly there's a m
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
The Slate Political Gabfest is by far the best current events podcast I've come across: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html My favorite comedy podcast is Judge John Hodgman: http://
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
The release notes can be found at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/releases/1.6/ Personally, I'm happy that Python 3 is now officially supported, though in practice I haven't had an issues
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
Not so, because as others in this thread have stated, the key is intent.
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
Asking how to quantify the good and bad that resulted from a thing is something we can ask about literally anything. It's especially hard in this case, because the potential harm was immediate and personal (people being murdered, etc)
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
Your assertion that we may never know whether anyone was murdered was a surprise to me, which is why I responded. It seems relevant because whether the good outweighs the bad depends on how much bad was actually done. (Technically what&
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
Strong agree that those documents had the potential to lead to the murder of informants - this alone convinces me that the mass release of those cables without any edits or redactions was irresponsible. However, I've previously assumed
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
There are 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 possible 128-bit keys. So if you had a machine that could check a trillion possible keys per second it would take over 10 quintillion years to try all possible 128-bit keys.
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
Can you clarify why the master password isn't offering any protection? It encrypts your other passwords so that they are not stored in plaintext on the filesystem; this alone seems like it's offering a little security, since my (
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
I'm aware that many people don't use ORMs and feel they cause more problems than they solve. However, I'm struggling to think of a popular web framework in any language that doesn't include or suggest a specific ORM. So
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
> Couldn't they pick a more sympathetic guy to talk about "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
My familiarity comes more from Slate Magazine, and especially it's sister publication DoubleX, where the child-care aspect was heavily emphasized both in articles and in their bi-weekly DoubleX podcast. However, I strongly agree with your a
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
>That seems more like a rhetorical tactic than a genuine issue? I ascribe it to something else; Mayer is a female CEO, which I think causes many people to assign to her responsibility for championing women in the workplace. When she fa
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by EliAndrewC 13y ago
Perhaps the most common and controversial aspect of Mayer's decision was the claim of hypocrisy regarding child care. Staying home with children to avoid the cost of a full-time nanny is a common reason for telecommuting. Some claimed hyp
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by EliAndrewC 14y ago
> Why do you imply that the members of this panel are being disingenuous? The original article claimed, "To balance things out, Farhad invited Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, but he dropped out, so it was just the three of us." Saying t

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