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by aredington 11y ago
One thing I really appreciated as an non-practicing observer was the frequent reminders to consider safety concerns, e.g. try a door knob before forcing it, take care with how padlocks may turn into projectiles, taking care that operating a
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by aredington 12y ago
And you make less industrialized, more labor intensive forms of producing eggs or milk more economical than higher industrialized, lower labor forms.
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by aredington 12y ago
Similar tool available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/converter/ Just started using it, happy to be able to excise that bit of pervasive ignorance from my life.
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by aredington 12y ago
Keep in mind that read-string, eval, and load-string are all exploit vectors. Read-string exposes you to the #= eval macro, which can execute arbitrary code at read time, as well as various vulnerabilities with object construction. Eval exe
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by aredington 12y ago
Verizon has so much bandwidth to get in and out of their network for broader internet bound and broader internet originating traffic. Netflix has to come in the off ramp that all the torrents, hacker news, and etc. traffic has to come in. N
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by aredington 13y ago
Clojure: Java is too complected.
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by aredington 13y ago
The media industry created a way to sustainably undergo the capital expenditures necessary for high quality studio recording, and the mass production and distribution of physical media communicating those studio recordings. It extracted ren
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by aredington 13y ago
The example cited makes two decisions which are not articulated explicitly but are decisions one can make and which have benefits and costs. They are: 1) The function correctly executes on the class of things for which (.toString thing) has
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by aredington 13y ago
One of Clojure's fundamental opinions, asserted by the language eagerly, is that vector quantities should be treated as values the way scalar quantities are in most languages. Specifically, this means that when you operate with a list
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by aredington 13y ago
The way I read it he's proposing two things: 1) Refer to the analysis of Root Mean Square Error always by that name. (RMS is already often used in certain jargon instead of stddev). 2) Stop treating RMS as a default measure of variance
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by aredington 13y ago
The core point is the same: With sufficient test coverage, you can change one variable (Python 3 vs 2) and control for all others. Tests are not an end, they are a means to an end; the courage to change your software in the face of a consta
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by aredington 13y ago
BTC aren't quite tulips, but the criticism is well founded that it isn't yet a good currency. A perfect currency would possess the following qualities: Perfectly Fungible Perfect Liquidity Perfect Stability Right now bitcoins are
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by aredington 13y ago
The ring is still ambiguous. It is never characterized properly as a totem (Cobb never uses it awake, that we see). If you interpret it as a symbolic representation of his mental affiliation with Mal, then: a) At the end of the movie he is
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by aredington 13y ago
As I read the article, the address is owned by DPR and the FBI seized the associated wallet.
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by aredington 13y ago
Communist countries dictated by political fiat where labor resources were allocated, what industries would be engaged in, and how the capitalized wealth of the country would be reinvested. They didn't just go around giving everyone an
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by aredington 13y ago
In practice, Southwest airlines has one class of passenger. Everyone rides in steerage, but you can pay a little extra to jump at the front of the line and pick your favorite steerage class seat. They're able to operate profitably on a
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by aredington 13y ago
Objectifying women is rarely an act that people embrace with a conscious perspective or decision. It's a way of behaving that most people engage in because the culture they occupy and learned in showed it as an acceptable behavior. The
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by aredington 13y ago
When you include the women as a perk in an effort to tempt engineering talent, it's easy to interpret the mindset of the author of using women as objects. Even if the author ISN'T authoring the list that way, they are not being co
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by aredington 13y ago
Say it's the exact same mechanism as evacuation slides. Patents in the U.S. since 1995 have had a term of 20 years, prior to 1995 it was a term of 17 years. The slides were initially patented in 1956. In 1956 the U.S. patent term was 17 yea
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by aredington 13y ago
He got whacked because he was being dismissive of people's objection to a business decision. He compared the business decision to engineering limitations (vacuums need AC out of plugs, mobile phones need cell towers in range), and was snide
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by aredington 13y ago
There's a growth in both supply and demand, let's call them ds and dd. ds is relatively constant, though every 4 years it halves. dd is stochastic and gets influenced by how many ways there are to use bitcoins as a store of wealth, speculat
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by aredington 13y ago
The recent spike in price is due to a recent drop in supply. The amount of BTC awarded from successfully mining was recently cut in half from 50 to 25BTC, and the difficulty rate has been rising as better mining hardware has been getting ou
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by aredington 14y ago
Communication happens over HTTP at the wire level, and we use the Server Sent Events standard ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events ), and particularly browsers' EventSource implementations as the foundation on the client side.
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by aredington 14y ago
full disclosure: I'm a Relevance employee and have been working on this a great deal. Pedestal provides a few distinguishing values in this space overall: - Same language on the client and on the server. You can get this with something runn
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by aredington 14y ago
I think there's a nice case of posterior-prior art.
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by aredington 14y ago
"so easily" is poorly defined, but when you are talking about collection data subject to concurrent modification you have a few options for correctness: 1. Read lock on the data for the time a thread is using it. This ensures that it is not
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by aredington 14y ago
Clojure's immutable data structures allow you to scale out across many cores without needing as rigorous locking semantics as a destructively modified version of the same work would need; copy on write presents no contention until you want
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by aredington 14y ago
You should be angry that they have managed to persuade you that theirs was the only way out. The odds that properly modularizing their source tree such that they didn't provoke the limitations of the VM they were running on was impossible a
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by aredington 14y ago
Sexism isn't a problem that exists in conferences, it is a problem that is pervasive in the industry surrounding software. In that industry, women are a minority of workers, and they enjoy fewer privileges than their male peers. When a pers
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by aredington 14y ago
From the creator's own mouth, it's a satire language, but all satire has a good point. Vigil's is many programmers' susceptibility to The Broken Window problem. It's creation raises a good point about the usefulness of contracts in the abse

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