balloot

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by balloot 12y ago
I am increasingly convinced that Haskell only exists so that people who know it can pat themselves on the back for being wonderful.
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by balloot 12y ago
Good to hear - building a project on Ember now and it (Ember) is an absolute joy to work with. Keep it going!
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by balloot 12y ago
A blog post is neither "verbal" nor a "contract", no matter how many times the word "will" is used.
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by balloot 12y ago
Napkin ways to completely blow this up: 1) Write a script to answer requests without ever intending to pick up. 2) Get out of the car, don't transfer the other half. 3) Sign up as a driver, and wait until you find an attractive/ri
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by balloot 12y ago
"you require each user to use a valid credit card" Who is "you"? Someone, somewhere would be creating a system that verifies unique identities, aggregates ratings, etc. Even if the logic is peer-to-peer, the system req
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by balloot 12y ago
Crown mechanisms worked well for a completely different purpose. They are the easiest way to set and wind a watch that is not on your wrist. Totally different use case than controlling the watch's screen while you're wearing it!
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by balloot 12y ago
My issue with the watch is the crown control. It just feels lazy to me to take a control mechanism made 100+ years ago for winding mechanical watches off your wrist, and repurpose it for digital control of a watch on your wrist. Is it poss
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by balloot 12y ago
Not quite. I would define common sense as "a reasonable fallback solution given that the current situation is unfamiliar." This is something AI systems have a LOT of difficulty with, the self-driving car being no exception.
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by balloot 12y ago
You can't compile a list of edge cases for this kind of thing, because it is impossible to know the comprehensive list of all the situations the car won't handle correctly. In the end, you need a learning technology that can prope
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by balloot 12y ago
I'm with you here. You could essentially build from scratch a traffic setup for autonomous vehicles, instead of retrofitting the autonomous vehicles to a current driving system. And by flying you get to avoid lots of complications th
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by balloot 12y ago
You just described the problem nicely. The "magic" that turns 3 lane roads into 2 lanes etc, is a situational awareness that is really, really difficult to impart on a learning system. The big problem is that probabilistic model
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by balloot 12y ago
I've been saying this for years, as I took Thrun's class when he was at Stanford. Google's dirty little secret is that self driving cars are still mostly smoke and mirrors. Given relatively controlled conditions and a train
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by balloot 12y ago
When an engineer uses the word "trivial," what you should hear is "There are some complications that I'd rather ignore, so let's just hand-wave the answer".
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by balloot 12y ago
Sad. Project Euler is pretty much useless without the problem checking feature. Anyone know a good alternative?
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by balloot 13y ago
Yes, she could exert influence. Just like every other SO of every other hiring manager in the world. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I hire people, and I talk to my wife all the time about work matters. And if, knowing every
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by balloot 13y ago
Completely agree. The outrage over hula hooping triggers a giant warning siren that this is a person who is working very hard to be angered and offended. I don't know the proper way to watch someone hula hoop, but if anyone in my offi
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by balloot 13y ago
As many others have said in this comment thread, Github's actions do NOT mean any claims are "likely to be true". It just means Github is taking proper steps to investigate the situation. The investigation may lead to them
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by balloot 13y ago
By your logic, hiring managers should not be allowed to be married, lest they give a non-employee "defacto" hiring power. Before we string up the cofounder's wife, let's actually let her and/or the cofounder defend
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by balloot 13y ago
This is an unbelievably stupid request. Nobody writes bug-free code - people in the comments on SE talking about how this can be done with automated testing are utterly delusional. All developers, no matter how talented and/or cautious
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by balloot 13y ago
So are you admitting that your original point about single payer healthcare is totally BS? Because the UK has single payer and apparently you think they do a decent job with this situation.
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by balloot 13y ago
Even your own data completely undermines your point. All those other countries have very comparable preterm infant mortality rates when measured against the US. You say the girl "likely" would have died in France, but in Norway
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by balloot 13y ago
The government is so evil and incompetent that it should never be allowed to provide broadband, because it will do so with such low rates and great service that it will put cable companies out of business! Did I get that right?
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by balloot 13y ago
It should be noted that healthcare.gov might be the highest traffic website launch in the history of the internet. With millions of visitors on day one, I certainly can't think of one that would even compare. They are dealing with sca
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by balloot 13y ago
As a resident of SF, this makes me furious. I hope our city attorney just demolishes them in court. WTF Nevada.
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by balloot 13y ago
This person sounds completely insufferable. He basically is declaring himself too good for interviews (except for C-level execs, whom he apparently tolerates). Heaven forbid you don't just assume Ernie Miller is god's gift to yo
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by balloot 13y ago
Totally agree. Not to mention that most countries like Zambia have severe structural issues in their government, such as the ones this article outlines. The easiest thing to do (and the thing most charities do) is give money, but money put
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by balloot 13y ago
Uhhh...shouldn't the site itself be built using the framework it advertises? Because the page structure and styling is all there even with JS turned off.
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by balloot 13y ago
You have to give Yahoo's marketing team credit. If they had just made this change with no greater context, people would have said "meh" and moved on. But through some clever marketing techniques the entire internet is abuzz
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by balloot 13y ago
And to keep it complicated every once in a while we make it so you need to respect the origin words. One that always makes me think twice as a native English speaker is "infrared". I always have to stop myself from saying it such
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by balloot 13y ago
Everything you said is correct. But it has nothing to do with the issue here. The seller is not "limiting access". They are not taking away the work they produced. They are instead publishing defamatory messages on the client&#

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