chandler

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by chandler 9y ago
> Yeah, except 10 years at certain companies could teach you less than 6months to 1 year at one company that's actually doing it right. Is it common for programmers that have been on a job to not realize the ways in which their soft
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by chandler 9y ago
Consider smartness as "what you can do with what you know," while experience is "what you know"--then, what follows is that having more experience makes up for not being as clever. Able to make good choices = Intel
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by chandler 9y ago
Agreed--being able to define functions for control flow & data transformation seemed functional enough (compared to having to rely on primitive reserved words). Of course, even then, C was functional by that definition (as long as you c
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by chandler 9y ago
A simple thing is to figure out if you can restrict the runtime environment during development (available memory, clock speed, network speed, etc), and develop to that. The nice side effect is there's more of your computer available f
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by chandler 9y ago
Well, Publix is employee owned, does that count? Comparing the wikipedia sidebar shows Publix with more stores, revenue, and over twice the number of employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publix https://e
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by chandler 9y ago
> Our raw mental capabilities may have always been the same, but how smart we are also depends on our learning. FWIW, I tend to equate "smart" with "cleverness," as a separate measure distinct from "experience,&q
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by chandler 9y ago
> ...but why did they do it like this? ...because people are smart. People have _always_ been smart, it's one of the defining attributes of humanity. It strikes me oddly (not specifically your comment, but the general color accompa
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by chandler 9y ago
> My brain doesn't "point" at something in Vi motions... In emacs there's a mode called ace jumping. Essentially, it lets you pinpoint exactly on screen where you want to move the cursor ~3 keypresses. Similar to how
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by chandler 9y ago
> I imagine piping in bash feels similar... It is. Piping is akin to an untyped subset of working with Scala's collections, and there's a similar workflow between the two, e.g.: In bash, you build up a command line with someth
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by chandler 9y ago
Yeah, but where are you going to get the skills of interacting with strangers? Eliminating baseball practice doesn't seem like a way to encourage more games :/
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by chandler 9y ago
> So while our system would be able to say "I have seen person 1234 at locations 4,7,9,11 on dates x,y,x" we had absolutely no way of knowing who 1234 was or anything about them... Minor nitpick, but giving someone a nickname
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by chandler 9y ago
>> It seems like there's a fine line between being clever and being morally bankrupt. Actions can only be evaluated as moral/immoral/amoral when you've taken the time to define a system of morals. It's the dif
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by chandler 10y ago
>> Why "combat" the impact of robots? For an outside consideration, take the view outlined in this "Rules for Rulers" video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs )--especially the part that
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by chandler 10y ago
>> ...a random human's odds of being eaten by a figurative grue monotonically increase as you go backwards in time. Humans don't live alone in the woods--not now, not 5,000 years ago (nor 45,000 years before that). They ban
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by chandler 10y ago
Sure, at a prior job we passed out hardcopies of a side-by-side diff before scheduling a peer review (including only the affected methods/functions). No syntax highlighting, but it was quite useful. Off the top of my head, the two mai
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by chandler 10y ago
>> Imagine most of your income comes from Adsense, how would you feel about revealing something as disturbing as google involved in a case of corruption in the european parliament? This wouldn't happen because a news org would ne
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by chandler 13y ago
Let's disregard the blackmail aspect of nothing-to-hide. Consider that lobbyists & bureaucrats now have the capability (prevented only by policy) to snoop the past and present communications of elected officials. Imagine your squea
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by chandler 13y ago
"The only thing preventing an Apache helicopter from firing on schoolchildren under order of the president.... is policy" A better method of prevention would be to not build Apache helicopters.
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by chandler 17y ago
Moreover, all these calculations of how much energy is required to grow meat fall flat when you consider grass-fed beef & pastured chickens (a la Saladin); unlike corn-fed beef, grass-fed beef can be self sustaining & actually rejuv
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Hard science, thermodynamics, and the low carb myth(news.ycombinator.com)
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by chandler 17y ago
Different nutrients are processed differently by the body, fully in line with thermodynamics. Take 100 Calories of sawdust (cellulose). If you eat this, how many calories did you consume? Did consuming these calories contribute to fat acc
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by chandler 17y ago
Of course I was simply addressing the sustainability comment, not the economics involved. Regarding economics, I suppose the unanswered question is how would a reallocation (or reduction, depending on your political bent) of government subs
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by chandler 17y ago
I read GCBC about two months ago; although I've been interested in health & nutrition for several years now, it's amazing that I never understood how badly science has been mistreated by nutritionists & health experts. Moreover, bec
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by chandler 17y ago
One of the points Taubes makes in his GCBC book (which is phenomenal, by the way), is that obesity is a dysfunction of excess adipose tissue (fat), not merely a problem of excess weight. As you suggest, using only weight as the variable mea
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by chandler 17y ago
Regarding the environmental impact and sustainability: http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html... Here's another take: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarian.html#link1 One missing piece regarding the idea of s
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by chandler 17y ago
>> The parenthesis do require that you have at least a moderately capable editor to navigate them effectively. I disagree, with a caveat--writing code using a terrible editor requires knowledge of the indentation rules for the langu
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by chandler 18y ago
>> ...we laugh and think, "Who the hell would buy that?" I'd speculate that this arrogance is more a consequence of the content being sold than the format it's being sold in. If someone wrote a "real scaling with memcached" (or what
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by chandler 18y ago
>> Saying that time might be an illusion is saying that time might not be "real". No, the word "illusion" references an artifact that is both real and effective, yet whose true nature is misunderstood. Moreover, for X to be an illus
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by chandler 18y ago
>> The stories on the frontpage now are still roughly the ones that would have been there when HN started. Subjectively, the frontpage and discussions have grown quite bland here; without necessarily corresponding to a reduction in
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by chandler 18y ago
>> I really can't think of any reason why you'd want to show score before voting. When I vote (here), I'm pushing a comment towards an idealized score. To make the decisions "do I think this is rated too highly" and "do I think thi

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