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by drostie 8y ago
I like the idea but find that an overstatement that trivializes the nature of technical debt: at some level one is talking about things that "pay off now" but require "interest payments" in the future" and while one
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by drostie 8y ago
A static property is generally a global variable namespaced to the class, so Foo.bar.
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by drostie 8y ago
Rabbi Hillel famously is quoted as saying "Don't say anything that ought not be heard -- not even in the strictest confidence -- for ultimately it will be heard." This is one of the ways that it will be heard, heh.
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by drostie 8y ago
This is actually really interesting and mirrors a more general effort that I am pursuing[1] to build runtime representations of type in TypeScript, though my context is not so much GraphQL but rather just a more traditional HTTP API. It loo
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by drostie 8y ago
I saw yours and went for Buddhabrot: https://turtletoy.net/turtle/e196b49813
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by drostie 8y ago
Hm. I will have to retry. You're right that this is my work laptop and sometimes Sophos does weird crap. Sorry for alarming you without checking downforeveryoneorjustme first. I have read the source; indeed reading the source of redux-
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by drostie 8y ago
I mean it is quite possible that as "originally" originally understood in the late 1970s, the model did not have subscribers, but it was a part of the system as early as Smalltalk-80. For some references you could find e.g. http:
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by drostie 8y ago
Hi! I would love to read your articles and discuss this further but right now your blog is not viewable by Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Firefox gives the most descriptive error string as SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG. Multiplexing two models to
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by drostie 8y ago
The absolute most important thing to understand about models as they were originally intended, is that they are not descriptions of a data model per se. This is not to say that data modeling is not important, or that your model won’t have a
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by drostie 8y ago
Maybe somewhat. I think you can offer a simple explanation, but it depends a little on how you have already set up the problem. Here's the problem setup: So we want to share a secret byte (178) among Alice, Bob, and Carol, so that we n
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by drostie 8y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the correction!
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by drostie 8y ago
It's possible but unlikely. MPL, for folks who aren't aware, is a successor to the CDDL seen in Solaris etc. and is a per-file copyleft, thus having a nicer legal structure while getting the same rough benefits of GPL or at least
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by drostie 8y ago
You could tack on several more if the fragment being corrected is "...conjunctions like butandandandor..." so that they are missing spaces between but and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and or, and commas would hel
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by drostie 8y ago
Right. The important thing about the Clay Mathematics Millenium Prize is that it is a set of well-chosen SMART-ish goals. They want to incentivize work on really hard fields of mathematics but they have tried to do this by choosing results
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by drostie 8y ago
I mean the biggest thing was Kuhn coming along and saying "experimentally, it doesn't work that way." What I mean is, people don't find an experiment about nanostructures that doesn't work and start going "hey
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by drostie 8y ago
No, when they talk about watts per kilogram I am pretty sure that they mean these were absorbed. Like they literally built 21 big microwaves, 7 for mice and 14 for rats, and then turned them on: it's no different than your microwave at
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by drostie 8y ago
I don't think TypeScript has a native GUID type, but if I am wrong about that please tell me as it will make my code more type-safe. The `string` type here comes from a mapping that the router is using. That is, the router ultimately t
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by drostie 8y ago
I've been well. Landed a software job with a company called IntegriShield doing a sort of internet rent-a-cop work, now am writing apps for a mechanical contractor called US Engineering -- turns out the construction business always run
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by drostie 8y ago
Hey Koen, congrats on you and Corno making front-page on HN! I can definitely confirm for others reading this that it indeed has been something like 10 years in the making; I was working with a prototype of it 8-9 years ago and found those
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by drostie 8y ago
Right, I wouldn't dispute that. If I wanted to rewrite the 15k lines of code in this application (which is what, 500 pages printed? two books?) I would probably use react+redux and could maybe even eliminate half of the code when I was
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by drostie 8y ago
I am not sure if I am in the 1% or if you are wrong in a foundational sense of “you have the latitude if you'll use it.” Like, in the past week I had to add a feature to a front end that is heavily based on jQuery and its ecosystem, so
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by drostie 8y ago
It's only a little bit off. To get the true hydrodynamic analog to a capacitor, connect the bars of two big pistons together so that volume accumulated in one comes at the expense of the other, then hit the bar with a spring so that it
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by drostie 8y ago
It's ok, if I didn't have a Master's in the field I would probably have similarly down voted you. The problem is mainly that the criticism you are making is not great for pedagogy. What is being called “charge” is probably so
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by drostie 8y ago
They are not wrong. In the Maxwell equations both come in as fundamentally different terms. The claim is that current density J is different from the time rate of change of charge density dρ/dt. That is not to say they are unrelated; t
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by drostie 8y ago
I mean it's not just one system, but the idea is what I just said. The classical example is if you have a bunch of magnetic moments in a magnetic field and they do not interact with each other: then stuffing energy into the system requ
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by drostie 8y ago
It's technically not 100% defined. See my comment below for more details about degrees of freedom and energy. Suppose you have a system with 100 degrees of freedom and 2 units of energy, spread out as (0.01, 0.01, ..., 0.01, 1.01). A b
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by drostie 8y ago
It's not just an analogy, and it contains the essence of the story, but it's also not the whole story. In physics we talk about the "degrees of freedom" of a system -- this is just the count of all of the independent w
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by drostie 8y ago
One faces a similar problem with thinking about how much time is saved to go a certain distance: velocity is measured in meters per second, not "slowness" in seconds per meter. Thus speeding by 10 miles per hour makes much more di
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by drostie 8y ago
No, there isn't. Words change meaning because your present-eyes are different from past-eyes. The gun symbol has changed meaning because your present client is different from past clients.
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by drostie 8y ago
> What kind of writing system allows people to change your words after you've written them? File this away under "myths programmers believe about language," with some bullet points like, - A word or symbol will always have

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