greendragon

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by greendragon 10y ago
It's more about status than utility. As long as Go and Chess can maintain some sort of high status (as games or as historical points of interest) among the intelligent or ruling classes, they'll be remembered. Diseases seem to get
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by greendragon 10y ago
Tyranny of the majority is a major concern for democratic systems, hence the many protections against it. A system based on pure population majority is no less manipulable, you would end up seeing candidates campaign hard in the ~25 most de
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by greendragon 10y ago
And as long as you don't lose the USB drive, or sit on it wrongly, or otherwise make it unusable. The best and most durable solution is really some RFID tags embedded in your wrists and forehead.
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by greendragon 10y ago
Zuck 3 (paraphrasing): "We're building tools to help states censor things they don't like, independent of the truth of those things." Consistent with 1, not really with 2. Agree that 2's not a huge deal in the grand
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by greendragon 10y ago
There's probably no reason for you to go around disabling hardware etc. You're aware enough of the implications and risks, it's possible you'll get pwned but not too likely. (Honestly I'm more personally worried a
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by greendragon 10y ago
How is anyone supposed to distinguish the first 10 BTC from the last 10 BTC when the underlying satoshis might not even be the same? e.g. I might transfer those 10 BTC to an online store (web wallet, other trading, whatever) but then transf
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by greendragon 10y ago
The cardboard and marbles aren't self-aware, they just encode a configuration that sees itself as self-aware when left alone to execute. Just like the atoms of your body. Self-awareness isn't a static property, since it's har
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by greendragon 10y ago
lol can't even hang from a bar for over 3 seconds. I'm a coding machine regardless though.
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by greendragon 10y ago
Seconded. Some of it feels a bit dated, and it doesn't cover tools you can use like PowerMock if your codebase is Java and you really just need to get a piece of hairy code under coverage as quick as you can without having to refactor
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by greendragon 10y ago
Judging from their account age I hope so.
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by greendragon 10y ago
After almost a decade of building Firefox from source I finally bit the bullet to switch to a precompiled binary last month. It's fixed all the issues that have started to crop up but leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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by greendragon 10y ago
I think the third party situation is unlikely, unless they're shipping a fork like IceWeasel or stripping out all branding information. At the end of the compilation process in Gentoo it helpfully tells you (if you enabled the Firefox
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by greendragon 10y ago
I interpret a lot of AGPL projects I see as "we're willing to negotiate a secondary license to your private business". If you're the best in class (or just the only available public option) it can make sense as a way to
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by greendragon 10y ago
I like to tell this to people when they start gushing about Japan because of their cleanliness or law and order or whatever, but they didn't make private possession illegal until a couple years ago. Before then it was just production o
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by greendragon 10y ago
I see nothing false in rewording your statement to "a long-maintained large codebase requires continuous vigilance". Typing doesn't seem to matter with this. At least to the extent that we believe typing doesn't have a m
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by greendragon 10y ago
It was pretty bad that easy_install came out with no easy_uninstall. Plus some packages are in your system's package manager (which I think is great because I'm sick of every language having its own package manager when my system&
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by greendragon 10y ago
As a Python user and fan I hear this complaint a lot. I understand but I can't really agree since things like typos and type fails pretty much never happen to me, at least in production. My secret? I use the REPL, heavily. (And not eve
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by greendragon 10y ago
Seems a lot of the Go fans I read are former Python users burned by dynamic typing, so I agree they'll end up happy (or at least happier than Rust) with Go. Though one more option you might want to consider is Nim: http://ni
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by greendragon 10y ago
Curious what they weren't so happy about with Python? Was it purely performance? If so, did they consider PyPy, or at least profile what the slowest bits are so they can evaluate whether to throw everything out or just rewrite the slow
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by greendragon 10y ago
It remains true. 4TB now is like $100 too, and SSDs that size are around even if they're an order of magnitude more expensive. (And then there's Seagate's 60 TB SSD prototype, clearly the future is with SSDs.)
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by greendragon 10y ago
This thing has better hardware specs than the 3DS and the Wii. It'd be nice if this sold well and they then offered a SNES controller + games, then N64, and so on, so the only games it can't run are on the Wii U or Switch. (Edit:
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by greendragon 10y ago
Unless a lot of their customers are vegan.
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by greendragon 10y ago
We're already living Gattaca. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/27/495668299/...
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by greendragon 10y ago
OP said "a lot" of the haves, so I get the impression they think it's actually a lot and justifiable to start imposing corrections to the problem on the lot of haves. My real issue is just the idea that more than a tiny fract
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by greendragon 10y ago
If genetics determines all, then we should sort people to tasks best suited for their genetics. Ashkenazi Jew? Work on advancing gene therapy and retroviruses so humans now and in the future can be freed from genetic determinism. European?
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by greendragon 10y ago
It's really technology that is always getting better. It has been so successful that it's hard to see the decline in so many other things. Factor out technological advances when answering these questions. Are our universities real
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by greendragon 10y ago
https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
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by greendragon 10y ago
Were there any hints you noticed in retrospect that the insufficient experience or a bad hiring test results were probable? If I could somehow predict those experiences up front I think it would save myself and them time and anxiety by stop
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by greendragon 10y ago
The Seattle area seems to have equivalent or better salaries locally or when the remote company is in SF. Might just be my limited view though. I know a guy in my company who relocated to France and took a lower pay, but I suspect if he had
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by greendragon 10y ago
Yeah, I tend to agree that location is BS to use as a way to try and save a buck. Everyone's cost of living is different, and even in a local area can diverge dramatically. If you've filtered for basic competency where you can be

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