lorddoig

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by lorddoig 2y ago
The litmus test of this is whether they roll it out globally. If they do, Meta truly has seen the light; if they don't, this is just a cynical attempt to butter up Trump in case he regulates them into oblivion (as one could argue they
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by lorddoig 2y ago
Any particular recommendations for agencies?
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by lorddoig 2y ago
I actually agree with you more or less entirely. I only suspect that the motivation for making such comparisons is not always so noble, however. Some of it is just plain old smearing.
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by lorddoig 2y ago
That's as may be, but it's also a well-rehearsed cry of establishment media: - "Neo-Nazi accused a fan of Nigel Farage, trial told", BBC [0] - "Farage’s fascist past?", The Independent [1] - "Giorgia Melon
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by lorddoig 2y ago
Because admitting that right/centre-right views are democratically popular would mean they'd actually have to grapple with the issues going on. It's cheaper and easier to make comparisons with the Nazis and play to the raw o
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by lorddoig 3y ago
There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that heart deaths are up by a significant amount, that those deaths _may_ account for most or all of excess deaths currently seen, and that they _may_ be related to safety issues with some of t
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by lorddoig 3y ago
It is kind of astonishing to me to witness the discussion in these comments proceeding civilly and with actual regard to the science. In my experience this is vanishingly rare. It's extremely refreshing. At risk of ruining that civi
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Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion(youtube.com)
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by lorddoig 6y ago
> In a dynamic language, whenever I need to double-check the contract for some code, I can't just go look look at its type signature, I have to go read through it. I have to fully load that whole subtree of information into my brain
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by lorddoig 6y ago
It depends what you want to use types for, really. If your motivation for using types is provable correctness and you can grok Haskell (or better yet, Idris), then you should do that. If you want performant dispatch, Clojure can give you
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by lorddoig 8y ago
Crucially they don't carry around mutable state by default. If you want a record with protocols to act like a stateful object you can do it, but you have to explicitly jump through hoops eg by embedding an atom in one of its fields an
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by lorddoig 8y ago
I'm not so sure. Programming is isomorphic to mathematics (via logic) as proven by the Curry-Howard Correspondance, and so is not just applicable to ones problem/industry domain—it's applicable in a much more general sense.
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by lorddoig 9y ago
The sixth word in this article is ‘scandal’—is it just me or is a cab company knowing your pick up and drop off locations really not that outrageous?
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by lorddoig 9y ago
Server-side rendering of React applications is a pretty good reason to use Clojure on node as your server. Definitely not my preference of runtime but it does make this (quite common) use case substantially simpler for at least small- to m
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by lorddoig 9y ago
If you don't take the job: you lose out on employment, the employer loses out on a new employee, and the recruiter loses his fee. If you take the job: you get employment, the employer gets a new employee, and the recruiter loses his f
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by lorddoig 9y ago
I wouldn't describe HN as an echo chamber. It has elements, of course, but the quality of discourse here is really quite high and respectful. I actually read HN; I don't read YouTube comments, and I wouldn't even if that&#x27
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by lorddoig 9y ago
Practically speaking, this doesn't seem tremendously useful an idea. Global comment threads are most often a universally repulsive mix of incompatible opinions (case in point: YouTube.) I'll never allow comments on my blog, for in
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by lorddoig 9y ago
I wish I knew St Andrews was home to a cool mathematics department and the progenitor of Idris when I was there, filling my body with mind-altering chemicals.
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by lorddoig 10y ago
Spec isn't a type system - it's an immensely powerful abstraction for describing your data that can be leveraged for validation, coercion, error reporting, and automated test generation. This, I think, is what many of us wish our
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by lorddoig 10y ago
> Immutability is just a property of good value objects. It sounds rather like value objects are strictly superior than immutable data structures, based on this statement. I'd love to hear an expansion of this rationale.
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by lorddoig 10y ago
I (try) to use it this way wherever practicable. There are caveats and gotchas but in general it works as expected.
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Outright rejection of the fact that life, including your career path, is in part chance-based is dangerous. A sizeable chunk of the part that isn't isn't in your control either, it's controlled by your environment and the pe
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Being told that you now trust someone with your secrets via a news website is a pleasingly succinct display of everything that's wrong with the CA model.
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by lorddoig 11y ago
> America gave birth to the idea of representative democracy And here was me thinking that was the Greeks. Thousands of years before America existed.
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Titular hyperbole, much?
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by lorddoig 11y ago
It's not just technical though. BACS/CHAPS (payment systems that take days to move money and cost about £30 a go) would never die while banks had control of common technical standards. They're absurd. These standards mandate
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Banks working together is a scary idea. This was the notion atop which the recently disbanded Payments Council (UK) was based - an organisation that failed to deprecate BACS/CHAPS, had to be told to implement Faster Payments, came up
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Having to know the structure of a hash/map/dict is strictly superior to having to know the methods and fields of an object. For any given task the two are equivalent, except that one is easily modified/reused/passed to o
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Cursive's[0] support for this kind of thing is quite good, and constantly improving. [0] https://cursiveclojure.com/
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by lorddoig 11y ago
In 'A Brief History of Time' he briefly discusses the intellectual advantages of his physical disabilities.

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