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BBC Christmas Maths(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by penguat 3y ago|0 comments
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by penguat 6y ago
Except of course smartphones
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by penguat 6y ago
It strikes me that this is most likely to be used as part of an exfiltration mechanism for a malicious JS package or similar.
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by penguat 6y ago
Try reading it as "muggle specs" - specifications which the majority of the population will read.
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by penguat 7y ago
"INSERT only, no UPDATEs" - sounds like event sourcing?
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by penguat 7y ago
I don't always run the code in my head exactly - i do something more important, which is consider the set of possible situations the code can be in, and look for problems.
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by penguat 7y ago
with filter splitters being a thing now, I think they would be, yes.
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by penguat 7y ago
Which is why best practice is now to start with CI in production - it needs limited access to dev, and the access from development environments into it can be literally just enough to collect the latest artifact.
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by penguat 8y ago
For your average consumer, this is probably a bad thing.
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by penguat 8y ago
we ask almost everyone the same thing, which can be resolved to one of the unimaginative but straightforward things above, but is not necessarily obvious at first glance. We fail the people who evidently can't code, not the people who
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by penguat 8y ago
hmmm, about this not having to pay rent - prisoners with partners and children currently can't pay their chunk of the rent, but I bet many would, if they could.
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by penguat 8y ago
If the patient is a dependent of someone, or a minor, or dies, does someone else pay? Is the consumer the person paying, or the patient?
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by penguat 8y ago
I don't know if feedback is provided as standard where I work, or only on request - but we do provide meaningful feedback as far as possible. I suggest that few companies will object to you asking about their timeframe for decisions, o
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by penguat 8y ago
One of the awkward things about people is the more they spend on something the more they value it and the better behaved they are to the creators of it.* This may be why subscriptions are so expensive - because part of the cost of the subsc
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by penguat 8y ago
at which point you're into extrapolation, I wonder how accurate it could be. I'd guess good enough for most situations.
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by penguat 9y ago
You have invested your time in some ways; others have invested theirs in other ways. Lazy is a very loaded term - I'm hesitant to subscribe to the notion that keeping up with Game of Thrones is any less an investment of time. As exampl
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by penguat 9y ago
Case a: you're expecting to do ongoing business, do well, and both benefit. wrangling contract is not good for you, beyond a basic level. Make sure you're on the same page, and hooray. Case b: This is a one-time deal, they have no
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by penguat 9y ago
They need to maintain their customers' perception, which is not so much about trying as actually having an effect...
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by penguat 9y ago
Where I work it is standard policy to send meaningful feedback after a face-to-face interview. We actively work to make this helpful.
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by penguat 10y ago
And it needn't look like eval: http://www.jsfuck.com
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by penguat 10y ago
Who said anything about including the word "eval"? Javascript is really rather bad for allowing surprising things: eval is possible in just 6 innocuous-looking characters - see http://www.jsfuck.com
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by penguat 10y ago
Pair programming neatly sidesteps a number of problems, when done well . For a team, it helps to spread knowledge among the team, encourages people to follow the team discipline, gives a second pair of eyes on any bugs and gets people up an
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by penguat 10y ago
Often this means providing an abstraction which won't break for most users. sadly, such abstractions are often like a duck - paddling madly under the water.
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by penguat 10y ago
I use my second slot for JPG, reasoning that I can get good enough results out of a JPG if I desperately need it - and the cheaper, slower, bigger card I put in the backup slot will hold a couple of days' shooting as JPG and not slow t
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by penguat 10y ago
The answers already here address the direct effect in terms of company costs - there are fixed costs of an employee as well as variable costs. I am more interested in what it does to your typical team in your something-like-typical corporat
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by penguat 10y ago
but I do see my nose - in serious double vision, and way out of focus, but I do see it.
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by penguat 10y ago
or "It's what I have on my office computer and I don't get admin rights"
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by penguat 10y ago
I believe it is an array of sensors operating at different focal points, presumably with depth-of-field set such that it will overlap slightly. From that data, you can indeed construct something that looks a lot like an actual light field.
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by penguat 11y ago
One of the things that people aim for in writing tests is orthogonality - different tests should not break for the same reason. This promotes the ability to refactor and change your code. I have also seen massive codebases, with masses of t
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by penguat 11y ago
It's more likely that it is kept secret to reduce potential liability and to maintain competitive advantage.

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