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by pqh 9y ago
http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/Xenopsychology.htm This is an interesting essay on the minds of our ocean-dwelling aliens.
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by pqh 9y ago
Plus I'd argue that more vacation time would mean each employee has a more even spread of the workload. You depend less on individuals, and more on the team.
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by pqh 9y ago
The stack traces suck sometimes with the metaprogramming. I have never chased down exactly what causes it, but sometimes you'll have lots of library code calls mentioned, and nothing from the application.
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by pqh 9y ago
I think it may be the degree in those cases.
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by pqh 9y ago
Yet also the thrill of the unexplored goes away when one doesn't bother to explore.
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by pqh 9y ago
I'd agree that micromanaging is a bad sign. Too often I get micromanaging about style critiques like "turn this into one if statement instead of nested ones and it's more clear", but absolutely no comments on the meat o
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by pqh 9y ago
And if people are writing 150 character plus lines, those are really, no joke, a lot harder to read. If the line is going to break anyway, why not just break it yourself at a spot that makes sense?
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by pqh 9y ago
Text of the tweet so people don't have to click: A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will somehow be able to express themselves lucidly and clearly in comments.
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by pqh 9y ago
If I wanted to understand the differences in how the EU manages big companies versus the US, with points from all sides, where would I start reading?
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by pqh 9y ago
I think you're neglecting the effect corporate backing can have on encouraging research from people who are less startup-minded and more I-like-knowing-I'll-have-food-on-the-table-minded.
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by pqh 9y ago
I mostly agree with the points leading up to the suggestion of mandatory data sharing. I'm still mulling that over. But I do agree that just breaking up Google, for example, wouldn't necessarily be a good thing. Of all the tech
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by pqh 9y ago
Though you're more likely to shape your own failure. Let's be real. That's not to say don't try, but be aware of the full picture.
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by pqh 9y ago
How do people find the addresses to even start probing for stuff like this?
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by pqh 9y ago
Use case for labelled breaks: collision detection in video game, where anything colliding with anything else ends the game, resets a counter, spawns Godzilla, who knows. With labels, you can break out of the top loop very efficiently.
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by pqh 9y ago
They really could have done a tiered release. Keep the knowledge of the vulnerability as close as possible for the ~6 months they had it, then release it to a greater (but still restricted) set of people for another ~6 months. the worst ca
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by pqh 9y ago
On top of that, the video games I play and enjoy are decidedly unreal and often intentionally simple or stylized.
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by pqh 9y ago
I'd live in a big city if more cities and building architects cared about green spaces and noise. I'm glad people are doing research here.
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by pqh 9y ago
Indeed, code reuse, testing, maintainability, etc are harder with the latter pattern. And with the latter you also end up using at least 3 languages in the same files. It's just really awful. Yes, browser-rendering SPA frameworks are
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by pqh 9y ago
My rep sent a canned, formal-language-adorned "get stuffed" in response.
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by pqh 9y ago
http://www.icr.org/article/plants-math-ration-food-use/ This is a really cool example of plants using math too.
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by pqh 9y ago
Let me put it this way: never have I heard an explanation in terms of classical mechanics. In my intuition, the billiard ball model of physics makes perfect sense. But a current taking the path of least resistance really seems like it &q
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by pqh 9y ago
Except "why does Snell's law over a continuous gradient effect the path of shortest time?" is equivalent to asking "why is the universe quantum?" It's plenty bizarre that electricity follows the path of least r
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by pqh 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, please. Doesn't any sufficiently-complex non-linear optimization problem degenerate into heuristic trial and error? There's a progression of better and better solutions. With the unpredictability of
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by pqh 9y ago
Try the Cinnamon WM on Linux. It's the best of both Mac and Windows' interfaces without the worst of either.
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by pqh 9y ago
Contrary to the analogies being drawn by sibling and child comments, work is different from dating or interviewing potential roommates, in that you typically have to give up a previous job when accepting a new one and if you don't ma
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by pqh 9y ago
Not everyone is so lucky. Why should you be the one to feel undermined in that case?
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by pqh 9y ago
Additionally, geography does matter for the group for similar reasons. Proximity constrains economics and policy.
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by pqh 9y ago
The two parties run the organization which works to keep any other parties out of televised debates. They don't care what anyone thinks as long as both parties agree to cooperate on screwing everyone else over. They're willing t
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by pqh 9y ago
I downloaded the microcode updates from Intel, but hesitate to apply them because one of the expected directories does not exist on Manjaro, so I'm out of my element on how supported the update would be. Do you happen to know if in ge
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by pqh 9y ago
Even earlier than that, Plato had somethings to say about philosophers and kings.

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