pradocchia

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by pradocchia 12y ago
Barricelli presented a bold challenge to the standard Darwinian model of evolution by competition by demonstrating that organisms evolved by symbiosis and cooperation. Somehow I thought symbiosis and cooperation was the accepted model, an
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by pradocchia 12y ago
I will grant that the first form is clearly [0, 1, 2], while the second form could be construed as [0, [1, 2]]. HOWEVER, given that there is no "and" between 0 & 1, and that 1 & 2 are not like things, I believe most reader
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by pradocchia 12y ago
I'm glad I experienced the old internet back in its heyday, when high quality sites linked to other high quality sites, and Google exposed this natural topology for all to explore. Google's success eventually led to the end of the
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by pradocchia 12y ago
And with nobody having to worry about surviving without a job, it also frees up many people to explore ideas they otherwise would never have had time for. Well, even universal healthcare would have this same effect in America. There would
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by pradocchia 12y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure how much it increase discoverability, plus users pay the cognitive cost of quirky patterns. I might have used an enum plus a second constructor to wrap the explicit conversation. I guess it depends on what's goi
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by pradocchia 12y ago
It still provides some of the same ergonomics. You can put away the mental cheat-sheet ("1: gold, 2: silver...."). Your IDE can find all uses of BookTypeId.Gold(), rather than textual occurrences of "1". Etc. The static
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by pradocchia 12y ago
Not sure what the point of the implicit operator overloads was. I assume he didn't want to change the signature of the constructor for whatever reason, but still provide a small measure of discoverability (and tractability). Such thi
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by pradocchia 12y ago
Moreover, if a researcher shows up in a village offering cash, on the condition that player two doesn't refuse the split: a) the villagers know each other. b) the researcher is the stranger. those are the teams, researcher vs players,
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by pradocchia 12y ago
Inflammation is rooted in acidity and promotes infection. Do you have any more on this? I have stumbled across the notion before. Someone typically counters with "but the body maintains a constant pH" and the conversation dissol
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by pradocchia 12y ago
That's an interesting piece. You can see how some lines of thought have become verboten in respectable society. This era might be considered the Rise of Fear and the Return of Authority.
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by pradocchia 12y ago
Having to switch to the other side of the street or having to circumvent a dangerous block is a loss of freedom, a kind of coercion born of inequality, normalized by the very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts lif
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by pradocchia 12y ago
It also seems to me as if having to switch to the other side of the street or by having to circumvent a dangerous block as some form of coercion resulting from a very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts life with
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by pradocchia 12y ago
if more US citizens would travel their view on how much they're getting ripped off would change drastically. For many Americans, especially the richer ones that can afford a trip to northern Europe, it would be a case of cognitive di
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by pradocchia 12y ago
Increasing year of birth means increasing human knowledge. What, since the 1990s? No, don't be silly. There may have been a bump due to improved access to basic human knowledge. Is this what you mean?
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by pradocchia 12y ago
The last time I looked for a senior sysadmin -- less than a year ago -- I didn't get anyone who was comfortable programming in Perl/Python/Ruby until I started using the term DevOps. [1] via TFA Ah, now I understand DevOps.
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by pradocchia 12y ago
I love the camera on my 920, it takes great pictures (for a phone), and I have been wholly satisfied with WP as an OS. I have missed the integration with Gmail etc on Android. That's been the worst of it, and it has been manageable.
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by pradocchia 12y ago
Well, I love leaving tips. Leaving a five dollar tip for a five dollar sub is the highlight of my day. I love that my tip goes directly to people at the bottom of the totem pole, and that more often than not, not even Uncle Sam gets a cut.
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by pradocchia 13y ago
my own charisma is inversely proportional to the hours I spend each day coding. more coding -> less charisma. so I don't think it is just a stereotype at all, but rather an emergent phenomenon of how we spend our time, and where our
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by pradocchia 13y ago
Right, so if the women's liberation movement hadn't made flat orgs so fashionable, then maybe Github would still be a nice place for all kinds to work, and we wouldn't have this whole class of pseudo-sexist problems. Am I rea
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by pradocchia 13y ago
Is there any reason to assume that LEGO is really evil? I for one am thankful for it's existence, because my kid is having a lot of fun with it. LEGO is not alone in this regard, but they do create wants out of nothing. So, you have
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by pradocchia 13y ago
> Is it? At least on MSSQL, I would expect a query plan like so: 1. Index seek WHERE a = 123, yielding ~100 rows. [1] 2. Bookmark lookup with results from (1), yielding ~100 rows. 3. Filter (2) WHERE b = 42 and project date_colum
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by pradocchia 13y ago
I also answered "about the same", and no I didn't notice the bookmark lookup (so-called on MSSQL), but even if I had I'm not sure I would have changed my answer--well maybe I would have because I would have noticed the
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by pradocchia 13y ago
Each of those events happens 1 time per year. kids attend their friends birthdays. candy occasions can work out to several times a month between halloween and new years.
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by pradocchia 13y ago
Well, by that token regulation is also the free market, by virtue of regulatory capture, and words cease to mean anything at all. Fact is, as his high holiness Milton Friedman himself argued, business is not a friend of the free market: Al
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by pradocchia 13y ago
Birthday cakes, Halloween candy, Christmas candy....this is a tremendous amount of sugar, and is kind of shocking to one who grew up without it. The ubiquity of sugar today discourages moderation by normalizing consumption. It would be like
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by pradocchia 13y ago
I agree with everything you've said, however I want to add that the general technique of compressing your data through pre-aggregation is a sound one, whether it is performed auto-magically by the optimizer, or manually through whateve
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by pradocchia 13y ago
I think this was more an exposition on the general technique than specific recommendation. The general theme should be, "how do I make my database do less work?" followed by a list of techniques, including "pre-aggregate to r
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by pradocchia 13y ago
but CTEs in SQL Server are not an optimization boundary like they are in Postgres. This makes a big difference in their proper use. In SQL Server, aside from recursion, CTEs are purely syntactic sugar and thus a tool for organizing code. Wh
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by pradocchia 13y ago
can you elaborate on your experience in SF? what kind of insults / sarcasm / backhanded compliments?
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by pradocchia 13y ago
In a nutshell: San Francisco has long been filling up with noobs...but now we face the most dangerous, the most egregious and blandest of them all...people with lots of money. NOBODY can square-up a joint like rich people.

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