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by svs 3y ago
Childish Western philosophers. Not a single mention of Indian metaphysics which has deeply studied this problem. Not to be taken seriously.
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by svs 8y ago
Coding is transforming a set of problems into a particular level of abstraction. Higher levels of abstraction exist (team, business model, etc.) and it's perfectly fine to find them more fulfilling and interesting as one goes. I haven
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by svs 8y ago
Biometric collection is always for specific purpose. General purpose, compulsory biometric ids exist only in Malaysia IIRC.
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by svs 8y ago
If the creator of this is reading this - can you please stop flipping the board every time we click 'Next move'? It makes it impossible to follow the game. Thanks
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by svs 8y ago
Try having a default value for a key in a JSON document that isn't null. In Go, this is pure torture. Then compare with the serde library for Rust. Go's lack of generics makes this kind of use case much harder than reasonable.
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by svs 10y ago
so is not having women in STEM. Pick your poison.
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by svs 10y ago
The JQ stackoverflow community is VERY helpful.
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by svs 10y ago
Cannot accept user inputted script for json transform because Security nightmare! That's JQ's and JMESPath's secret sauce.
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by svs 10y ago
JMESPath is nowhere near us powerful. No unique(), for example, which is very important when munging JSON
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by svs 10y ago
The problem is not of small modules. The problem is lack of dependability. If the language patrons stand behind a set of modules and guarantee continuity and availability, it really doesn't matter what is in them and the world can cont
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by svs 11y ago
Correct. You can discharge any financial obligation with the legal tender and the recipient is obliged to accept it. We're saying the same thing.
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by svs 11y ago
Which one do you prefer? Alan Parson's sombre take ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiie_zmSr8 ) or Judas Priest's angry laser-tinged screed ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1B_pZC8aWU ) as the so
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by svs 11y ago
Yes, all of these are reasons why gold got started. A gold backed system is perhaps not even possible anymore let alone desirable. Please see http://svs.io/post/69301254342/bitcoin-fud There are only two things we
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by svs 11y ago
Yes and at some point you need a token of value. Imagine the plight of the itinerant tradesman as he herds his chickens through the forest from village to village simply so he can trade. No no, food is far too cumbersome to be a token of va
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by svs 11y ago
The value of gold depends on the supply of it. The value of silver depends on the supply of it. The value of gold does not depend on the supply of silver. The two are separate currencies. So for a currency to be stable, its supply has to be
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by svs 11y ago
Tungsten was first isolated in 18th century. Gold was already established by then.
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by svs 11y ago
because of those five properties of gold.
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by svs 11y ago
granted, but gold can be used as an ornament and money at the same time. use as an ornament does not detract from its use as money.
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by svs 11y ago
Yes, but not at the time gold rose to prominence as a currency. In those days people needed mostly swords and axes.
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by svs 11y ago
Paper money (fiat currency in particular) gets value because you can pay debts and taxes with it.
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by svs 11y ago
Sorry but this theory is completely wrong. Gold has value because it is a currency (medium of exchange) and money (store of value) due to the following properties: a) Indestructible - bury it in your garden for fifty years, still the same.
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by svs 11y ago
Quitting smoking is about practice. Keep quitting and do it sincerely. Eventually you will learn how to quit. The trick is to avoid the "F * it" mentality. After yet another failed attempt, it's easy to say f * it and go ba
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by svs 11y ago
Carpooling has fundamental challenges that are perhaps impossible to overcome. For one, dynamic routing for two or more people is always going to hurt the user experience. Imagine you're running late and your car re-routes to pick up
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Ask HN: Reccommended reading to get up to speed on Hacker/Startup culture
43 points by svs 12y ago|29 comments
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by svs 12y ago
DPR Karpeles = DPRK = Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North Korea! I knew the North Koreans would be somehow involved!
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by svs 12y ago
Ashley, I find your objections to be valid. If we're bemoaning the state of gender equality in tech then it is everyone's duty to provide a space where stereotypes are not indulged in, people are not judged based on extrinsic fact
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by svs 12y ago
I'm apologising, sincerely, to anyone who took offense to the fact that the programmer was a female. It wasn't my intention to cause hurt and I've updated the parody with a hopefully less controversial male protagonist. For c
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by svs 12y ago
Thanks for that. To all female programmers - I meant no offense. On a related note, when are we getting genderless pronouns for English?
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Too Many 'a's (A poem, with apologies to Dr. Seuss)(gist.github.com)
18 points by svs 12y ago|22 comments
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by svs 12y ago
Since when has what Yahoo Mail does become relevant again?

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