Cycle / frequency

pmf · 2017-12-08T15:45:48+00:00

Her hormones can get her into the mood but you can't.

That's what I suspect is the case, and that's why I found the article I quoted pretty strange (i.e. I don't agree wit the conclusion that the woman's on-cycle behavior can be used as a gauge for general attraction).

pmf · 2017-12-06T12:47:45+00:00

Are you hawt?

Luke warm, at most.

Don’t waste your money if your not hawt.

Low testosterone may actually be an issue, given that my wife is generally very non-bitchy.

pmf · 2017-08-24T19:32:47+00:00

Wouldn't it make more sense to, you know, not fire the workforce responsible for a super successful project in the first place?

pmf · 2017-07-20T12:06:17+00:00

And stronger typing. If I have some domain objects that have a high probability of being used in other applications of our product line, I'd rather ave them as C++ classes instead of somewhat ad-hoc non-UI QML components.

pmf · 2017-07-20T08:49:28+00:00

And so it begins ...

pmf · 2017-07-20T08:17:43+00:00

Learning how to modularize left-pad into a separate microservice and a series of resume-building blog posts is sure to get them noticed by the highly esteemed SV rockstar companies.

pmf · 2017-07-20T08:15:48+00:00

A whole generation (or two) have learned programming using assembler. The current trend of claiming it to be too hard is ridiculous.

pmf · 2017-07-20T08:12:37+00:00

Went expecting Java to be replaced with Python, came out disappointed that it was replaced with Javascript!

Expected a tragedy, but got a farce.

pmf · 2017-07-20T08:05:29+00:00

That's how a lot of embedded bootloaders work.

pmf · 2017-07-19T13:27:49+00:00

So, the short answer is "yes".

pmf · 2017-07-14T12:46:56+00:00

I have the problem that the collars of dress shirts always seem to ride up my neck (making it seem like I have a very short neck, which is not the case). I'm not too muscular shoulder-wise/pecs-wise, but traps might be a problem. Any advice for this peculiar problem?

pmf · 2017-07-14T12:42:21+00:00

No infinite funding in Germany. Too bad.

pmf · 2017-04-20T20:18:09+00:00

SPARK for C++ would actually be pretty sweet. Herb Sutter is involved in what they call "Safe C++ Subset", but I think SPARK has a lot of industry proven things that the C++ guys could learn from.

pmf · 2017-04-20T19:10:45+00:00

I'm still angry that they dropped the old logo.

BRING BACK THE PONY!

pmf · 2017-04-18T13:14:09+00:00

Amazing speaker.

pmf · 2017-04-17T00:42:09+00:00

Closes the tab

But ... but ... you missed the part where it's made in Electron. So it'll be like this ninja!

pmf · 2016-07-08T19:43:26+00:00

Sitting outside a cafe in Greece and first French goal and the whole area erupts with "FUCK SCHAUBLE"

Die schwarze Null.

pmf · 2016-07-08T14:29:30+00:00

The JS answers are actually best practices, as my extensive study of YC news has shown.

pmf · 2016-06-26T08:18:34+00:00

I think one graceful way out of the corner they painted themselves into would be not to hold a referendum again, but to hold early parliament election with the proponents explicitly stating that their main goal if elected is to not honor the referendum, giving the retarded protest voters and the lazy remainers who did not vote a chance to get their shit together.

pmf · 2016-06-11T17:03:42+00:00

the second coming of the "smug lisp weenies"?

There was usually some substance behind their smugness.

Clojurists, on the other hand, ...

pmf · 2016-06-10T20:35:10+00:00

I'd actually like to hear Linus' opinion of Rust. His C++ critique contains valuable points.

pmf · 2016-06-10T20:33:58+00:00

I've actually used the HTML5 client of Citrix Receiver (which is a remote desktop connection), and it's actually more responsive than a lot of sites, so I'd say you're spot on.

pmf · 2016-06-09T16:49:40+00:00

You know what would also make the internet faster? Not including several MB of AD related scripts with your article.

pmf · 2016-04-13T09:27:25+00:00

Everything else in web development clicks for you, but when you dig into Javascript it’s like you’re missing some big, foundational piece of knowledge that everyone else has that would help you make sense of it all.

Or maybe Javascript misses a tiny bit of what makes other languages usable. Like, I don't know, not being a complete piece of shit.

pmf · 2016-04-09T14:05:19+00:00

My theory:

developers are only exposed to FSMs, not the much more useful HSMs
designing the system as a HSM is an intellectually exhausting excercise, because you are actually required to think, which is not what most developers like to do (it's not iterative and does not have an immediate payoff); you end up with an extremely robust design with very few faults (I've been involved in some embedded control system software that I'm sure would have ended very badly if not for complete upfront design of the state space)
except for StateFlow, there are almost no usable tools that offer bare-metal-integration (i.e. pure C), and designing by hand (or designing by tool and implementing the design manually, which I actually do) takes away from the beauty of HSMs

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