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I think we both agree that cars have some significant utility to them, although having utility doesn't mean that any amount of cost is acceptable. This is my problem with "cars pay…

I can't find that info about funding sources in the urban.org article, or what "sales tax" is generated from specifically. The article does say that HTF is not fully self-funded. I…

I think you're seeing the influence of math on programming conventions. If I think of something like (!a && !b), I can immediately start doing boolean algebra in my head. I can man…

Reification doesn't just impose a substantial complexity cost on dynamic languages in the CLR, either. See this F# feature request from 2011 that is effectively unimplementable: ht…

Oddly enough I've been getting into UE4 and things would be so much easier for me if the core classes were better decoupled. For instance, I'd like to have a quadraped skeleton wit…

It's worth looking at "for no reason" in greater detail for cars, which is different from those other medical cases in significant ways. We collectively as a society decided that m…

You can take it from one of the most productive living mathematicians: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-... I recommend reading the entire post - it's no…

I was going to link this one if someone did not already. It is a natural followup from this article and must-read for getting intuition on DFT and its limitations, many of which ar…

Yes. It is a slow, slow decline into the kind of behavior described in the article that could have been stopped or mitigated at any point along the way but wasn't. Not necessarily …

I am not sure what molly-coddling means in this context, but as a single data point you can look at the platform page of a minority advocacy group: [0]. The actual low-level detail…

It's better to try to understand what's happening than handwave and say "it's all bunk". That is way more political of an action than trying to determine causality through data. Th…

Maybe? The type of diversity that companies care about (to contrast with the many strawmen out there) happens to be good for the bottom line. That is, a team with 5 men and 5 women…

I am not sure I agree with this focus. As someone who does not exactly do single-question technical interviews but more like two- or three-question ones, my goal is somewhere in th…

I do occasionally ask newer employees who are not experienced with code reviews to split up a review into multiple smaller reviews. Actually there is a natural equilibrium that hap…

As several other commenters have pointed out, code reviews are not a silver bullet. It is widely known that there is no silver bullet. That said, if your goal is to make a quality …

Who says language rules were intentionally made by we as a society? :) Unless you mean these grammar rules: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...

One of the most important things in "professional" writing, which includes technical writing, is clarity. Sticking to a style in that context is important because you shouldn't dra…

I have been a little mad at Safari while building a website recently ( https://windmill.thefifthmatt.com ), and the issues I ran into seemed like Safari's "fault"—it does not imple…

> "Won't somebody think of every single possible group that is possible to somehow offend in some way" I'm pretty sure that is part of the job description of marketers.

I'm reminded of this section from "Reddit: Lessons Learned From Mistakes Made Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month" ( http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/26/reddit-lessons-lea…

I make a lot of jokes and incongruous juxtapositions and things like that, I hope not anywhere close to 'disinhibition' mentioned in the paper. But it makes me wonder how much laug…

That is a great point. Talking about supervised vs unsupervised vs reinforcement learning is most straightforward with tasks like language learning, audio processing, image process…

Interesting. I have heard the opposite of this. Supervised learning may be how it looks from the outside, but consider that out of the >6,570,0000 waking seconds of a child's life …

I took a closer read through the AlphaGo paper today. There are some other features that make it not general. In particular, the initial input to the neural networks is a 19×19×48 …

I would agree with GP that emergent code organization principles that come from eliminating side effects are the crux of FP, as far as being the bottom line of what makes it effect…