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I bought a copy of "Auto Mechanics Fundamentals" based on this thread and I think it is definitely the book you're remembering. The exploding can image you describe is on page 9 an…

Depends on the context/language I think. Splitting a block of code into a function gives it a greppable name that (ideally) succinctly describes the point of the block. You can hav…

bargl asked aantix permission to directly quote them without the intro further downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395143 >Do you mind if I word for word quote your …

Of course, that's not what I'm trying to argue against. The fact that the city is vastly underpopulated per square mile is arguably one of the core sources of its public infrastruc…

Yeah. I think we're on the same page. I think the flashy Greater Downtown development is generally positive, I don't mean to be down on it--that would be especially hypocritical of…

I lived in Midtown for ~5 years in 2010. I've heard it described by disillusioned longtime residents as "two cities" at once--there's the flashy Greater Downtown developments that …

Can't chime in on safety issues, but on usability: I know a physician who transitioned to using EMR roughly five years ago. It doubled the amount of time they need to take notes, t…

Agree in a lot of ways, but there's darker sides to this pro depending on context and who you are. One of the things that makes the Bay Area priceless to me (visibile minority) is …

I'd second that the game is good enough to warrant a Switch purchase on its own, assuming you have that disposable income. [BOTW puzzle spoilers below] Comparing it to the Witcher …

Up until 2015 there was a related but more consequential issue that made it extremely hard to prosecute crimes committed on reservations by non-Natives. Tribal governments couldn't…

>You could have made the same inane argument for all the uneducated factory laborers who have been replaced by machines. There's nothing inane about the argument. Have you ever bee…

This is really impressive. I check out code poems occasionally and I don't think I've ever seen ones where executing them actually draws images related to the subject matter of the…

I was just thinking of its rogue mode. I remember each person having their own cursor and being able to work independently in the same session with it.

Not on its own, but I've used https://github.com/zolrath/wemux on top of tmux in the past to get that and it's worked well.

>Put another way, there’s a risk of AIs learning to achieve their assigned task better by preventing humans from shutting them down. Thought experiment/short story that goes into t…

McDonalds specifically is starting to replace its cashiers with kiosks, though right now it looks like the former cashiers are switching to bussing tables instead. http://fortune.c…

>I feel like we need a professional ethics code to handle situations like this. >But how are we ever going to get the rest of the world to afford us the same respect that doctors a…

>The distinction is that you're making a crappy general purpose framework, but you're making a really good problem specific framework that exactly fits the thing you're building. S…

BigScreen is great. Relevant article about using it for coworking: https://medium.com/@ftarnogol/co-working-in-virtual-reality-... Haven't used it for coworking personally, but it'…

There's a problem with your use case and the current tech--artificial locomotion in VR tends to cause people to experience motion sickness. It's similar to sea sickness in that som…

>So you feel that programmers are more inclined to treat the function name as an authority, as opposed to a comment. Is that an accurate? I'm curious what lead you to this conclusi…

Related quote: >We are working with a number of smartphone manufacturers to create a specification for Daydream-ready phones. These smartphones enable VR experiences with high-perf…