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DannoHung

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DannoHung··on Why Don't People Manage Debt Better?
I have literally have people tell me that this is still rationality because it's the rational thing "for them". Like, the weirdest one was a cognitive psychology doctoral student.

I mean, okay, if you can redefine rationality to be completely subjective, then sure, rationality is flargikriggendurf.

DannoHung··on Why There Is No Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers
I agree, but JavaScript-framework-primeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprimeprime would also be hard to remember.
DannoHung··on New Python REST API and CLI micro-framework
I didn't know Python 3 supported some of the syntax in use here.
DannoHung··on Google and Red Hat announce cloud-based scalable file servers
Naively it seems weird since metadata is just data, right? So if you can store a large amount of data in a file, you should be able to store the metadata

But I don't know shit about filesystem design, soooooo...

DannoHung··on Software “detects CEO emotions, predicts financial performance”
Simple question then: Does anyone run a fund based on regression to the mean for quarterly performance?
DannoHung··on 2016 Spark Summit East Keynote
Are Spark streams ever going to reach a point where you can just have a table sitting in memory aggregating data and then you run queries on the whole thing without having to worry about windowing or anything?
DannoHung··on Scientists can’t agree whether salt is killing us
That's not true at all. http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/13/the-michael-phelps-di...

In this case, he's fucking Mr Fusion.

You probably mean something like... train for muscle growth or something or to run (not win) a marathon.

DannoHung··on Google and Red Hat announce cloud-based scalable file servers
What makes having a lot of files in a directory a hard problem?
DannoHung··on A Message to Our Customers
Cook says any iOS device could be breached if this software were created. But other articles have led me to believe that any iOS model with touchid is immune due to the secure enclave being in play even for non-touch passcode access. Is this wrong?
DannoHung··on Subuser turns Docker containers into normal Linux programs, limiting privileges
Nn, misread
DannoHung··on Investigate switching away from GitHub
GitHub really needs a per-project StackOverflow. Probably half the issues are just people who need to ask a question of subject matter experts or are confused by something.
DannoHung··on Paperless: Scan and index paper documents
That said, even if you have a dedicated document scanner, you should spend the $5 or whatever to get Scanbot Pro for your phone. Makes it so friggin easy to get a quick scan of a document if you ever need it. And it does on-phone OCR (far as I can tell the results are pretty good!) with the option to upload to dropbox or a similar service.

I mention Scanbot specifically because I bought and tried about 5 or 6 of the available document scanning apps on iOS before settling on it. It really does do literally everything I want in a document scanning app short of tagging the documents (which would, of course, be a file-system specific thing).

DannoHung··on Paperless: Scan and index paper documents
These are the words of someone who has never applied for a mortgage.
DannoHung··on Why are Americans so angry?
It's probably because political party is now a stand-in for whether you intrinsically think all of society needs to work together or its every in-group for themselves.

Both precepts have merits depending on your general outlook on life, but they are diametrically opposed in terms of how you think people should act in the large and small.

DannoHung··on Diesel: A Safe, Extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
> Early on, yes. 2 years in, not so much

I guess it's because I'm coming from KDB ETL work when I think about database stuff that I don't share this perspective. But in KDB, the database has no notion of non-null columns or auto-ids or anything.

DannoHung··on Diesel: A Safe, Extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
I guess that makes sense. The types should be able to ensure you don't have any errors even with so many "redundant" types, but my first thought is of how much boiler plate will result. Like, I would guess most record types will be very similar between create, update, and retrieve.

Also, what about upsert?

DannoHung··on Diesel: A Safe, Extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
Why did a NewPost struct have to be created to actually add a new Post? Is it generally not possible to have the result type of a query be used to update the same records?
DannoHung··on Diesel: A Safe, Extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
SQL is hard to programatically compose. At the very least, you have to use a Lang/SQL.
DannoHung··on Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth
Reducing page size while stripping ads is something that no one serving a web page would do so this line of reasoning is horseshit anyway.
DannoHung··on Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
If you could make 6 figures, I think a decent chunk of people would prefer it to doing office work and making 6 figures. Anyway, the point is that some amount of physical labor as part of your daily life helps make you feel less like a slug. And for some people having that labor not strictly be exercise is compelling.
DannoHung··on Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out
Ehh, give it some more time. I don't think it's perfect by any means, but it does some clever environmental things.

The game's idea of iterative puzzle design would have been close ti impossible to build without the grid-line conceit.

DannoHung··on Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants
It's easy to say, "IT jobs are pretty easy to export".

In practice, this depends on a number of factors being aligned correctly and an organization being tuned to the idea of remote work. Especially if the deliverable of the IT job in question is part of the core function of the organization.

DannoHung··on Virginia Tech Professor Spent $147k to Help Uncover the Flint Water Scandal
Not accurate. The link you pointed to was about a vote to switch to a mixed water source mostly coming from the lake and partially from the river.

The appointed emergency manager was solely responsible for completely switching to the river water.

DannoHung··on Timestamps done right
How's your treatment of timezones?
DannoHung··on What I learnt from being sexually harassed at Google
It was super fucking gross. That said, I get the impression that she didn't immediately think to record evidence of his transgressions. In that case, HR usually will have to split the baby because they are ultimately there to protect the company.

If it was the first time this guy has done something wrong, which is kind of unbelievable, then it's not a horrible result. Maybe he really is just that socially backwards that he needed an HR intervention to learn what everyone fucking should know. But the cynic in most of us is saying that this is a pattern of behavior that was probably repeated in a more covert manner.

DannoHung··on An open letter of gratitude to GitHub
> Full disclaimer, I'm biased, as I opened an issue attempting to address some potential editorial/tone issues

Is this your issue? https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/47

If so, the way you've written your issue is almost incomprehensible and your point is seriously irrelevant to the requests made by the project creators.

DannoHung··on iOS 9.3 Preview
The multiple-ids on iPad thing for schools is something I know a lot of people have been asking for for ages.
DannoHung··on Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber
The people who own the medallions and consequently are politically entrenched are not the people who will be put out of jobs.
DannoHung··on An Optimist's Reply to Ezra Klein
> This is rediculous. Libertarians were leading the charge against the 2008 bailouts before they even happened, and it was liberals, (e.g. barney frank, paul krugman) who were among the chief architects of the bailouts.

I forgot about that time that Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke were actually Barney Frank and Paul Krugman's secret identities.

DannoHung··on Segway robot
What if they had a tiny kickstand for when they're stopped?
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