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jollygoodshow

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jollygoodshow··on Chess in SQL
Great showcase. Cool to see how any 2d state can be presented with enough work.

Just FYI your statement for the checkmate state in the opera game appears to be incorrect

jollygoodshow··on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
Care to provide a source for that? TFA just mentions that the chief statistician wants three years of data for significance.
jollygoodshow··on Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
So say I have an set of elements to render (A,B,C) but they can can come in any order or number (C,B,A,B). If I want to render in the given order, how would I approach this for the best performance implementation?
jollygoodshow··on Building an AI That Watches Rugby
Most pros now have the vests, but also they tend to have additional tech in their mouth guards. This is mostly for CTE monitoring, but I imagine that there's other data that can be extracted
jollygoodshow··on When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option
How do you nominate which account to 'queue' up those transactions against? And what benefit does not logging in have when you have to login anyway to do actually do something? I'd rather everything be kept (relatively) secret and secure
jollygoodshow··on Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title
I think your argument here actually favours Fischer's dominance. ELO metrics don't matter as were talking about the best players of the respective eras
jollygoodshow··on We are unable to refund mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game
If they like buying stuff from that store then clearly they did, this is the problem: even when users exercise their rights they still get punished
jollygoodshow··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
Its typical to have a different set of engineers responsible for the web app. Certainly the case if you're not a tiny startup.

Sabotage feels pointless given you're still competing against other native apps. Also I don't even know how you would 'sabotage' the competition, your average app engineer doesn't moonlight as a blackhat hacker.

jollygoodshow··on UK Government Guidelines on Documenting APIs
I don't think they expect you create an exhaustive list of things the API doesn't do. I think instead that if there's missing functionality from what you could call a 'complete' API, it's useful to call that out. E.g this API is for processing images, but we don't support PNG
jollygoodshow··on When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
But time is the important part here - a single parent raising two kids is not going to have time to code at home versus a twenty-something year old with no responsibilities and dependants who has an abundance of free time. Selecting in that manner can also end up being a discrimination (those from poorer backgrounds are more likely to need to care for relatives, same goes for women, who on average do ten hours more of unpaid care than men a week)
jollygoodshow··on Unlearning perfectionism
Does the state of being someone who strives for excellence instead of perfection not carry with it it's own downsides? I know the article is more about unlearning perfectionism, but I'd also want to know what I was getting myself into if I did decide to change and if I would prefer it: e.g better the devil you know, though this is probably tinged by my resistance to change...
jollygoodshow··on Willingness to look stupid
I think there's a very big difference between asking simple questions (especially when gaining an understanding of a situation) and asking actually stupid questions (unrelated to the topic or questions that have already been answered). This article is claiming the former as the latter and saying "Even when I'm stupid I'm so smart"
jollygoodshow··on Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
Brazen assumption that the senator they voted for is the one in power. It is a democracy after all, they could have been on the wrong side of it
jollygoodshow··on The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack
For those interested in some of the technical details on the malware see: baesystemsai.com/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m.html