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mk-61 commented on Code boilerplate: Is it always bad? medium.com/@shazow/code-b... · Posted by u/dmitshur

macscam · 9 years ago

I assumed the title was about boilerplate in terms of some skeleton or framework you download. Turns out this is different from what youre talking about (verbosity). Its interesting that even in programming jargon we have two uses for the same term. They are not totally separate though. The repetitive, DRY violations eventually get abstracted into a framework, at which point the boilerplate becomes ok. And if its still too verbose, than another boiler may arose to encompass it.

mk-61 · 9 years ago

Well, when you have several projects using same framework/skeleton, and the latter is downloaded and copied over and over again in every project - it became verbose on highest level and can be called boilerplate.

mk-61 commented on A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system twitter.com/GambleLee/sta... · Posted by u/dmit

baldfat · 9 years ago

It is still a BIG ethical issue for some people. Myself I see this as just the natural progression we are headed. If we don't have rules about this kind of technology it will very much be "Minority Report" in a decade.

mk-61 · 9 years ago

For me is way more bigger ethical issue is what millions sharing in social networks, on their own will.

mk-61 commented on A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system twitter.com/GambleLee/sta... · Posted by u/dmit

gedrap · 9 years ago

To be honest, I am fairly surprised at the reaction here on HN. It's not really surprising to see such system, it would be more surprising if such system did not exist because offline ads is a huge business and the technology is here. This goes together with conversion tracking at physical shops, etc.

I am equally surprised by the comments about how come engineers implement such systems, how they find it ethical, etc. I'm sorry, but it sounds just a bit out of touch with the real world, or just outside of HN bubble. Given the things that money motivates people to do, it's probably one of the least unethical things that has been done.

I am not judging that this is right or wrong, I am simply stating the fact that nothing about this should be surprising. Yes, this is slightly sad, but that's simply the reality of technological advancement. It's not really possible to expect the rest of the world to use the technology only for things considered 'right', etc.

mk-61 · 9 years ago

I think, such reaction is just because article is less "techy" than it could be, but more about "moral" aspect.

OTOH, what is so interesting in simple face recognition, innit? That future became a past quite fast, meanwhile teh human rights never get old. (smile.jpg)

mk-61 commented on If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it medium.com/@iDemonix/payp... · Posted by u/iDemonix

mk-61 · 9 years ago

I would really like to see amount of customers who have no problems with PP against customers who had. That would be the best, objective and simple analysis.

mk-61 commented on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test gwan.com/blog/20160405.ht... · Posted by u/fatihky

mk-61 · 9 years ago

Feels like overqualification for that position.

mk-61 commented on Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate sciencealert.com/we-just-... · Posted by u/ChuckMcM

david-given · 10 years ago

You just need a big enough ship.

A while back I had a plan for a science fiction setting: an intergalactic ship is approach Earth. The people who sent it thought big, and as a result the ship has at its core an enclosed star (a miniature Dyson Sphere) as a gravitational anchor and power source, and round it is orbiting a vast swarm of asteroids and habitats with a few million times the living space of Earth, inside which civilisations endlessly rise and fall.

The plot centred around this thing going to make a class pass by Sol in a few years at 0.01c, with the gravitational effects pretty much dooming the Earth; so the current lead civilisation sends some ships on ahead to evacuate the Earth. (Big ships. I did the maths.)

The story never gelled, but I think it's plausible that my ship would produce these effects.

BTW, if this turns out to be true, I want credit.

mk-61 · 10 years ago

Yet another book recommendation:

Terre en fuite (Fleeing Earth) (1960) by François Bordes (pen name Francis Carsac), though, there is still no translation in english of that gem, where Earth and Venus was converted to spaceships for running away from exploding Sun!

mk-61 commented on Burnout and Mental Health stephaniehurlburt.com/blo... · Posted by u/ingve

mk-61 · 10 years ago

Still recovering. Slowly. To those, who seeking for help, I can recommend a very good read: "The Power of Now", by Eckhart Tolle.

I can even recommend it even if you never experienced burnouts, PA's.

mk-61 commented on Lenin was a mushroom en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len... · Posted by u/Smaug123

delazeur · 10 years ago

Some day I hope someone explains to me why people care so much about the classification of Pluto.

mk-61 · 10 years ago

I think it's just change of habits. For example, in russian "coffee" was masculine gender for long time, until significant amount of people started to erroneously call it in neutral gender. Now rules is "okay" with both.

mk-61 commented on Lenin was a mushroom en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len... · Posted by u/Smaug123

nice_byte · 10 years ago

too bad there probably aren't enough russians here to understand that reference

mk-61 · 10 years ago

Quite enough.

mk-61 commented on An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver spectrum.ieee.org/cars-th... · Posted by u/walterbell

zump · 10 years ago

Why would the average person get this app?

mk-61 · 10 years ago

Let's put aside possibility to get discounts for ones perfect driving.

Think about instant posts of driving achievements to Facebook, instagram, twitter.