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New comment by Tichy in "What happened to Priceonomics?"

Tichy — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:04:10 +0000

Just curious, how do you implement such a thing? I mean how do you avoid polling the stores zillions of times, which would probably eventually be shut off by the stores?

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Tichy — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:20:03 +0000

Because they are totally not exposed to lobbying.

New comment by Tichy in "Ask HN: Do you see the future in Go?"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:48:22 +0000

But you also have to implement Len() and Less(), don't you?

Maybe you can create a better way, but it is not implemented in the sort package by default.

Also I suppose you need to "convert" your list to some other type with the said functions provided (dervied from the standard go lists, forgot the name). Maybe that is a standard go mechanism, but it still amounts to more lines of code.

Maybe complicated is the wrong word, longwinded might be better?

New comment by Tichy in "How to attract girls to the tech industry"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:08:32 +0000

I admit I don't really know how the system works. My impression was that people can only study subjects they also had for A-Levels (or maybe related subjects, as defined by a university)? The people I met were all from UCL, so perhaps it was just that they wanted to get into specific universities and that made them compromise?

Are the A-Levels really giving much of a head start? When I studied maths, it was really much more advanced than the maths we did in grammar school (in Germany). The maths from grammar school was occasionally mentioned as a special application of the "real" maths.

New comment by Tichy in "How to attract girls to the tech industry"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:40:13 +0000

"If you have drama as one of the main reason for going to school, then you're not really worried about having to earn a living some day. Must be nice."

Bingo

New comment by Tichy in "How to attract girls to the tech industry"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:38:52 +0000

Not if they are girls, I suppose.

New comment by Tichy in "How to attract girls to the tech industry"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:37:49 +0000

Simple: pay more for nursing and child care.

New comment by Tichy in "How to attract girls to the tech industry"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:36:10 +0000

I am willing to bet that there are no special hardships for women who want to enter IT. Quite the opposite really.

New comment by Tichy in "How to attract girls to the tech industry"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:34:18 +0000

Women get to choose, most importantly perhaps they get to choose to stay home when a baby arrives.

They also get to choose jobs that earn less money, in exchange for more pleasantness and flexible work hours, because they have to worry less about being breadwinners for the whole family.

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Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:31:25 +0000

I think IT just gets a lot of press and coverage of people who got rich.

Computers are nice because you don't need a huge factory to start something. However, let's take an archaic example: sewing. I think you can also get rich sewing, for example by designing a popular fashion line or creating a popular brand.

I am not even sure it is easier to get rich with computers than with sewing, or if more people are getting rich with programming than with sewing.

It seems possible that by the time women have been successfully coerced into tech careers, some completely different technology will be in the limelight. I don't know what - perhaps bioengineering? Then there will be a big lament why so few women are in bioengineering.

New comment by Tichy in "Ask HN: How do you store and organize your startup ideas?"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:07:14 +0000

Google Keep atm, but it's not perfect.

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Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:04:21 +0000

Well, it would be for the sake of art. You'd be surprised by the kind of things people do for art.

New comment by Tichy in "How to attract girls to the tech industry"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:00:19 +0000

Incredible, that article seems to get by without blaming men at all. Did I miss something?

In another note, the whole A-levels system seems rather stupid to me. I've met several people in the UK who weren't able to study what they want because they had the wrong A-levels.

I guess ultimately it is questionable in general to deny people the possibility to study what they want. Why require some silly school certificate?

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Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:02:28 +0000

presumably if you want to make a law about it, you have to define it somehow. What solution do you propose?

New comment by Tichy in "Ask HN: Do you see the future in Go?"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:03:58 +0000

I kind of gave up on it when I realized how complicated it is to sort a list. Hopefully they'll improve that in future versions.

Still could see myself using it for specific use cases.

But for the future I'd wish for something cooler to win :-)

Edit: check out the sort module and decide for yourself http://golang.org/pkg/sort/

It has some interesting, if confusing, properties. But why not just let me write

list.sort(function(a,b){ return 1, 0 or -1...}) like JavaScript does?

While the examples in the sort module are perhaps more generic than necessary (hence the interesting but confusing properties), any sort still requires the definition of 3 functions, and they can't be defined inline (on the fly) either, afaik.

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Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:33:46 +0000

Can you ask them to pay you sufficiently?

New comment by Tichy in "Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:03:57 +0000

By any means necessary? So they'd murder to control the source?

New comment by Tichy in "I’m the Accidental Owner of a Banksy"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:50:46 +0000

Do you own a building? Or may I perhaps defecate your web site, for the sake of art?

New comment by Tichy in "Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:38:46 +0000

Hm, maybe if I ever have to hire somebody I'll challenge them to a Corewar duel :-)

Before the internet my friends and I sometimes used to get to together, everybody got some time to write a Corewar warrior on paper, and then we'd watch the tournament together. It was great fun.

New comment by Tichy in "Life is all about killing the magic"

Tichy — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:29:39 +0000

People have personal preferences, I suppose. But the approach to kill the magic seems weird - I'd expect things to become more magical the more I learn about them.