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aurelianito

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http://aurelianito.blogspot.com

mail me at aurelianocalvo at gmail dot com.

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aurelianito··on Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
Romans used to do adult adoptions. Off the top of my hat, I clearly remember that Cesar adopted Brutus, his killer, as an adult.
aurelianito··on Goodbye, Clean Code
My experience is that good programmers prefer extra abstraction and bad programmers prefer extra repetition. Given that we need to work with bad programmers, sometimes it makes sense to make things easier for them. But repetition is wrong and a source of bugs. Each time you give in and keep a repetition that you know it should not be there you are crippling yourself to make us programmers a commodity.
aurelianito··on Challenging projects every programmer should try
Another interesting project is to do your own web framework. Routing, ORM, validations that work both server and client side, rendering server and client side transparently are some of the challenges. Just do something and improve some actual pain point you see with a popular one. I did mine and, even thou I have never used it for anything important, I still think it is a good learning experience and I can point to some aspects of it that are better than all the major web frameworks.
aurelianito··on Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
As a tango dancer I can relate to feeling the position of my partner while dancing. Even weirder is that I can feel my car while driving and if I rent another car it takes me a while until I can also feel this other car as a part of myself.
aurelianito··on Music for Programming (2011)
High BPM music is fine for non-thinking tasks. If I have to actually debug a complicated issue it becomes counterproductive.
aurelianito··on Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players
This has been already found for checkers, but players around the world still play it. If the way is too complicated then we cannot apply it unaided.
aurelianito··on Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
I own one of those. They are great. I can buy a lot of stuff at the market around the corner and I don't have to endure my hands getting cut by my bags. I stopped shopping with my car as it is easier to walk into the kitchen with my shopping cart than loading and unloading my car and the elevator (my cart goes inside the elevator, so I don't need to unload it like my car).
aurelianito··on Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour
The last profession will be programmer. Once it is fully automated the automated programmers will obliterate all the other jobs.
aurelianito··on At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
Or use 2. That's what we do, use one brain to understand another brain.
aurelianito··on Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on the 405
Airplanes are 10km up when cruising. Almost any error a pilot makes has minutes of time to be corrected. Contrast with 1 second while driving. Take off and landing are far more involved and take 15 minutes each (approx).
aurelianito··on Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)
The team you are referring to is highly likely to be using kanban. Kanban is the destiny of agile.
aurelianito··on Why Hong Kong protesters didn't use their own metro cards
They didn't use their metro cards but did use their cellphones, as it can be seen in the pictures. The government can easily know that they were there, as they can be triangulated using the cellphone towers information.

Not using their cards is useless.

aurelianito··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (June 2019)
SEEKING WORK | Argentina (GMT-3) | REMOTE

I am the creator of slowbreak, a python2/python3 library to connect to stock markets via fix protocol. Install by running 'pip install slowbreak'. Check it out at https://pypi.org/project/slowbreak/

Contact me via email at aurelianocalvo@gmail.com.

I can help you integrate with stock markets, pass market homologations and do algotrading.

aurelianito··on Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
There are lots of applications. For instance, I would love to have an app that gives me contextual information about the people I am talking with. Specifically about the things that he/she already told me, as their name. I don't see anything inmoral un this.
aurelianito··on Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python
That's misleading. It will only raise an exception of the actual value is not matched. Haskell generates a compile error before even running if that's something that might happen. It is the old distinction between static and dynamic typing applied to pattern matching.
aurelianito··on Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Access
Disclaimer: while I am not directly involved with what they do, I happen to know personally both of the founders and a lot of the people working there.
aurelianito··on Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Access
AFAIK, that's what Satellogic (https://www.satellogic.com) sells. You may want to contact them.
aurelianito··on Japan's Hometown Tax
The mechanism used in Japan to compensate for the brain-drain should be used worldwide.
aurelianito··on Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?
Most likely explanation is that this person received a better job offer and did not wanted to let your company know.
aurelianito··on Ask HN: Best way to publish papers as a non-scholar?
Just write one (or many) blog entries somewhere. People in the academy publish papers just because they are evaluated by the number of publications. Your blog will have much more reach than any specialized journal. If you still want to have a PDF mixed with the ones made by the academia, upload something to arxiv.
aurelianito··on What Stays on Facebook and What Goes? The Social Network Cannot Answer
I am an administrator of a 1000 people group dedicated to political discussion in Facebook. I have been accused of being a Nazi and helping them. The people doing so were wrong, but they were convinced that I was doing that. My mother's family is Jewish.

Trust me, deciding what is hate speech is is impossible. And lots of people try to advance their agenda accusing others, trying to silence them. I have seen it a lot of times.

Regarding fake news, Facebook tried to suppress them. But they don't know how politics in my country work, so they leaned on another institution. The other institution is managed by the wife of a politician. I think you can guess the rest.

aurelianito··on Ask HN: If you could go back to study any CS-related field, what would it be?
My suggestion to you is to take any courses where a 10 years old book is not outdated. This probably includes almost all math, algorithms, big o notation, databases, OS fundamentals, etc. And it probably does not include things like machine learning, HCI, etc.
aurelianito··on Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?
By watching Sony entertainment television and playing VGA planets.
aurelianito··on Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
Self driving vehicles were originally funded by DARPA with the idea to use them in combat. Now self driving vehicles are our best hope to significantly reduce road kills. And that will generate a deficit in organ donors. Ethics are complicated.
aurelianito··on Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally
There are (lots) of people who work in gun factories. This is nothing in comparison.
aurelianito··on Is Facebook Really Scarier Than Google?
This is a choice you don't make to get. Each one might take different choices on the latency-throughput/privacy trade-off.

Given the current usage, I would say that most people value the latency and throughput a lot.

aurelianito··on Is Facebook Really Scarier Than Google?
Latency and throughput
aurelianito··on How today's billionaires plan to improve the world
Ultra riches are the new nobility. People that are not bounded by the rules the rest of us must abide to. Some pf them do good things with their power, and some of them do bad things. The main issue, for me, is that we don't get to choose or control. They are like old time's Kings and queens.
aurelianito··on Bus Lane Blocked, He Trained His Computer to Catch Scofflaws
> They would need to get enough tickets to justify the cost.

That's easy! Even more with the proposed automatic system.

aurelianito··on Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?
That's why I upvote most of the grayed out comments. I hope other people do it too.
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