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Re:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work on Friday December 04, 2015 @06:37AM (#10675742)
The biggest thing I took away from this was reading the slides and seeing the FBI's suicide letter to Martin Luther King.

I didn't know about that, and reading that right after seeing the jury dury article on the front page today is chilling to say the least.

Re:A Simple Way to Route with Redux on Thursday November 26, 2015 @08:21AM (#10632835)
It makes everything easier to test and reason about at the cost of little overhead (wrap your top-level routing components with 'connect', add a <Provider></Provider> wrapper around your <Router>).

If you already have a lot of behavior defined it might take a little while to convert it all to reducers (action + currentState -> newState functions) but it's a pretty simple refactor.

Re:Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @11:29AM (#10627950)
The coin example makes perfect sense to me and I had no idea what a p-value was before I read this article.

Here's an intuitive explanation: a p-value is the probability of getting your experimental results given that your hypothesis is wrong.

Re:Notes on Food Delivery from the DoorDash Driver of the Month on Thursday November 19, 2015 @06:41AM (#10594203)
I don't get why using moped share makes him faster.
Re:Open-sourcing Pinterest MySQL management tools on Thursday October 29, 2015 @11:52AM (#10471974)
They say they don't use joins, so what's the advantage of using it?