Agathos

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by Agathos 12y ago
The only reason I clicked was that I was wondering, "no, that couldn't be it."
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by Agathos 12y ago
Don't forget neovim.
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by Agathos 12y ago
I knew this article would be a mess when I saw the word, "donation" in the link title.
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by Agathos 12y ago
And before China you had Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.
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by Agathos 12y ago
I thought there was a way to fatally catapult them into a neighboring park and then, because they died there, the game engine would penalize that park for killing its guests. But I might be thinking of a different amusement park simulator.
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by Agathos 12y ago
Congratulations on making it on to @shit_hn_says! https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/463711610172088320
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by Agathos 12y ago
But taking a dive doesn't cause stat damage, except to your HP. Unless the mushroom people drain levels. I actually saw "All the Little People" as an advanced version of The Sims.
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by Agathos 12y ago
"Stats" were a sports thing before there were video games, or even before integrated circuits.
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by Agathos 13y ago
"Don't give non-employees admin privileges on your system" doesn't really sound like an HR policy. It would have been a good policy, though.
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by Agathos 13y ago
Drug development is extremely risky. A privately run prison is pretty much a government money spigot.
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by Agathos 13y ago
You can register your address at ups.com and have them reroute or hold it before the first attempt.
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by Agathos 13y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4858585/why-is-ghc-so-lar...
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by Agathos 13y ago
"Back in 9/26/95, the Backspace key was mapped for go up one directory in Windows Explorer. This could be the reason why Microsoft also used the Backspace key on their IE for back/up a page. Of course, this is pure specu
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by Agathos 13y ago
The multithreading situation in Haskell is pretty exciting. Simon Marlow's Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell is the best new programming book I've picked up in a long time. And there are new developments since he wrot
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by Agathos 13y ago
It was. Glimcat's comment got me thinking in that direction, and I couldn't resist.
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by Agathos 13y ago
When you think you're done, gradually decrease the temperature of the room. People will become uncomfortable and leave, even if it means accepting a sub-optimal solution.
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by Agathos 13y ago
If Edmunds is carrying water for the dealerships, they've been very subtle about it. http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales...
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by Agathos 13y ago
If you're talking about getting it to compile... If foo is giving you problems, write it as foo :: (the type you think it should have) foo = undefined If it compiles you at least know your type is right. Then, leaving the ty
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by Agathos 13y ago
This is more like a reverse moat: you only have to pay it after you succeed. New entrants don't have to pay the tax -- peering without money changing hands will happen to "just work" for them just like it used to. Only after
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by Agathos 13y ago
"-Wall" actually means, "all warnings, as of the date we froze the definition of -Wall, which for all you know was 20 years ago, good luck."
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by Agathos 13y ago
The passive voice has its place. But sentences in the form, "x is something that is y," are difficult to defend. Just write "Passive is important in good writing." (Even worse: https://twitter.com/Graham_
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by Agathos 13y ago
Actually, there are surprisingly large and persistent differences between hospitals in their complication rates for various surgeries. It is fueling a debate about how to evaluate them and how to promote the methodologies of the more effect
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by Agathos 13y ago
Yeah, it reads more like an explanation than a rebuttal.
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by Agathos 13y ago
Most large companies self-insure. They just hire a "health insurance" company to administer the plan.
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by Agathos 13y ago
In business, non-programmers love telling coders what to code, how to code, and how long it should take. So this may actually provide students excellent training for the real world.
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by Agathos 13y ago
A classic mistake. Even Gregor Mendel may have committed it.
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by Agathos 13y ago
On that note, even Bush got nominated at least once... for not not being Bush.
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by Agathos 13y ago
The late-90s project I'm thinking of was called picoJava. Apparently it lives on in some form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-237302.html http://ww
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by Agathos 13y ago
The Java Chips are here! I remember reading about these back in the day. (Byte cover story, November 1996).
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Marine cyanobacteria release mysterious nutrient-rich bubbles(wired.com)
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