AngryParsley

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by AngryParsley 14y ago
When do we take the people who do this and put them in jail? Uhh... never. In the western world and America especially, modulo certain exceptions[1] it is within your right to make stupid, offensive, degrading movies. This is true even
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
The figures in the article are from 20 years ago. Back then, populations were smaller and many countries were just ramping-up English education for students.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Yes, 25% of electricity produced in Germany comes from renewables. But Germany imports 2/3rds of its energy, so less than 10% of domestic consumption is from renewables. Here's a tangentially-related fact: France is the world's largest ener
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Most importantly, a large part of our energy problems can be solved by reducing demand. Has any civilization ever voluntarily reduced energy usage? You might as well ask people to breathe less.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Sorry, but you're wrong about the safety of renewables. The statistic you're looking for is called deaths per terawatt-hour. Nuclear wins by an order of magnitude: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/lowering-deaths-per-terawat... For the sa
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Don't forget that the Tohoku earthquake killed almost 20,000 people. The worst estimates for Fukushima predict it will cause 1,000 deaths. Median estimates predict a couple hundred deaths. Even though management was criminally bad, Fukushim
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I'm the author of Ag. I don't know how you're running Ag, but it should highlight and print line numbers like Ack. If you had read the README, you'd know that Ag is faster than Ack because it uses tricks like mmap()ing files, pthreads to t
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
The big question Marco didn't answer: Did he talk with a lawyer about this? If someone's libeling you, you talk with a lawyer about suing them for libel. If someone's libeling someone else and you're worried about legal risk to your product
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Here's some background on David Eagleman. Eagleman gave a talk at TEDxHouston a couple of years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LENqnjZGX0A After watching that video, Sam Harris asked Eagleman to debate via e-mail. Eagleman accepted,
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I've been on the receiving end of these sorts of comments before, and I cannot convey how annoying this attitude of entitlement is. Someone has worked on this theme, off-and-on, for almost a year. He's built something useful, and he's givin
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
So great startup engineers should have focus, compassion, balance, responsibility, and openness. When would you ever not desire these traits in someone? The opposite is scatter-brained, indifferent, unbalanced, irresponsible, and uncommun
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I hate to do this, but you've wasted a lot of time with your post and comments. Like many people in this thread, I was frustrated by your refusal to give us basic information such as your company name. You linked to your resume ( http://www
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I just read the post that inspired this post: http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/20-controversial... . While a lot of these opinions sound reasonable, I want to know if they're actually true. All of these statements are expert opi
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I'm not so sure. Hundreds of thousands of people order firearm parts, so any individual is lost in the noise. Also, many sellers of firearm parts value the privacy of their customers.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
If you have access to a drill press, you can build an AR-15 without undergoing a background check. Just buy an 80% lower and a jig. You can order these things online. An 80% complete lower receiver is completely legal for anyone to own. In
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Is it really so clear? Anyone who thinks AAPL is overvalued (including you) can make lots of money by shorting or using puts appropriately. People aren't doing that, so they must not be very confident about Apple's stock price decreasing.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
That's fun to imagine, but wouldn't it be even better if you could get the books sent to your e-reader/tablet/computer in seconds? Then there's no need to travel to the library. I haven't been to a library in years (San Francisco's main lib
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I don't know about most of your points, but the components being crushed under their own weight doesn't seem right. The probe was built in Earth gravity and had to undergo 4-5G of acceleration during launch. Also, it's going to experience 1
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
For the most part, you're right. There is one exception: The Verizon 3rd-gen iPads have LTE. The cheapest prepaid plan is $20/month for 1GB of data, and it comes with tethering.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
"Do no harm" makes no sense in this case. Glioblastoma multiforme is a death sentence. These people were basically guaranteed to die of brain cancer within a year. They were offered a therapy that had a very low chance of working. They cons
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
That guy doesn't make much sense. He's worried about scaling? SPDY can scale. Google uses it. Then he complains about security and complexity, but he wants people to seriously consider mixing HTTP and HTTPS in the same TCP connection?! Ther
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
HTTP/2.0 already exists. It's called SPDY. The IETF really dropped the ball here. People have been complaining about HTTP's problems for over a decade, but the IETF couldn't even come up with a standard. Usually the problem is adopting a st
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
It should be the same, but it's easier to tweak ergonomics for a non-portable set-up. I can't change the height of the desk, so I set the keyboard on the desk and adjust my chair so the keyboard is at the right height. Then I put books unde
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I gave it a shot one weekend, but went back to my highly-customized TextMate. ST2 is still rough around the edges. It doesn't show source control status in the sidebar. TextMate has the ProjectPlugin plugin which solves a lot of those probl
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I tried to upvote you but accidentally hit downvote. Sorry.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Node has a built-in debugger. Just run `node debug blah.js`. There are some issues with it though. The commands are different from any other debugger, and it has problems handling signals: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/3167
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Agreed. Logs are good. They're effective. They're easy to use. You can filter, search, and aggregate them. Without printf()s and log statements, my world would be chaos and darkness. But a debugger gives you superpowers: break blah.c:18
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Programming may be a craft, but researchers have published tons of studies about this craft. Many of these studies contradict anecdotal evidence. For example, copying code isn't as bad as you might think: http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I like Ack more than grep, but I agree: whitelisting file types isn't fun. I wrote a mostly drop-in replacement for Ack in C ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) and the biggest difference in behavior is the file filtering. Ag
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
>I'm just waiting to see who delivers the first tablet geared towards getting things done. This sounds like the domain of ultrabooks. With a tablet, you can't use the huge ecosystem of PC software. You can't run VMs. Peripherals aren't

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