BrandonM

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by BrandonM 15y ago
I really appreciated how candid this article was, but I don't find it very applicable to me. > I'm not going to let my fear of failure drive my decisions next time around. If we fail, we fail. A startup failure won't affect how my f
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by BrandonM 15y ago
This sort of meta-discussion sucks, but when the majority of the people responding to a comment are wrong[0] (as evidenced by jsdalton's numerous downvotes), then the necessity to educate the members outweighs the desire to avoid meta-discu
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> if you are for example an ISP or provide messaging, as you grow big enough it's probably a matter of time before you'll end up getting a subscriber who's being investigated That is not what Hacker News is for. If your company is tha
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I came here to say the same thing, and I'm sorry that you're being downvoted. This article is not Hacker News material. It's useful information, yes, but that does not automatically mean it's Hacker Newsworthy. Hacker News is not a funnel f
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by BrandonM 15y ago
The author originally posted an article showing how compiler optimizations disproved Fermat's Last Theorem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_last_theorem ): http://blog.regehr.org/archives/140 The submission is a follow-up to that
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Compilers and [lack of] Termination Revisted(blog.regehr.org)
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Nope. The decrement is occurring in the test, so it occurs after the initialization and before the first iteration.
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It's unambiguous if your native language is not a romance language.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I use defaultdict a lot. It's useful not only for counters, but also for sets, lists, dicts, and even other defaultdicts. It usually results in very succinct code compared to alternatives: occurrences = defaultdict(int) digraphs = def
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get() doesn't create a value in the dictionary, though; it only returns a default value. For what you describe, you would want setdefault(). It works here because you're assigning a value to a['foo'] after get()ing the default value.
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>The fundamental problem with daily deal sites is that by large and large the customer profile they attract are the LEAST attractive to local merchants. >Who wants a customer who only buys things that are on sale and has no loyalty
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Also, it would be nice if you could use stable sort (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_sort#Stability ). This would allow to sort first by premium, then by deductible, then by insurance. This would allow me to see the $0/0% plans by
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> I like Scala. I'd hoped it would become my company's "One True Language". With all of these exciting languages that target the JVM, I think it makes a lot of sense to have a company's "One True Language" simply be the JVM itself. Th
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Exactly... in this case, the functionality of Artist() is a subset of the functionality of str(). In Python, you would just name the variable "artist", assign a string to it, and be done with it.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
So it's UDP vs TCP? And why can't these be going over the same pipes?
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You apparently missed the part where I said, "and otherwise works with people who have a substantial audience in order to advertise with them." My girlfriend doesn't work the spammer role that you seem to be envisioning. Her job is to disco
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> a company like Johnson & Johnson isn't going to bother with r/parenting This is false. My girlfriend works in social media at a Fortune 100 company. Just a few of their many products are geared toward babies and other things of
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The $2.5mm valuation is already accounting for all potential outcomes, in theory
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You're completely ignoring that in many rural areas, there are only one or two providers. When I visit my parents in rural northeast Ohio, there are only AT&T and Alltel (now Verizon) towers. My T-mobile phone roams (free to me) on the
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by BrandonM 15y ago
It's really hard to get rich in the world by following an easy path. All things considered (prerequisite education, initial debt, work hours, desirability of everyday work), the average cog-like computer programmer is somewhere close to the
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Protip: T-mobile has one of the more reasonable data policies. If you're somewhere with no WiFi, you just plug your phone (in my case, a MyTouch 4G) into your laptop and set it to tethering mode. After hitting your cap (200MB, 1GB, or 2GB),
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I agree. That's like saying one shouldn't smile at work.
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You've got the h on the wrong side of the fraction. A Watt is a rate of energy usage: 1 J/s. It requires an amount of energy that could power 100 50-watt light bulbs for an hour to desalinate a cubic meter of water. That is, the 8765 h/y
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by BrandonM 15y ago
That was my first thought, but it looks like this company has a trend of poor customer service: http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/jk195/stay_the_f...
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On my BlackBerry, inadvertently swiping the trackpad while typing a vowel results in an accented version of the vowel. There might a similar mechanism at work in Samsung devices.
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Facebook already maps replies to meaningful responses in many cases.
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I like the idea of removing power from the federal government in favor of states, but in the case of a service like social security, mobility between states could cause massive issues. State x would not have a safety net, prompting companie
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by BrandonM 15y ago
There is no silence vs noise problem. Send output to STDOUT and "noise" to STDERR. Use -q and -v when appropriate. I thought it was weird that the author created a false dichotomy between being informational and giving only output that can
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What's wrong with this? <span class="screen"> <a href="http://news/story">As the Boston Globe reports</a> </span> <span class="print"> As the Boston Globe reports (<a href="htt
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I think you're overestimating the difficulty of getting a job. It's your life and no one else's. You don't have to fit someone else's mold of an ideal employee just to get meaningful work. Take that year. Meet some people. Talk to business

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