BrandonM

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by BrandonM 16y ago
Hacker News
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Thanks for taking the time to make this excellent comment. The original submission was excessively light on content, but your comment made the whole thing worthwhile. I also agree 100% with the value of a similar book by YC-related people.
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An excellent hack that left a bad taste in my mouth.
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From PEP 8: > The preferred place to break around a binary operator is after the operator, not before it. I'd be interested in hearing the justification for this rule. I think that leading a continuation line with the binary operator
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I don't think that's the conclusion anyone is drawing. From the article: Mondays, as if they weren't bad enough, are the most likely day to break up. I was referring specifically to the shoddy article and its crap conclusions, not to th
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What is the world coming to when a correction has to get 3 levels deep before it's actually correct on HN? (And you have less points than either of the ones above you? Seriously?)
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While it's possible that more breakups happen on Monday, I postulate that Monday is actually just the day that people are most likely to report a weekend breakup. People who break up aren't rushing to Facebook right away. A breakup can be a
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> Answer every question he asks Louis CK would disagree with you there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdc28bZ90G4 :)
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That's an interesting boundary case, but you are arguing the proper way to pay off a debt for someone who is clearly in a bankrupt situation.
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Is there a problem with just leaving off the O() altogether?
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It's hard to realize the value of Facebook when you don't yet have friends all over the country (or the world).
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This isn't possible due to rounding. If you live somewhere with 7.5% sales tax (just to pick a number) and you want an item to be exactly $1.50, you have to price it at $1.40. Want five of those? The total comes to $7.52.
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Anyone who has ever taken shrooms or LSD?
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The copy on the front page (specifically the reasons to date ugly people) has a rather mocking tone. I can go along with the idea, but I feel like the site should be showing its members a lot more respect. If this site becomes known, I coul
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I was just talking about this issue last night with a couple friends. One is a teacher, and she said that every morning for the last week or so, she's been getting a list from the teachers' union of the candidates she should vote for. The
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dan·ger·ous [deyn-jer-uhs, deynj-ruhs] –adjective 1. full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe. 2. able or likely to cause physical injury Who's out of touch here? We're all making such a
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But not against the stalker-techie-at-your-ISP attack.
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Offer HN: Unix file manipulation
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Amazon is a much better example than the one I used.
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I didn't say Tree Style tabs were better, only more usable (for me). I can have 30 tabs open and see a pretty wide portion of the page title. I sacrifice horizontal real estate (which is often wasted) for vertical real estate. I can underst
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When Facebook started, it was just people, a couple pictures, their contact info, their classes, and a Wall. There was no messaging or News Feed. It really wasn't much of a social network at all compared to what it is today. I would argue t
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I think that a big part of it is that if we saw the 50%+ we actually pay in taxes * all at once, we would realize how little value we're getting in comparison to those "socialist" countries in Europe (and Canada) where they don't pay much m
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My Firefox takes up less vertical real estate than Chrome. I use Tiny Menu, customize the toolbars to put everything into the menu bar, and use Tree-Style Tabs to show the tabs vertically along the right side. The best option I have at work
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I'm not usually one to correct grammar, but discrete and discreet mean very different things.
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Please reread the name of this site. I'm surprised that so many members of a site named "Hacker News" agree with you that what is clearly a very clever hack is inherently a bad thing.
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I thought the whole point of this mechanism was to avoid giving away cookies?
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> I... haven't locked my front door during the day This isn't what people mean when they say they don't lock their doors. I grew up in the country in northeast Ohio. I knew many people who simply never locked their doors, including over
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> The easiest way to tell if you are eating healthy is to see if the plate is "colorful" as opposed to all looking the same. This is an example of "common knowledge" that may actually be incorrect. While it's important to eat a variety
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Growing as a person and improving the human condition are some of the most virtuous things that one can do. Someone doing those things should not be condemned for life because of past mistakes. Your expressed belief seems to reflect the att
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Ever heard of Eminem?

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