CharlesMerriam2

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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
The article is remarkably uninformative. Is 18F doing a terrible job at consulting? Or at navigating governmental accounting? It does matter.
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
So many comments being harsh to Microsoft for bad engineering by ignoring the real world. It's Microsoft. Would you critical of a pigeon for defecating in flight?
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
Perhaps I can summarize: "I want free help for a product I can sell. I put it up on GitHub. Why aren't people giving free help to me?"
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
I remember a fun talk by our department chair about the graduate admissions in Computer Science over the years. The chart fluctuated with booms and busts: lots of applicants during hype and profit and a few during gloom and retrenchment.
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
This study argues that people recruited to use Brain Training score higher on fluid intelligence than people recruited to participate in a study for a reward. That is, Brain Training works for people who believe it works. So, shouldn&#x2
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
Many mainstream programming tools feel to be moving backwards. For example, Saber-C of the 1980s allowed hot-editing without restarting processes and graphical data structures. Similarly, the ability to experiment with collections of co
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
The number of String Theory papers, PhD candidates, and conferences was staggering.
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
I guess I've never understood this. The W^X is a response to one of the classic Multics paper attacks, but doesn't actually work well in a world where JavaScript, JVM byte code, and other non-native code is "sort-of executa
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
Closer to Daniel Suarez, Daemon & Freedom. http://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731 This fiction starts the autonomous corporation from a vide game. The second book shows society's evolu
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by CharlesMerriam2 11y ago
Kudos for the language section. We use strange words like "bug" and "error" when we really mean more complex ideas. Where are the words for "flawed by virtue of being untested", "acceptable flaw because
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by CharlesMerriam2 11y ago
GitHub is completely down at the moment. The single point of failure that creeps into many processes is noteworthy enough to make the news each time it falls over.
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by CharlesMerriam2 11y ago
I'm not quite understanding this story on HackerNews. What platform does it run on? How do I hack it?
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by CharlesMerriam2 11y ago
I'm confused. 1. This is a fork from Hanse Kristian, who doesn't appear to work for your company. That is, it doesn't look like BelkaLab did anything but change package.json to name itself as the author. 2. It's a bit
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by CharlesMerriam2 11y ago
Heroin is fueled by gateway drugs, particularly oxycodone and vikodin. This story just shows how the market will evolve to overcome barriers to sell a profitable product in a restricted market.
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by CharlesMerriam2 11y ago
We see another pushing of 'the great programming font' from time to time. But rarely see innovations like special glyphs from multi-character tokens, +=, ++, /*. We see the same, boring, single rendering glyphs for parent
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
I'm sorry. If I am going to teach this, it must be a comic book.
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
I truly hate sites like this. While I believe in "ask for the order", this site follows the plan of "You can't know what we sell until you sign up for a free trial." Want to know what it is, see a half page of t
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
Understanding the Swift Languages concept of Optionals (or nil protocol). It's under four minutes and I hope gives a good overview. Let me know if I can improve it while still keeping it short.
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Show HN: Swift Optionals in 3.5 minutes(youtube.com)
3 points by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago|1 comments
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
Here is a short video explaining Swift's Optional types, which a bit like ActionScript 3's types. This language feature separates a NIL value to the exclusive domain of a multi-value type. It's short and concise. I woul
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Understand Swift Optionals in under 4 minutes(youtube.com)
2 points by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago|1 comments
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
In order to view the the terms of service you must be logged in. It probably only has one term, "1. We own you."
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
So this is unrelated to the Fabric tools for managing devices? There is zero information on the website before asking to agree to rather long legal agreement and give you permission to spam my email. You have an opportunity to improve y
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
My first video, which took several hours for a 90 second lesson. The video shows how to use the Xcode Snippet Library. I made it with iMovie and QuickTime Player's record function and Keynote for the slides.
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Show HN: 90 Seconds for Snippets in Xcode(youtube.com)
1 points by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago|1 comments
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
Gets slow fast
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
This problem begs to think larger. Instead of starting with "we are missing these two critical features that the rest of the world has expected as standard since the dinosaurs perished", it might be interesting to ask "what
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by CharlesMerriam2 12y ago
Do you have a pastebin of the CSV file? Time to play...
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by CharlesMerriam2 13y ago
Ah, the rising tide of open source software. Whatever was done a decade ago will show up in open source. Companies need to invent new things to stay competitive.
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by CharlesMerriam2 13y ago
Remember when the U.S. was the "shining beacon"? Where someone coming into questioning couldn't be held indefinitely as a "material witness"? Or to first have all assets seized and then assigned a terrible attorne

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