CodeMage

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by CodeMage 14y ago
Riddle me this, how is it not possible to tell your kid you want them to be not yell so loud when playing computer games impossible Oh, it's possible. Nobody claimed it's impossible. The question is, what do you do when (not if, when) it
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by CodeMage 14y ago
What makes you ask? I don't know why @incision asked, so I can't speak for him or her. However, I know why I would ask you the same question: I would be curious whether you were simply speaking out of profound ignorance and entitlement or
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by CodeMage 14y ago
You left out the most important step: make sure kids understand the reason for those rules (other than "because I say so"). Speaking from my experience with my parents, yours is a great recipe for having your kids think you're an asshole wh
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I have dealt with it by installing a solid door at the end of the hallway. Read the comments on SuperUser. He's a single dad. Being unable to hear what your 4 year old kids are up to is a bad idea when there's no one else to monitor them.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Because the "truthful" method doesn't get the desired results. I'm a father (and I also remember something about being a kid) and I can tell you that 4 year old kids are unbelievably egocentric. A lot of the rules adults try to impose that
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I encourage you to post that in the comments on the blog itself. There are already comments saying "thank you for this" and "placebos should be regulated" and whatnot. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I believe it would be useful to have yo
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I don't see anything wrong with the message body. Let me see if I got that right. You see the need to transform: float Q_rsqrt( float number ) into: DECLARE FUNCTION q_rsqrt (float number) THAT RETURNS float AS but you see n
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by CodeMage 14y ago
The author is conflating two different meanings of the word "failure": the act (as in not succeeding at something) and the label (as in being labeled a failure). The whole post is based on this fallacious logic. The concept of "embracing fa
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Nice list. I only wish the author warned the readers that using the "get" method to get an item from the dictionary is not 100% equivalent to using try/except. When using the method, the default value argument will always be evaluated, rega
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by CodeMage 14y ago
What makes popping pills and modern science less liable to harm? Scientific method, one would hope.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I assume that "rubbish" or "bullshit" refer to what the other person said, so when you expand that paraphrase it turns out like this: "What you said is rubbish. I don't agree with you and here is a list of reasons why." Now, can you tell me
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Agile? Could you elaborate on that?
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Let's face it, there seems to be nothing anyone can share on the Internet without someone else demonstrating John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory [1]. I'm not saying everyone should always just let it slide, but try not to let it
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Bullshit, sorry. I can't help feeling that this kind of attitude is what caused Heather to feel bad in the first place. I agree with your points, but the way you present them leaves a lot (of politeness) to desire.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Because, believe it or not, we're not all considered as important as the president of United States or the head figure of one of the most popular religions. Therefore, we're not all treated that way. You might think that your time is as val
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Besides, creating Facebook clones is sexier. At this moment, your content is rated lower than @benihana's scathing criticism of @raganwald's outrageous assumption that saving lives is somehow nobler than squeezing out yet another social app
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by CodeMage 14y ago
There's been plenty of input from the people. The people vote every 2 years for representatives and every 6 years for senators. By and large, the people's input has been to keep the congresspeople who voted for these extensions. I'll neve
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Oh wait, 10 seconds of research on TPB says: Gangnam Style [one song] - 8k Seeds* I'd like to point out that the legality of sharing is not determined by the fact that it's available as a torrent or that the torrent has been poste
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by CodeMage 14y ago
The conclusion about the Joker reminded me of this: http://thisorth.at/24yt
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by CodeMage 14y ago
lynx, gopher, irc... Now I feel old, despite being only 34...
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Expecting an 80-hour course to somehow deter a psychopath from shooting up a bunch of people strikes me as rather naive.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
"Give honest feedback" is the one that made me laugh out loud. If you, as an employer, have no idea what made the employee unhappy enough to want to leave, then you most likely didn't do your homework. Exceptions exist, of course. For examp
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Gmail loses Google Sync: How Windows 8, RT, Office are affected(zdnet.com)
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I'm not that different from you. I also love coding and I love cleverness in coding. However, I also care about "product". That doesn't mean I expect everything to be a "product". If you tell me, "Hey, look at this clever concept/technique/
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Wait, what? Don't even look at the effects, don't think about how it looks, it's irrelevant. No, it's not. On the contrary, it's not only relevant, it's the central issue. Otherwise he wouldn't have made the site look like that. I find y
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I guess you're right, we should trust that the government of 1984 (or any other dystopia) would never come to pass if we relinquish our privacy.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
'Smith!' yelled a voice from the telescreen. '6079 Smith W.! Hands out of pockets in the cells!'
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Almost everyone starts as a Blub programmer -- "Blub" was BASIC when I was a kid and that's what I learned first -- but that's beside the point. You're right in that the more languages you learn, the easier it gets to pick up new ones, but
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by CodeMage 14y ago
You're not paid to write code; you're paid to provide business value. I once had an argument with a friend who had an indie game development company. He wanted to develop games so he could make money. I wanted to develop games and make mo
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by CodeMage 14y ago
It's not about idioms themselves. It's about the thought processes behind those idioms. The difference between learning language idioms and learning the thought processes behind them is like the difference between learning how to solve math

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