CodeMage

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by CodeMage 14y ago
sigh Again? There are tons of great advice in that post, but the title and the eponymous section are based on something I didn't buy the first time around, either: “Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo
812.
by CodeMage 14y ago
and it's really unfortunate that one knucklehead vehemently asserting false facts has ruined this whole thread. What is it with Hacker News lately? I've never whined about the quality of community before, but this trend is beginning to
813.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Now we just need someone to write a book and make a movie. Hopefully in that order.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Here's an idea: if legalese is similar to mathematics in that without training we fail to interpret it correctly, couldn't we incorporate it in our education the same way we did with mathematics? Just to be clear, I'm not proposing to teach
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Or perhaps he hates engage in small-talk over the phone, instead of face-to-face. Or maybe he doesn't like to engage in chitchat with just about anyone and reserves that for friends and family. Or we could judge him as a pathetic guy who me
816.
by CodeMage 14y ago
So is the ability to discuss things instead of reducing them to a narrow and shallow interpretation that you can diss with a one-liner.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
You know, I went to Dan's blog expecting to absolutely hate the post, mostly because of the title, but also partly because of the first line of your comment. I'm so glad you wrote it, because I ended up pleasantly surprised. Maybe my habit
818.
by CodeMage 14y ago
I really liked how Jacques Mattheij described this cyclic nature of our industry: http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/the-pendulum-swings-again
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I once worked with a guy who rigged his phone and car with a gizmo that would allow him to send texts that he would input using just one button that he wouldn't even have to look at: he would just use it to tap out Morse code and when he wa
820.
by CodeMage 14y ago
From a quick look at the code, it's not supported on windows because of its reliance on terminal utilities(pty, termios). Thanks! Like I said, I don't have lots of experience with Python, so this is very valuable info for me :) Doesn't t
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Sure, I have an Ubuntu box. Thing is, while I would be doing myself a huge favor, the same wouldn't apply to the users of what I'm trying to create. Perhaps the world doesn't need yet another Git GUI, but if I leave out Windows support, t
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I'm considering that, but I still haven't managed to understand just why it isn't supported on Windows. Perhaps I haven't delved deep enough or perhaps it's my lack of solid experience with Python. Of course, I could simply fork it, rem
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Unless you're using Windows :( The docs got my hopes high, but they fail to mention sh isn't supported on Windows -- I saw that by looking at its source on GitHub. I'll take a look at pbs, but this kinda bummed me out.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Another thing to test is whether the app respects the portrait/landscape orientation. I use Ricky's app to vote and post, but I'll stick with Manuel's reader for everything else: it respects the page orientation, displays comment nesting cl
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Do I need to write a Web page with the title Ending the cult of the 'normal user' in Interface Design? Actually, that would be a great idea. The industry in general doesn't seem to have cottoned on to that idea.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Maybe I'm just naive, but I don't think "Linus is as likely to be 'wrong' about desktop Linux as most others who use the desktop." While I agree that other people might be overestimating the importance of Linus's opinion on desktop Linux, I
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Merriam-Webster "Ask the Editor": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai_VHZq_7eU Also worth watching, "The History of English in 10 Minutes": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rexKqvgPVuA
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Autocomplete for "why steve jobs was a" gives "Jerk" as first result. That was kind. My first impulse was to see what autocomplete has to offer about blogs and bloggers. Autocomplete for "why bloggers are" gives "not journalists" as first
829.
by CodeMage 14y ago
I don't think anyone was arguing that they want to "simply" keep owners out, just because they can or they're bad, bad people. Remember how I said "most people would agree that they have readily explainable motives for" keeping owners out?
830.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I'd like to believe that Sony has managed to change the gamer/customer culture. Before PS3, it was quite normal and easy for people to pirate PlayStation games, even though they had means to buy them. Then came PS
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by CodeMage 14y ago
But its also likely they used them because they're cheaper or somehow easier for them for some reason besides keeping owners out of devices. If they're cheaper, then how come they only use them on the outside? So either they're doing it t
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by CodeMage 14y ago
There's no way to have full control. You might get to have full control over photos your Memoto snapped, but I sure as hell can think of no way to get full control over photos of you snapped by someone else's Memoto.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
For the same reason it ends at 700: because there are no data points outside the range [100, 700] so he can crop the chart without losing any useful data.
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Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds(arstechnica.com)
27 points by CodeMage 14y ago|18 comments
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Yes, I'm sure everyone will eventually recover from being worked to the bone and having faith in someone who essentially cheated them. Well, okay, maybe some of them might have been under a lot of stress and that might affect their personal
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Okay, so I agree that Colin's exam might be a bit too specific and that he might have phrased certain things poorly, i.e. "lucky enough to be working within a narrow area where your deficit doesn't matter". I think either his experiment wil
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I'm surprised that in all this discussion nobody even mentioned David Weber's Honor Harrington series. He tries to make his space battles as realistic as possible.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Of course it's spot on. It also doesn't address what I criticized at all. As @nlavezzo pointed out, the reason why professional poker players can make their living off poker is because the average person has no idea how to play poker well,
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by CodeMage 14y ago
If that person happens to be the person without which it would have been impossible to have that team in the first place, then maybe the right thing is to find out why they have that bad attitude and what can be done to change it.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Let's break it down: 1. The author proposes to replace college by "a modern curriculum that, on average, will produce people better prepared for real life than college". 2. This curriculum "can be funded initially with $5000 for poker". 3.

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