CodeMage

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by CodeMage 14y ago
You're confusing wisdom and knowledge. Data structures and Big-O are mostly knowledge. It's stuff that can be transmitted from one person to another in form of cold, hard facts. Avoiding spaghetti code, good refactoring practices, understan
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by CodeMage 14y ago
You're yelling at the wrong guy. What @debacle said was "You can't use process to turn a bad programmer into a mediocre one - any process that does will also turn a great programmer into just a mediocre one." That's decidedly not "cowboy
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Alright, interesting, but I want to counter your points. Either I didn't communicate my points correctly or you're not really countering my points. Manager doesn't care about details, so Rodrigo comes across as "unable to explain technic
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by CodeMage 14y ago
While I understand what the author was trying to say, the argument is flawed in several ways. First of all, as several people have already pointed out in their comments, not all companies are the same. Some companies place higher value on h
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by CodeMage 14y ago
It's certainly better than "CootysRatSemen".
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by CodeMage 14y ago
But the sex itself, is it that much different than "real" sex? Are there really that many people having boring sex to make the amount of people coming close to and/or surpassing porn a statistical anomaly? This question highlights the wor
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Can Ubisoft shed its DRM bad guy image?(gamasutra.com)
2 points by CodeMage 14y ago|0 comments
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If You Use Torrents, You're Most Likely Being Monitored(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by CodeMage 14y ago|0 comments
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Isn't the whole point of Linux for developers, freedom to use it as you see fit? I've yet to hear of a philosophy that allows you to both 1) use everything as you see fit, even things marked as "internal" or "private" and 2) give you the
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by CodeMage 14y ago
"Crazy hobo of HN"? I've been on HN for more than 3 years now and let me tell you: I would find it infinitely less distressing to have to read through his comments (were he not hellbanned) over and over again in every discussion than to see
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I can't speak how for graue, but I can offer my experience since I type almost the same way as graue does, except that I do use my ring fingers occasionally (mostly right ring finger, for stuff like "L") and my pinky for stuff like right sh
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by CodeMage 14y ago
You should never say a word of criticism about the company to anyone but your primary point of contact and you should be darn circumspect with how you word it to him. Maybe my question is "socially and professionally inept", but why is re
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by CodeMage 14y ago
No, I must be a one trick pony who has only ever used one language, on one platform, in one workplace and has no experience on which to base his claims. What sense would it make to post a comment based on personal experience, right?
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Except that happiness and despair haven't got much to do with the language. It's the work you do and the environment you're in that make you happy or unhappy.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Does anyone know how these "silent updates" handle add-on compatibility? I prefer being "hassled" by update notifications if an update is going to break my favorite add-ons.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
How about not criticizing the article for what it's clearly not about? The title is misleading, but if you get past it and read the article, it becomes clear that the message is not "Google's sole initiative to retain women is to extend m
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Scatter plots are definitely more informative, once one gives them a couple of minutes to get used to them. However, I think you're shooting at the wrong target and your solution would exacerbate the root problem: bias. The first time I rea
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by CodeMage 14y ago
My biggest problem with Stephenson's works is that he doesn't really finish his books, he either just stops abruptly (e.g. "Diamond Age" or "Snow Crash") or winds down gently, but anticlimactically (e.g. "Cryptonomicon" or "Anathem"). I sti
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by CodeMage 14y ago
It's especially ironic considering that they're interviewing a writer .
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by CodeMage 14y ago
At which point, the real question is: why did they choose not to document this non-obvious solution, and the edge case that required it? From my personal experience with "corporate programming", the usual suspects are: 1) corporate cultur
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Wait, what? Are people seriously arguing about the dollars and the coffee ? Here, let me explain you why paying a dollar for an app or a theme or any such crap on my (full disclosure: Android) phone pisses me off and why I'm happy to go
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I've always thought that was a very shallow definition and this has just helped me finally realize why I think that. Basically, I could announce that I'm offering a service whereby you give me $50 dollars and I call you gullible. If I fin
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by CodeMage 14y ago
"Happy" is such an ambiguous word and happiness such an elusive concept. While I truly sympathize with the author, this article, like many others in similar vein, seems to offer the same kind of message as that stereotypical mom-to-spoiled-
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I'm very interested in this. I've never tried fasting before -- and I'm 33 years old, which means I've had a lot of time to get used to eating a lot -- so I imagine that I would have a feeling of "starvation" that would be awfully distracti
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by CodeMage 14y ago
When people call copyright/patent infringement "stealing" or "theft" they usually don't mean to invoke the legal definitions of those words. The fact that this conversation occurs so often should make it clear that there are a number of pe
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by CodeMage 14y ago
By all means, if you see raising a child as trivial, mundane and boring, then I would like to recommend not having any children until that outlook changes. Children require love, empathy and sacrifice. What really intrigues me, though, is y
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Laws are not about dictionary definitions or personal interpretation. They are a formal specification and that formality is what we call "legalese". I'm not a lawyer, so I would probably mess up the explanation, but fortunately I saved the
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by CodeMage 14y ago
If you use Ghostery, pause blocking or whitelist Woopra.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
"Personal attack", as you put it, would be worse only if it was ad hominem, which it wasn't. As you can see, davidmp's comment claims that "You can link with text as much as you want." The "selective" quote by tylermenezes is the smallest q
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Huh, for some weird reason I always thought iglii were built out of ices. Never really looked into it until now.

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