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by Darmani 19y ago
Replace + in the Ruby with multiplication, or division, or boolean and, or even exponentiation, and show me the VB equivalent. A digital-typewriter user will laugh at a PC user if all he sees the PC user doing is word processing.
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by Darmani 19y ago
Tokens beginning with a colon are literal Ruby symbols. Prepending an ampersand before the last argument of a method call means that argument should be converted into a Proc and sent as a callback block to that method.
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by Darmani 19y ago
The problem is that the two axes may get confused in one's head. If I disagree with something (especially ideologies), it's often enough because I feel the opposing viewpoints are not thought out, and the post may set off the same internal
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Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things(paulgraham.com)
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In a recession, many hackers may end up settling for sub-par jobs in the IT field or even outside of it, many of which may be more exhausting or draining than an ideal hacking job. Would they come home to exhausted to do anything other than
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by Darmani 19y ago
Economists have predicted nine out of the last five recessions.
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I'm one of those quarter-million people who have an account on Wyvern, Yegge's game. All maps, game objects, and NPCs/monsters are in XML, though ones with odd, specific behavior also have a corresponding code file. I'm not sure about races
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Williams Syndrome. One of its major symptoms is also mental retardation; while the article didn't delve too much into that sector, not mentioning mental retardation is a bit of a glaring omission.
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A friend told me about once receiving a BIOS error like the following: Error: No keyboard detected. Press any key to continue.
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This Perfect Day by Ira Levin (out of print, yet much more worthwhile in my opinion than other dystopic novels) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond The Books of the Fey by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer The De
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The author left out the important information that Kryptos is split into 4 parts (and supposedly a code within the code), 3 of which have been repeatedly cracked.
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Yes, of course. Uncoincidentally, most of Asia and Africa are not very capitalistic
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I'd be very surprised if Bill was using the same definition. It's usually not a good idea to mix different definitions of a word.
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by Darmani 19y ago
The standard of living has increased seven-fold in the past century. As a result, the definition of "poverty" is no longer homeless people starving to death, but a family living in a small house who own a car, TV set, and other "luxuries."
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I suppose yet further information could be attempted to be communicated by toggling the bulb enough to attempt to cause it to burn out and then observing replacements by finding a serial number of some sort, but that's getting outlandish.
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Assuming this is an incandescent lightbulb with mediocre or poor heat conductivity and that the lapse between "end of the day" and "start of the day" is sufficiently short, extra information can be communicated using the temperature of the
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by Darmani 19y ago
Hmmmm....no mention of any potentially Orwellian uses?
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Usually units like that are used because they make the scale easier to grok. Unfortunately, with large numbers, humans fail to truly understand the scale between them (e.g.: you can innately feel the difference between one and a thousand mo
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by Darmani 19y ago
Spelling was phonetic around Shakespeare's time, and, thus, the most common words had many different acceptable spellings. Nowadays, if you don't conform to dictionary spelling, you'll look like an idiot, and your sentences may require a f
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by Darmani 19y ago
It really pains me to here so many give a knee-jerk "Gmail is the best answer," as I quite strongly feel that that is no longer the case. When Gmail first came out, I certainly would have agreed with that statement. When I first received a
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6) Find an alien civilization desiring another planet. 7) ??? 8) Use step 7 to get the aliens to buy the planet instead of taking it. 9) Profit!
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Plan for taking over the Earth: 1)Invent a way to eliminate nuclear fallout 2)Retreat into a space station 3)Incite nuclear war below 4)Wait for apocalypse 5)Come back down, clean the place up, and take it for yourself The Russians are aven
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by Darmani 19y ago
"[...]Visitors will leave at the slightest obstacle. So if you want people to visit and order from your site, don't put any obstacles in their way. Whatever you do, don't force visitors to register."-Paul Graham, "The 10 Secrets of Selling
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by Darmani 19y ago
Correction: JavaScript embedded in web pages cannot process images. Mozilla Rhino most certainly can, and I'm pretty sure Mozilla SpiderMonkey can as well if given XPConnect (or similar).
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19. Stop reading this.
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First of all, there isn't much of a free market in health care. There is much regulation, and the current model of requiring corporations give their employees health insurance is flawed. Contrarywise, prices have fallen in cosmetic surgery,
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You might consider asking for a zip code rather than a city. I personally live in an unincorporated area of Saint Louis county, and I was quite tempted to name one of the three surrounding suburbs (all of which are politically considered a
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Immunity to disease was much more strongly selected for than intelligence in Europe. Hunting requires more intelligence than farming, so intelligence was more strongly selected for in Africa. That modern African Americans were descended fro
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I must rescind this statement. As a result of these discussions, I began reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, which, in the chapter "To Farm or not to Farm," makes clear the disconnect between agriculture and sedentary living: "Another misconcep
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That is true, but my point was merely countering the assertion that ancient farming cultures had more average free time than ancient hunter-gatherer cultures. I don't dispute that agriculture allowed technology to eventually flourish in the

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