Deestan

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601.
by Deestan 17y ago
I got to the proper New Scientist article. Maybe it was just an exploitive ad that they've gotten rid of now.
602.
by Deestan 17y ago
In that case, he could just dial the number, put the speaker on, and continue doing his important work. The call will either flat out after a minute or three, or someone will answer and he can talk to them immediately.
603.
by Deestan 17y ago
I always thought those ads were designed to say "we are not a faceless corporate machine; you will be dealing with an actual human."
604.
by Deestan 17y ago
Track #2: LFSAW, sums the answer to that up in 140 characters, I think. :)
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by Deestan 17y ago
I agree. I also think the annoying alarmism is caused by not identifying the changes in intellectual habits. For instance, in the past the high school math geeks all knew how to use a slide rule, and mastering it was an intellectually sati
606.
by Deestan 17y ago
I think it is useful. But, like all other definitions it can look useless when stretched to technically apply to specific situations (like the laptop-on-back example). For instance, my refrigerator is technically interactive by the defi
607.
by Deestan 17y ago
As far as I understand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics , the planner must be able to actively communicate to you before carrying it makes you a "cybernetic organism".
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by Deestan 17y ago
You're right. In the blog post http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2009/12/if_you_h... all he says about the matter is: > And here's how you can easily switch Firefox's search from Google to Bing. (Yes, Bing does have a better
609.
by Deestan 17y ago
I'm in Norway and not freaked out either, but I'm mildly entertained by the news coverage: - The TV2 news' only comment from the locals, paraphrased as "What the fuck was that?" ("Ka i hælvete va det?") - UFOologists claiming that "this def
610.
by Deestan 17y ago
Outright misleading, linkbait headline; it implies that he insists all Firefox users switch from Google to Bing. What he actually says is: "[...]if you care about your privacy, remember that Bing is better than Google, at least in that de
611.
by Deestan 17y ago
Quite a lot more here: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2008/01/17/crystal-methodology
612.
by Deestan 17y ago
I do not refute it. In the general case , you really should stick to three sentence total and possibly one question at the end. I provided a special (but annoyingly common) case where it is useful to diverge from the rule. The case is
613.
by Deestan 17y ago
A minor addition to #2, in which he says that you should only have one question: If you communicate with someone who only bothers to skim your email (tech support and sales people rarely impress here), or with people with limited reading co
614.
by Deestan 17y ago
> But isn't every Dilbert about corporate nonsense? Nope. :) http://dilbert.com/fast/2009-11-04/
615.
by Deestan 17y ago
From the article: > Instead of asking the gamers to try a product the way Netflix would, "Get Health Reform Right" requires gamers to take a survey, which, upon completion, automatically sends the following email to their Congressional
616.
by Deestan 17y ago
The ads on the last two pages were breathtakingly horrible. It is hard to imagine how that sort of advertising could ever have been legal.
617.
by Deestan 17y ago
> This code will be a nightmare to debug when there's a few thousand lines of similar redirections. :/ It is. The SConstruct build tool is a prime example of this technique being used so much that it hampers debugging. Using this patte
618.
by Deestan 17y ago
My company is up to ~40 programmers in my regional office, and our method appears to scale well enough for now. We let everyone who asks take a very relaxed programming test. Simple (if you know basic algorithms, at least) problem, 4 hours
619.
by Deestan 17y ago
I'd also like to add that the interview question type of pressure is of the type "I have to start moving my mouth within 4 seconds or I'll look bad." All-night overtime or short deadline pressures are completely different beasts.
620.
by Deestan 17y ago
Not really, the title was pretty linkbait.
621.
by Deestan 17y ago
> You don't get a PhD in teaching for saying what we already do works But it doesn't; at least not for everyone. I had to quit maths at high school because it was just too frustrating memorizing apparently useless and meaningless formul
622.
by Deestan 17y ago
Not surprisingly, 9 of the 10 YouTube comments I tested were classified as "likely to be stupid".
623.
by Deestan 17y ago
I first met my wife at a getting-drunk-on-tequila party, if that answers your question. :)
624.
by Deestan 17y ago
It rather sounds like something from a D&D rulebook.
625.
by Deestan 17y ago
Probably because weight loss is "cheaper", i.e. it doesn't have to take from your precious time. And don't forget that being overweight brings along a few health problems, so weight loss automatically leads to improved health.
626.
by Deestan 17y ago
A sex change would apparently do wonders too; from 49% down to 37%. Anyone have any speculations to why? Might it simply be that a lot of women for some reason don't register themselves as unemployed?
627.
by Deestan 17y ago
With a smug smile on my face, I notice that most of this list is impossible to do in Haskell.
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by Deestan 17y ago
It's amazing just how nuts you can go within the Dwarf Fortress game engine. I spent ages building my wooden stilted fortress entirely out of lumber. Farms were created by hauling buckets of water up onto the roof to make mud and plucking
629.
by Deestan 17y ago
I think it's an honest comment. Uncalled-for exclamation marks really start grating on the eyes after a while.
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by Deestan 17y ago
By "programmer", he apparently means "novice Windows programmer". I'm slightly offended.

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