Deestan

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by Deestan 14y ago
> It renders the text in OpenGL, which is one of the reasons why a 'text mode' game is so resource intensive. No, that is not really resource intensive. The massive simulation behind the graphics is resource intensive.
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by Deestan 14y ago
I don't get the hate either, even if it is true that they are "laughing at us". I can laugh at myself for being weird. According to my friends, Sheldon's tireless and obnoxious pedantery is a perfect caricature of me. When he drops so
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by Deestan 14y ago
You are demanding more empiricism while simultaneously abusing existing empiricism. > narcotics that have FDA black warning label that say right on the box that they increase the risk of suicide The label says the suicide rate among p
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by Deestan 14y ago
> make as much money as possible and keep current users coming back, and with fierce competition. This encourages antisocial and exploitative techniques, which many consider soul destroying.
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by Deestan 14y ago
It's pretty brutal and stupid, but: window.setInterval(function(){eval(this.innerText)},1000);
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by Deestan 14y ago
While I agree with the underlying point, the title is an argument in semantics (and I would say misleading and wrong - it is never OK to push bad code). It may be unelegant, it may lack any number of "best practices", but if your code sol
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by Deestan 14y ago
> not portable. How not? It's strictly and clearly defined in the standard.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> Aaron died because he decided suicide was the best course of action. People suffering from depression are not rational. I don't mean that "I can't make sense of this decision therefore they aren't rational", but people having recover
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by Deestan 14y ago
> The same is not true of DDoS attacks. It should be pretty clear in this case, though.
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by Deestan 14y ago
I generally disapprove of >80 width lines, but there are some cases in which they don't bother me, and that is boilerplate-ish code that you generally don't have to read all of to understand what it's for. For example macro-heavy C++
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by Deestan 14y ago
Also, the post advertises their technical know-how. Being able to debug this kind of problem is not trivial.
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by Deestan 14y ago
If you have trouble convincing someone of this, I wrote a little helper application you can install on their computer. It pops up a focus-stealing "WARNING: Are you sure? [Ok] [Cancel]" dialog at random every 10-40 minutes, irrespective of
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by Deestan 14y ago
The problem is that you will also get these: https://github.com/ajaxorg/node-github/pull/45 The account in question has been closed now, but it submitted thousands of pull requests to random projects to advertise their build service.
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by Deestan 14y ago
It's a disaster on my Android phone as well.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> If a bigger title is all that keeps someone working there, you've already failed. Remember there are a lot of implicit benefits in a bigger title that can really make your job more bearable. For example in large organizations where ot
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by Deestan 14y ago
I think it's very simple: If they truly believed they would never stoop to those "downright villainous things", they would not need to allow for them in the TOS. Putting the promise in the actual TOS is much more believable than putting
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by Deestan 14y ago
To my understanding, it means Instagram can do a direct deal with Instaprints and cut out the "sending profits to the artists" cost.
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by Deestan 14y ago
The article assumes you have access to reboot the computer from a CDROM or USB stick, which amounts to pretty much the same attack vector.
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by Deestan 14y ago
The article assumes you have enough access to boot the computer from an alternative medium. They can't just "fix" that short of forcing full disk encryption.
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by Deestan 14y ago
Same situation here. Am I correct in assuming the following characteristics? The guy you are talking about: * Trusts you to do your job, and assumes you are pulling your weight in whatever way you see fit. (contrast: "We need your ass in
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by Deestan 14y ago
Consider this: How many searches did you do before you became aware that this was introduced in one of the 384 software upgrades you installed in the past 4 months?
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by Deestan 14y ago
> it's much better to write an interface and then provide multiple implementations That is a reimplementation.
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by Deestan 14y ago
There wasn't "the occasional pointless-looking artifact"; I would have been fine with that. 95% of all code comments merely mimicked the type signature. People were using Visual Studio plugins to autogenerate the "documentation". Pressin
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by Deestan 14y ago
Not so much strange, as Twilight Zone-esque insane: All methods and properties must be commented with XML . Sounds like a good idea, until you see how this turns terse and readable code into a bag of chatty noise. Basically this: pu
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by Deestan 14y ago
They would if it worked, but email spam is mostly solved these days. Everyone uses a spam filter.
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by Deestan 14y ago
I think his enthusiasm and attempts are good things. But. His post is just that - his expression of enthusiasm. There's not much of anything else here yet. We have nothing to discuss but his enthusiasm. Having seen these kinds of ideas c
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by Deestan 14y ago
Why not just send him money as-is?
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by Deestan 14y ago
Doesn't work very well in sand.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> civilian demining which demands a 99% clearance rate. Is that an actual official classification? It seems a bit low. "There were 1000 mines here, and we found 990 of them. Good enough, I say. Move in, and bring your kids!"
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by Deestan 14y ago
> I can’t go fairly judge other programmers with FizzBuzz without going through the test myself. I implemented it in Ruby, my go-to language for hammering out quick solutions, and in the spirit of fairness to those I interviewed, I did

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