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by Dove 14y ago
Variable name length should be inversely proportional to scope visibility. Names in complicated math should also be kept very short. I like to get the best of both worlds by renaming just before the formula: var G = Physics.Gravita
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by Dove 14y ago
I have told the above story to different audiences. Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point. If I may ve
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by Dove 14y ago
Really? Perhaps you know more than I do, but Android "not allowing apks to be sent over Bluetooth" seems pretty unlikely to me. It doesn't allow you to easily get at apks you've downloaded from the Play store, if that's what you mean, bu
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by Dove 14y ago
Yeah, I'm hoping by "overwritten" he really meant "shadowed". I don't know MATLAB, but being able to change the value of i seems both useless and dangerous.
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by Dove 14y ago
Yeah, that's what I thought he probably meant, too -- that someone trying to shoot at a threat would miss and hit a child. That's what triggered me saying, "you must not know much about guns." You're welcome to your own judgement call on
456.
by Dove 14y ago
just as likely to accidentally shoot a child as they are to do any good with a weapon You know, this isn't the first time I've heard this sentiment, and -- without meaning offense -- I think it reflects a simple ignorance of the practical
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by Dove 14y ago
Do take it with a grain of salt. I develop for Android, but mostly as a contractor for other people. I can tell you what would worry me as a user, but it's the guys up the thread who have had success selling their own apps that you really
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by Dove 14y ago
18MB seems pretty heavy for a Sudoku app. And it comes with a lot of permissions, and it's free with no obvious monetization strategy? I don't have data to tell you those things scare away users, but they'd sure as heck scare away me .
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by Dove 14y ago
If video game kills count, regular old make-believe kills should count too. And I've never met a little boy who didn't have hundreds of those . It's not as historically exceptional as you might think!
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by Dove 14y ago
Not an improvement for me. I almost always keep what I'm reading near the top of the screen. I like to be able to scan ahead, read the lead lines on coming paragraphs, see how close I am to the end of the sentence/paragraph/chapter, or eve
461.
by Dove 14y ago
"... plans to send just a small group of people who would build a transparent dome that could be pressurized so that they could farm on Martian soil . . ." What? Can you do that?
462.
by Dove 14y ago
That parses. It just implies there's only one security camera. And you and the sign painter already know of and speak informally about it. And it's operating RIGHT NOW.
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by Dove 14y ago
I'm not apologizing for gerrymandering in the least , but . . . http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241 . . . just because you didn't put bias into a system doesn't mean it isn't biased.
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by Dove 14y ago
Oh, then that seems like a pretty pedantic worry. You can't divide by zero in any context; even children know that. It's such an obvious exception that it didn't even occur to me that's what you thought was wrong with the statement.
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by Dove 14y ago
Yes, and it's pretty easy to prove. Multiplying any rational number by the inverse of another gives you a new rational number. (Zero doesn't have an inverse). A rational number is a number that can be represented as one integer divided by
466.
by Dove 14y ago
As a consumer, I prefer this style of monetization to in-app purchasing. At least I know what I'm getting and what the reviews mean. Oddly, though, the market doesn't seem to agree with me. Demo/shareware apps just don't seem to do well.
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by Dove 14y ago
I agree. The control in the demo looks cumbersome. I've come to the conclusion that touchscreen devices have a lower information throughput than traditional desktop machines. Relative to a mouse, the touchscreen is inaccurate, unreliable,
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by Dove 14y ago
Really, I think I am going to have to buy 5 or more of the top-recommended jQuery/CSS books just to get started (even if I don't read them). Consider taking a look at http://safaribooksonline.com/ . They don't have everything, but they
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by Dove 14y ago
I didn't work on that particular system, but I can say from experience that systems on an airplane are a lot more interconnected than you might expect, just from seeing them as a passenger. There probably is a sequence diagram somewhere th
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by Dove 14y ago
We treated this as a quiz for how familiar we were with various startups. Got a good chunk of them right, too. I may need to spend more time working and less time on Hacker News.
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by Dove 14y ago
Both, actually. I do periodically need to do HTML5 apps on Android, either through PhoneGap or in a webview. I know most of what I need to in order to do that, but I'd like to improve my general facility with javascript. iOS... I am planni
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by Dove 14y ago
My favorite way to determine whether my skills are up to date (and what to add in the coming year) is to look at the "Who's Hiring" and "Seeking Freelancer" threads, and tally up what people are asking for. It is a diverse field, though,
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by Dove 14y ago
Ah. I guess it has been some years since I heard the story. Thanks for the correction. :)
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by Dove 14y ago
My dad, an electrical engineer, was once on his way back from a conference with a Concorde flight full of other EEs. In the air, the stewardess asked, "Is there an engineer on board?" Everyone responded enthusiastically. She was forced t
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by Dove 14y ago
I haven't been to the particular locations you name, but my experience with multilingualism in the US is that it's more like "Spanish spoken here" than "Does anyone speak English?"
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by Dove 14y ago
In that case, you might be better off asking for a phrase to be used to retrieve trusted apps. Hawkee is right, you're dealing with an unusually paranoid audience.
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by Dove 14y ago
Really? I thought the first Iron Man movie was a great depiction of iterating on a product design. I guess it isn't quite as much an engineer's movie as Apollo 13 or October Sky , but I definitely view it as one.
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by Dove 14y ago
accountswu, I can't reply to you, as both comments are [dead]. I don't know if they've been downvoted to death or what, but that's why my reply is up here. Would you support drone attacks to kill mass murderers that happen to reside in yo
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by Dove 14y ago
I believe government is the only place where that level of incompetence is common. Ha! No. No, even clerks at the DMV get things right a whole lot more often than that. ;) And coming from drone operators and intelligence officers? Tha
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by Dove 14y ago
It should have Iron Man. Maybe also A Beautiful Mind. Closer to home, if we're doing documentaries, Revolution OS maybe ought to be there.

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