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by Dove 15y ago
Yeah, it is. Your shampoo usually opens on the pass. At a guess, maybe he meant the plants were east of the mountains, not west, so they would have to drive over them?
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by Dove 15y ago
So is Larry Wall.
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by Dove 15y ago
This seems particularly likely given that Coding Horror post is quite fresh. It shot to #3, but has fallen to #10 in the last few minutes.
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by Dove 15y ago
It's also possible that there are bots (or people) that simply submit Coding Horror posts. I believe duplicate submissions are counted as upvotes.
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by Dove 15y ago
This seems like an appropriate place to mention that the FairTax proposal makes tax evasion very difficult. If you haven't read about it, you really should -- I think it's pretty well thought out.
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by Dove 15y ago
Why today? Do they know something about, say, the HOTS release that I don't?
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by Dove 15y ago
Quantify how sex affects the brain in specific ways that effect the likelihood of developing an interesting in programming and being an effective programmer. I'm not sure I can be quite that specific, but there are some very well-establis
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by Dove 15y ago
That is why strong government regulation for health care is a good idea. Government has the power to protect anyone from anyone else. Ideally, it should use that power to protect weak people from the powerful corporations, as you propo
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by Dove 15y ago
That may be the norm there, but not here. At least, it won't be until people complaining about it. I appreciate upholding high standards.
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by Dove 15y ago
That's very cool and playful, but "Holy grail of hacks" seems a bit overwrought. I don't want to be a naysaying jerk, and the whole thing is cool, but . . . is this harder than it looks?
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by Dove 15y ago
It is particularly concerning, at least in the case of Java, that I cannot even fall back on the old paradigm and free memory manually. I am not persuaded that figuring out how best to hoard objects is a better use of my mental energy than
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by Dove 15y ago
Oh yeah. I knew there was one I forgot. You get compiler errors about as helpful as trying to debug C++ macros -- namely, something is wrong with this big glob of code, but it ain't gonna tell you what or where.
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by Dove 15y ago
I came here to say the same thing. "Shit Umbrella" is a fantastic description.
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by Dove 15y ago
I can think of a few reasons, though they may not be the ones he has in mind. There's the fact that you're dealing with cell references rather than variable names, so all of your expressions look like ($K4 - $S$1) rather than (principal - p
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by Dove 15y ago
I am reminded of the "wine blocks" sold (legally!) during the prohibition, which came with the following warning: After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, becau
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by Dove 15y ago
Suggestion: measure the dresses. Sizes in women's clothing have no objective standards at all (I do so envy men's pants, which come in 34x30 rather than Size 8 Slim Petite), but Kendall Farr opens her well-known book by suggesting that wome
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by Dove 15y ago
I agree! Those prices are nuts. The really weird thing about them is the range -- I see everything from 4 buttons to 160! That makes me really wonder how they're set. Even with the variation, the bulk of them appear to be $40 or more, wh
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by Dove 15y ago
The Shuttle is a big powerful vehicle that you ride IN. The Soyuz is a small vehicle that you WEAR. That's just priceless.
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by Dove 15y ago
Now you've got me curious. Are you saying lossless video formats require more than four times the space to store four times the pixels? How can that possibly be?
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by Dove 15y ago
The day came for me back in about 1998. Ever since then, the smallest drive money could buy has been much, much larger than the sum total of all the data I owned. I may be conservative, though. I mean, I also still instinctively gauge pro
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by Dove 15y ago
I also thought it would be factorial at first, but a moment's thought proves that wrong. Imagine adding a new computer to an already connected cluster. How many new connections?
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by Dove 15y ago
One of my math profs in grad school called lower case xi "a scribble". And when he had to write it on the board, it was.
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by Dove 15y ago
Whatever is appropriate in your context. :) What I really mean is this: use it. If you're a tauist, but tau isn't in your header file / constant library / whatever you use, today might be a good day to put it there.
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by Dove 15y ago
‎#define tau 6.2831853 If you haven't gotten around to it, today's a good day.
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by Dove 15y ago
The error is in assuming that applying a simple permutation to a word increases the entropy by a meaningful amount. Capitalizing a letter, substituting a symbol, moving your hand's position on the keyboard, or repeating a letter are commo
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by Dove 15y ago
Seemingly random modifications of the phrase would aid in strengthening brainwallet, such as “I went seeking freeeedom, but all the world’s issslands were alreaDy taken.” These simple changes make the entire phrase very difficult to predic
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by Dove 15y ago
I disagree slightly with the Affordance Is King point. You should identify the hot spots on the screen, but you should also reward childish exploration. I think most of the screen should be hot. Pretty much everything should be a targe
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by Dove 15y ago
The strongest selection pressure in the western world is for people to spend every waking hour making babies. True as that may be, people are not acting the way that would lead you to expect. World population appears to be on a logistic c
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by Dove 15y ago
The response is to not be terrorised. It is to live well and not in fear. An interesting comparison is a popular Israeli song from a few years back: Yalla Ya Nasrallah ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8pVvJIzllA ). They respond to (not
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by Dove 15y ago
I can confirm that. The article he cites to support the claim (from 2009) indicates the author made $4 off a 350-500 word article, and $3 for a product review. Based on my experience, those went for about $1.50 and $0.50 as of about a yea

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