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by Dove 15y ago
I do think it odd that the legal drinking age is well past the age of majority. I think it would do much to smooth out this sort of odd situation if we dropped it to 18, like most of the rest of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc
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by Dove 15y ago
For the record, I was playing with an experimental perl script (which I was in the process of concluding would not work), when lotharbot walked in and asked what I was doing. I explained the problem, and he had the solution within a few se
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by Dove 15y ago
Why, thanks! There's a surprisingly complete set of hard science curriculum there, something I'd been wishing for.
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by Dove 15y ago
Very closely, I'd say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat... The major difference I see is the McDonaldses following highways in the western states -- for example, look at the sparsely populated parts of Montana.
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by Dove 15y ago
This is immensely valuable! I do have some critiques of the site, though. - Why do I need a password and email address to keep a list of free books? There's no private information here. - I'd really, really like to be able to search - Fail
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by Dove 15y ago
I am convinced that this is not just a programmer's mistake. This is an illustration of the problem with the paradigm itself. Inheritance makes you want to glue unrelated things together. Inheritance views the world as fundamentally hie
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by Dove 15y ago
The kind that saves you money. ;) Joking aside, a quality mattress can last for decades (and will often have a manufacturer's guarantee of such). The price of the mattress is surprisingly non-correlated with the annual cost of ownership:
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by Dove 15y ago
Because the camera was using velocity and acceleration and was collidable, I derived it from our PhysicalObject class, which had those characteristics. It also had another characteristic: PhysicalObjects could take damage. The air strikes
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by Dove 15y ago
Good advice. Inheritance looks like simple code reuse, but it's extremely inflexible. Every CS 101 class goes through that Mammal.breathe(), Mammal::Animal.walk(), exercise, and every time, someone asks, "Well, what do I do with a dolphin
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by Dove 15y ago
"You can't have fun without alcohol"? Really? Is that some kind of a typo or do you guys really say that?
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by Dove 15y ago
It probably isn't the alcohol, then. If it's the beer you find unreasonably offensive, it may be that you are a supertaster. I am one, and I've had the same experience you describe: enjoying wine and spirits, but unable to form any sort of
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by Dove 15y ago
And that's why submitting trash needs to come with a karma penalty.
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by Dove 15y ago
Actually, I'm uncertain about whether I really want the problem of centralized healthcare records to be solved. If it is, it means that my healthcare records could easily fall into the wrong hands Making sure this doesn't happen is part o
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by Dove 15y ago
Google: Male, 18-24 Real life: Female, 29 . . . but I find that oddly validating. Edit: And I'm thinking the ads will probably stay more relevant if I don't fix that.
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by Dove 15y ago
If one rover is hit by a software blunder, it's likely the other one will have the same problem. Actually, this is something they plan for. It is not unheard of to have the software for two different devices developed by two different te
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by Dove 15y ago
It is not a simple situation. In my opinion, the existing systems are all broken in some way -- including even the fully open ones. I don't want all of R&D to look like YouTube and Wikipedia. I believe there are four hard truths abo
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by Dove 15y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Intellectual property isn't something the entertainment industry invented. It's something every six year old independently invents when telling her younger brother to stop being such a copycat. Creating is
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by Dove 15y ago
I remain convinced that coming up with a fair and practical method for dealing with intellectual property is the most important question of the age.
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by Dove 15y ago
Even if replicators could completely replace manufacturing and agriculture (and that would be looking pretty far down the road), the change in society wouldn't be as big as you'd think. The service sector already constitutes about 75% of
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by Dove 15y ago
Are we to the point yet where internet should be considered a public utility? It certainly seems to be more of a necessity than a luxury these days.
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by Dove 15y ago
Some googling around gets me a cost of $120,000/mile to install overhead telephone wire. So, for example, if you have a tiny town of 200 people that's 15 miles away from anywhere, running a phone line out to it will cost $9,000 per residen
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by Dove 15y ago
who's going to pony up the cash for the next Half-Life (not the next Valve game, but the next product on that level) up-front when dealing with nobodies? While I acknowledge that it doesn't seem to make economic sense, I have a great deal
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by Dove 15y ago
I once spent about nine months creating a largish program, and then moved on to another job. I spent about a day educating the fellow who would be carrying on the maintenance. I barely knew him. About a year later, we met again. I still
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by Dove 15y ago
Trying to retrofit an abstraction to a piece of code is almost always a horrible experience frought with mess and compromise. Yes, and unless the problem is trivial or your experience in the domain is such that your foresight borders on t
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by Dove 15y ago
Right. If you're coming from a C background, you'd be amazed how much information from the source is preserved in a Java .class file. To my knowledge, C++ turns into a binary blob, and a lot of magic can happen along the way. But Java tu
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by Dove 15y ago
Or, in other words, the perfect amount... Philosophically, I agree. I view premature abstraction in the same light as premature optimization. I believe both abstraction and optimization are incarnations of your understanding of the prob
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by Dove 15y ago
Running such a lean startup you can't afford a function invocation? This actually isn't as wildly hypothetical a situation as one might guess. At least in the Android world, "Avoid getters and setters" is on the short list of performance
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by Dove 15y ago
Does anybody know if Notch is self taught? I thought he had a CS Degree from somewhere? I can't say with any degree of authority, but based on what I've read of his code, I'd guess he's self-taught. My bigoted preconception is that when i
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by Dove 15y ago
The aiua? Do you think so? I thought they were just a science fiction way of talking about the soul. Mormons do believe in souls, I'll grant, but they hardly own the concept.
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by Dove 15y ago
Numb3rs is, to me, a grown-up version of Mathnet, Whereas Beautiful Mind is spectacularly accurate. I used to make a game with other grad students in the math department, identifying what was on the blackboards in the background. It w

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