Fargren

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by Fargren 11y ago
I really don't like this idea that artists should be compensated for having their music listened to. I find it hurts the consumers, and it will hurt the artists in the long run. Basically, I don't think the concept of intellectual
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by Fargren 11y ago
Books are about communicating experiences. A great book can give you the knowledge it would take years to get by personal experience alone. If anything, people involved in programming don't read nearly enough. We have giants on whose s
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by Fargren 11y ago
As described in plenty of comments in that thread, that experiment was not in basic income. Minimal income and basic income are different in fundamental ways, and could potentially lead to fundamentally different behaviours.
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by Fargren 11y ago
I think we need to experiment with this before deciding whether it's a good or bad idea. A whole country is probably not the way to start, though.
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by Fargren 11y ago
I've used XCode for hundreds of hours. It's very lacking in functionality, I'm not going to copy and paste my other comment. Interface Builder is very nice, I will give it that. I did have it break on me once or twice(wouldn&
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by Fargren 11y ago
The other IDE's I've worked with for any significant amount of time are Eclipse, Visual Studio, and various flavors of IntelliJ. Eclipse is the worse of the bunch, but it has a few important features that XCode doesn't. Supp
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by Fargren 11y ago
I have to ask, because I feel XCode is the worst IDE I've ever used. What about it is pretty awesome? Instruments is pretty cool, though.
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by Fargren 11y ago
Even in Objective-C, the refactorings available are pretty limited and don't always work. You can do Rename and Extract Method. In a few corner cases, Extract method will break. Forget about extracting a variable or a parameter, of pul
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by Fargren 11y ago
Not even a mention of refactoring tools for Swift? Right now you can't even do a Rename. This was one of the biggest reasons I bought Appcode, actually. And I'm still waiting for either IDE to implement Extract Method. It boggles
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by Fargren 11y ago
"the studies reviewed do not provide a basis for inferring that increasing the severity of sentences generally is capable of enhancing deterrent effects." I find it very disturbing that this is not included the basis of legislati
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by Fargren 11y ago
That's very personal. I really enjoy the rustle of a bus engine. It makes me dozy in a very pleasant (if inconvenient when I have to get down) way. Trains are great for transportation, but I don't enjoy the trip as much.
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by Fargren 11y ago
Yeah, I've read the death penalties studies, but I was hoping for something more general. Instinctually, I agree with your opinion, but I think this is teh kind of thing that really needs to be verfied. We are basing a very important p
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by Fargren 11y ago
Quite simply, because they are very interesting to a significant subset of the community here. Of course, that's the reason why anything gets points around here. The reason many of us find this interesting, I think, is that people wh
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by Fargren 11y ago
Is there any proof that higher punishment works as a deterrent for any crime? I would assume that some punishment works better than no punishment at all, but here's probably a point of dimishing returns. Does anyone know of any studies
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by Fargren 11y ago
Every time I hear a variant of the "games did X when I was younger, they don't anymore", I have to wonder what do they mean by "games". There is a ridiculous amount and variety of games made today, specially when co
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by Fargren 11y ago
I agree, the relationship is not analogous at all. That's why I said I was going on a tangent: I was more interested in learning about the evaluation system in the US than it's possible parallels with job interviewing,
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by Fargren 11y ago
I've had to do both, but presenting on a prepared topic was much more common. I don´t recall ever being graded on a novel exercise presented to the class, but I certainly have had to solve them.
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by Fargren 11y ago
Going on a tangent, but: >You took exams in school were the professor was looking at what you were writing the entire time? Your exams were in front of several people on a whiteboard? Yes. Is this not common? I've had a number of te
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by Fargren 12y ago
Well, Nativa was pretty gross though. It was (slightly) sweet, and a lot of people prefer their mate without any sort of sweetening.
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by Fargren 12y ago
That number is binary to base 2, but not necessarily to, say, base 10. Making an absolutely normal number (that is, a number that is normal to any base) is more involved[0]. It has only been recently shown that this can be done with polyno
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by Fargren 12y ago
The thing about normality is that if a number is normal, it will contain all books not only for a given encoding of a book, but for any given encoding of any book. That is true only for normal sequences, of which pi is assumed to be an ex
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by Fargren 12y ago
A normal sequence includes all non-normal sequences, by definition of normality.
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by Fargren 12y ago
Running in the background is on I stumbled with porting an app from Android to iOS. what an an iOS app can do while it's not the current app is tremendously limited. This is for battery reasons, and I get it, but it would be nice if th
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by Fargren 12y ago
Your definition of a sport would exclude Magic: the Gathering, and I guess also poker. I don't think I agree with a definition that claims StartCraft is a sport but excludes those.
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by Fargren 12y ago
Needing money is not in our current economic system enough cause to get it. If we are accepting the premise than extorting people this way is illegal and unethical, it doesn't become more legal because you are poor or not a professiona
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by Fargren 12y ago
The best way I've found to make fried eggs is to put them over a thin layer of vegetable oil over a cold teflon pan, and turn the heat on medium-low.
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by Fargren 12y ago
Couldn't they have the Play Store and/or Google Play Services not work on unpatched devices? That would probably force carriers to update.
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by Fargren 12y ago
I believe the only reliable way to make reusable code is to reuse it as you write it. If your team is working on several projects at the same time which have some overlap, then by all means if something could be useful for three or more pro
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by Fargren 12y ago
Woah. This is the best comment I've ever read anywhere in a long time. I'm not sure if I agree with it; it goes against a lot of things I believe. And yet I can find nothing wrong in your argument. Do you have any recommended read
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by Fargren 12y ago
So if I were to write a book named A Game of Thrones, under the pen name George R. R. Martin, would it be permissible by law to publish it?

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