Goladus

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by Goladus 15y ago
And that movie was pre-facebook, he was not wasting time on the internet.
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by Goladus 15y ago
call him/her out on it and say why. Often, it's really hard to do this without starting a petty meta-argument. It can be hard to call someone out and maintain focus on the topics people actually want to read about. For example, I have do
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by Goladus 15y ago
It's the "without comment" that is the poison here, IMHO. The dilemma here is that most people don't want to read petty squabbles. So if a poster says something you think is really stupid and offensive, commenting is likely to devolve in
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by Goladus 15y ago
That's one reason there's a limited window for downvoting posts. I think it's about 24 hours and the downvote arrow goes away.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I eagerly await your finding that vegetables feel pain. I will not be surprised when it happens. Plants have nervous systems and sophisticated sensory capabilities. They don't have voices and their body language moves too slowly for hum
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by Goladus 15y ago
There is no evidence that cutting a cabbage causes it pain and suffering. We don't have as much evidence and the evidence we do have isn't as visceral or widely discussed. That doesn't mean there is no evidence.
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by Goladus 15y ago
> "general skill at persuasion" sounds more like sophistry/rhetoric... Persuasive techniques can be used deceptively but that's hardly necessary. It's important to accept that people are emotional and simply proving them wrong is usual
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by Goladus 15y ago
> I, however, armed with Singer's arguments from Animal Liberation could show that eating meat needs to be justified and that I can't justify it. The amount of philosophy needed is not too significant. One needs to know enough logic to
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by Goladus 15y ago
PG's assertions are often hard to question, probably because he studied philosophy and is very good at logic. He doesn't say it's impossible and his definition of lisp is very inclusive. I read some of the docs for camlp4. It looks like a
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by Goladus 15y ago
I wonder if they considered at all the effects of lying down? When I work from home, I love being able to take lie flat on the floor for a bit and rest my back AND legs for a short period.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Ironically, I've found that trying to realize dreams and side-projects in my spare time doesn't help at ALL with long-term happiness, especially the sort that would be apparent to a casual observer. I get short-term highs and satisfaction
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by Goladus 15y ago
I have, on occasion, intentionally left a program in a state that would generate a compile error to give me a place to start the next day. Edit: Incidentally, I do agree with the sentiment in the article, though, which is that you should d
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by Goladus 15y ago
> (b) the slower technological/economic growth you get when you ban being rich. There's a world of difference between "ban being rich" and "resist oligarchy with progressive taxation, investment in public services, infrastructure, resea
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by Goladus 15y ago
> in music Music uses both systems. A chromatic approach uses a 0-indexed system while the classical diatonic scales and intervals are indexed at 1. A perfect 5th is a chromatic interval of 7 semitones. 1-do(0) 2-re(2) 3-me(4) 4-fa(5)
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by Goladus 15y ago
Excellent point. I think that more generally, as it relates to what a student might be interested in, it fails to address the fundamental question "why am I learning this?" I think if I were going to design a book or course in object-orien
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by Goladus 15y ago
> I think this is where a lot of Rubyists/Pythonistas get lost. Just because the languages hide ideas like "interface" and "abstract base class" doesn't mean that those concepts aren't useful. I agree, somewhat. The problem is that HtD
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by Goladus 15y ago
Check out Haydn's "Lord Nelson" mass, specifically the recording by Banchetto Musicale (it's very light and clear). For the antithesis of heavy-handedness, pay attention to movements 2, 4, 5, 7, and 12. But the whole thing is only about 4
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by Goladus 15y ago
> As the author said, this book is NOT about Java. That's what it says, but the concepts covered are so java-oriented it may as well be. It uses generic language to describe most of the concepts, but the underlying assumption seems to b
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by Goladus 15y ago
This looks like a great book, but I'm not sure it really represents a good way to learn how to design classes in Ruby or Python. It seems heavily biased towards designing classes in a statically-typed, non-type-inferring, java-style langua
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by Goladus 15y ago
I think the point was that while it's understandable TechCrunch might do that, it's disappointing (and sometimes a bit frustrating) that those articles are submitted and upvoted on Hacker News anyway.
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by Goladus 15y ago
It's still valid. I haven't had to use vi in awhile but there are still a lot of OSes that don't have emacs installed by default. And every so often you'll wind up on a system where EDITOR isn't set and you'll get stuck in vi by accident.
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by Goladus 15y ago
The thing is about the shell is that it can't really be a brand new language. The shell derives its power directly from the OS and the OS needs the shell to provide much of that power. They almost have to evolve together. Also, bash synta
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by Goladus 15y ago
I find bash to be more convenient in a few scenarios that basically fall into two major categories, which come into play whenever the script is simple enough that complex data structures (dicts, nested lists, etc) aren't very helpful. The f
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by Goladus 15y ago
The problem with using google to answer an open-ended question like this is that it's very hard to sort the results. And it's not just the first question, that question will lead to more questions and you will waste an enormous amount of t
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by Goladus 15y ago
Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important than anything. Appearance is almost always the first thing you notice about someone. I'm not sure pretending otherwise is especia
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by Goladus 15y ago
How do you algorithmically distinguish between the two? Maybe it can't. It doesn't matter you use a linear or binary search if the program isn't fed valid data. I'm suggesting they are using an algorithm to solve a problem that it should
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by Goladus 15y ago
You need to show that the users are active on Yelp and they aren't afraid to write both positive and negative reviews to reflect their true experiences. That shouldn't be necessary. I've written like, five reviews ever and they're all ho
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by Goladus 15y ago
From a global security standpoint, kernel.org is an important site. Hacking the authoritative source for the linux kernel has serious implications for anyone who runs linux, which is lots of people probably including law enforcement. Note
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by Goladus 15y ago
www.adhdinc.com shows up as black text on a black background for me (firefox 3.6 windows 7). Using IE, it's black text on a very dark gray background. I can read it, but just barely.

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