Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Not British, but I guess the different national identities (English, Scottish, Welsh...) in the Kingdom play a major role, also considering the fact that one of them has had a fairly dominant role along its history. Would a Scotsman or Nort
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Interesting, first time I hear it (I'm not a native speaker, but I have a lot of meetings with Americans), but Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster definitely seem to agree with you: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary&#x2
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
So, the better question would be what advantages there are over Neovim :), but it has already been answered in another post.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I think it is largely the same segment of the population that before didn't use computers anyway, or used them as dumb browsers or e-mail clients.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Really ? I always thought them as synonyms and "Software Engineer" as a more "upscale" title (which is kind of stupid, IMHO). From Wikipedia: "The term programmer has often been used as a pejorative term to refer to
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Where is this shown ? In the Oxford data you link in the sibling comment, in the "Student numbers" PDF, the 2015 ratio for male/female Postgraduate research is 1.37, Postgraduate Taught is 1.18 and for Undergraduate 1.12, in
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"Who specifically is saying this?" "In this thread, madaxe_again" He probably meant which scientist (s), not "which random guy on the internet".
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"That's really not true. ... in my experience." The plural of anecdote is not data. (Although neither the original article provide some...)
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
C++ used properly will be always faster than Go or Java used properly. In many applications the point is not to be "fast" but "as fast as possible".
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I didn't know about it and I'm glad someone posted the link. It's common for old stories get reposted, and it's fine since it's impossible for everyone to be aware of everything all the time.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"Technology jobs are very highly specialised. And I'm not just speaking of computer tech." I would argue that computer tech is kind of an exception. I can see a Nuclear or Aerospace Engineer having trouble adapting his knowle
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"This doesn't really need to be an "emacs vs. vim" or "tabs vs. spaces"-type dichotomy." Agreed, and even "emacs vs. vim" or "tabs vs. spaces" do not really need to be "emacs vs. v
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"People think this is some sort of fancy "Ad Block Plus" -- it's not." Uh... http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-...
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"Only" 34% ? I imagine it is still a huge amount in absolute terms.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I think the question of the parent was if you could install Linux as you can with a normal PC (just by plugging an installation CD or USB drive), and the answer would be: "no you can't, unless you go through some hoops". It&#
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
As good as it is, I don't think it can play 1080p videos on a 720p screen, without downscaling.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Is it ? I kind of have a hard time understanding the point the author is trying to make (apart from "Fry is an hypocrite"). It might be the writing, but it seems to me he constantly goes off a tangent.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
With open chat in Hearthstone, wars would be fought, friendships would be hopelessly broken and feuds would run eternal.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"So why waste valuable time to do all this, if you know it's not the truth anyway ? The answer is to accept that you will learn things as you go along, and that things take as long as they take, and to rather deal with that."
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Related: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/the-fight-for-a-third...
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
As important the issue of minorities/gender in tech is, probably people just do not want it to be brought up in every single topic.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Although I have a backlog of unplayed games which could last me for an eternity or two, I will probably buy the game regardless at full price now, instead of waiting for the inevitable sale a few months down the line. While Jonathan's
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Yes, I read those, but I still don't see the assumption made. The first more general sentence does not imply that the all the countries mentioned in the second make up the entirety of Europe. It makes sense that the author would make a
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Can you provide a concrete example ? I really can't see this assumption made anywhere in the paper.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
As other people have said, it makes little sense comparing wages between states in the same country, even less between countries... If I´m not mistaken, Finland has free healthcare, education and generous welfare system (that you said you b
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
This is a nice talk from Jonathan Blow (Braid's author) about the necessity of a new language for game programming as an alternative to C++, and why new languages like Go or Rust are not apt to the task: https://www.youtube.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"Human Resources Machine" from Tomorrow Corporation (it's a proper indie game, you can find it on Steam). It abstracts simple programming concepts (like loops, branches, etc) in a visual language.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
About the command name length, probably a running joke ? This is from the feature list of the Silver Searcher, listed above: "The command name is 33% shorter than ack, and all keys are on the home row!"
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'Mega Mao' no more as ridiculed golden statue destroyed(theguardian.com)
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
"You make it sound like people killed and died over this." He really did not. Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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