MBlume

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   by MBlume 14y ago

   I might just have to file this under "holy fuck, allistic people are so weird ", but...seriously?! I have to spend two hours on/walking to a train every day so that the precise way you twitch your eyebrows can properly guide my software
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   by MBlume 14y ago

   Just because I can fit a wider-than-80-column terminal on my screen doesn't mean I want to. Maybe I want a bunch of terminals on my screen. We already have a software ecosystem that attempts to respect the 80-character limit -- why brea
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   by MBlume 14y ago

   I don't recall Hitch ever being "over the top" about religion -- he simply called spades spades.
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   by MBlume 14y ago

   This is beyond disgusting. How did the people in the room not simply walk out? ETA: Scripts are good for these things. It's difficult, in the shock and confusion of the moment, to decide what to do. So, here's one script. When you're in a p
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   by MBlume 14y ago

   Thank you for reminding me of one of the reasons I love being a developer =)
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   by MBlume 14y ago

   I like piston. I use piston. I want to go on using piston. The current PyPI release of Piston (0.2.3) is six months old. It's incompatible with the current release version of Django (1.4). That Django release has been available for a month
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   by MBlume 14y ago

   undershirt and gym shorts, maybe? Pajamas?
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   by MBlume 14y ago

   From the stackoverflow thread linked by rapidnsnail: > I tried this on my 9 and 13 year old nephews. I asked what does this button mean? "Save" they both answered immediately. Then I asked what the image looks like? They had no idea - n
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   by MBlume 14y ago

   This really is a hard problem. I'm not sure this is right, but I think there's probably a case to be made that congress should seize the IP under eminent domain, write the publishers a check and tell them to go home.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Reading the docs now, this looks like excellent work. Thanks to everyone involved =)
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    Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity(celandine13.livejournal.com)

    4 points by MBlume 15y ago|0 comments
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    The obvious thing for the MPAA to do is to start doing it themselves -- voluntarily send free discs to overseas units.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Thanks =) I'm honestly not sure if it's original or not.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Thanks! ^_^
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but yes, please, let's ostracize him. Our culture will be better off without him. Sometimes not pissing in the pool isn't enough, sometimes asking people nicely to stop isn't enough, sometimes you have
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    I really hope you're just trolling, I hope no one here is actually this obtuse. But just in case... Referring to them as "gang bang interviews": * implies an equivalence between having several people take it in turns to overpower and rape
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    > I think you need to be careful on that line of thinking. We don't want conferences censoring presenters because of reputation issues. Why on earth not? Part of ensuring cooperation on prisoner's dilemmas is punishment. It should be b
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Incidentally, this is how we fix it. If everyone just refuses to work with these assholes, and says so loudly, they'll... well, I'd like to say they'll pack up and leave the valley, but more likely they'll wind up concentrated in their own
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    I still get a bad feeling from the fact that this e-mail talks about "cybersecurity" like it's not a made up word with no referent
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Automatic response: the author is obnoxiously neurotypical.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Now someone needs to link some Eddie Izzard videos...
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    I'm not sure what you're arguing for exactly, but nothing you're saying weighs against the parent statement without some serious broken window fallacy.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Note that this applies to hiring. A candidate who can write FizzBuzz given a spec but can't derive a spec given FizzBuzz is not a programmer. Do not hire them.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Simple difference: in svn, until you're ready for other people to see your changes, you have to leave them uncommitted. In git, you say "well, I just refactored function X, let's throw that in a commit before I do anything else, and if I h
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Note that, at least in python (which I assume is pretty similar to Ruby in ecosystem), you can get a lot of mileage for #1 by doing static analysis, for example Pylint.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    I asked a similar question a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3226708
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    ...seriously? They happen once a year.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    "Compassion is not an algorithm to be optimized." What, if anything, do you think you mean by this sentence?
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    No. If every single person who wanted to help out looked for the most efficient thing to do on the margin, then there would hardly be any malaria patients. The most efficient opportunities for philanthropy would be exhausted . Then the n
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Interesting ways to give back should not really be a desideratum. Look for maximally efficient, effective ways of giving back.