MBlume

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   by MBlume 15y ago

   This is pretty simple. If you work for one of those companies, quit.
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   by MBlume 15y ago

   The second they do that, they'll only be available on the other nets.
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   by MBlume 15y ago

   > SOPA is evil, but it's not going to severely injure Google. Am I reading the bill in an overly alarmist way? It sounded to me like SOPA would make YouTube basically impossible to run.
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   by MBlume 15y ago

   Thanks for this =)
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   Developer, never formally studied CS past high school -- what don't I know?

   15 points by MBlume 15y ago|5 comments
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   by MBlume 15y ago

   The intellectual justification is probably something like: Hiring someone always represents a risk. You don't know if the person is going to succeed at the job you hired them for. You don't know if they're going to wind up a positive asse
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   by MBlume 15y ago

   If you're right, it's a pretty deep con he's playing: www.atheistnexus.org/page/nate-phelps-2009-aa-speech trigger warning/tl;dr: Phelps family is every bit as horrifically abusive as you'd imagine.
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   by MBlume 15y ago

   I will join you, if there is more than $200 to be covered. What are the expected odds? edit: seriously, this would surprise me significantly more than the neutrino thing, and I'm happy to take 100-1 odds on that .
9. 549.▲
   by MBlume 15y ago

   "So before you go running off screaming about how the welfare state is subsidizing sexy times for retirees, chill out and keep that in mind." As subsidies go, this one seems pretty obviously positive...
10. 550.▲
    by MBlume 15y ago

    Awesome, thanks for the link, and for inspiring a happy afternoon's coding =)
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Hope this doesn't seem like threadjacking, but your README looked like a fun exercise, so I decided to avoid looking at the code and re-implement in Coffeescript. I wound up memoizing while I was at it. https://github.com/MichaelBlume/coff
12. 552.▲
    by MBlume 15y ago

    I actually think Coffeescript has one up on Python in some places. Splat assignment, for example, and a slightly simpler idiom for iterating through objects.
13. 553.▲
    by MBlume 15y ago

    CoffeeScript needs to be a fast moving language because it's still being developed. I imagine that, like most languages, it will eventually settle into a fairly stable, mature language spec.
14. 554.▲
    by MBlume 15y ago

    Have you bought a phone lately? The telco pays for most of the phone in exchange for your agreement to use their service for two years.
15. 555.▲
    by MBlume 15y ago

    setting module-level __all__ can modify what gets pulled in a wild import, but that's about it.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    seriously. anyone reading this without having heard of github or sourceforge would still be able to read between the lines and understand that a) everyone agrees github is kicking sourceforge's ass, including the folks at sourceforge. b) no
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Right, I doubt most of us see the splash screen that often -- I almost always have a filename in mind when I first open vim.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    I think by 'lower' he means 'worse', or 'more despicable', so you guys don't actually disagree on that.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    This is a really cute little Fermi calculation, and so I hesitate to say this... (I also hesitate because it will kick off a storm of People on the Internet Arguing about Physics...) but this is just wrong. It is irreparably wrong. The id
20. 560.▲
    by MBlume 15y ago

    Woah, let's not conflate compilation -speed with runtime -speed...
21. 561.▲
    by MBlume 15y ago

    git aliases > bash aliases, since completion still works. Here's mine: https://gist.github.com/916019
22. 562.▲
    by MBlume 15y ago

    Yes, but the fact that it's impossible is considered a feature, not a bug, by those who use it -- it keeps the bastards employed.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    Self-help books and the like can be comfort objects. When I was new to poly, though I had a PDF of The Ethical Slut, I remember wanting a physical copy to keep in my backpack and thumb through when I felt worried/jealous/uncertain.
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    by MBlume 15y ago

    blinks this is one of the most horrifying things I've read in a while.
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    by MBlume 16y ago

    I guess I'm confused about what you mean by "clean up the stream" and why you find it desirable. If someone fixes a bug by making five small changes, and documents each change with an intelligent commit message, I want those five commits in
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    by MBlume 16y ago

    import random # will print an integer between 0 and 10 inclusive print randint(0,10)
27. 567.▲
    by MBlume 16y ago

    Ugh. Can someone more capable of stomaching the "smug teenager" tone than I am summarize and tell us if there's anything worth reading here?
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    by MBlume 16y ago

    We're using Braintree here at Loggly, and like it quite a lot. The API has a neat little Python library that we use on our backend, and is pretty well documented. The indirection involved in posting billing forms to them means you wind up d
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    by MBlume 16y ago

    Also a HN poster -- http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer
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    by MBlume 16y ago

    In my case, this is why: http://lesswrong.com/lw/xl/eutopia_is_scary/3f8u