OtterCoder

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by OtterCoder 9y ago
California and New England are so divorced from the concerns and ethos of the 'flyover' states that they may as well be on another planet. You may not think of yourself as elitist, but from the perspective of a Midwesterner, you a
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I can readily agree with this approach. My handwriting is... suitable for a doctor at best, so a word processor is pretty important to me when it comes down to implementation, but I've had so many problems just melt away in the face of
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Seconded. I've chugged an energy drink on the job once, and immediately regretted it. So many people forget that programming is more about thinking than typing, and refuse to let themselves just sit (or nap) and think.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Fascism, for the people who shape it as such, will be pushed forward by some of the kinds of people the article mentions. However, Germany was and is and always will be peopled by mostly reasonable, kind, stout folks, because most people ev
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I feel like there is much more of propaganda than insight in this piece. For one, because it looks specifically at Nazi-ism, and collaboration, rather than at fascism from the home front. Secondly, it reeks of 'The good old boy' a
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I don't think the wild west will be any friendlier to small inventors than the current techno-dystopia. At least at the moment companies are required to toss a coin at prior art occasionally.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Maybe we should have a law that allows patent infringement in the case of someone being able but unwilling to bring a product to market? There are probably too many potential loopholes in that law though. There have been cases in publishing
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Please don't use w3schools. Its information is unreliable at best. The closest thing out there to a user's manual for the modern web is https://developer.mozilla.org It's possibly the only reference you need for
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
And the cost of plumbing and electrifying that land would be astronomical. Public works have a network effect.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Monads are too general though. Saying 'try monads' to solve a problem is like telling someone, 'try vowels' when they're trying pronounce a word.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I hate conversations when I'm shopping. If a chipper salesperson walks over and starts chatting me up or making small talk, I will immediately turn around and walk out, and I'm an extrovert. I want to look at price, price per un
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Trim until the idea to be conveyed disappears. Then ctrl-z once.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
As an Oregonian, putting together the pieces, I'd guess she was in the field turning over cow patties looking for psychedelic mushrooms, a common but illegal hobby in that part of the world. Cow patty had flies and parasites, she touch
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I am frankly blown away that you feel persecuted for liberal opinions online. We must both go to the wrong fora for our ideologies.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
You miss the point that a satisfied person has little incentive for activism. Also, most conservative opinions tend to be met with anything from disgust to derision online, further disincentivizing counter-protest.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
> But given the choice between a developer who communicates clearly in code and knows it and one who either needs or believes he needs comments I'll choose the first. This really just reads to me like you're selecting for hubri
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Scientist: Under extremely low-energy, highly controlled conditions, photons can be made to act in a way that strongly suggests some sort of bond or attraction has been created between them. "Journalist": So, photons did something
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I can faintly understand the usefulness of this in a browser context, but why would you ever run APL over node... Very cool learning project though.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I think you have a bit of a bias coming from Javaland. Java code is incredibly verbose for the sake of allowing the developer a thousand places to write self documenting code. It's a slog to write, but easier to read, by far. In functi
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Radiation might be a concern. It could possibly embrittle the paper over time.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I've done both as well, and while engineering does require real and serious thought, the traditions, literature, and science behind what you're doing is a trillion miles ahead of where programming is. To put it in perspective, pro
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Yep. Turns out you can write better code faster when you aren't drooling on your keyboard or buzzed on fifteen espressos. The problems come when people compare real engineering work with programming. I studied mechanical engineering.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Reading this, I feel like many "continuous delivery" frameworks miss the mark. You don't need to have a powerful, complex server set up just for expediting as-fast-as-robotically-possible releases to your customers, because t
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I disagree. Programming, however we try to deceive ourselves, is not engineering. Too many things in our craft are unknown, untested, and a matter of instinct and aesthetic. We are blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, blending knowledge and
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Don't forget lime juice!
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
This is the first real potential application I've ever seen for connected appliances.
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Elon Musk's livelihood doesn't actually depend on anything anymore. That's what being rich means. That said, I get your point, but I also think separated housing is necessary for my sanity.
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The one part of the spec that gives me pause is the fact that dropped memory isn't cleared. That sort of behavior has been the cause of so many network exploits. Is it worth worrying about here?
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... I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. That's the first tank incident I referenced, and that wasn't a civilian tank in the first place.
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Actually, I believe that there is a better case for civilian ownership of tanks, ordinance, and heavy/automatic weaponry than there is for handguns. According to a study by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 86% of gun crimes involve

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