OtterCoder

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by OtterCoder 10y ago
One time, as a continually hungry teen, I did a one day calorie count for a scout project. I was suitably horrified to find out at the end of the day that I had consumed around 10,000 calories.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
"Don't plant trees, plant a forest!" In all seriousness, this can kill a startup. You should try to allow for later extension of your product, but you have to actually get one thing to market before you can bring many things
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
But that isn't the function of marketing at all. Marketing, in the minds of the marketers, is about making you believe that there is no alternative but theirs.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
No, I'm not being sarcastic. I'm fairly well read, and I believe in God. I don't think I have a complete knowledge of anything, but I've read and questioned and looked, and yes, I think there's more in favor than ag
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
That's quite a leap from a few hundred characters of comments.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
Also a legitimate stance. I don't claim to have a corner on the truth, I just find that certain beliefs seem to serve mankind better than others, and they've earned my trust through application.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
I'd say the same thing I say to atheists who are convinced we are in a simulation: "That's one way to look at it."
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
This is brilliant! "Virtual Reality models and animations galore!" Quite a slice of history. It's amazing how much the internet has become gentrified since the days when a plain hypertext document sufficed for one of the bigg
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
This is why I'm religious.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
It's an overview, but not a particularly deep or accurate one. Good on you for starting to think about the big questions, but don't be so dismissive. Serious people with serious reasons have believed every one of these. Don't
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
I'm currently using Nightmare for a little automation. It's fantastic. A few small gotchas, but so easy to set up.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
How is a sandwich review in any way 'imperialistic'? Guy has opinions about a sandwich, guy exercises his fourth amendment right to share that opinion. Other people disagree, which is also fine. End of story. How is this even news
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
Another point in support of this is that buildings tend to get away with more minor bugs than software does. Walls usually have a subtle bow to them, toilets don't have to fail gracefully if the sewage network gets backed up, doors ge
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
That isn't the majority of people, though. Most of humanity lives in either apartments, cookie cutter developments, decades old homes they didn't build, or shanties. They don't get to choose, and customization is a luxury.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
Takeaway: use Elm.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
This is very unintuitive to me. Most games have some sort of asymmetry built in. For example one player usually goes first. In the game of nim, a clever player can provably always dominate against any strategy if they move first. That doesn
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
I don't know what this means. 3 of what?
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
See, I've always seen the statement that evolution is intentionless to be a bit arrogant. Consciousness, as we are just starting to learn, is a property of emergent networks. Further, we are just starting to discover that phenotypical
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
Pitch, or indeed much premeditation at all, wouldn't be necessary in a village with five foot alleyways and dried grass roofs. Additionally, tar was a common caulking material. Oh, and running water/chemical foam wasn't usual
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
I say to myself, "Self, what did you learn today?" But seriously, as a freelancer, I'll usually explain some new process or algorithm to my non-technical wife until it makes sense to her. It's a better version of rubber-
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
Excellent point. I suppose I was speaking to power structures, specifically, rather than power in the sense of personal ability. In the end, however, if you want to have power on the scale of civilizations, some, if not most of that power m
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
But, all power is, at its root, symbolic. Stalin only slaughtered as many as he did because people believed in the symbolic power of the state and in him as having some right to lead such an abstract entity with total authority.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
Misleading title. The author concedes that interstellar travel may be possible, but that we will have evolved beyond recognition by that time. A fair point, but a bit sensationalized.
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by OtterCoder 10y ago
CSS is an art in a very literal sense. Once you know the basic technique a book won't help you as much as seeing examples in the wild and trying to reverse engineer them. To learn the nitty-gritty nuts and bolts of CSS, try reading the