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by Periodic 16y ago
A lot of the fun-to-program statically typed languages use type inference to determine types automatically. In these languages, as long as you make your types reasonably clear the compiler can go through and do type checking for you withou
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by Periodic 16y ago
I went to University of California - Santa Cruz for my undergraduate in physics. Around my year, the administration realized that a lot of the students were having trouble transitioning to non-academic jobs. So much so that they started a
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by Periodic 16y ago
I think that is part of the point. Your customers know your market (them) better than you do and they will point out if you're way off. This article assumes someone is coming from the position of pricing cheap because they are afraid they
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by Periodic 16y ago
I've heard people say, when speaking of potential partners, that there's nothing better than a widow/widower. They've already proven they aren't afraid of commitment, that they can get along with someone, and they are single through no fau
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by Periodic 16y ago
I think another important distinction is who is really dependent on whom. Are your success contingent on their them, and/or is their success contingent on you? For example, Ventrilo was free to raise their rates because their success and p
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by Periodic 16y ago
A lot of desktop applications aren't well suited for multi-core use. They have been written for a long time as single-threaded applications and making them multi-threaded is a huge task for a small gain. Some applications get worse when f
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by Periodic 16y ago
I believe you've uncovered one of the great flaws of standard testing procedures. The tests cannot test anything the developers don't think up. Robotnik has a big blank space where a blue hedgehog should be.
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by Periodic 16y ago
It does not look like any of these can detect or were tested against quoted-local-part addresses. As I understand it, the local part can be quoted to allow illegal characters to be used, e.g. "John Doe"@example.com I fully understand that
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by Periodic 16y ago
You can actually do pretty good potatoes in a microwave for about a minute per potato (or something there about).
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by Periodic 16y ago
He's still wondering why he hasn't met another opera user like him.
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by Periodic 16y ago
My cousin does this as well. When she reads something online she highlights the half-line she's reading at the time. You can always tell when she's gotten distracted and started reading something because there's a constant clicking coming
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by Periodic 16y ago
I would guess that it was more likely due to the pick-and-choose nature of most courses. When I take a class, the material that is actively tested is usually only the general concepts and only the ones the professor deems important. Wikip
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by Periodic 16y ago
You do. I don't see what is humorous about it. It was an insightful statement with a few very relevant links. I particularly liked your linking of Google to "data retention", and Reddit to "comprehension" (or lack there of).
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by Periodic 16y ago
My MBP is four years old now. I spilled water into the keyboard a while ago and it just hasn't been the same. I a few of the keys don't quite work, the screen is pretty dim, and sometimes when it wakes from sleep it doesn't properly detec
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by Periodic 16y ago
What you really want in this case is a way to overload the "." operator. If it were just an alias for call you could change None to respond to call on an undefined method with None. That would sort of short-circuit the chain and avoid the
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by Periodic 16y ago
While reading this article, I realized that somewhere around half-way through I had switched to another window to send an IM about something that had popped into my mind. It was a bit ironic. I used to do work in 20-minute sprints. It was
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by Periodic 16y ago
If it's just reading HN I could see this, but I don't think it's a good solution. The very problem we have is too many notifications. Whether they are mail or test suites, they interrupt you and take your focus, even briefly, away from wh
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by Periodic 16y ago
There's definitely a place where it gets too extreme. I've caught myself going to check IMs and emails while a page loads in the browser. I pause in my writing at the end of a sentence and I flick my gaze over to check for new mail. I thi
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by Periodic 16y ago
I was quite happy with Firefox + Vimperator. All I show is a tab bar on the top and status bar on the bottom. It was great for XMonad. I'll try out Chrome + Vimium for a bit, see how it works with my workflow and the muscle-memory of Vimp
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by Periodic 16y ago
Does anyone have any suggestions for some shoes like the various Vibram models but which do not have entirely separated toes? Perhaps which only have a separation between the large and small toes? My second and third toes are fused togethe
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by Periodic 16y ago
I have a full week worth of work planned this coming week. I just had a busy week last week. Right now I'm sitting at the breakfast table with my wife and we're surfing and sharing interesting things we find. These are the moments I work
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by Periodic 16y ago
I'm the opposite. I enjoy a nice 1:00 - 3:00 drive occasionally because it lets my mind wander and think while keeping my body and the lower parts of my brain occupied. In an odd way it is a lot like taking a hike, only without the fresh
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by Periodic 16y ago
The market for hitmen is currently saturated, so even if he works overtime and does a few extra hits on the side under the table, he still isn't going to make enough to move into the more expensive, more central neighborhoods. Plus, there's
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by Periodic 16y ago
For example, when you buy an AppleTV, iTunes on the same network will detect that there is a new AppleTV that hasn't been synced. Then you synchronize a 5-digit code between them and off it goes syncing over the network. I would love to se
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by Periodic 16y ago
If I recall, and I'm not a lawyer, a large part of privacy law is asking whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. Not many people go around sniffing the wireless, you can reasonably assume that no one is listening at a given m
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by Periodic 16y ago
I'm glad to see some more of the common pieces of the internet hosted more centrally. There are issues with one company being in control of these things, but we gain a lot of benefits by having standard fonts and libraries available. Thes
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by Periodic 16y ago
I was wondering about that as well. In Lake Wobegon, "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." The Lake Wobegon Effect is one where most people think they are above average at somethi
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by Periodic 16y ago
At least these words aren't used in colloquial English. Physics has the problem that it tries to describe many things in terms of fairly regular words like energy and wave, when they really aren't quite the same as the non-physics use of t
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by Periodic 16y ago
I've recently been using it as part of CouchDB. It's really not a bad language. Some of the constructs are a little cumbersome, but it does just about everything you'd want a language at that level to do. With the V8 engine it really is p
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by Periodic 16y ago
I don't think this is advice that really needs to be given to most people on HN. However, it is important advice. I've often been told by my wife that the reason she has to ask me for help with computer issues is because I know what to goo

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