Pharylon

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by Pharylon 9y ago
I think a lot of it is what society expects of people. I don't think most people ever have a moment when they say "Let me sit down and think about all the things I can do with my life." A lot of people develop their loves and
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by Pharylon 9y ago
It would have been knocked into an eccentric orbit early in the Solar System's formation (when we had a lot more planets). It couldn't have formed that far out. We know Uranus and Neptune are too far away - they formed closer in t
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by Pharylon 9y ago
I'm sure the Million Dollar Homepage is getting a lot of traffic right now too
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by Pharylon 9y ago
This person registered their email address 20 years ago, well before gmail. At the time, the options were (A) Pay for an email address. (B) Run your own email server. (C) Use the email provided by your ISP
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by Pharylon 9y ago
But by this definition, C isn't Turing Complete either. https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/60965/is-c-actually-t...
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by Pharylon 9y ago
While I think it's true we overprotect our kids, this article just goes off the rails with crazy after the first few reasonable paragraphs. As part of it's "proof" that the kids these days are down with authoritarianism,
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by Pharylon 9y ago
So? If the University caught them saying the same thing in a "private" real life conversationthey'd be kicked too. Putting hate speech in the internet doesn't make it magically more private.
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by Pharylon 9y ago
I've heard it for a while with the younger set, but it's definitely gaining traction in the general population. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=throw%20shade
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by Pharylon 9y ago
Sometimes I think I'm smart because I can (mostly) get Webpack to work the way I want. Then I watch a SpaceX livestream and realize, eh, not so much. ;)
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by Pharylon 9y ago
That's the American Way, though. America abhors regulations, and instead we allow the courts to sort it out. Europe is less litigious, mainly because they have massive government oversight and regulations.
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by Pharylon 9y ago
Gravity was a good movie. And for a movie set in space, it's pretty realistic...ish. But it's orbital physics are terrible. Just terrible. I mean, most movies don't even try. Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars don't d
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by Pharylon 9y ago
When this kind of thing happens it's important to remember that both sides are exactly the same.
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by Pharylon 9y ago
Kotlin predates Swift.
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by Pharylon 9y ago
And the Google Home still can't do reminders. I really don't understand how Google is dropping the ball so bad here.
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by Pharylon 9y ago
>> Sinatra has remained very stable and its design has >> continued to inspire new clones. See Floor, Scotty, >> Opium, Express, Flask, etc. Nancy[0] is the .NET clone that was x-plat using Mono long before .NET core came
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by Pharylon 9y ago
JavaScript is a deeply flawed language. It has both undefined and null. You almost never use the == operator... except as a workaround to easily check if something is either null or undefined. That being said, modern JavaScript is actually
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by Pharylon 9y ago
I've been using it a lot this spring to identify all the wild things growing in my yard. Love it.
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by Pharylon 9y ago
Lat time I played with Java was in 2015. It seemed like there was a new JVM zero-day every month, and every time I upgraded, the Java installer tried to install the Ask toolbar. After that, I started joking that installing malware one way o
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by Pharylon 9y ago
Yes, because each one of us is an island, and we're not influenced by society at all as it is. I have a two year old and I can tell you fighting against pinky-princess girl culture is a battle. As a parent, it's you vs basically t
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by Pharylon 10y ago
I've always liked this idea, that the government has jobs of last resort that pay minimum wage. There's always something to do, even if it's just picking up litter.
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by Pharylon 10y ago
Agreed. Parent's analogy only works in a world where breaking and entering was legal, and it was everyone's personal responsibility to defend their home.
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by Pharylon 10y ago
That's what they just did.
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by Pharylon 10y ago
A friend of mine once made a "Dungeons and Dragons Monopoly" variant where each character was a D&D class and the spaces were re-named as iconic D&D locations. If a character landed on the same space as another, they'
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by Pharylon 10y ago
I'm glad you can see into the minds of these Democratic legislators and know what they really want to do in their heart of hearts. It must be easy making the "Both Sides Do It"(TM) argument when you can quote one side and t
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by Pharylon 10y ago
Really? Huh. If it's all propaganda, then why did Democrats enact the legislation that protected our privacy? Why did the FCC implement Net Neutrality under Democrats? Why are the Republicans undoing that? Pretending there's no di
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by Pharylon 10y ago
The irony here is no Democrats want to take away any guns. Most Democratic proposals have been along the lines of stricter background checks. Republicans - elected officials - really are calling for blanket Muslim bans.
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by Pharylon 10y ago
Ah, yes, the "free market" of state-granted monopolies.
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by Pharylon 10y ago
Why should he compare it to Word? Was it a cloud-based product that synced all files between multiple machines of radically different form-factors from PCs to phones? No? Google Docs uses the Internet, so did anything on an old modem. Word
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by Pharylon 10y ago
I use spaces exclusively, but only because everyone else does. Tabs are clearly superior, since their width can be adjusted to look however you like. For instance, I prefer 4 spaces of indentation in Javascript. Another developer here prefe
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by Pharylon 10y ago
None of that makes any sense.

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