Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I am just jumping into this for fun to play devil's advocate. "Trivial" is probably the wrong word to use, but I can see it being "trivial in some situations vs. how hard people imagine it might be". If I were to fi
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For those of us who do not have the option to get on the news: what should one do to stay off of it? Let's assume that you believe you're about to be on the news for something you don't want to be.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Commit messages sometimes need to be longer to explain something. When that happens, it's nice for the subject to be the first sentence (possibly with the rest on another line). Don't warn the user about foo. The foo warn
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The study is not primarily comparing genders, it's comparing gender-integrated squads with all-male squads. Accepting or denying people based on individual performance does not necessarily account for whatever psychological differences
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Because when you figure out how to use them, you can save a tremendous amount of time and energy, and build sophisticated systems with simple code and little effort. When you have the need in a certain area, a lot of them will feel like &qu
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The primary use of this icon will most likely be friends joking with each other. I don't see why this is a bad thing. Friend A: <Joke at Friend B's expense> Friend B: <REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED> As I wr
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Indeed. REST has come to mean almost the antithesis of what it was created to mean. Roy Fielding wrote about this topic, clarifying common misconceptions and what REST APIs are not: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008&#x
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I like the factual tone of the article and specifically the fact that it honestly mentions that there has been no practical performance benefit yet in benchmarks, in a quote from the researchers. I wish more journalism had this balance, and
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What is the opposition arguing for instead? No recess at all? For elementary school students? Ridiculous.
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You take such a mature and balanced approach toward content on the site. The content is interesting and thought provoking. It's why HN is my primary source of daily news. Please keep it up! I'm now watching the 35 minute documenta
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Do you have any examples? I'd be curious to read the discussions - in particular, legitimate criticism that was ignored.
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None of these reasons are specific arguments to spend money on it.
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> Anyone who is part of ISIS, and assists them in any meaningful way, is guilty of conspiracy to commit murder [...] so anyone materially assisting ISIS can be convicted and sentenced to death (or what ever is the punishment for capital
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Structured settlements are not exclusively used for those reasons: > Structured settlement cases became more popular in the United States during the 1970s as an alternative to lump sum settlements. The increased popularity was due to sev
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> Something of the same spirit of annunciation has greeted the performance of Jason Segel, who is being talked about as an Academy Award contender for his portrayal of Wallace as a skeptical, ambitious, modest, hyper-self-conscious, depr
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What company was that?
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> First boss doesn't seem that bad, actually. Made a mistake, obviously, but he was new and maybe just getting his footing, and having an unaccompanied outsider inside the office is frowned upon by virtually all companies. He could
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> I have several reasons to push on: > SPITBOL is unique in the power it provides to manipulate strings and text. I’ve yet to see anything else come close. I would be interested to know more about what features SPITBOL offers for stri
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> If you know of anyone else who is maintaining an open-source implemenation of a programming language that has only one user, please let me know [...] The author of HolyC and TempleOS, Terry Davis, might be in a similar position: http:
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I don't understand the idea that CEOs, leaders, and employees generally of charities should make less than a regular market wage. If you want the organization to be effective, then hire an effective leader. Pay for effective employees.
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So don't raise the tolls that high. Just raise them high enough that they're moderately congested, but not excessively.
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Where does it end? Everyone's a king living in their own castle, and still everyone's unhappy because the rich have planets of their own? Where things are objectively seems like a fine way to compare.
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The organization should set objectives and measures its effectiveness against the objectives. While it might not give you a sense of the organization's relative effectiveness (i.e., the objectives might be nigh impossible and making an
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What kind of oversight do these organizations have? Who are their "investors" or "donors"? It seems like organizations like this are not overseen for their effectiveness. Why is measuring organizations for their effectiv
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That doesn't help much for folks who read with their browser window maximized. It's good to know, and thank you for pointing it out, but the original feedback is pertinent - it's inconvenient to resize the browser for one pag
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Rather than trying to fill in data that we don't have, are there models based on only the data that we actually have?
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Keep writing! This is great.
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> We do not intentionally expose you to the speed of light as a limiting factor early in Stockfighter… but we can’t remove latency as being an actual limitation distributed systems have to overcome. Couldn't you remove latency as a
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> I read the nytimes.com all the time. They have no idea who I am and never will. I'll never signup for an account. They still get to feed me ads. How do you know you're not being tracked through cookies on other sites that you
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Maybe it's not for everyone. D3 has improved considerably since its initial release. What I enjoyed specifically about the game was the process of leveling a character (repeated across many different classes), to unlock the new spell c

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