ShardPhoenix

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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
While I sort-of agree with your point, I think you're being unnecessarily hostile here.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
I don't think Benford's law applies here: it's about the first digit of numbers (that are distribute in a certain way), but in most cases the first digit of a price will be denominating dollars, not cents.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
It's not like countries with universal health-care are so different in this respect. People are under a bit less stress but most still aim for normal "sheep"-like jobs and lives.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
It seems completely insane to have a jury of random people decide these kind of technical questions.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
I'd imagine it's a combination of: 1.) Hangover of attitudes from better economic times. 2.) Cultural pressure to be seen to "follow your dreams" rather than directly focus on money.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
While mutual attraction is self-reinforcing, I wouldn't say that unrequited attraction is rare .
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
I think that comes across as a bit smug.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Backing up in the sense of maintaining a full copy of your harddisk seems increasingly unnecessary these days. Most of the stuff I would care about losing is effectively already backed up on Github, webmail, Facebook, Steam, etc.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Unfortunately this hasn't been updated in almost a year.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
On the other hand, not acknowledging what everyone is saying can make you look out of touch.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
It doesn't have to be perfect, just better than the alternative (choosing randomly or based on Amazon review scores).
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
The script is trivial! Just view it as a concatenation of strings whose elements are pulled from a discrete set of terms.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
That's fine if you also realize don't (in general) have the right to not be offended.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
I feel like the performance of these HTML5 games still isn't quite good enough for them to "take over" just yet.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Ablock Plus gets rid of them.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Despite this, a lot of plans (at least here in Australia) do offer unlimited text messaging.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
If someone honestly disagrees with something that's strongly believed by the mainstream, they may well want to remain anonymous when expressing it.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
It's not a proof, but you can figure it out by considering some simple cases such as 2/3 vs. 3/4.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
The Reddit/HN style is better when there are small number of most interesting or most correct replies, forums are better when there are a large number of valuable contributions. They're also better for long-running events and the ongoing di
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Don't label people "jealous" or some other negative label based on pure speculation.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Invokedynamic in Java 7 ( http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292 ) seems to have fixed this: http://ruby-lang.org.ru/post/5533.html
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
If you had to pay up-front (even $10), they'd probably have gotten <1000 signups.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Dictionaries aren't necessarily a good reference for technical terms.
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Part of the original complaint was the issues introduced by using a combination of Java and Scala rather than just one or the other (with Scala-only being impractical due to the need to use Java-based libraries).
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Why are the needs of the "Scala community" to save face more important than the truth?
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
This attitude might be ok for managing the average office worker's machine but when it comes to jobs like programming that are not highly regimented, it's just not good enough. Get out of my way and let me do my job. I'm glad I'm at a compa
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
I found the Python more readable even though I have written programs in Clojure and never written programs in Python. In fact I'd be willing to bet that Python-like syntax would be found to be more readable than Lisp-like syntax for program
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
The new paper didn't say that the problem wasn't correct, just that their original solution (test) didn't work out. It's true that it seems to be hard to come up with a reliable test for this sort of thing, but that doesn't mean that it
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
Good talk - reminds me of Yegge's recent rant about the Service Oriented Architecture, but coming from another angle (internal use vs. external).
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by ShardPhoenix 15y ago
I find the ability to run the videos at 1.2 or 1.5x helps a lot.

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