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by T-R 16y ago
> ...it takes a lot of pixels... Just want to point out that you can hide it so it looks like a normal menu bar until you open a menu - seems a lot of people aren't aware of that feature.
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by T-R 16y ago
I sometimes just completely fail to function at a whiteboard. I've choked to comedic proportions on problems I'd solved easily only a few days before. There's not a doubt in my mind that my resume's been thrown in the "Non-programming progr
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by T-R 16y ago
It's all about your your BATNA - what's your best alternative? What do you need that they're giving you, and what other options offer it? Do you need the income? How else could you get enough income before you need it? If you don't quit i
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by T-R 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, I think it has its uses, I just think it's pretty limited in scope, to the point that it probably shouldn't be compared with Quora and Yelp. Not only are you unlikely to find the best Mexican in SF, you're not likely to
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by T-R 16y ago
You probably got downvoted for being off-topic - it'd be better to ask that kind of question on Stack Overflow. Leave out the subjective "is it because I'm a noob?" parts, and stick with the more objective "is there a better way to do this?
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by T-R 16y ago
I'd take it a step further, as well - as wide as the friend's friends net may be, I'm still probably not learning anything new. If my group of friends is defined mostly by some common interest, and theirs is too, I'm probably not going to g
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by T-R 16y ago
He's definitely hurting both himself and the people he works with, both from the fact that he's not likely to work to improve himself, and from his depression/frustration and the fact that it's manifesting as resentment towards his coworker
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by T-R 16y ago
Concurrency = managing shared resources. Things like mutual exclusion and transactions. Getting processors to get in line (serialization/composition) for a shared resource instead of just trampling over each other by just grabbing it when t
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by T-R 16y ago
I've definitely spent a good while in the past trying to decipher the intent of someone who used &&alwaysFalseExpression - Is it a bug? Am I overlooking some subtle side-effect somewhere? If they just wanted to turn the code off, th
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by T-R 16y ago
Maybe true, but still not much consolation for the embedded systems programmers or maintainers of legacy code.
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by T-R 16y ago
I probably shouldn't have left it at that - if there's much regularity outside of tables, then you're definitely doing something wrong. Within code I see the alignment as a way of highlighting regular areas as potential spots for refactorin
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by T-R 16y ago
I have a lot of respect for him, but it's pretty disappointing to see him so opposed to doing things that would bring more clarity to those trying to understand his work. This is at least the third quote I've seen of him blowing off the ide
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by T-R 16y ago
One (additional?) constraint that perhaps doesn't fall nicely into one of those categories is "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State" (HATEOAS), which was emphasized (though not with those exact words) by Roy Fielding on his blog:
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by T-R 16y ago
> Align everything you can in code Yes. Makes code easier to read and makes it easier to refactor if you use an editor with column select/multi-line caret.
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by T-R 16y ago
Also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2335555
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by T-R 16y ago
I didn't get the impression that the article was implying that DNA damage and other stochastic effects are prevented, but that maybe the initial effects of radiation poisoning are avoided, and that (maybe because of this) cells are more abl
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by T-R 16y ago
Tsunami warning for California: http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&#38...
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by T-R 16y ago
Is the cell network still down/overloaded?
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by T-R 16y ago
The kindle edition isn't too bad, either, though you have to read it in Landscape mode to minimize the number of odd line-breaks in the code.
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by T-R 16y ago
It definitely gets a little tough around the Parser example, but it does lighten up again once you get through the monad transformer section, though. For someone who's done some functional programming before, Real World Haskell is probably
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by T-R 16y ago
I've gotten the impression that there are, in a sense - in python, list comprehensions are usually preferred over for-loops in places where you would use map and filter, and the most common use cases for fold/reduce are covered by functions
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by T-R 16y ago
tptacek has made some good comments on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010226 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946307 In short, Customs covers counterfeit, which extends to IP rights. Not saying I agree with it, but that
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by T-R 16y ago
I'd argue it's still true, but to a lesser degree. In addition to 1seg, I think FeliCa's a big one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa
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by T-R 16y ago
My impression has been exactly the opposite - aside from full-internet on smartphones (not to say it isn't a big deal), new features in the US lag by something like 5 to 10 years. QR code reading and easy contact transfer(like 赤外線) still ar
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by T-R 16y ago
They're gaining a little popularity, but most phones are still flip phones. The main reasons I've seen are that the pre-paid and free-with-plan ones are flip phones, and mobile internet is more popular, so a full built-in web browser doesn'
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by T-R 16y ago
I think his points are valid, but I think you're right, the cultural aspect is huge, as is the marketing, for that matter. They successfully marketed cameras, infra-red transfer, mobile internet, and QR code scanners to high school and coll
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by T-R 16y ago
Tragically locked - I'd add "Real World Haskell" to the list. Completely changed the way I write code, in a way that books that more directly advocate readability and testability failed to.
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by T-R 16y ago
I feel like I might enjoy a shared or open office, but my only experience with it involved trying to concentrate on coding while listening to the CEO reduce the new hire to tears on a more-than-weekly basis.
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by T-R 16y ago
> ...solving “How do you tell if a number is even or odd” with clumsy solutions such as (x % 2). They don’t [...] come to the conclusion that (most) computers are digital machines, all you have to do is check the first bit (x & 1).
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by T-R 16y ago
I have a little trouble conceiving of a completely classless society - at some point you have to acknowledge that, for example, some programmers are better than others, and that that's a positive thing. That acknowledgement alone creates a

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