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by T-hawk 14y ago
There's a huge gap between "perfectly competent" at coding some crud screens and the sort of driven visionary that will build something on the scale of Stripe or Dropbox or Airbnb or id Tech or whatever. There's a mild surplus of the forme
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Numeric notation is built right to left. To count up from 1 to 9 uses single digits, of course. Then to go from 9 to 10, the ones place increments and rolls over, and we add the new tens digit on the left, not the right.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> 3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. Not really. We are already in the multicore age, and it will only get moreticore. What that prediction missed was that Moore's Law finally broke down for single-threaded pe
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Well, not directly; any single impact certainly didn't hit and kill life forms all over the globe. They induced environmental changes that gradually caused species to fail to survive. "Sudden" in geologic terms means at least hundreds or
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by T-hawk 14y ago
There's also the cry-wolf effect. Occupants of any building rapidly become used to ignoring the constant announcements of emergency drills and false alarms and real but meaningless incidents like burnt smoking popcorn. It's very difficult
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Because "successful" is defined as baiting users into yielding their personal information in order to force-feed them ads and other marketing junk. Success isn't defined as users finding what they want or otherwise having an informative or
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Yup, "of other people". Remember that the median number of flights taken by an American in a year is zero. Millions of armchair patriots are perfectly happy to sacrifice someone else's convenience for the edifying notion that we're beatin'
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by T-hawk 14y ago
C wasn't bad for making that design decision in 1973, to include syntactical space for octal numbers. Programmers actually used octal notation then. It made sense in an environment where contemporary tech included the PDP-8's 12-bit words
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by T-hawk 14y ago
This is because Windows has moved to modern file system organization concepts, keeping data for users within the user accounts and not in the global file space. Why are your photos in c:\photos? Why do you organize your files like it's 19
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by T-hawk 14y ago
This article doesn't go at all into the details of why NES Tetris is unwinnable and doomed to fail. Let me plug that gap. The brick wall limitation comes at level 29, after 290 lines. At that time, the pieces drop so fast that they cannot
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Lego prices were my introduction to economics and budgeting as a kid. My parents worked out and explained that you should look for value per brick in the sets when choosing purchases. I learned how to rapidly estimate mental arithmetic lar
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Quantity of consumption. It's a lot easier to buy Monster in multi-packs and gulp through three or four cans in an hour or two. Nobody buys multiple cups at Starbucks or returns to the store that frequently.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Great info. The missing part is educating web developers that this is even possible. The thought that SVG can accept CSS styles never occurred to me until this thread and your answer. And I can hardly be the only such ill-informed web de
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Amazing indeed. So what is this font abuse really getting at? It's a means to introduce semantic information into vector graphics. Defining the semantics of a state, its shape and name, allows us to treat the state as an abstraction that
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by T-hawk 14y ago
It's the Iron Law of Bureaucracy, coined in that form by Jerry Pournelle. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html Every organization becomes controlled by those who serve the organization itself, as opposed to those who pe
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by T-hawk 14y ago
How are you defining good looking? Of course there exist athletic sneakers suitable for miles of walking, for both sexes. What's wrong with those? Of course this is a common request for women's shoes, to combine attractiveness and comfort.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
GIF has a certain mindshare that the other formats don't, crossing over into folks who are less deeply technical. I've worked with a couple web designers and developers that said "Gif" to mean any image, as in "Move that gif up twenty pixel
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by T-hawk 14y ago
The article says that "top job" is sensitive to the specialization or lack thereof with the job title. Secretary and Truck Driver appear high because those titles apply across all industries. There may be more software developers than the
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by T-hawk 14y ago
I've been dreaming and praying for an Alpha Centauri II for years, too. It could be done on the engine for Civilization IV or V, like the Colonization remake, and pick up on all the technological and gameplay advances in the franchise sinc
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by T-hawk 14y ago
No, the Duck Hunt gun doesn't time the beam to the scanline. It and the software only care about light level deltas from one frame to the next, looking for the dark-light-dark sequence. It fails on non-CRT TVs not because there's no line
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by T-hawk 14y ago
cart.addJugs(1); if (haveEggs) cart.addJugs(12); Now the cart has 13 jugs.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
I did this, on a 40k salary, in 2003. I had a $1k/month studio apartment in Hoboken NJ and commuted on the Path subway to lower Manhattan. I kept spending very low: never went to restaurants, never traveled, no relationship, no cell phone
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by T-hawk 14y ago
He's a professional. He genuinely cares about your dental health. Most medical doctors enter the profession because they genuinely want to help people, not exploit them for bucks. And prevention is very often the best method of help. Com
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by T-hawk 14y ago
The term may have originated here (edit - actually, probably not based on the publication dates.) But it's where I first saw it: http://bitquabit.com/post/coding-is-priority-number-five/
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Side note, but dear god it is fantastically ugly and jarring to have advertisements inserted inline in that article between the card images. Can't anybody figure out how to make the World Wide Web better than this?
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by T-hawk 14y ago
And stop the Earth from spinning, so we can get rid of that pesky oblateness and gravitational delta between the equator and poles.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
The best place to live in New York City is actually New Jersey. Hoboken and almost all of Jersey City are under 30 minutes from many Manhattan offices by the Path subway or bus or even ferry. Rent goes very roughly 25% cheaper than Manhatt
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Yes, great graph. It illustrates the fundamental truth overlooked by most retirement planning schemes: the stock market doesn't just automatically grow in value over time. It grows in emphatically punctuated booms driven by technological a
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Keep in mind the old saw, don't ascribe to malice that which is explained by incompetence. Any site with a bunch of scripting buttons and "partner content" and AJAXy stuff laboriously glued on by legions of mediocre and outsourced develope
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by T-hawk 14y ago
A few random site comments: - Posting a picture is a legal minefield for US employers. Companies literally don't want to know anything about your age/race/sex at the screening stage for fear of a discrimination lawsuit. The only safe pol

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