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by T-hawk 9y ago
I got good enough at Parsec to go infinite (earn lives faster than losing them) and roll over the score: http://dos486.com/misc/parsec.jpg Fun fact: even though the manual says the sequence of level colors repeats afte
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It had very little adoption and mindshare, though. All the assembly hackers were on the C-64, Apple II, and a bit later the PC.
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To make a Facebook feed palatable, embrace the "Hide All From" option. Whenever you notice a piece of junk from a source page name that you've seen before, just kill everything from that source. Most chronic oversharers are
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by T-hawk 9y ago
"Work expands to fill the time allocated for its completion." This holds true for computer scripts executing a workload as well.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
If a developer confuses .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, is that a fault of the developer, or of Microsoft's nomenclature?
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What it says is that Walmart's wages aren't high enough. A so-called labor shortage is really just a failure of the employer to recognize the market-clearing price for labor. Demand exceeding supply means that the price should ri
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by T-hawk 9y ago
> but I really enjoy the separation between work and home that nice clothes bring. Holy cow, I follow exactly that principle but never realized it until you put it into words. My office is super casual, but I'm always wearing at le
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by T-hawk 9y ago
PowerShell scripts have the same access capability as any executable... but it may be easier to get a malicious PowerShell script onto and running on a target machine. Antivirus programs will scan executables and users may know to be suspi
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by T-hawk 9y ago
This is PowerShell's default behavior, to only run scripts that are signed. The configuration is changeable by an administrator. I think this is a reasonable precaution, given PowerShell's potential scope as an attack surface, co
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The overall aggregate ROI of college should be neutral, right? And therefore half the population will find their individual data points to be negative. If the ROI of college aggregated over all consumers is positive, then the colleges are
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Deliberately taking advantage of that 50/50 guess is one way to improve your prospect of winning on Fool Us. Have a trick that could be done in several different ways. P&T propose one method, and if that wasn't the way you di
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by T-hawk 9y ago
This is correct. People arguing otherwise are misunderstanding capitalism. Tuition doesn't go up because administrators need to be paid. Tuition goes up because the market will pay it. The administrators are the result of the profi
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Looks like what you would get if you wrote out all the operations for matrix multiplication? It must be related to expressing the coordinates of the nodes as matrices. I would guess the factors of 3 and 6 arise from derivatives of the cubi
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by T-hawk 10y ago
Careful of survivorship bias here. Of course we don't see any Roman buildings that crumbled 50 years after construction.
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by T-hawk 10y ago
There exist many companies where one's perceived status as a manager derives from how much budget you command rather than on how effectively you choose tools or deliver solutions.
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by T-hawk 10y ago
What web page or application would need smooth scrolling? What can't work with whatever scrolling is normal for the browser/OS/hardware? Looking cool at the request of some manager does not constitute a need.
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by T-hawk 10y ago
Why not just use a fast, minimal, and beautiful old version of Winamp? It still exists. I've been running v2.95 since 2003.
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by T-hawk 10y ago
A 100% random RPS AI doesn't have a poor 1-on-1 win rate against any other RPS AI, but it absolutely can have a poor rate of winning tournaments , if "poor" is defined broadly enough. For a tournament that pays cash to the
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by T-hawk 10y ago
Sure, it's dead simple for one particular semantic case already with its own specific definition in HTML. But you cherry-picked that from my examples. HTML doesn't express semantics for comment-replies or sports scores or so on.
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by T-hawk 10y ago
Here's the fundamental problem with separating styling from content: styling is content. Layout matters. Layout carries semantics. Right here on HN is an example, where the comment reply chain is indicated with indentation. The me
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by T-hawk 10y ago
Dividing students by ability, into groups such as honors/regular/remedial, with different levels of challenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(education)
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by T-hawk 10y ago
The disconnect here is about the definition of "working". For many managers, that means "attending my meetings" and "easy to ask for status reports" more so than it means "producing good software".
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I think the parent really meant publishable where he said finished. Some kind of minimum viable product. That's what shows you can cut through the BS and wishlist and fun-to-code stuff in favor of the details and grind of getting s
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by T-hawk 10y ago
We've already landed on an outer solar system body, Saturn's moon Titan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft) Titan does have the advantage of a thick atmosphere to allow descent by parachute,
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by T-hawk 10y ago
What are the performance characteristics of HTTPS/TLS as compared to plain HTTP these days? (Serious question, I don't know.) You gloss over the overhead, but that may not be insignificant. Every millisecond of latency counts fo
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The logic was to impose a deadline on the free upgrade as an impetus for users to take it now rather than procrastinating on it forever.
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And of course, that very page railing against Javascript overcomplexity itself loads 400 KB of script bundles.
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You'd do it that way if you just didn't know any better. "Two tables where A = B" falls into a natural line of thinking for someone who picked up SQL ad hoc rather than formally learning what a join is and the syntax fo
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This is what he means, and I see it all the time: SELECT FROM table1 JOIN table2 WHERE table1.field = table2.field An unsettling number of SQL developers never actually learned join syntax and write it that way. It's functionally equiv
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The lack of the 7 or any other subway to LGA is thanks to rampant NIMBYism. Everyone wants it but nobody wants it to run down their street. EWR has the Airtrain instead of the PATH. That was more practical than building a new right-of-w

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