Xurinos

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by Xurinos 16y ago
I really strongly believe that an idea has no value at all, simply a big fat '0'. And chances are that if you have a particular idea that 10 other guys have it too. And if 10 guys implement the same idea, everyone gets the
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Yes, and I happen to have Yahoo! sites on my whitelist, which tells me that their stat is not reliable. The actual percent of users who block JavaScript may be higher, given selective blocking, as provided by Opera and Firefox's NoScript.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. Never trust input.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Two quick questions... Why is the name for the function "controller_edit" instead of "controller_save"? Why is post_only checked as part of the dispatch and not inside the two functions? Quickie older-style perl alternative structure where
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by Xurinos 16y ago
This looks more like perl scripting than perl programming. If I put all those functions into a class and then called $class_object->can($method), I get the same effect, only without the crazy hash. Perl has built-in dispatching. I can
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by Xurinos 16y ago
You will thank me later: git log --graph
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I got it to work via asdf-install, but I had to cheat a little to do it: I removed linedit's version check that was not present in the dependent package (I think osicat).
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by Xurinos 16y ago
It is not a science. It is also not about computers. :) SICP lecture 1 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA But maybe it is a science: there are certainly a number of things in CS that yield facts about things like algorithms (B
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Whenever I hear the phrases "rock star developer" or "code ninja", I think, "Oh, they want some young fresh-out-of-college full-of-himself developer who thinks a language named after a rock is the wave of the future." Jokes aside, those phr
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by Xurinos 16y ago
What does it mean that I discarded Combat Arms once I tried out Modern Warfare 2? If I were to take a stab at this analogy, I would suggest that better businessmen change the nature of the game in order to achieve greater success or break
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I think this is noble, achieving worthwhile pursuits. However, we cannot forget the value of play. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." --George Bernard Shaw
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Until this post, I thought we were talking about the Mint linux distro. Today I learned that people use a program called Mint for handling their finances. I would have expected, at least, a program called "Money".
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Works on FF 3.5.5 in linux.
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Negotiations: Allowing your opponent to save face
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by Xurinos 16y ago
You're not alone. I thought this claim to be a victim was ridiculous, too. After all, "stopping at a red light" is standard driver's manual material, along with notes on being cautious about taking a right there, considering in this situa
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by Xurinos 16y ago
The interesting thing about this anecdote is that the cops, according to their own accounts, actually have the power to choose their battles. If it is a slow day, and they have to meet some kind of quota, they are much more likely to catch
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by Xurinos 16y ago
And don't even think of stopping on yellow -- that earned me a horn blast and finger as they zoomed around me when I first moved here. I avoid responding favorably to threats. If they want to break the law, that is between
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Only thing I am on the fence about is "methods be verbs", unless your language differentiates between methods and properties. The exception in my mind was the classic Point.x, where x is a method for accessing the value of an internal x. N
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by Xurinos 16y ago
We are in agreement: you used status in order to counter an argument (claiming to be "I'm a regular guy" in order to avoid the "you're special" argument). "The analysis is meaningless. It's Freud all over again" -- Brushing me off, groupi
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I just wanted to follow up my reply to someone else below with a comment for you -- and bear in mind that I just want to dissect, to point out things, not to attack or offend you. Please do not take my response personally. You can easily
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I'm a regular guy and I think that I don't argue for status or social standing, but because I'm interested in 'the truth', insofar as that means 'what works best for us', where 'us' includes everyone I care about. I fin
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by Xurinos 16y ago
This is a great discussion of challenge by perfection (few saves/retries), as I pointed out here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725036 Some people like that. It might not be a suitable challenge for casual gamers with little time
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> Doom - the same - the feeling of nicely timed double shotgun shot is very rewarding, it doesn't matter you are shooting to rectangles. I always like how people bring up Doom as opposed to, say, Wolfenstein or one of the other 3D shoot
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by Xurinos 16y ago
What about two-player Duck Hunt or Mario? Excite Bike? Bubble Bobble? These and many other games allowed people in the same room to play with and compete against each other. I remember hours of fun doing that with my parents and friends
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> US Copyright Group lawyers never replied to the court, and now they'll never know the identities of several dozen accused file-sharers with Midcontinent IP addresses. Never? Couldn't they just resubmit the correct way? This just del
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I had the same results for perl as well as for CL. It surprised me, given that Colemak is promoted as the programmer's weapon of choice.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I know it is all a matter of opinion, but as someone who dabbles in game development (I am an admin of the Dark Mists MUD, after all), here is my perspective: If you look across the spectrum of oldstyle games, there are a few aspects off th
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> Would it kill them to have a reply address I could actually use to accomplish that? I think that was Ryan's point -- with which I agree. Admittedly, changing a flight might need a bit more back-and-forth than an e-mail exchange (they
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Yep. On the bright side, he is admitting he received the emails and is willing to pull them down. noreply.com is currently held by a domain sitter. Are they capturing emails behind the scenes? What other domain names are foolishly used
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Nah, some things are okay automated, such as the warning that your flight appointment is in one day.

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