Xurinos

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by Xurinos 16y ago
No, I am not what I do. I do many things. If you (the general populace) must label me, just call me Xurinos. Better, call me the Xurinos that posts on HN. You use labels to conveniently understand me, but that is going to lead to mistak
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by Xurinos 16y ago
For now, you are what you do. Gonna heavily disagree with this one... This is an attitude that turns us into machines with expected outputs rather than people. We humans spend a lot of time limiting ourselves by placing labels on ourselv
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Naivetes over time: In my 20s... I thought I knew what I was doing and was ready to take on the world with my fresh expertise. In my 30s... I thought I knew what I was doing and was ready to take on the world with my fresh expertise. In my
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I wanted to update you, since you were so kind as to give me a good possible solution. I tried slimv.vim, and the experience is fairly decent. However, I quickly ran into annoyances and problems. I get a welcome message in the evaluation
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Thank you. My takeaway -- as a help for others in similar situations or if I ever fall into this situation -- is to live below my means (TV is a luxury) and to work harder to pay off those things that are outside normal cost of living. Th
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by Xurinos 16y ago
How did you climb out of your situation and mindset?
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by Xurinos 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Stamp_Counter "The issue has two components: rate of tick and whether all cores (processors) have identical values in their time-keeping registers. There is no promise that the timestamp counters of multi
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by Xurinos 16y ago
When I did driver programming in Windows, it was well-known that Sleep had a resolution of 10 ms; it is based on the interrupt timer (not the high frequency timer). You could change the interrupt timer's duration, but its ticks are what gu
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by Xurinos 16y ago
There is an argument in favor of marketing to the perception, though. I am sure he/she is not the only viewer that might assume they are eating their own dog food and using it behind their website. We have countless tales on HN about incr
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by Xurinos 16y ago
That was a long way to say that when we call a UI "intuitive", we really mean that it is "familiar". Hopefully this comment clarifies for others what was meant by the metaphors. http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Expectations. It is all about managing expectations. If you expect things to be finished in a certain amount of time and they do not, delays are a huge frustration. If things are finished before your expected time, you are satisfied or h
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by Xurinos 16y ago
You're not wrong. I get the initial thrust. The problem is in the solutions. The measuring of those things at the end could very well fall into the realm of "streaks", too, unless we have good consideration of sample size. To use one of
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Boiled down, isn't this just, "Choose the right sample size"? The article does not point to ways to solve the real problem. How do I know that 1000 coin flips is the right number? It seems like an arbitrary round number; how do I derive t
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by Xurinos 16y ago
One time, I decided I wanted a software job in a specific remote area. I connected with numerous recruiters to maximize my interviews per plane trip to the area. The ultimate win came from watching for jobs in the area through craigslist
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by Xurinos 16y ago
By your wording, aren't CL packages considered to be just an implementation of a namespace? Is there another way to declare symbol namespaces in CL (outside of rolling our own organisms)? I was under the impression that the function signat
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by Xurinos 16y ago
This comment made things a bit clearer for me. This seems to also be an argument in favor of a Lisp-1 over a Lisp-2 (same symbol found in multiple packages) as well as an argument against use of generic methods (have to understand the type
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by Xurinos 16y ago
That is interesting... When I read the post, I understood his references, having had similar experiences. Now that you mention it, you are right: the audience of this post is not the new users. It is the people who are trying to push emac
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Sure. These choices are part of what separate the rich from the poor (economically).
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I read the same articles. It was not that it was a Ford but that it was a cheap car. Author probably said "Ford" expecting to imply "cheap". There are luxury trucks, too.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I read something from a real estate blogger that has stuck with me since: People often pay for a bunch of space they do not need , even use. The argument that the space is an option is the same argument used to justify why someone would n
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Sounds like something you would go to your local "sensual items" shop for, and given Rule 34, it likely already exists. Certainly some candied versions do.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
That's it! War of attrition. Point for you.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I cannot help but think that these examples share a different commonality -- that they are war simulations where the winners in these examples were the ones who did not overextend and instead fortified or played a better numbers game. This
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I stand corrected. I looked at my old ASCII tables. This is a silly semantic argument. http://www.asciitable.com/ The character shorthand is "NUL", but the full name is "null". I still stand by my (silly semantic) point that the use of
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I use do...while instead of the for loop, making the usual nasty C-programmer use of ++ in the right spots, but other than that, my solution is the same. Edit: Correction... I also copy the '\0' character before exiting instead of making th
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Unfortunately, "null-terminated", although incorrect, is widely used. :( http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22nul... I hate all the variations of nothing. undef, null, NULL, NIL, NUL...
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by Xurinos 16y ago
As it happens, '\0' translates to 0. Since they are composed of characters, C programmers tend to do the c == '\0' check instead of the shorted c == 0 check, just to make sure everyone knows we are still treating the char like a character
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Python is a Lisp - I do not understand this. Howso?
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Is C as good as dead, too, given your rockstar measures? Seriously, I read plenty of vitriol about perl and PHP, and it turns out that in the real world people ARE continuing to use it. It may not be the latest hotness, but it has a stable
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I have been thinking that math is similar. Little substitutes for simply rote memorizing your basic multiplication tables to be able to multiply. You can remember the relationships between various concepts, and it helps to validate and up

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