akavi

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by akavi 13y ago
Uses https://github.com/tlack/snaphax , I assume?
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by akavi 13y ago
>his bitcoin holdings will be presumably appreciating in value That would be quite the presumption.
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by akavi 13y ago
I actually assumed, well into my teenage years, that people's middle names were their mother's maiden name, as that's the case for me, my sister, and my cousins.
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by akavi 13y ago
>There were children in iron lungs for weeks. There were people in iron lungs for lifetimes
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by akavi 13y ago
Are you a native English speaker from the United States or the UK? If so, I'm willing to bet a large amount of money that if I were to record you speaking, it'd be less than an hour before you used 'their', 'they&#x
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by akavi 13y ago
On my work computer (I'm a webdev): 1 101 20.2% vim 2 64 12.8% gs 3 56 11.2% cd 4 49 9.8% git 5 40 8% ls 6 30 6% ga 7 20 4% grep 8 20 4% gcm 9 20 4%
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by akavi 13y ago
Off the top of my head, Aaron Schwartz, Dennis Ritchie, and Steve Jobs also merited it.
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by akavi 13y ago
I'm unreasonably pleased that I was able to answer both the example questions.
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by akavi 13y ago
This is not an entirely accurate analogy. You explicitly chose each of the songs you've purchased on iTunes. In contrast, song 'spins' on Pandora is not necessarily one you would've sought out on your own, nor chosen to
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by akavi 13y ago
I really can't summon the slightest hint of a reason why it even matters whether it's a choice. I can barely grasp the fact that there are people who even friggin' care.
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by akavi 13y ago
You don't even need to zoom in that far to see it. Focus on Brazil and hit play, and you'll see the lower margin of the Amazon just dissolve upwards over 30 years.
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by akavi 13y ago
My objection to that map, as someone who was born and raised just north of Dallas, is that no one I've ever met in Dallas County has ever used "coke" to mean carbonated drinks generically without prompting (I will admit some people claim
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by akavi 13y ago
In the interest of balance, I'd like to point out that Ms. Wilmot was almost certainly intending to make an explosive (A weak one, but one nonetheless). Ie, this was not simply a science experiment gone wrong and she was not just "practic
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by akavi 14y ago
Isn't stock == cash when the acquiring company is public?
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by akavi 14y ago
So, about 0.2% of its actual value.
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by akavi 14y ago
This really just seems like a culture-clash in action. I don't know what the general sentiment is at NYU, but the university I attended had a very strong "shopping week" culture. It was quite common, and quite accepted, to shop three classe
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by akavi 14y ago
dramatically-reduce-taxes-on-the-wealthiest-while-raising-them-brutally-on-the-middle-class.org
528.
by akavi 14y ago
I don't really see the method as being any less functional than the function version (ie, they're both without side effects, the method version just has 'this' as an implicit parameter). Though I guess that's just a difference in perspectiv
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by akavi 14y ago
Which was said first, ironically, in Yiddish (a language that gains its status as such through its connection with an ethnic group, not military presence).
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by akavi 14y ago
How is map not functional? Do you mean you wanted to emphasize HOFs?
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by akavi 14y ago
I feel like more than anything, this example demonstrates the value of lightweight lambdas. var totals = splat(get('total'))(orders); is definitely nicer than var totals = orders.map(function(o){return o.total;}); But the
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by akavi 14y ago
Does it use the Muni API for real-time next bus/train tracking? Or is it, like Google Maps, based off of the published (aka, worthless) schedule?
533.
by akavi 14y ago
I just clicked to the fact she's the same person behind PeerJS. Impressive is a slight understatement.
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by akavi 14y ago
How is this different from objects in javascript? (Tangentially, I don't agree that conflation of array and object is a good thing)
535.
by akavi 14y ago
Would you consider that an inconsistency if you weren't coming from the C paradigm of 0 == false?
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by akavi 14y ago
It's worth noting that the deletionism is part and parcel of Joel Spolsky's community curation philosophy. He regularly gives speeches to that effect, so it's likely he and SO as a whole will weigh their influence towards maintaining it.
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by akavi 14y ago
Yeup. Volatile thing continues to be volatile hardly seems to be news.
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by akavi 14y ago
I dumped it into a file out of habit, which sort of ruined the effect. I did wonder why a ~300 line textfile took so long to DL, though.
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by akavi 14y ago
I mean, you can't claim the guy doesn't take his own advice (specifically, his encouragement to "Carve out a niche of one").
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by akavi 14y ago
Do you know how sharp the fall off in income is as you move down in popularity from "Guaranteed Billboard Chart Topper"? I suspect by "career" the GP was referring to financial success, which, if you're an ugly woman, is almost totally impo

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