alecdbrooks

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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
>And what exactly is wrong with the "I have black friends" defense? Are you trying to say that pg is friends with someone in spite of his supposed hateful nature? That he's somehow looked past the person's "short
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
Just to be clear, R doesn't ever use the same operator for both, it uses == for comparison like C and Python. That being said, extra differentiation is a bonus.
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
I agree, I don't think SO would benefit from disabling voting on old questions. Don't you want to encourage people to write answers that are useful long after the fact? The only benefit would be preventing the kind of bullying the
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
>"Indeed I went from the top 4% of contributors at my time of departure to the top 3%" >OMG, I didn't realize this issue was so serious. It's actually a fairly big jump. If you look at a distribution of Stack Excha
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
"The Drug War is Evil" is actually just as bad of a title as "Cocaine is Evil." This article is about how buyers of cocaine support a system that has caused (according to the author) millions of deaths, not about governm
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
My thought would be to add an assertion that always fails inside the catch block, but this probably only makes sense if you use assertions already, as they have to be turned on explicitly in Java.
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
East Germany already tried that — you are basically describing the Stasi program of "unofficial collaborators." From The Legacy of Surveillance [0]: "For every 1,000 GDR citizens there were approximately 5.5 state security p
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Where No Google Buses Go(darwinbondgraham.wordpress.com)
10 points by alecdbrooks 13y ago|1 comments
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
I am often frustrated by news and think much of it is worth ignoring, but many of the points are not very well-supported. "News has no explanatory power": I'm not going to argue that most mainstream news is even that good, bu
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
I don't think someone fleeing an abusive partner would necessarily benefit as much from knowing the abuser's location as much as the abuser would benefit from the victim's location. The information would be symmetric, but the
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
I'm sorry, I misunderstood your question. Apparently what you describe is actually the case, as the link posted by danieldk below describes.
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
Thanks for the link! I'm not interested in Ruby per se, but it's fascinating nonetheless from the perspective of data structures and how they are implemented in C. On a related note, I've found a much less comprehensive (but
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
That's what it is doing. The additional RString structure associates the label "str2" with the characters (on the heap) allocated for the original string. Ruby experts can correct me if I'm wrong, but when Ruby sees a na
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
I actually did not assume based on her name. (There's nothing worse than a correction that is itself wrong.) I tried to find a biography of her in the third person, but could not find one. From her About page, I found out she was a mem
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
It sometimes does, but that's not really relevant when you're talking about a specific person, whose name is on the top of the page in question.
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
The author of the post is actually a "she," not a "he." I hate to be pedantic, but I think it's important to not assume authors of technical posts are men.
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
Or maybe cdecl [0]. [0]: Online version: http://cdecl.org/ .
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
Given that he lists Berkeley on his Stack Exchange profile and the same research interests, I'd say yes.
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
Given that incognito doesn't obscure your IP address (not to mention the myriad other ways your identity could be leaked to Google), I wonder if incognito's enough to get a "clean" page of Google results. On this search,
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
I think I might agree with what you're getting at, but I'm not sure "watching" is the correct metaphor. Watching a programmer program is likely to be nearly as boring as watching someone sleeping even though it's in
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
The reason for this hack is that 32-bit software used 16-bit installers long after the switch to 32-bit. [0] This isn't a matter of supporting Windows 3.11-era software, more like Windows 9x or even XP. [0]: Like this guy: http:/
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
German has its own three-syllable letter: Y. It's pronounced similar to "ipsilon."
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
Apple has started to do that with iCloud [0] and to a lesser extent, AirDrop [1]. But aside from Apple hardware, iCloud only supports Windows laptops and desktops — no official Linux, Android, or Blackberry support. [0]: https://
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
Market value [0] ≠ value. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_value
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Emacs as my Leader: Vim Survival Guide(bling.github.io)
8 points by alecdbrooks 13y ago|0 comments
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
>Also Wiki-PR was one, who knows how many more are left! That's exactly my point. From the article, we don't know if there are enough companies doing this to pose a serious threat to Wikipedia, yet it suggests there is.
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
I enjoyed the article for the interesting story and its description of how PR manipulation of Wikipedia works, but its speculation on how the problem is getting worse was entirely unsubstantiated. It's plausible enough that efforts by
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
One important difference between Time Machine and using rsync.net in the way you describe is that Time Machine doesn't require trusting anyone with your data[0]. Of course, it's possible to have encrypted snapshots on rsync.net wi
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
He explained why he's submitting so many nine days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466422 . He constanly updates and expands the articles on his website, so it isn't so strange for an article created in
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by alecdbrooks 13y ago
In short, fewer features (mainly not being able to host arbitrary files) in exchange for less CPU and memory usage.

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