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by ascotan 10y ago
Because he could buy a laptop for $60 (and pre-loaded it with socialist drivel). I guess he thought that it was neat. I'm not sure how this makes it to the top of HN. I have been noticing that submitted content on this site is getting
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by ascotan 10y ago
I've run up against this time and time again. Here's what you need to do: 1. Realize that bad code < interpersonal relations. You have to realize that even if you win, you can loose. Turning something into an argument (ESPECIAL
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by ascotan 10y ago
I understand that there needs to be accountability from the FEC on how campaign funds are raised, however, this twitter feed gives out PII about donors including their home address and their employer. The only purpose I can think of for thi
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by ascotan 10y ago
Javascript is a bad language. Function scope. Terrible type system. Lack of native integers. Oh and btw this: alert((![]+[])[+[]]+(![]+[])[+!+[]]+([![]]+[][[]])[+!+[]+[+[]]]+(![]+[])[!+[]+!+[]]); which is should be a dead giveaway that some
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by ascotan 10y ago
Ah A/B testing. Looks like someone needs to watch groundhog day. https://blog.codinghorror.com/groundhog-day-or-the-problem-w...
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by ascotan 10y ago
It's sad. You don't need to see income metrics to support this, just look at the quality of the games. I'm an avid consumer of iphone games and the quality of them has been getting worse and worse. Really neat and creative ga
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by ascotan 10y ago
I like how this is a blog post appears to be about 2 code commits (neither of which appear to have any tests btw). Chakra Core - It's faster than ever! /cheer I appreciate how the PM gets support for his team though. This post may
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by ascotan 10y ago
It's the bottleneck effect duh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck As others have noted Polynesians are huge and didn't turn into dwarves.
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by ascotan 10y ago
This seems like a bad idea. It looks like the author is attempting to reinvent java in C (there is no c++ here) because he really likes c# or java. Most applications use an embedded interpreter to do runtime inspection and modification. The
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by ascotan 10y ago
Expecting to see people trying hitching a ride on the rocket. Was not disappointed.
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by ascotan 10y ago
I think claims about being faster than X require showing the code used in the benchmarking.
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by ascotan 10y ago
This concept would simply create inflation. Image everyone has $10 on island A. Island B sells coconuts and the going rate for a coconut is $1. Based on other bills the islanders need to pay for, $1 fits the average budget and is what peopl
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by ascotan 10y ago
It looks like in 2002 California enacted a task force to control the spread of the disease. see "Sudden Oak Death Management Act of 2002". However, this was subject to appropriations in the California state budget. The author is
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by ascotan 10y ago
This is a truly terrible idea on every level. 1. Most places where I have worked, management are given large under-the-table bonuses that are not reflective of their salaries. So even if you put out the amount of money management is making
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by ascotan 10y ago
I'm skeptical. European roads are not American roads. According to google there are over 4 million miles of road in the US and there is very little standardization. I would venture to say that road quality is much worse in the US. I&#x
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by ascotan 10y ago
I'm sure that a lot of these conferences had speakers by invitation and that the only people that applied to speak were 'white males'. It's sad to see that a more diverse speaker group didn't step up to the plate he
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by ascotan 10y ago
Not scalable as in 'we can't spend a year breaking into every version of OSX', not 'we can't spend a million dollars breaking into every version of OSX'. Because a million bucks is chump change in government sp
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by ascotan 10y ago
5 people, 1 year = 1million. Likely a team of 4 devs and a PM. 10months to prototype, 2 months to clean up and release? Sounds reasonable.
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by ascotan 10y ago
Another sad day for the software community. I'm a big fan of 0mq and the work that Pieter has done. As for the euthanasia, my wife's aunt died of cervical cancer and it was very rough, not only on her, but on her entire family. It
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by ascotan 11y ago
Salary is a function of perceived importance it has nothing to do with the language. There just appear to be a lot of high paying Java jobs, because there are a lot of companies still using Java as their lingua franca. Most programers will
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by ascotan 11y ago
Puff piece to excuse Hillary. The editorial board at Bloomberg likely has no experience in what they're talking about. Regardless of the level of secrecy, in any business you are an agent of the company you represent and there are rule
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by ascotan 11y ago
absolutely terrible.
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by ascotan 11y ago
This presupposes that dinosaurs are cold-blooded which apparently is a matter of dispute: http://www.livescience.com/51162-dinosaurs-warm-blooded-grow...
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by ascotan 11y ago
> Only using optional fields and coding for missing fields helps us ensure our services are resilient to version mismatch. I've seen this before and I've always been suspicious of it. So if version 1 has field r,g,b and version
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by ascotan 11y ago
Gaming back then was very different. There was an expectation of a big time investment on the end-user. Games were much more 'mentally' immersive. It's something that's hard to describe, but back when games lacked in gra
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by ascotan 11y ago
Yea I looked on the careers page too. I was expecting EVE online as a req for employment.
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by ascotan 11y ago
You forgot to use the $ in micro$oft. I'm waiting for the proprietary extensions to the bash shell that requires you to license your software because it was created with windows bash. MSVCRT.dll ftw
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by ascotan 11y ago
Oh God. I need to read this. Great post.
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by ascotan 11y ago
or you could just: diff X Y and check the return code. Oh you crazy pythonistas.
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by ascotan 11y ago
Actually it's becoming more of a complaint in 2016 with rise AWS instances that pay by the container size and with the rise of languages like go, etc. which have smaller runtime sizes and are more compatible with cloud computing enviro

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