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by ascotan 11y ago
More validation of the Atwood principle. http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
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by ascotan 11y ago
"needs more cowbell"
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by ascotan 11y ago
obviously no one over there ever watched the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film)
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by ascotan 11y ago
A 4x4 matrix can represent a position and a rotation, where the 3x3 matrix (called the transform) is the rotation and the 4th row (calls the transpose) is the location in space. The neat thing is that when you multiply matrices together you
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by ascotan 11y ago
I agree that most people just use REST as a buzzword today but don't really know what it is. As I remember REST was popularized by Rails a few years back. If you go back and look at the railsconf talk by Hansson in 2006 you can see th
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Softwarecollections.org is currently down(redhat.com)
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by ascotan 11y ago
1 button mouse ftw!
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by ascotan 11y ago
I was disappointed that the subtitle wasn't "tighter and tighter testing". http://i.imgur.com/1aD54YR.jpg
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by ascotan 11y ago
Great site. This has given me the inspiration to finally get this done.
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by ascotan 12y ago
That's why you should be passing input params by reference and not as a pointer. The compiler should be be used to check that inputs are valid references so you don't have to null check everything.
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by ascotan 12y ago
For some reason I imagined a bunch of villagers holding hands in a chain while the guy on the end is touching a transformer.
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by ascotan 12y ago
I think I've realized over the years that this kind of development process lends itself to certain kinds of software. In particular XP is effective for web server products. Not all software can or should be deployed rapidly like this.
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by ascotan 12y ago
Major issues I have with angular: 1. Doesn't play well with jquery. Digest cycles and event passing don't mix. With any significant jquery plugin you end up with $timeout(0) hacks (with or without the jquery being wrapped in a di
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by ascotan 12y ago
I sort of agree with the go authors that there is not idiomatic way to deal with dependency management at all. (see: https://golang.org/doc/faq#get_version ) They all have their ups/downs and mostly it has to do w
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by ascotan 12y ago
Even thought wikipedia clearly calls the spanish dollar a 'piece of eight', it's pretty clear that peso means 'weight' and the dollar has about 8x the weight in silver of a spanish real. It's probably better to
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by ascotan 12y ago
Just my opinion here, but this is terrible advice. I agree with the author that JQuery's existence was predicated on the fact that it wrapped terrible browser APIs, and that in the (more) modern world we no longer need these wrappers.
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by ascotan 12y ago
Flask likely requires Jinja2 because they're both made by the same team. http://www.pocoo.org/team/#armin-ronacher
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by ascotan 12y ago
Generics are a nice feature to avoid code duplication. However, they are not required to be used in every application. Whatever the solution is, it should not affect code that doesn't require the use of generics. If the entire langua
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by ascotan 12y ago
I let the algorithm run to the end. 78992 points. Not only did I win I got a 4096 square (which is black btw) and another 2048 square. It died very close to getting an 8192 square.
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by ascotan 12y ago
Lol. Yes the answer is no. I realized too late that salaries in the computer industry follow the "reverse hockey stick". Even badly trained programmers do pretty well and if you spend those early years before you get married with
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by ascotan 12y ago
I stopped reading when I got to the part about js being faster than C++.
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by ascotan 12y ago
Although this is very cool stuff, I have a hard time trying to understand where this is going to prove useful. I would image that the major target for something like this will be in doing ports of old games to the browser. Anything other th
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by ascotan 12y ago
I like how the front page has a developer with his RSS reader full-screened not doing any actual work.
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by ascotan 12y ago
hmm. "computer" is grouped with "mathematical" jobs. And these people are less likely to come in early and less likely to stay late. Seems reasonable...
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by ascotan 12y ago
Nonsense. Go read a book. When the Nazi's rolled into Austria they were met by cheering crowds. The similarities between these 2 conflicts is extremely eerie.
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by ascotan 12y ago
"I don't know if this is what they call a quarter-life crisis." This is what happens to most post-college grads. You're led to believe that you are the smartest most capable person in the world and that _you will_ make a
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by ascotan 12y ago
Here's the actual article: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.... tl;dr The hypothesis here is that early bacteria/archea basically worked a lot like a car battery, with a
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by ascotan 12y ago
It is known that cyclic aromatic compounds (like sterols) can pass through the cell membrane layer. It is also known that cyclic aromatic compounds can bind DNA (this is how steroid hormones work). It is also known that DNA breakage can occ
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by ascotan 12y ago
In an effort to force people that can't afford to pay a double fine from seeking justice through the legal system? Nice.
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by ascotan 12y ago
jquery and angular do not play nicely not matter what the angular people say. Any non-trivial jquery plugin included into a angularjs page will require $timeout(0) hacks to get it to behave properly.

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