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by avisser 10y ago
The c# user just writes arr.Select(el => el == condition);
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by avisser 10y ago
I believe that is the cable-car line.
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by avisser 10y ago
The meme is "Film at 11"
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by avisser 10y ago
To be pedantic, VMWare is a virtual machine. It sure as hell doesn't emulate your x86 CPU.
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by avisser 10y ago
> a strange claim that war caused unemployment Not really. From the article: > Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma believes that improper distribution of funds and hyper inflated US military spending, not globalization or
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by avisser 10y ago
Great. Azerbaijan will do as we want. That's gotta be worth at least $50 to GDP, right? I'm being snarky, but what is that X-factor actually worth? And should we then factor in all the people who will hate the USA and do their dam
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by avisser 10y ago
War doesn't have a lot of returns. Let's say we spend $100 mil blowing up a neighborhood in Iraq vs $100 building a building in St Louis. Both employ people during the act. But the building in St Louis will be worth something at t
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by avisser 10y ago
Now it's a 500.
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by avisser 10y ago
I loved the sense of humor in the API as well. int32 is_computer_on(); //Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined. double is_computer_on_fire(); //R
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by avisser 10y ago
In Windows, at least, on your ie: sentence, * Single click - nothing * Double click - highlight word * Triple click - highlight paragraph
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by avisser 10y ago
> We want to give your child the best possible start. Believe me, we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn't need any more additional burdens. Keep in mind, this child is still you. Simply, the best, of you. Yo
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by avisser 10y ago
Ahh, the old self-selecting, non self-correcting bias.
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by avisser 10y ago
Because: externalized costs
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by avisser 10y ago
> should the average man on the street really decide? I've always thought the issue was how big the street was. I trust the average man on the street in my town. I would be _very_ suspect of elites running a city of 50k. But at scal
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by avisser 10y ago
> Americans refuse to live in fear (at least, the block of Americans I understand and am part of). I agree. I wish, though, that political commentators would act like good StarCraft 2 casters and tack on the obligatory "But at what
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by avisser 10y ago
There's also the 100k+ who've left Puerto Rico in the last decade. I believe most of them made it to Florida. http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/americas/puerto-rico-exodus/
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by avisser 10y ago
Enforce might be a poor word. But right now in the US we have laws around public schools helping non-English speakers learn in their native language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilingual_Education_Act ). Municipaliti
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by avisser 10y ago
Indeed. A story of the ACLU suing on behalf of the KKK from 2012: https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-em-defends-kkks-right-free-sp...
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by avisser 10y ago
> Then watch how quickly right wingers jumps down your throat for not being politically correct. I heard a great phrase on This American Life last week: Patriotically Correct. The Trumpian inverse of politically correct.
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by avisser 10y ago
> all the things you said Fuck yeah?
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by avisser 10y ago
> if an white European American expresses pride at his cultural heritage As a white guy who was raised in Upstate NY, and had festivals throughout the year for Italian (a Columbus Day Parade + multiple social clubs), Greek, & Ukraini
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by avisser 10y ago
> Why do the decoding on comparatively expensive custom silicon, when you've already got a fast and flexible CPU? Not a reason, but I haven't payed attention to sound cards since my Creative SoundBlaster 16. I assumed that some
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by avisser 10y ago
What's with the desire for a 4k laptop? The 5.1 megapixels on my 15" rMBP are certainly more than I can see (36yo here). Especially as this guy is looking for a 13" screen, and more pixels leads to less battery life, I don&#x
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by avisser 10y ago
> I don't want or need to have to write out all of those requires. That's the job of the autoloader. Or the IDE. IntelliJ or ReSharper does that for me. And I like dealing with any naming conflicts right then and there, which
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by avisser 10y ago
I always love playing "Lay Lady Lay" for people and asking if they know who it is. His voice is unrecognizable due to the months in the hospital w/o cigarettes.
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by avisser 10y ago
Welcome to Zombocam. The only limit is yourself.
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by avisser 10y ago
> The prerequisite being "people feeling fundamentally / by-default at ease in something as primitively simple as just one anothers' company". I don't know why societies lose this and when. This really resonates
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by avisser 10y ago
> on a lighter weight version of VS.NET so we'd roll back the clock about 10 years on ReSharper-like goodness. I've been using Rider from JetBrains on and off for a few months. I'd recommend it. It's great to just rem
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by avisser 10y ago
The Bay Area does casual carpool without it ever being in the news. It's been going on for decades. I took it almost every day for 3 years and never had an issue. It sounds like Google might be tapping into the strong community that ex
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by avisser 10y ago
Killer URL. /s Would it kill them to add a route?

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