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by billybob 15y ago
'Otherwise known as the "I want to do X, therefore X should be legal" school of legal thinking.' You mean like "I want a monopoly, therefore monopolies should be legal. Also, I should have police powers to enforce my monopoly: search people
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by billybob 15y ago
This. I program, which means using words (naming variables and methods, etc). If a song has words I can understand, it seems to distract the language part of my brain too much. So instrumental music works best for me. Silence is the very be
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by billybob 15y ago
I think this is a very concise way of putting it. This is essentially why I don't think further stimulus or monetary policy tweaking is going to help us. We have gotten drunk on overspending. Drinking more won't remove the hangover. We just
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by billybob 15y ago
TL;DR: "Imagine you earned $100,000 a year and you didn`t have any debt. You can go to a bank and borrow $10,000 a year. You can spend, therefore, $110 a year. When you spend $110,000 a year, somebody else earns $110,000 and they can go to
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by billybob 15y ago
This sounds terrible, but it seems to me that nobody will let it get that bad. It's infeasible to support 70+ browsers simultaneously; no dev shop can afford that. So they would either pick versions or choose some common set of features to
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by billybob 15y ago
The technical problem for price discrimination based on the user's location is that location can be faked. The social problem is that, even if you succeed, users who are paying more will feel ripped off. I think a better approach is to allo
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by billybob 15y ago
MacVim (and GVim on Linux) have better color scheme support. Solarize is great. MacVim also works with PeepOpen, which was just a jaw-dropping upgrade from tab-completing all my file paths from the project root. It practically reads my mind
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by billybob 15y ago
Notepad > CoffeeCup HTML Editor > RapidPHP > Vim > MacVim I switched to Vim under Cygwin when I started dabbling in Ruby and needed a general-purpose text editor (rather than language-specific). When I switched to Mac, using
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by billybob 15y ago
I think that's overengineering. Why not just use weight, like they already do in the self-checkout line? Weigh the shopping cart full of groceries, subtract the weight of the cart itself, and compare to what they're paying for. If it seems
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by billybob 15y ago
1930 was not the first time murder and killing were made distinct, by a long shot. One ancient example is Mosaic law, which forbids murder, yet commands capital punishment for certain crimes (including murder). Actually, I'd bet that your p
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by billybob 15y ago
Yes, judges and juries are also flawed humans. But by that logic, executing a justice system at all shows arrogance. If you have convictions, try as you might, you will have some false convictions. Imagine you have convicted someone of mu
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by billybob 15y ago
I'm in favor of the death penalty, though not rabidly so. I do think we should strongly scrutinize how these verdicts are arrived at. In trying to research whether they are fair, I've found people arguing statistics both ways. I don't think
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by billybob 15y ago
The term "execution victims" strongly implies that these executions were wrongful (or that all executions are). "Executed inmates" would have been a factual description.
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by billybob 15y ago
"Microsoft is synonymous with software that you use on your desktop" This is insightful. While some of us geeks have a grudge against Microsoft, most people don't. They probably do, however, have a mental separation between the desktop and
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by billybob 15y ago
I wonder whether patent trolling like this isn't just driving businesses to move to countries with weak IP law.
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by billybob 15y ago
In Soviet Russia, search engine... selects you? Sorry, couldn't resist.
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by billybob 15y ago
Correct. I think the logical thing to do would be to delete from the end so that the index is always valid. for (int i=this.MyControl.TabPages.Count - 1; i > 0; i--) { this.MyControl.TabPages.Remove(this.MyControl.TabPages[i]);
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by billybob 15y ago
This may be a bit of a tangent, but personally, I can't understand Dawkins' crusading attitude about religion. If I believed, as he does, that there is no God, that all wonder and amazement and desire and love are merely chemical reactions,
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by billybob 15y ago
Collins has written a book called "The Language of God" (referring to DNA) in which he explains how he reconciles his beliefs with his scientific understanding. In it, he tells his own story and explains why he thinks Christians should acce
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by billybob 15y ago
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." — Henry Ford
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by billybob 15y ago
I am an avid Vim user, and I also find such cheat sheets overwhelming. My pattern has been slow, incremental learning. Starting from scratch is very intimidating. But when you have 10 commands in muscle memory, learning #11 seems pretty eas
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by billybob 15y ago
Touch typing is a great analogy. I was a pretty good hunt-and-peck typer in 6th grade; I would even do 2-3 finger "rolls" across keys to type faster. Learning to touch-type was frustrating at first: I knew I could go faster with my usual me
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by billybob 15y ago
My workflow is like this: - Create a feature branch off of development. - Commit lots of times until that's ready. - Switch back to development. Do "git merge --squash featurebranch" This introduces all the changes from the feature branch a
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by billybob 15y ago
"Your stores are going to have to be as big as a supermarket to really be of use to people." Not necessarily. You could make more efficient use of space if you don't have to arrange the store to be customer-friendly. "I don't even need to g
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by billybob 15y ago
Actually, I like the fact that this isn't delivery. I would expect to pay more for that, and driving to the grocery store would be no big deal if I didn't have to go in. One thing that could make things speedier would be something like an
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by billybob 15y ago
I agree - this is a great idea! Before you move to robots, trained employees will be able to pull groceries MUCH faster than customers will, especially if incoming orders indicate where the product is on the shelves. And this opens all kind
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by billybob 15y ago
"is distributed version control so much better than centralized version control that we will all eventually be using a DVCS?" I can't predict the future, but I do think DVCS is fundamentally superior. Joel Spolsky called it "possibly the bi
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by billybob 15y ago
Great! All we have to do is convince poor people to be happy living at a subsistence level, and convince rich people to be happy supporting them! Seriously, I agree with his point that, say, building bridges in order to create jobs is backw
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by billybob 15y ago
'Aside from that, in the "old days" women stayed at home and took care of the family. "Nowadays" women are going to work, and I think that is absolutely great!' Another way of looking at this is, "in the old days, a household could be suppo
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by billybob 15y ago
Assuming that robots are free (gratis) but not free (libre), and that there's enough land for robots to farm, and enough water to irrigate it.

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