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by bmm6o 14y ago
This is the old "Twitter downtime is actually a feature" BS from 2010, but for HN.
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by bmm6o 14y ago
This characterization seems to apply to very few of the SO badges, especially beyond the bronze level.
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by bmm6o 14y ago
Agreed. Every time I get the "unknown or expired link" error, I'm grateful that it didn't show me a slightly inaccurate (according to some metric/specification) list. /sarcasm
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by bmm6o 14y ago
Are we at peak zombie yet? This infatuation seems almost unkillable.
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by bmm6o 14y ago
I find karma an effective motivator, but badges are worthless.
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by bmm6o 14y ago
There's this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526144
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by bmm6o 14y ago
If pushbutton is neither 0 nor 1.
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by bmm6o 14y ago
1) It still required manual intervention from a moderator. 2) I'm certainly not an expert on how SE distributes its points, but the moderator comment in the related meta post ( http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3527/rem...
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by bmm6o 14y ago
If you think this is the sort of answer that Stack Overflow should strive for, note that the author edited it too many times and it fell into "Community Wiki" status. Until this was reverted in a manual process, the author didn't receive a
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by bmm6o 15y ago
I've written out the Regex for divisibility by 3 before, it's a bit of a beast. I've had a blog post half-finished for ages where I talked about just this thing, but I never got around to actually computing the re for divisibility by 7. M
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by bmm6o 15y ago
I've heard that elsewhere, too. But as a Facebook user (not advertiser) I have to agree with OP. I can't remember ever seeing an ad on FB that seamed targeted to me in any meaningful way. I'd be interested to hear if my experience is aty
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by bmm6o 15y ago
It's actually quite easy to develop software while being only vaguely aware of and emotionally uninvested in these sorts of kerfuffles.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
For anyone else that's curious, it's a pretty simple change: 23.1 --- a/Modules/datetimemodule.c 23.2 +++ b/Modules/datetimemodule.c 23.3 @@ -2566,10 +2566,12 @@ generic_hash(unsigned char *data, int len) 23.4 registe
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Does anyone have a link to the commit that fixed this? I'd be interesting in seeing the before and after.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Is this decompressing a single stream on multiple processors? My knowledge of gzip is very limited, but I would have thought sequential processing was required. What's the trick here? (TFA doesn't explain anything, and e.g. pigz homepage
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by bmm6o 15y ago
I don't use Twitter, but it sounds like you're describing the intersection, not the union. </pedantry>
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Alternately, just realize that the rectangular strip of paper has a natural set of coordinates, and nothing is lost by twisting and taping. You get a discontinuity at the tape, but that's not a problem.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
It's commonly called a non-orientable 2 dimensional manifold. Locally, it looks like a smooth deformation of the plane. The non-orientable bit is what distinguishes it (globally) from something more like a cylinder.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
3-5 hours seems on the high side, but other than that I wouldn't say it's strange. And what are you skeptical about? That they are getting free work out of you? Out-sourcing a 3 hour job to a college senior simply doesn't make sense.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Gay marriage?
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by bmm6o 15y ago
More idiomatic C# might be: int result; if (foo.TryAndGetSomeNumber(out result)) doSomething(result); There might also be a foo.GetSomeNumber() that returns an int or throws on failure. [fixed formatting]
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by bmm6o 15y ago
> that "how ridiculous!" reaction is the only reason I read the story in the first place Sure, but I'm not talking about the first time you hear the term, I'm talking about if this happens to become more widespread. Don't underestima
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Great for Vaidyanathan and all, but what I really dislike about this article is this "wrongful hire" neologism. Seagate committed fraud, and calling it "wrongful hire" makes it sound so much weaker. And maybe I'm just paranoid, but the au
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by bmm6o 15y ago
On reflection, there is a difference between the Lump of Labor fallacy and a particular job opening up. If your only way to advance (say within a company) is to wait for someone above you to advance/leave/retire, then you personally will b
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by bmm6o 15y ago
You would think that Business Week would know better than to perpetuate the Lump of Labor fallacy.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
> Gag. I can't tell if you're objecting to the law or the messenger. The site is obviously trying to drum up business, but their advertizing tactics aren't really germane.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Yes: http://www.paymeovertime.com/overtime-pay.php . The law changed sometime around the end of the .com bubble.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
It probably doesn't matter too much unless the company is looking for proficiency in a particular language, and in that case you would know it going in to the interview. When we give a coding problem, we let the candidate choose between C+
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by bmm6o 15y ago
I remember my roommate going out and buying Windows 95 on release day (possibly even at midnight). Since then, my experience matches yours, but I'd be interested in seeing some numbers.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
It depends a lot on the user, obviously. For your example of WWF, I don't need a notification. When I have a few spare minutes, I open it up and make some moves. It's almost always my turn in one of my 20 games, and I don't need an alert

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