bmm6o

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by bmm6o 16y ago
Microsoft: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html
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by bmm6o 16y ago
When I was in Shanghai, there was construction work near my hotel in Pudong that seemed to go all night. It was maybe fewer workers than during the day, but you could see that there was welding going on any time you cared to look.
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by bmm6o 16y ago
After lurking for 80 days, this is what you choose for your first comment?
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by bmm6o 16y ago
It's not a cop-out at all. The only way to precisely define "bug" in your original comment is as behavior that deviates from the specification - you need a formal definition if you want to count them. You're right that if the user says "w
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by bmm6o 16y ago
It's not just about choosing to read the more charitable interpretation. The second reading requires more context than the first one. If you aren't aware of the additional facts you mention, it's very difficult to read the comment in a po
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Firefox on Vista renders as boxes.
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by bmm6o 16y ago
> I'd be wondering who has enough time to watch every show You're right; it was hyperbole. But given my sample size I'm comfortable saying it's among the worst. It's a safe bet that an episode will contain at least one hooker, penis o
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Two and a Half Men is by far the worst show on TV. At times it approaches the "Ow, My Balls!" level of humor.
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by bmm6o 16y ago
It would seem like the default option to me. Why would it show you who voted up and down? What would you do with that information?
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by bmm6o 16y ago
I doubt they're hoping to get people to convert from Ocaml to F#. But .Net has a huge dev base, and this is a great opportunity for functional programming to go (more) mainstream.
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by bmm6o 16y ago
It's not funny enough to be comedy. Dry satire, perhaps?
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by bmm6o 16y ago
> People complain often about traditional offset/limit pagination I haven't heard any. What kinds of complaints have you heard? I appreciate the generality and elegance of the closure approach, but the links expire far too quickly for
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Sure, you can argue that they would have been better off not rolling out new software, or that they don't need new features. I'm just saying that the answer to the (sometimes implicit) question of "why does Digg have so many more people th
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Absolutely. Every time someone trots out "And Reddit only has 7 guys", I think to myself that they're innovating as if they had 3. Say what you will about Digg, but at least they rolled out new software.
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Freeing memory would require that there be an entirely empty page. Each page holds 13-14 objects (4k/300). The chances that 13 consecutive objects were in the 5% (assuming independent, random distribution) is 1 in 20^13, putting the expec
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by bmm6o 16y ago
> It's really about common sense and responsibility I'm not taking a position on whether the book should or should not be made available, but it's worth keeping in mind that the sorts of people who are most interested in trying the stuf
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Any test can fail in two fundamental ways: false positives and false negatives. The primary purpose of a screening test is to filter out unqualified candidates (that is, to not certify as qualified someone who is not). The process Joel de
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The mother lode of contaminated sites(metafilter.com)
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by bmm6o 16y ago
> You shouldn't rely on the HTTP request parser to save you if you have security issues elsewhere This doesn't make sense. Why should a particular piece of the application not be coded with security in mind? > You should fix the
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Do you have a plan for handling non-ascii characters in your trie? The descriptions I've seen usually involve having a character index into an array, and it seems like a waste if you used 2-byte characters. I guess you would use an encodi
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by bmm6o 16y ago
My home ec class was worthless. We cooked and sewed, which I think is much more traditional course material for home ec. It sounds like your brother's teacher looked at the title and made up the syllabus - I've never heard of anything rem
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by bmm6o 16y ago
I see where you're coming from, but "new users should have a worse experience than those who've cracked the code" is not a viable long term strategy.
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Reddit has to solve this problem if they want to grow. The fact that "unsubscribe to front page" is the best advice for new users is ridiculous. They would be much stickier if they could figure a way to automatically determine what subred
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by bmm6o 16y ago
The software looks cool, and I totally get the demo scenario. I'm having trouble coming up with situations in which i would be useful to me , though. Do any of you all see other uses for it?
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by bmm6o 16y ago
And, I know she's using the term loosely, but in general steganography does not require a loss of information. "Always look on the bright side of life" conveys much less information than "I just broke up with my bf".
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by bmm6o 16y ago
I don't know, it seems like a lot of trouble to work around a problem caused by the medium (facebook).
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by bmm6o 16y ago
It's not the ignorance in and of itself. Nobody is judging patio11 based on his (lack of) knowledge of metal singers. It's (1) the proud announcement of ignorance and (2) posting it in a message as if it contributes to the discussion. If
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by bmm6o 16y ago
It's called "running a break", and I've only seen it used to clear debris or disabled cars out of lanes, or so that a construction crew can close a lane. It'll freak you out the first time a cop car swerves in front of you across 5 lanes o
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by bmm6o 16y ago
The posts were deleted (in bad faith, it seems), but they seem to have been undeleted. Thanks admin!
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by bmm6o 16y ago
> Fine, maybe so, but if you are someone who uses gmail, you are surrounded by a cadre of spammers and should understand your credibility is instantly devalued. "My credibility"? When I send my mom an email, I expect her to get it. Wh

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