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by brnstz 14y ago
I've watched the UK series and the first episode of this new version. It's more risque than the UK version (violence and sex), and more stylish visually. I would say it was on par with a David Fincher movie (who directed the first couple ep
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by brnstz 14y ago
> That's orthogonal to OOP, isn't it? Sure, you can do upfront design in any language. But you need to have experience to do upfront design. If you're new to programming, you should just hack around. The other option is to read a Design
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by brnstz 14y ago
The hard part of running a marathon is not walking to the starting line. But you still have to learn to walk.
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by brnstz 14y ago
The biggest problem in computer programming education is the pervasiveness of object-oriented design patterns. There is a subset of humans on this planet who find this incredibly structured way of thinking exhilarating. A subset of that sub
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by brnstz 14y ago
Existentialists spend their whole lives chasing fleeting moments of earthly happiness. It's all we got. Don't take it away from us. If you've managed to find God's love, all the best to you. Still, even if this is your permanent, reliable s
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by brnstz 14y ago
Agree on Sheldon Brown's site. Amazing old internet site. I can't get into clipless riding though. I tried toe clips and found it incredibly dangerous riding in the city (New York City). I don't feel safe unless I can bail off the bike in a
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by brnstz 14y ago
Can't tell if you're trolling, but are you suggesting that riding a bike requires more effort than having a deep relationship with God? I suspect your local religious leader would disagree. Exercise is good for your body and your mental hea
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by brnstz 14y ago
People have been paying tribute to leaders of the tribe ever since civilization has existed. Part of the wheat your ancestors reaped fed the army. The army provided protection, but probably did some pretty terrible things, too. Unlike your
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by brnstz 14y ago
I don't "get" sports, in that I'm incapable of forming the emotional attachment to a team that seems so prevalent. (And as I type that, I wonder, maybe I'm saying more about myself than I am about sports . . ) I don't get it. If you grew up
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by brnstz 14y ago
I agree any pardon should be a blanket one. I wonder about semantics though. Is someone really "guilty" of breaking an unjust law? It's like saying someone is "guilty" of freeing a slave. An unjust law is no law at all, and usually people h
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by brnstz 14y ago
You're right, honor doesn't factor into it in the U.S. But it sounds like in India, musicians don't busk because they are afraid of being perceived as beggars. Which is unfortunate.
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by brnstz 14y ago
It's not considered a particularly honorable way of making money in the west either. We're just less concerned about honor.
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by brnstz 14y ago
This might be good advice for business relationships, but it is terrible advice for your personal life. Take a look at the happiest couple you know. They aren't happy because they are perfect for each other and always have the same opinion,
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by brnstz 14y ago
Maybe not having dependencies is a good idea. The iPhone runs Unix, too.
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by brnstz 14y ago
Honestly, Chrome takes more of an app store model. It updates behind the scenes and always works. While it may be backed by open source work, it is released and controlled as product by Google. Firefox is a disaster. I don't open it much, b
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by brnstz 14y ago
Running "update all" on my iPhone has been way more stable than "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" on my Linux servers over the years. It is a good model, but it is far from perfect. Could you just fire your sysadmin and put in a c
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by brnstz 14y ago
I'd say the worst thing about the iOS environment is that everything isn't synced to the cloud consistently. It's approaching that. Restoring your stuff should be a matter of knowing a single sign in. We're getting there. But yes, you're ri
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by brnstz 14y ago
Open source is great for infrastructure software. The number of high quality open source tools that exist now is actually quite amazing. All you need to start learning cutting-edge software development is an internet connection, an old comp
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by brnstz 14y ago
I agree that unit tests for internal (non public) functionality are not particularly useful, and can hamper your willingness to change an internal implementation for the better. I also agree it's painful to trace through dozens of classes/m
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by brnstz 14y ago
You're right, many "news" articles don't follow that traditional format. The difference is that your examples are not the primary news article about an important event. They are either commentary / color on an important event, an opinion pi
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by brnstz 14y ago
I'm bad with restaurants in Manhattan, but Anella and Bozu are two favorites in Brooklyn. I agree there are many loud restaurants in Manhattan, but that is mostly a factor of the bar and/or a large space (e.g., Buddakan). Look for places no
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by brnstz 14y ago
What you're saying may be true of new media sites and investigative / gonzo / entertainment journalism, but old school journalism 101 says the first paragraph should be a summary for hard news stories. In fact, hard news should be written s
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by brnstz 14y ago
There are plenty of quiet restaurants in NYC.
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Newsweek to Cease Print Publication at End of Year(mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by brnstz 14y ago
No one has infinite willpower. Making it a tad harder to browse reddit is a useful deterrent. It makes you think twice. If you're trying to lose weight, wearing a muzzle is extreme. However, it's a good idea to remove all the junk food from
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by brnstz 14y ago
Welcome to dialectics, brought to you by our friends at Ancient Western Culture. There are certainly happy people working at startups, and happy people working at large companies like Microsoft. Certainly Microsoft's JobsBlog is going to pr
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by brnstz 14y ago
RapGenius is a nice site for viewing lyrics and understanding obscure (to you) references. But a tally sheet of line-by-line references is not really an "explanation" of a rap/song/poem. Literary allusion has a long history and it can deepe
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by brnstz 14y ago
Live in Brooklyn. You'll be fine.
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by brnstz 14y ago
> that's gotten worse since I moved to NYC and had money to get delivery effectively every night Small step to health: Instead of ordering delivery, order from a place at least a half mile away, and walk to pick it up yourself.
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by brnstz 15y ago
Many programmers educated in the OOP days don't know the term "structured programming". I once interviewed someone who called a Pascal-like language "functional". We hired him anyway.

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