burgerbrain

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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Speaking as somebody who enjoys intentionally mocking others (go ahead, check my comment history. Fuck, I picked this username just to make the then-popular diet discussions on HN more interesting), if he's honestly not trying it (and I
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
I swear, it's like a few months ago somebody somewhere introduced tptacek to the concept of using "nerdy" as an insult (and to the debating tactic of attaching an insult to a position with the goal of forcing people to distance themselves f
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Oh. I thought they switched to stackexchange or something stupid like that. Whichever, I don't use the site much.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
No idea. Last time I bothered trying Stack Overflow did though. (That was a while ago, when it was still called that.)
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
It would be an improvement because then I could count on comments in JSON doing nothing (instead of possibly not parsing).
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
To add to this, I suspect any non-English speaker would rather have English comments that they can at least throw at Google Translate, than no comments at all.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
I have a hard time believing that the removal of comments would greatly simplify a JSON parser.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
> "I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives" What could possibly make somebody want to do that? Are there any examples around of people doing that?
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Ah yes, I'm not sure there. I think maybe whoever compiled this collection scrapped it themselves. I'm not aware of TPB themselves making the proper database publicly available yet.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Regarding your last point: You're not the only one to make this observation.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Paste that link into your favourite (up to date) torrent client.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Well... that seems fairly damning.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Is it actually easier though?
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Presumably if he was adding periods manually, he wouldn't have skipped them at the end of paragraphs.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
All pills can do that? I thought many were designed to dissolve in your stomach like tums. Not sure why they should be exceptionally bad, unless tums cause issues too.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
That seems like a fairly sever oversight. Is there a reason for that behaviour?
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
The inconsistent substitution of 'with' with 'w/' confuses me. Why do people even do that? On qwerty I know I find '/' to be much harder to strike than 'ith'.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
I feel uncomfortable attempting to derive any conclusions from a comparison between these two groups. It seems to me that since technology and technology presence is advancing so quickly that the way children of different ages view technol
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Lets see: http://4chan.org I'll let you know if I get arrested.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
No, I like it as it is. Why would I neuter my language for your sake?
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Do you naturally miss the point, or do you have to put effort into it?
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
[1] I only recognize that a distinction could exist when we restrict the discussion to conscripted armies. [2] I assert they do nothing of the sort. [3] Call it what you like, telling people that they should be more respectful of the mili
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
The ethical ramifications of work that is military in nature that an engineer must consider are close enough to on topic for my taste. These are concerns I know are considered not only by myself but by several of my peers working on the ea
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
So if the military does something and it is bad, then it isn't their fault because politicians made them do it. But if the military does it and it is good, then they deserve our praise and thanks.... Do you recognize the problem here? Rega
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Consider for a moment who that military decided needed killing en mass during the decade following the topic of discussion. Where all those communal farmers really threatening our way of life? When this army got it's ass kicked and left w
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Actually, that's exactly why I switched. (more precisely, this could be said why: http://www.cs.elte.hu/zsh-manual/zsh_14.html ) If you don't want to use it, I don't see how that is any of my business. I was just trying to help out someb
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Try: bindkey "^[[A" history-beginning-search-backward
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
"Some US police departments have set a maximum IQ score for new officers (for example: 125, in New London, CT), under the argument that those with overly-high IQs will become bored and exhibit high turnover in the job. This policy has been
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Interestingly, rejecting candidates because they score too well on IQ tests seems to be totally kosher in the US. Who would do such a thing? Cops.
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by burgerbrain 15y ago
Exactly. Everyone has worked themselves up into hysterics over the individual words that he used, while failing to recognize what he was saying.

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