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by caffeine 17y ago
The original is waaay better than that.
482.
by caffeine 17y ago
http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/t... What's wrong with that? Seems quite comprehensible to me...
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by caffeine 17y ago
And, what, you think the Fidelity guys don't happily go out and throw your retirement money down for strippers and coke on Fridays? What about Accenture 'analysts', or 'ThoughtWorkers'? You think that because their websites have high-perf
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by caffeine 17y ago
Because it's really good. So is their software. So we take the tech but jailbreak out of the attitude.
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by caffeine 17y ago
I use the same thing I did to quit smoking. Sort of an OCD-like 'As Good As It Gets' technique. Step 1. Whenever I feel the 'urge' to read e.g. HN, I close my eyes and quit my browser. Then I breathe slowly and deeply three times, holding i
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by caffeine 17y ago
By definition, if it's not working and you keep doing it, then what you're doing is not scientific management. Management by people claiming to manage scientifically, and management by scientists (not just of society, but anything) both cer
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by caffeine 17y ago
Yes, you do have the answers, although you can't assume they're correct: the article cites studies. This is exactly the point of doing Science (or at least sociological pseudo-science): Opinions Are Worthless.
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by caffeine 17y ago
I think there's a huge start up opportunity here, to found a science-based country. One nation, under Evidence...
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by caffeine 17y ago
The screenshots don't make it look all that special ... looks sort of like old Windows. The logo is really cool, though. Hopefully I'm wrong, and somebody can enlighten me?
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by caffeine 17y ago
I wish they would hold their breaths..
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by caffeine 17y ago
Surely you must see the Tao in all this? Reject duality. "Yes" and "No" create each other. They are both to be used, in harmony. This article is really about honesty. Eliminating posturing and the little face-saving nothings from "No" half-
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by caffeine 17y ago
What I did in Rails on a previous app was: - Tie hooks into the logger so I can track exactly which ActiveRecord models are accessed in a given page view. - Have 100% test coverage AND make sure coverage pattern (i.e. frequency distribution
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by caffeine 17y ago
I think this article is a joke, no? I mean, "a second webserver known as nginx, which serves malware," cooked up by evil Russians, deviously operating on port 8080? Hehe. I think it's quite good, actually.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Honestly: 30 days? $100K revenue from a new tech venture when you're 16 working in the afternoons and can't code ? Reaaallly? I realize these were crazy times but .. I smell a fish.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Brilliant! Where was this all my life? I only wish he would deconstruct Kanji and the resulting combinatorial explosion in the same way...
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by caffeine 17y ago
You're right. I might buy it if they inserted the word 'genetic,' but clearly, the social traits of a stupid person are largely the product of their stupidity. Nonetheless it's a useful law - it helps to overcome bias toward believing othe
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by caffeine 17y ago
I mean both, actually. Not only did it have a fundamentally appealing design in every detail, but it was also (in the early days) a great opener! "Ooooooo, is that the eye -Phone? Can I touch it? OMG, this ball-tilt game is awesome! "
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by caffeine 17y ago
If you go through a bit of learnyouahaskell.com you'll understand the code in those slides quite quickly. But ... the problem I have with Haskell is that the other people who use it are smarter than me, so while I can parse their code, so
499.
by caffeine 17y ago
Honestly, you know what the difference was? Sex appeal. Pure and simple. When iPhone came out, I had the flashiest PDA available. It had WiFi and I could do phone calls over VoIP and watch movies. But man I dropped that thing like a J2E
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by caffeine 17y ago
Yeah, I used a bad example. It's not really over-the-topness in terms of size or expense, like in the U.S. (where it's really an obsession with number-one-ness). Have you ever seen the "Human Tetris" video? It's a Japanese gameshow. You mi
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by caffeine 17y ago
I didn't say architecture (although I'm sure they do, but I'm not qualified to comment) - but their natural landscapes are absolutely beautiful.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Is cooking really such a hateful activity? I kind of enjoy it, sometimes. It can be relaxing .. sort of like programming with edible code. And chicks dig guys who can cook (not to mention that guys obviously dig girls who can cook). Wh
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by caffeine 17y ago
Gosh, Haskell is so readable! Most of those slides have nothing but code on them, yet they read perfectly comprehensibly. I guess it's a testament both to the language, and to the author's skill in expressing concepts clearly in it.
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by caffeine 17y ago
My theory is that it has much to do with a culture that grows up expressing ideas pictorially. During my (admittedly short .. just 1yr) time in Japan, I noticed that people don't just write in Kanji, they think in Kanji. They pun in K
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by caffeine 17y ago
I second (1) and (2) - but for me (3) has a periodicity of roughly 4 years (I can't remember which one college was ... and I've become insomniac in grad school).
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by caffeine 17y ago
Below are some vague, probably bizarre ideas, mixed in with terrible CS metaphores. I apologize in advance: I think it's mainly about amortization. So you can prepare rice, a big vegetable curry, and a roast turkey on the weekend. These
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by caffeine 17y ago
You can play the Zeno game with this. The first half of the items is actually an article of n/2 items - so you think of n/4 in the first 5 minutes. So you never actually think of an item.
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by caffeine 17y ago
I think it's sort of a textual fist-bump to people who smile when they see n followed by n/2, because it means something 's about to get logarithmic, and we like that.
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by caffeine 17y ago
It's unhealthy, though, isn't it? I have a hard time finding places that are healthy, fast, tasty and cheap all the same time. Whereas I can quickly cook healthy cheap and tasty meals.
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by caffeine 17y ago
I can't wait 'til somebody makes the tools to let this guy create holograms of people.

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