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by ceautery 8y ago
Man, Russian sidewalks are huge, I sort of understand thinking you could drive on them.
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by ceautery 8y ago
> I don't really make mistakes that often If you're not making regular mistakes, I suggest you seek more challenging work.
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by ceautery 9y ago
There's a lot of paper underneath that charging laptop.
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by ceautery 9y ago
I stumbled onto these guys a few years back when I was going nuts about base 18 (which you can do on a standard 5x2 abacus!). I think they have their own symbols for digits > 9 instead of using 'a' and 'b' in the hexa
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by ceautery 9y ago
Nice! Bards Tale 2 was boss.
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by ceautery 9y ago
Eeeenteresting. That makes more sense than going through the effort to jank physical media in a way that can be easily side-stepped.
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by ceautery 9y ago
I don't know about physical holes in the media, but a number of Apple // games had a few bad sectors sprinkled throughout the disk that would cause the 5.25" drives to make sort of a "BBRRRRNK" noise when copy
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by ceautery 9y ago
Hofstadter is still a boss. I felt like I was reading Metamagical Themas again.
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by ceautery 9y ago
"It also violated the toy industry's standards: it didn't talk, whistle, cry, shoot, change clothes, appear in a movie, or require batteries." And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are dead.
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by ceautery 9y ago
Tests help you unpack the problem you're coding for, so it's common to spend more time on them than the app code. I generally include tests for each acceptance criteria of the thing I'm working on, and also tests for "we
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by ceautery 9y ago
A better response would be honesty: "I've seen this question before on a (puzzle/interview prep/whatever) site. The optimal answer was better than what I initially came up with... I didn't consider that we knew one
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by ceautery 9y ago
At my day job (dev consulting), I worked the entire year on a project that our client ultimately decided to shelve, which allowed me to level up my Ember.js, Rails, and Postgres. On the volunteer front, I ran a computer club at my daughter&
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by ceautery 9y ago
The Tleilaxu use a whistled language in the Dune sequels to control their gholas. http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Whistling_language
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by ceautery 9y ago
I propose we call the object "Rama".
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by ceautery 9y ago
Manual patching is more of a bother, I imagine, so this wouldn't be due to a smug engineer getting his prima donna on.
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by ceautery 9y ago
I remember reading this when it came out, and it was fascinating, especially considering listening to modems to diagnose problems is how I made my bones in tech support back when CompuServe was still a thing. I'm an old timer, and have
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by ceautery 9y ago
That's cool, I hadn't ever heard about Sweden's double-leap years. I did some research on calendars a while back, and notably, the conversion to Gregorian had a lot of religious overtones. Here's what I wrote about it:
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by ceautery 9y ago
This was a "what the hell?" moment in the same vein as when I realized Tiny Tim was actually intelligent and well-spoken.
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by ceautery 9y ago
We could start by doing similar studies in other sports. Do rugby players get CTE as often? Can American football players retrain?
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by ceautery 9y ago
From the "Handling a job offer" page: "they've been totally in control of the process until now and they've probably dragged their feet because they can (who knows, an even better developer might show up, right?).&q
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by ceautery 9y ago
>> Everyone with computers running Microsoft Windows was told not to touch them. Good advice.
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by ceautery 9y ago
A cut and paste from that link: "Memory sizes greater than those permitted in any spefific correctional facilitywill be rejected at the facility property room." It's equally bleak that our prisons mandate typewriter memory ma
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by ceautery 9y ago
When I delivered pizza, my tips were more than my paycheck.
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by ceautery 9y ago
File a PR.
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by ceautery 9y ago
I've conjectured before that 9-11 happenening so close to the epoch flip was deliberate, as a hint that middle-east radicals weren't really disorganized, saber-wielding incompetents as Hollywood portrayed them.
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by ceautery 9y ago
You could also finish your game and get it into the app store. I'd pay a few bucks for that, and judging by some comments here, other HN-ers would as well.
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by ceautery 9y ago
The company store returns! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
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by ceautery 10y ago
>> He's looking for a payout. [Citation needed] Edit: OK, then.
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by ceautery 10y ago
Without opening it, I'm sure the article is less Skynet-ish than the title suggests. My knee-jerk reaction, though, is "Do you want robot overlords? Because THIS is how you get robot overlords!"
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by ceautery 10y ago
God, they're all on Windows.

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