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by cheepin 11y ago
One of the interesting things I'm waiting to see is if .NET gets good enough to become the "main" platform for compile to VM languages like Clojure. It can already compile to .NET, but it's significantly less used than t
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by cheepin 11y ago
I think this might be a bit of a single cause fallacy just like the other poster. Only Facebook knows why they payed what they did, but it was certainly more complex than just preventing Google from buying them. The aggregate benefit of not
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by cheepin 11y ago
I believe messages pass through the servers, but once a message makes it to your device, its online copy gets deleted.
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by cheepin 11y ago
Add an 'e' to the end, and it makes a lot more sense! https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write
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by cheepin 12y ago
and doesn't include accounts that were registered before April 1st, but did not log on yesterday. This potentially could be a lot since it is relatively common to have more than one account on reddit.
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by cheepin 12y ago
Here you go. Not super efficient, but a little bookmarklet to get rid of the most annoying things about Quora javascript:(function(){function a(c){var e=document.getElementsByTagName('*'),i;for(i in e){if((' '+e[i].class
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by cheepin 12y ago
"The immediate answer, of course, is “neither.” But no parent accepts that. It’s assumed, and not incorrectly, that the vast majority of adolescents will try one or the other, especially when they go to college." The article build
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by cheepin 12y ago
Being an expert at something is not equivalent to saying that thing is boring. One insidious danger of "boring" tools is how they lull developers into complacency. "You can’t pay people enough to carefully debug boring boiler
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by cheepin 12y ago
And the discussion of that video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7655281
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by cheepin 12y ago
...and just like that, we have become the finance guys.
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by cheepin 12y ago
Why are there no referenced human experiments? Low/No carb diets have been around for ages. Surely it wouldn't be that hard to get good data on something this basic. The claims made in this article are pretty significant, why do w
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by cheepin 12y ago
> There is also a place for functions that only get called from one location Do it inline. If you need it to look separate from the other context try an immediately invoked function or at worst some comment demarcation. No need to spray
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by cheepin 12y ago
yeah, not wanting to die is probably enough incentive for whoever replaced the last guy who found a cartel.
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by cheepin 12y ago
(int) Addition, (int) Multiplication, String Concatenation, AND, OR, XOR? I think I can say that I've used all of these. I find this is a bit of a nicer treatment of monoids (still F#): http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/
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by cheepin 12y ago
Interestingly, these freemium games rely heavily on traditional television advertising.
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by cheepin 12y ago
Especially since post editing is allowed, though maybe post editing could just drop the votes or something.
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by cheepin 12y ago
I think it's a pun on his surname
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by cheepin 12y ago
Unfortunately, there are a couple types of HFT. At it's core, it just means trading using a computer to execute more/faster trades. That seems justifiable in making the markets more efficient. Where most people including myself ha
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by cheepin 12y ago
I think you are being a bit generous in assuming that a steroid ban in professional sports means that they are not used. In practice, it means that they must use them clandestinely, but I wouldn't be surprised if a future analysis reve
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by cheepin 12y ago
A few more observations based on my experience with heavy squats. 1.) If the weight gets misplaced, a simple straight bar can be rolled back up to a more "comfortable" position. A curved (C shaped) bar under load finds an equillib
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by cheepin 12y ago
> I do agree college should not be free. It devalues the education and puts those who are there to truly learn at a disadvantage. Who wants to be in classes alongside people who just there because its free, or for the ride? At what point
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by cheepin 12y ago
It's the legal loophole around CP at 4chan (luckily only at /b/). It's not clearly illegal so it doesn't get banned, but it's also obviously just drawn CP.
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by cheepin 12y ago
They tend to get similar advertisers to sites like the pirate bay. At one point, they had duckduckgo advertisements but I was so cynical that I assumed it was just crap like the rest of the ads... never clicked on it.
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by cheepin 12y ago
Does China do anything to stop the import of poached animal products? They protect their own native species (nowadays, anyways... their native tiger is likely extinct in the wild), but don't make similar efforts species from other area
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by cheepin 12y ago
Odd to use Python as your intro to functional programming, since it lacks many functional programming features besides lambdas which the language creator doesn't even like ( http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.js
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by cheepin 12y ago
> "[...] your consuming of too much calories makes you gain weight. But evidence is that you having too much weight demands you to consume more calories" Appetite is at best correlated with weight, not a causal relationship. &g
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by cheepin 12y ago
> I don't understand how the Sony hack relates to the proposed changes to the CFAA. I'm guessing that the lobbyists behind SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, etc have been trying to push something like this for a while, but now think that the
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by cheepin 12y ago
Yep, the collective "we" got what "we" wanted.
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by cheepin 12y ago
Isn't Clojure on CLR too? I would think that platform might suit it a bit better, and might get better performance in the long run (the case I can think of off the bat is the possibility of tail-call-optimization).
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by cheepin 12y ago
I came to that conclusion when they told me "Sorry, it looks like you don’t have a sufficient number of Facebook Likes for us to generate an accurate enough prediction!"

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