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by columbo 13y ago
Wanting to increase diversity is a good thing, so kudos for that. However you should -never- -ever- -ever- indicate a preference towards a race, gender, sexual orientation or religious affiliation. Did I say ever? Ever. Ever. Ever. It's dis
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by columbo 13y ago
Here's what I -really- would like to see: No login, just give me a url ( http://sinkabuddy.com/f8jNsh1o ) that I can IM to a coworker to start playing with. I don't want to have to require both of us to sign in with Facebook just to play a
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by columbo 13y ago
My math is probably wrong... but I believe if you ate a twinkie for every request at the end of a year it would take 1,350 Blue Marlin heavy lift ships to move you across the ocean.
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by columbo 13y ago
This is a really good point, it was the first thing I noticed as well. 17 responses isn't even enough to throw a margin of error at, the entire survey is effectively a margin of error of 100%. If it really was only 17 responses that's the e
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by columbo 13y ago
Yeah, military and space hardware feels like a given. You could always say the Voyager is the oldest running program. I'd be more interested to hear about computers that are in use being actively changed, with new software coming out on the
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by columbo 13y ago
Hrm, interesting but I was hoping for a bit more. These are mostly collectors keeping things around for nostalgia purposes. I was hoping to hear more about legitimate systems being run on 20/30/40 year old systems.
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by columbo 13y ago
> I don't know what to do with tests, to be honest. ... HN what do you think? Well, since you asked! The most valuable tests in any system is functional tests. Unfortunately most tests are unit tests that give little value. Here's som
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by columbo 14y ago
Great work! I have two suggestions: Build an application in Clojure and in C/C++. IMO you should try a functional language (doesn't have to be clojure) and a lower level language. It could be a clojure webapp and a C++ opengl game... doesn'
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by columbo 14y ago
One thing I absolutely do not agree with is Bryan Caplan’s laughably narrow-minded view on people that do not attend college. Not everyone turns 18 and suddenly has everything they need but simply decides not go to because, like, non-confor
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by columbo 14y ago
Here's an example of something that I do not believe would work in modern browsers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms970405.aspx If your entire application was created like that then you are talking about a significant overhaul.
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by columbo 14y ago
The problem I see is that this is really just your perspective of the project. It could very well be that the 0.5 gamma curve is really a hyperbolic sine ( http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicSine.html ). If it is, are you going to have
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by columbo 14y ago
This stuff is fun: Commercial Opportunities in Iraq Oil Sector: https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973BAGHDA00111_b.htm... Earliest record for Megabyte https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973OECDP12963_b.html Opening up a 50 ki
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by columbo 14y ago
Why not follow the same system as domains? Allow for yearly renewal of copyrights. Failure to renew moves the item into the public doman regardless if it has been 2 or 200 years. The net-effect could be interesting; articles would move into
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by columbo 14y ago
Oh right, good point, I should have said performant.
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by columbo 14y ago
Oh sure, there are reasons to use an easier/faster-to-develop language, I believe every developer should know a 'hard-and-fast' language and a 'slow-and-easy' language... and know when to use them. 98% of the websites out there could run on
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by columbo 14y ago
>what matters most to me is speed of development and whether or not I enjoy the process. Matters most? There are 100x differences here. Take two companies writing the same application, one in Spring the other in Rails. Both have easy ac
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by columbo 14y ago
It's a great start, but I think <> would have been more appropriate, you could call it clomuretext.
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by columbo 14y ago
I use tmux daily but I still rely on emulator tabs when tailing verbose files as sending it through tmux will lock up my terminal.
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by columbo 14y ago
I'd be interest to see the same heat map with an overlay of average median income for each district. PBR might be a hipster thing, or it could be more of an indicator for a lower-income district. Also, I wonder if chains were included as th
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by columbo 14y ago
I wonder if every user created in the last 7 days should be hellbanned, it seems the vast majority of them are lolcats-/b/ers and other derivatives who found this place due to last week's news explosion.
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by columbo 14y ago
Reminds me of a short story that has been around the net for at least ten years: https://sites.google.com/site/cubiclejunglestory/
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by columbo 14y ago
Agreed I would have preferred if this entire ordeal was sorted out with a game of laser tag, it'd be a fitting conclusion to the level of bizarro-world-absurdity this issue has become.
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by columbo 14y ago
> Posting a tweet on your twitter account. -> Public actions representing a company. I really don't want to step into this... but just to clarify the tweet did say: "@SendGrid supports me. Stop trolling." so yes, that makes it a pos
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by columbo 14y ago
I disagree. Well, ok, I agree that restaurant chains serve boring food, but I don't think that is a -bad- thing for the healthcare industry. Here's a real world example: Three weeks ago I slipped on some ice and I sprained my arm. Hundreds
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by columbo 14y ago
> Here's how I'd do it: pass laws specifically forbidding these actions by government officials, the punishment being death. And then when someone violates the law, you kill them. You wouldn't have to do this too many times before the
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by columbo 14y ago
Oh wow. I did cold-calling a lifetime ago. Wound up getting a place that dealt with bull sperm in my stack of 'service-orientated' companies. I must have spent an hour trying to explain what an ERP was. Nice guy though.
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by columbo 14y ago
IMO The actual way to word it (to be correct with the author's intent would be to say something like this: Poor people hoard items because they cannot afford the risk of buying a replacement. Living simply is a virtue given to the wealthy;
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by columbo 14y ago
The first job I automated out of existence was by incorporating a "print all" button into an existing application. We had to hire someone, full time, to open each document and print it. I don't think anyone really knows what the future will
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by columbo 14y ago
It's not about the money, it's about the complete disregard of quality. The applications we create should only use the resources they need.
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by columbo 14y ago
> This kind of put into words an odd feeling I was having about the whole "war of the sexes" vibe What vibe? > we're making a harmless part of videogame history a political and social justice issue Who is doing that? > What I do

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