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by coroxout 14y ago
I think your hypothetical attractive 23y/o woman who goes into the office of a middle-aged manager who barely knows who she is and comes out with a better job will be very much rumoured to have "exploited" her "sexual 'assets'", whether she
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by coroxout 14y ago
This is excellent news, thank you. I've heard many good things about this book (mostly on HN!) and on first glance it looks very interesting indeed. Edit: since this is the launch it must have the tutorials that turned into the book which I
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by coroxout 14y ago
I read '"growth" as a key concept is being forced on all of us right now' to mean it's hard to opt out of a lifestyle which is dependent on economic growth as a given, which I agree with, and gave the above as an example. I may have misunde
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by coroxout 14y ago
Well, a bank account is almost required for life in most Western countries now (unless you can receive all your income/benefits and pay all your bills in cash - not even an option for my salary or utility bills), and banks are only willing
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by coroxout 14y ago
Not sure about this. In my experience accommodation in the UK is more than in the US (possibly not in the big cities or SV, though it was true of SF last time I visited), gas and electricity are a lot more expensive, and food is about the s
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by coroxout 14y ago
I look forward to trying this once the HN server overload effect has worn off. This is something I would have found useful a year or two ago, considered writing, and decided it would be impossible to get a usefully generalised regex. I'm gl
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by coroxout 14y ago
Your experiences chime with my own, as another woman with just over 10 years of experience - especially the part about being afraid to ask questions. This extends to being afraid to try new tasks, take on new projects, or even just ask for
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by coroxout 14y ago
Which would be long overdue. DirectXTK looks neat but so far it's no replacement for the bits of XNA I've used. And with all the uncertainty I'd like to see something very official in big, shiny writing to convince me any new MS game develo
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by coroxout 14y ago
Mixed sizes of scaled-up pixels bug me, especially pixels not at power-of-2 scalings to each other, but I think the contrast between obviously scaled-up pixel graphics and native resolution antialiased graphics can sometimes be useful, e.g.
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by coroxout 14y ago
I used to use Paint Shop Pro for (among other things) pixel art. Somewhere around version 6 JASC decided it was no longer a generic graphics package but should be a Photoshop-rivalling photograph editor. From then on, selections no longer h
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by coroxout 14y ago
Ha, that's great. I knocked up a more or less working FreeCell solitaire in Excel one bored afternoon, so Blackjack should certainly be possible in plain old Excel VBA. Most impressive Excel things I've seen by other people: a Game of Life
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by coroxout 14y ago
I was a ZX Spectrum kid, which at the time was a great rivalry. But I have fond memories of the C64 and many other 80s home micros from visiting friends' houses, and I have to admit that C64 music still sounds good today, courtesy of its SI
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by coroxout 14y ago
HR definitely have too much say in IT hiring in many places - I suspect many CVs go in the bin for not matching the exact acronym or buzzword on HR's list, when any technical person would see extensive experience of the same or highly relat
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by coroxout 14y ago
I agree with your point but I don't know if theoretical linguistics is really such an absurd degree to show programming aptitude. It's quite an analytical subject and the structures of natural languages do have some parallels with the struc
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by coroxout 14y ago
I thought this was going to be yet another piece on the Javascript debate (perhaps a little unlikely from the New Yorker, but who knows?), instead of about punctuation in English. Many here may be disappointed that it was the latter, but pe
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by coroxout 14y ago
My former coworker would use the mouse to copy and paste even 3-letter variable names rather than typing them in again. He'd also scroll his terminal window up and copy and paste old commands (again, all with the mouse) rather than using th
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by coroxout 14y ago
"The most productive and efficient mean for discussions is now pretty much just a binary deposit for porn and copyrighted material." Agreed, and definitely sad. Last time I looked, even the binaries groups seemed to be mainly full of bots p
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by coroxout 14y ago
Occasionally I browse HN in lynx, and pressing g followed by entering news.ycombinator.com (or any other hostname beginning with "news." and not prefixed with a protocol type) results in lynx trying to do exactly that: looking for nntp://ne
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by coroxout 14y ago
I like the design but the grey font is a bit hard to read against a black background for me. The fading coloured squares which fill space look pretty but they were confusing to me - are these links to more pages of results? Mousing over the
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by coroxout 14y ago
In 1990 I used the MS-DOS 5 Edit tool and QBasic and picked up the shortcuts Ctrl-insert and Shift-insert for copy and paste. I'm still using them 22 years later. They still work in most Windows applications and all MS applications even tho
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by coroxout 14y ago
This is probably a net good: new ways for people to apply their Python knowledge are good, and new means and incentives for people to get into coding or make life easier are good, and Python is looking more future-proof than VBA at this poi
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by coroxout 14y ago
I think it's a shame Codecademy (to the best of my knowledge) hasn't incorporated some more visual lessons into its tutorials by changing the CSS for HTML elements or by using Canvas. There are a lot of lessons with numerical loops which mi
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by coroxout 14y ago
Good ol' rubberkeys, the computer I grew up with. Today's UK Google doodle is a tribute to the ZX Spectrum and to St. George's Day. I assume this isn't the case outside the UK, as both events are mainly of interest to the UK. American histo
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by coroxout 14y ago
Still not a perfect cheating deterrent, as when in doubt you could press each button and see which one led to a unique page, as the wrong 3 answers all led to the same losing page. On my set, at least, you could change which page you were w
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by coroxout 15y ago
I remember a friend being excited before Donkey Kong 64's release because he'd heard about the Jetpac sub-game - I wonder if he already had Goldeneye... I just felt old on realising that the N64, which I remember reading previews of in Edge
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by coroxout 15y ago
I can barely play the game because I keep trying to use vim keys and going the wrong way, but the breakdown of each section of code (press the numbered tabs at the bottom, if it's not immediately obvious) is interesting - lots of byte-reduc
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by coroxout 15y ago
From a quick look (so I may be mistaken), the "Enigma" worksheet has everything it needs to encode a single letter using worksheet formulae. The VBA just loops through the input text, feeding it into the worksheet character by character and
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Sine waves and Medusa heads: level design and enemy patterns in Castlevania(kotaku.com)
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by coroxout 15y ago
"Even if someone were to nab a cell from a developing embryo before the X-linked inactivation happened, the new cloned kitten would also randomly inactivate its X chromosomes, leaving two cloned siblings that don't have the exact same color
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by coroxout 15y ago
Personally I'd regard it as a bit unfair to be rejected just on the grounds of code formatting. I've changed my indentation style before to meet a "house style" and would do so again if asked. In my opinion it would be more useful to see if

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