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by cruise02 16y ago
I know it's comparing apples to oranges, but I contribute a lot on Stack Overflow so I took a look at the results. https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl%3A1&#38... I was expecting a higher proportion in the "advanced" categ
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by cruise02 16y ago
Where do you sit? I'm on the 5th floor, by the stairwell.
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by cruise02 16y ago
It's currently the top-voted question on the site. We programmers are a bunch of cheap bastards! :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes
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by cruise02 16y ago
Also see Stack Overflow's List of freely available programming books: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
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by cruise02 16y ago
> Actually, if you don't have a rubber duck you could at a pinch ask a fellow programmer or engineer to sit in. In my experience the rubber duck works better because it doesn't try to talk back to you or interfere in any way.
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by cruise02 16y ago
I just started reading it in a Cockney accent and it turned out fine. ;)
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Workaround for the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability(weblogs.asp.net)
4 points by cruise02 16y ago|0 comments
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by cruise02 16y ago
Norvig's Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years is what I normally recommend people read if they really want to learn how to program. http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by cruise02 16y ago
If you click on the edited date on Stack Exchange sites you can see the revision history. That one shows that Qiaochu Yuan changed the tag from "geometry" to "topology".
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by cruise02 16y ago
Digg and reddit aggregate links across a wide variety of topics and have a very diverse user base. Stack Overflow's focus is more narrow (much like that of Hacker News). The crowd is a lot more focused as a result. People are a lot less
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by cruise02 16y ago
You're assuming that both the asker and the crowd are incompetent. No kind of Q&A site is going to produce good results under those conditions.
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by cruise02 16y ago
It isn't supposed to come from people who haven't participated in sister sites. They're taking ideas from within the existing communities for a reason. They're going to take a handful (or several) from those ideas. Those sites will attra
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by cruise02 16y ago
This is true. Luckily Google aggressively crawls and indexes SO, so that really is the preferred way to search the site. I've seen results in Google for questions that were posted 10 minutes earlier.
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by cruise02 16y ago
This happens a lot less on Stack Overflow than on reddit. The asker isn't supposed to accept the most popular answer, either. They're asking a question because they have a problem to solve. They should be testing solutions and accept
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by cruise02 17y ago
No, that's not the same thing at all.
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by cruise02 17y ago
Good arguments need few straw men.
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by cruise02 17y ago
You'd have to be pretty drunk to accidentally hit the most remote tree in the world. I can't decide if I'd have to be more or less drunk to do it on purpose.
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Stop Reading "Clients from Hell"(numerosign.com)
47 points by cruise02 17y ago|33 comments
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by cruise02 17y ago
Cool, I wasn't aware of the physics one either. There's a list of them maintained here: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexcha...
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Proofs without words(mathoverflow.net)
50 points by cruise02 17y ago|25 comments
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by cruise02 17y ago
It will get a spike from today's XKCD, which will sadly probably be higher than the spike it receives when the thing is finally solved.
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by cruise02 17y ago
Thanks. I'm a big fan of her books, blog, and philosophy in general. I hope she doesn't lay low for too long, but she's given so much to the programming/online community that I guess she deserves a break if she wants one.
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Where in the World is Kathy Sierra? -- Or, the best tech writing blogger ever(davidbarneswork.posterous.com)
67 points by cruise02 17y ago|17 comments
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by cruise02 17y ago
Oddly enough, I found the exact same article submitted under the title "10 Online Businesses That Prove You Can Make Money Out Of Anything" to a different site. http://madconomist.com/10-online-businesses-that-prove-you-c...
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Entrepreneurs Who Believe That Business Shouldn't Be Boring(nichegeek.com)
1 points by cruise02 17y ago|1 comments
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by cruise02 17y ago
This is also included in a collection of essays by Asimov. http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Wrong-Isaac-Asimov/dp/15756... <-- non-affiliate
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by cruise02 17y ago
I think Giles proves his own point. "Stunned" doesn't mean "as surprised as humanly possible." It does imply a very high degree of surprise, but nothing about the word "stunned" implies an absolute human maximum amount of astonishment.
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by cruise02 17y ago
I can't comprehend why the presenter would focus so much on the theatrics of pulling this information out of your briefcase. If you've gone to the trouble of analyzing a prospective client's business to the point that you can produce a 3-5
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by cruise02 17y ago
Abelson and Sussman make the magic analogy early and often in SICP and their lectures. Does anyone take it literally? Also, reimplementing functions that are already there is a perfectly acceptable way to learn a language.
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by cruise02 17y ago
Pick-off moves were the first thing that came to my mind.

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