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by cruise02 13y ago
Read the parent comments. I was replying to five specific points that were made. I never said that anyone's shit doesn't stink.
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by cruise02 13y ago
That might be even more convincing! :)
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by cruise02 13y ago
Please get your facts straight. * The Iraq war ended in 2011, and the Afghanistan war is winding down. * The Obama administration has attempted to close Guantanamo, only to be blocked by Congress. * We are no longer in the financial crisis
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by cruise02 13y ago
Then you ban the new toxic behavior when it manifests. People who are truly toxic to their core will either leave or suffer quietly when they realize that they can't act like an ass and get away with it. Some people will be more intros
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by cruise02 13y ago
As always, there's a relevant xkcd. It's one of my favorites. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by cruise02 13y ago
I love these. I posted several on my blog a few years ago. Six Visual Proofs: http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/07/six-visual-proofs_25.ht... Visualization of (X + 1)^2: http://www.billthelizard.com&#x2
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by cruise02 13y ago
Maybe high schools just need to do a better job of preparing students for college?
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by cruise02 13y ago
"Changing your views" isn't what was suggested.
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by cruise02 13y ago
A four stone handicap in Go is way less than a four piece handicap in chess. Also, Crazy Stone is 6d on KGS.
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by cruise02 13y ago
That's still significant progress in the past five years. 2009 was the first time AIs were able to reach dan level ranks on a 19x19 board. Crazy Stone is approximately 6 dan now.
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by cruise02 13y ago
Who is suggesting they should?
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by cruise02 13y ago
"It's just my opinion" strikes me as the larger evasion of responsibility here. There's nothing irresponsible about reporting the facts of a story so that people can make informed decisions. > More data can also mean
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by cruise02 13y ago
I expect a lot of "opinion" journalists to pile on Silver, but this piece strikes me as particularly tone deaf. > Is numeracy really what American public discourse most urgently lacks? It ranks pretty high. > Like Ezra Klein
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by cruise02 13y ago
How are either of those quotes belittling coding?
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What is the optimal algorithm for the game 2048?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by cruise02 13y ago|0 comments
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Software Patents Are Bullshit(techcrunch.com)
4 points by cruise02 13y ago|0 comments
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by cruise02 13y ago
No, he meant 1/2 the speed of light. The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s, so about 300,000 kilometers per second. Half that is the speed he mentioned.
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by cruise02 13y ago
"Cognitive dissonance" doesn't mean the same thing as "hypocrisy."
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The 100 Rules For Being an Entrepreneur(betabeat.com)
1 points by cruise02 13y ago|0 comments
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by cruise02 13y ago
No! A question got closed! The whole thing must be broken!
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by cruise02 13y ago
I think he's saying that their API is callable from jQuery, they just don't want any more questions emailed to them about it.
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by cruise02 13y ago
2050: A working profanity filter
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by cruise02 13y ago
He doesn't even recognize that he's using two separate accounts, but other people are supposed to recognize him and his accounts should have mod powers? Again, if he had just used his original account to edit his answer, he woul
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by cruise02 13y ago
How many LuaJIT experts do you suppose there are reviewing edits on Stack Overflow?
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by cruise02 13y ago
You already do have to give a reason for closing a question. That reason is displayed when a question is closed. You have plenty of time to edit your question to make it clear before it's deleted. Once you edit it, it can be reopened.
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by cruise02 13y ago
Stop Googling for "what's your favorite programmer t-shirt" and that won't happen as often.
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by cruise02 13y ago
The appropriate response was an edit by the author with his original account, not a comment.
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by cruise02 13y ago
99.99% of the time, rejecting a suggested edit that changes code is the right thing to to. The competence of the reviewers isn't really the issue. The author should have just used his original account to make the edit and this would ha
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by cruise02 13y ago
No, new and anonymous users do have another option, they can post their own answer. That's irrelevant anyway, since that's not what happened here. The author of the post tried to edit his own answer with a second account. He shoul
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by cruise02 13y ago
It's generally accepted by the community at Stack Overflow that you don't edit other people's answers except to make improvements to formatting and punctuation. Changing the code should be left to the original author of the p

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