damon_c

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by damon_c 12y ago
So obvious right? Well, we already have laws that make the possession of heroin illegal. They are broken all the time. With regards to the original point about silly laws that prevent us from spending our money and free time in ways that
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by damon_c 12y ago
I'm concerned that your machine guns have the potential to harm others. The rest though, by all means...
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by damon_c 12y ago
Interesting, and from the same page, Drake's rule says that similarly to programming, the larger the "codebase", the slower the mutation (new feature launch) rate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_size
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by damon_c 12y ago
The idea that nature may have evolved coding design patterns to make "cleaner more efficient" code is amazing. Are flowering plants just written in a language that doesn't have "for loops" so everything is just writ
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by damon_c 12y ago
When you open a binary file in a text editor it looks like garbage.
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by damon_c 12y ago
...and Disney stock has roughly tripled since he died.
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by damon_c 12y ago
You're wrong. It's not only reasonable, it's common.
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by damon_c 12y ago
When people start talking about crazy sci-fi scenarios about "the machines taking over", and I try to ponder realistic ways something like that could actually happen, my speculative journey currently leads me to the future of farm
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by damon_c 12y ago
I believe the OP is saying that while it is often difficult to believe that events like fizz buzz fails or overt sexual misconduct could even be possible because they seem so unlikely and outside of the realm of expectations in our personal
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by damon_c 12y ago
I used to make TV commercials and in 1998 I absconded with the leftover "hero buns" from a Wendy's commercial shoot. I still have them, in a box, sealed in their original food stylist primped and prepped state. They are in c
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by damon_c 12y ago
I don't understand why Apple charges for things like this. You'd think it adds up to very little cost for them but adds such value that they would sell more than enough additional Macs and Phones. I mean... wouldn't their id
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by damon_c 12y ago
Obviously he broke the law and was not the most morally pure individual. But, what about 100 years from now? Do you think the people of the future will think we are being silly to put him in prison for 25+ years for running an unregulated o
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by damon_c 12y ago
The growth rate is slowing. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate
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by damon_c 12y ago
If you use ansible, there is a great feature called ansible-vault that allows you to store all those sensitive bits right in the repo but encrypted and automatically readable by ansible when needed.
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by damon_c 12y ago
Work for people who are more concerned with the business value you provide and how fast, and reliably you provide it, and who don't care about the details of what technology you use. This often means being hired by the CEO and not the
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by damon_c 12y ago
Also, see Battery Park City in NYC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Park_City
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by damon_c 12y ago
It's a good point. With many domains... the more deeply you know something, the more you know about the grimy details, and the likelihood of unfettered love for that thing is reduced.
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by damon_c 12y ago
People who don't get enough sleep, have you tried napping? I find that a 20-30 minute nap after lunch is a decent replacement for hours 5-8 of sleep that I didn't get the previous night... until about 10pm or so at which point I c
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by damon_c 12y ago
I used to use Perl. I got lots done in Perl from around 1998-2003, but I never really felt like I was having fun or really understood the language very well. I just figured out what I needed to. Then I happened upon some Python code I nee
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by damon_c 12y ago
A new RadioShack store JUST opened around the corner from me a few weeks ago. I assume it was a short term holiday season thing.
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by damon_c 12y ago
Yeah, wondering the same thing... And how will they bring it DOWN from space? Won't they need to attach heavy weights to it to get it to fall through the atmosphere?! -- (just kidding...)
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by damon_c 12y ago
Warning: This article contains revelations about the deity known as "Santa Claus" which may be disturbing to those who maintain a belief in "Santa Claus" even into adulthood.
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by damon_c 12y ago
Some Mayan probably said exactly the same thing a few thousand years ago.
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by damon_c 12y ago
For the record, my relative is very good looking and fun to hang out with.
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by damon_c 12y ago
Programmer's inboxes are filled with emails from recruiters. Doctor's inboxes are filled with emails from drug company reps offering to take them out to play golf and fancy dinners and give them boxes of free samples of the drugs
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by damon_c 12y ago
Interesting. It's been around long enough you'd think they would have worked out those details. I just linked it because I felt it gave the clearest explanation of the concept.
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by damon_c 12y ago
One of the main concepts in physically based rendering, more than whether it uses path tracing or ray tracing or global illumination, is the notion of correctly modeled energy conservation with respect to the rendering of surfaces. have a l
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by damon_c 12y ago
Speaking for myself, I don't try before I buy, I just pay if there is a pay option available. I'm just suggesting a sort of market based incentive to pay for things that one could easily get for free. Over time, those who pay may
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by damon_c 12y ago
The way I look at it is that even if you have the option to not pay for things, paying for things is giving you a voice. When I pay $4.99 to "rent" a movie or $13.99 for a season of TV, I am saying to the motion picture making wor
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by damon_c 12y ago
I will allow for a slight chance that he really did sincerely just want to play Xbox/Playstation yesterday.

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