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by deeviant 12y ago
Perhaps he didn't want the more specific word? Fast means fast, great, I get that. But what if you want fast code that works consistently, "performs" well, if you will. Then performant efficiently fills an appropriate niche.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Your statement has a near zero amount of useful information in it.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Regardless of whether the economy is zero sum or not, it is trivial to see that not everybody can be rich. So even if everybody did the "right" thing, not everybody would be rich, or even wealthy. See: the world GDP divided by wor
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by deeviant 12y ago
I think that the general lack of empathy in rich people is mainly related to the fact that to succeed, you generally do have to try hard, work diligently towards a goal, and generally be reasonably smart, however, these things are necessary
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by deeviant 12y ago
There is no "atheist" movement. At least not one that encapsulates anything but minute fraction of atheist/agnostics. There is no common value core shared atheists, there are no shared beliefs between atheists, there is no co
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by deeviant 12y ago
Yeah, I would be terrified of driving around in a car that's basically a metal box around a bomb ready to go, those batteries are deadly. I think what needs to be done is to build a car around many gallons of highly flammable liquid.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Marketing departments have always had a tenuous relationship with reality.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Implication is even a weaker relationship than correlation. And as a counter-point, the Surface RT has a second generation and may have a third. Does this imply success, or that MS went "all in"?
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by deeviant 12y ago
The ipod was a complete failure when it was Mac only, and it didn't start picking up steam until iTunes was on windows. When it did start picking up steam, it was ipod and itunes together that sky-rocketed in unison, which seems to len
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by deeviant 12y ago
Apple got to where they are now because they absolutely had the best product(smart phone) bar none, with pretty much everybody else immediately being put in catch-up mode. The people that say it was a marketing victory and not a product dev
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by deeviant 12y ago
Your comment doesn't resonant with me. I have an hour commute in the bay area twice a day, I used waze(now owned by Google) every trip. It's rare that it routes me in the same route twice in a row, there are all sorts of dynamic c
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by deeviant 12y ago
They weren't quite "written" in lua, but more had their higher level logic (events, stats, game logic) scripted in lua. It's kind of a small point, I just don't want somebody to get the idea to write an actual game
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by deeviant 12y ago
My last company I worked at, they had like 30% of the staging environment running production stuff. They also had only one deploy target, which is drum roll production, which meant all of staging AND some of Dev/QA was live and cou
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by deeviant 12y ago
Somebody just please tell me how long I will have to wait for somebody to create the first light sabre from "solid" light...
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by deeviant 12y ago
Agreed. It doesn't even have a "Our new shine thing <fatal> uses all kinds of <buzz words> to improve <productivity, testability, hairline> by <some entirely unrealistic amount> because we do <buzz words
736.
by deeviant 12y ago
This is insanely fun.
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by deeviant 12y ago
I don't think the problem is that highcharts costs money, but that there are no good FOSS alternatives(I embarked on a fairly extensive search last week for a FOSS js charting libraries and although I did end up choose one of those for
738.
by deeviant 12y ago
The thing is, the universe and mathematics are totally separate entities. The universe did not start off "as math", nor is it defined by it. We, as clever little beings found similarities and analogies between the universe and mat
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by deeviant 12y ago
I really feel that the open office environment really only makes sense for junior programmers. For them, it's great to have a pool of knowledge(experienced programmers) around all the time to push them along, bounce ideas off of, and i
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by deeviant 12y ago
What it would mean to confirm the universe was in fact a hologram, what implications would this have for our physical understanding of the universe, are they any existential implications, like is our existence is actually an illusionary sid
741.
by deeviant 12y ago
I recently had a very similar experience with Google. They have you run through the hoops a full day or two of interviews, then deliberate for months. I ended up correctly answering every question given to me, but was in the end rejected, t
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by deeviant 12y ago
"a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed." Water can be a poison if it wants to be too, however, sugar is orders of magnitude more poisonous than water. Sugar
743.
by deeviant 12y ago
It is more complex then the situation you presented. Sugar is literally a poison, it's the reason why unchecked type 1 diabetes leads to deterioration of various organs. The body knows this but also runs on the stuff, so it tries to ke
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by deeviant 12y ago
Coming soon, in 10-15 years...
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by deeviant 12y ago
In the first example, yes, it is the combination both of gravitation and acceleration based time dilation. In the spaceship and the earth example, I can't see what your reference of the galactic center of mass has to do with anything.
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by deeviant 12y ago
In there own frame of references, i.e. living near a large gravity well, and living on a space station, 1 sec = 1 second. Meaning if I experience a second on earth, then go to a space station, my own person clock will always read 1 second n
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by deeviant 12y ago
Yeah, and with the large amount of white rice various Asian populations eat, it's easy to explain their propensity for diabetes, cancer and obesity that doesn't exist.
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by deeviant 12y ago
That's funny, why does verizon call their service "high speed internet service", when the is no thing as the internet. And if you go to the landing page for high speed internet access on the verizon homepage, it becomes i
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by deeviant 12y ago
"When you pay Verizon you pay for access to their network. Not access to Netflix's network." I don't see it that way, not do I think, the vast majority of US consumers see it that way either. If you go to the landing pag
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by deeviant 12y ago
The US will implement the very excellent system in which you detailed right after we get single payer health insurance. Never. =/

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