devinj

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by devinj 17y ago
It's one thing to calibrate, it's another to rely on context-sensitive data and pretend it is universal, when instead you can just rely on the context-specific data for any specific context and refine the estimates as you go. To my knowledg
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by devinj 17y ago
I'd need more beers to get a buzz, of course, but honestly I have no idea how many it'd take. I was working under the assumption we were only having one. As for what food costs $5, I'm eating pasta and instant noodles, at the moment. It's n
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by devinj 17y ago
I don't drink much. I was using Molly's as a bar benchmark ($10 for a pitcher), and the first price was just from an LCBO.
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by devinj 17y ago
Yeah, that's where I went from "this could be useful" to "that's stupid". It's like doing an internet speed test to determine how long it will take to download a file, ignoring how fast the file has actually been downloading.
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by devinj 17y ago
Your town must be expensive. In Toronto, a beer costs about 2 CAD, which is also 2 USD (we have reached parity again). This is true even if you get it at a bar, provided you get it as a pitcher. The food then costs maybe $5 on top of that.
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by devinj 17y ago
It's not much of a paradox if you can come up with an easy to understand explanation immediately after reading the description. :/
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by devinj 17y ago
Perhaps I am too used to non-book reviews (I generally just go by what I've heard is good, with books). It read like a summary. I stopped reading halfway through because I was pretty sure I was getting spoilers I didn't want to get. Is this
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by devinj 17y ago
If by, "broken window fallacy in reverse" you mean "pointing out that the broken window fallacy is a fallacy", yes. He is troubled by the fact that he is earning money by breaking windows.
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by devinj 17y ago
Tch, I'd probably blame the human species, not the gender. Simple tricks like these work on men, too (although not the same tricks).
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by devinj 17y ago
Yeah, that was my only complaint. Satire is so much better when halfway through you go, "Oh, I get it!". This is just simple, if fun, sarcastic ranting. And I am extremely surprised there's a person out there that didn't get it. Sarcasm on
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by devinj 17y ago
I'm an iphone developer (or at least, I have been intermittently in the current project I'm working on). Other than the iPhone, I developed a Java ME app once (I won't make that mistake again). I'm pretty upset about it, but I'm not one of
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by devinj 17y ago
This really pisses me off. The author specifically stated that the statement was unofficial and outside of his position as official representative, and Techcrunch ignores it and pretends it's Adobe doing all this, with two lines or so hal
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by devinj 17y ago
Don't know why this is downvoted. The turnaround time for a functioning tetris game is very quick, within a day (even if you don't know the tools yet). This one isn't even a functioning tetris game, it's basically just a physics simulation
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by devinj 17y ago
"You're deluded and have ruined your entire career for good." Really? How kind of you.
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by devinj 17y ago
Instead of os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno()) (ew) you should just use sys.stdout.isatty(). In addition to being shorter, it will work everywhere [that Python does], not just Unix.
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by devinj 17y ago
It's not extortion, they didn't settle for anything other than him deleting all copies of the data that he had access to. Hyperbolic statements are unnecessary.
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by devinj 17y ago
Hm, does it let you access the touch screen functionality?
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by devinj 17y ago
Er, "write X in Y" is a common (and meaningful) snowclone/expression. It means you're not adopting the idioms of the language you're writing in, you're attempting to kludge together the idioms of one language and the syntax of another. For
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by devinj 17y ago
You're looking at the wrong end. He's saying that companies compete with each other and try to undercut one another, which allows some smaller companies to solve the problems allowed by the larger companies. These smaller companies rely on
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by devinj 17y ago
Which data structures would you call "basic"? I mean, past pairs, linked lists, [dynamically resizing] arrays, and binary trees, it gets either more complex or more esoteric. Are quadtrees basic everywhere? Is knowing the way a red-black tr
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by devinj 17y ago
I can't speak for some of these (like craigslist-- until recently I have lived in very out of the way places). But for others, I have existing solutions that work well. For example, in the case of being owed money I just let them pay me bac
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by devinj 17y ago
Sorry, I missed this reply. What made me want to comment? It seemed dumb. That was enough. Do I actually have the experience necessary to judge this? Well obviously I think so. I know what a phone is . I have used cell phones before. I hav
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by devinj 17y ago
Exact cash rarely matters. If a friend of mine wants to get a soda at the machine, and all I have is a toonie, I'll give him the toonie [note: that's 2CAD, machines rarely go over 1.25CAD for a can of pop]. I'm a cheapskate, but it really d
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by devinj 17y ago
I think I may have portrayed my view wrong, then. I don't have problem with the "bump" thing as a generic interaction. I can see it as a very handy way of doing certain things, like playing a game with a friend. At the moment I'd have to lo
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by devinj 17y ago
So then have the "bump" action exchange contact information. Why limit it to something that has been solved for centuries? Transferring money to people you don't know is traditionally done with cash. Transferring contact information is gene
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by devinj 17y ago
I don't get it. I mean, sure, the technology is cool. They have some kind of spatial tree with temporal information added to individual nodes so they can detect nearby bumps. I find that somewhat interesting (but there are more interesting
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by devinj 17y ago
Eh, some of the items in this list aren't so great. simplejson is included in the standard library as json now. Yes, cjson is faster, but it's also more fragile and, well, less standardized. Everything but simplejson is effectively dead: si
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by devinj 17y ago
Agh. I have mixed feelings about this. On the face of it, sure, you're getting rid of an exploitative industry. This is good, right? On the other hand, I don't think you really are. I'm not sure I can agree that this brand of feminism is re
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by devinj 17y ago
I think it'd be okay to be paid a pittance. In fact, I would hope the auction lets people send emails for free. For people that don't get much email, then, it's just like normal, no problems. If you get a lot, people will notice you have 50
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by devinj 17y ago
Noobs can't downvote. ;)

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