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by donall 14y ago
No it isn't. That may be how you interpret it but it's an incredibly versatile word with semantics that are notoriously hard to pin down. In this case "what the fuck" is a well-established idiom. Many people don't even notice the vulgarity.
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by donall 14y ago
I feel like we're arguing semantics at this point.
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by donall 14y ago
If you conceive to build a perpetual motion machine then you will have taken the first step. The second (more difficult) step will be to conceive how a perpetual motion machine might actually work, or to come up with a plausible way of re-w
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by donall 14y ago
They seem to have become more of a data aggregator and provider than a platform.
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by donall 14y ago
Does the same apply to Facebook? And if not, is it likely to within the next 12 months? It seems like a lot of developers/startups put their eggs in the FB basket. I wonder if, from a funding perspective, that behaviour would set off alarm
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by donall 14y ago
The parent has good advice. Another good way to meet startups is to attend tech events. Go onto meetup.com and search for tech meetups in whatever area you're interested in. Consider favouring topics like Clojure programming seminars over t
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by donall 14y ago
What do you have to lose by applying too early? Worst case scenario, they ignore your application and you re-apply close to graduation. Best case scenario, they offer you some freelancing or part-time work and you graduate with some real ex
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by donall 14y ago
So the extra $5 just gets you a broader choice of file formats? I'm interested in buying it, and I'm pretty sure my kindle show be able to handle the format. That said, I think I'd rather buy from your website than from Amazon (assuming mor
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by donall 14y ago
I doubt there was any sexist intent (regardless of perception). The fact is that there are a limited number of intelligible strings that can be made out of 8 hex chars and this is one of them that brought a smile to somebody's face. If we
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by donall 14y ago
The proposed method isn't bookkeeping. It sounds like it's closer to bookmaking!
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by donall 14y ago
As a (somewhat off-topic) aside, I notice that every picture in the article seems to be slightly askew, and generally by the same angle. Can anybody tell me if there is a reason for this, or is it just an affectation of the photographer?
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by donall 14y ago
The laptop he's talking about is from 2001. It's 11 years old. Of course it can't replace a modern dev machine! However, it still works as a machine and a 4 year old child is using it as an introductory machine. That doesn't sound like dea
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by donall 14y ago
The linked blog post is a bit of a rant. Sounds like the author really hates hipsters and just wishes to accuse them of being racist without actually providing any substantial evidence to back the claim. If "hipster racism" is a legitimate
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by donall 14y ago
I'd like to see a credible source for this. There are references to a handful of shady companies misbehaving, but I have yet to see hard facts or credible stats (I'm not saying they don't exist). On the other hand, I have seen a lot of xeno
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by donall 14y ago
I don't think anything new or especially interesting has been said about comment quality, but the author displays such a wonderful command of swearing that I enjoyed the article immensely. It's refreshing to see such eloquent profanity on t
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by donall 14y ago
Why are the fruit counts represented as floats?
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by donall 14y ago
Can you provide more detail about your source?
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by donall 15y ago
I had a similar experience on a US Airways flight last December. The Kindle Fire browser allows the user to choose whether to optimise for mobile or desktop, and this resulted in two different prices. In relation to the legal questions rais
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by donall 15y ago
I agree that the download was a particularly bad example, but I think the same argument can apply to any progress bar. As a programmer, I always measure progress as the percentage of tasks completed, whether that is bit downloaded, modules
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by donall 15y ago
A minor point: when filling out my political orientation, I noticed that "socialist/fascist" was an option. I really don't want to start a debate, but I think these should be separate. It seems in the US they are often both considered equal
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by donall 15y ago
Not meaning to be the nitpicking guy, but there's a typo in the title. It should read "EFF", not "EEF".
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by donall 15y ago
I actually have a pretty similar situation. I am Irish, living in California after just finishing up in Dublin City University (I was probably one of Mervyn's lab tutors at some point!) and I'm also on the J1 visa. The difference is that I
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by donall 15y ago
In my research group (in the School of Computing at Dublin City University), we publish all our papers to our web site and to the university's own research portal (doras.dcu.ie). They are free for anybody to access. The version we publish i
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by donall 15y ago
I think the author is right about the use of emoticons and I think they're an underused and misunderstood form of communication. I similarly used to avoid them, but I also used to get into a lot of misunderstandings in long e-mail exchanges
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by donall 15y ago
It was actually the YC NYC announcement that triggered this question. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience last year. I met some interesting people and made some useful contacts. I think it should become an annual tradition at Y Combinator l
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Ask PG: Why no "Work At A Startup Day" this year?
7 points by donall 15y ago|5 comments
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by donall 15y ago
I don't think the validity of the policeman example should taint the "factual veracity" of the entire article. The sociolinguistic ramifications of the Norman invasion are well established and there are a great many examples of synonymous w
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by donall 15y ago
I was just reminded of that xkcd comic and thought I would share. I wasn't actually trying to start an argument about the usage of the term "literally" (which is why I'm not continuing it!). In any case, I would have thought the comic portr
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by donall 15y ago
"Literally" mad elephants? ;) http://xkcd.com/725/
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by donall 15y ago
If you're fresh out of college (even with an advanced degree, i.e. PhD) and don't have much in terms of industry experience, you might find that some employers are not willing to go to the effort of sponsoring you for a H1-B. An alternative

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