dougk16

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   by dougk16 14y ago

   I recommend "Practical Lock Picking" by Deviant Ollam for those whose interest was piqued by this. Besides all the technical goodies, it contains some interesting moral views on locks and lock picking that apply to the digital world as wel
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   by dougk16 14y ago

   Not if we learn how to reverse entropy! ( http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm )
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   by dougk16 14y ago

   Good point on the drawback of creativity. I suffer horribly from that. I'll spend weeks or months trying to solve problems in unique/clever ways when there's already a clear solution if I just took a day to read and understand it. That fe
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   by dougk16 14y ago

   I can't reference any studies or anything, but my personal experience is that passion trumps all. The problem with passion is, you don't have much of a choice. One might have a passion for gardening, whereas another might have a passion f
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   by dougk16 14y ago

   This is the kind of problem that can and arguably should be handled/eased by whatever editor or IDE you are using. A quick key combination to clear unused imports, another one to add required imports.
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   by dougk16 14y ago

   Let's just hope Go! doesn't suddenly become popular...
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   by dougk16 14y ago

   Can't really argue with anything specific here, but this and the last article's general premise seems like, "if you have a choice, you might want to go with C for these reasons...". The problem is, I can't remember the last time I had any p
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   by dougk16 14y ago

   True, but nytimes has proven they have some HTML5 chops ( http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne... ), and JavaScript-based chess viewers are readily available ( http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/ ). Considering the re
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   by dougk16 14y ago

   Just missing the various insurance rackets that basically force you to gamble with a house that always wins, or else you're breaking the law...other than that, nice list!
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    by dougk16 14y ago

    I am also a const nazi, and occasionally find myself trying to imitate some of its uses elegantly through run time errors or strict naming conventions in other languages. I do understand why many other languages decided not to support it th
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    by dougk16 14y ago

    Play narrative-heavy computer games that are translated into Lithuanian. I did this to supplement other methods I used while living in Poland. The Diablos were especially well-localized. Bonus is, it teaches you all kinds of obscure words
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    by dougk16 14y ago

    Another way to solve this problem in theory is to have Java-like annotations that force subclasses to call super whether they like it or not, and even where they must call super, for example @OverridesMustCallMe(location="top"). The super c