drblast

39 ms·

331.
by drblast 13y ago
Looks to me like the distribution for the more expensive schools on the Y axis is nearly identical to that of the inexpensive state schools. So no, paying a lot for college is not worth it, when you could get the same result for $50k at a
332.
by drblast 13y ago
Whiskey. Neat.
333.
by drblast 13y ago
The "lean in" thing bothers me because the whole point seems to be to gain acceptance and approval from people with "power." I respect people a lot more who have an intrinsic internal motivation to do something great, an
334.
by drblast 13y ago
It would be interesting if politicians had to argue for the drug war using the actual effects as the reasons. "Proposition 843 will raise the price of cocaine and heroine and make possession illegal so as to create a massive demand for
335.
by drblast 13y ago
Come on now, really? http://www.amazon.com/On-Lisp-Advanced-Techniques-Common/dp/...
336.
by drblast 13y ago
My wife and I spend quite a bit of time watching 22 or 50 minute TV shows in succession on Netflix. I think that format is in many ways more interesting, as you can develop a story in much more depth than you could with a 2 hour movie.
337.
by drblast 13y ago
When you join the military, you take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies "foreign and domestic " (emphasis mine) That's first. Obeying lawful orders is second. It's debatable how
338.
by drblast 13y ago
I think the fact that this is done on a large scale makes people more complacent. "Oh, they're monitoring the whole Internet for terrorists? OK!" But if you told anyone, "The Feds have decided to monitor you and 1000 ot
339.
by drblast 13y ago
You'll be able to trivially circumvent this, and the first people to figure that out will be teenage boys. And then what? Well hey, we can try to block the encryption and tunneling protocols they use and make those opt-in too. Inevita
340.
by drblast 13y ago
They were mirroring the port of a single server, not capturing all traffic to the entire site. The TOR node would have been unaffected.
341.
by drblast 13y ago
Getting information out of a top secret system and walking with it? Not that difficult. Getting information out of a top secret system without being logged, tracked, and identified? Damn near impossible. I'd bet money it was only a
342.
by drblast 13y ago
http://tranzitioning.com/index.php/money-creation-destructio...
343.
by drblast 13y ago
Hey kyle, I don't have a comment other than to say thanks for doing this. It's great. I've been meaning to publish a few short articles about javascript online, but I didn't get around to it because of a lack of decent
344.
by drblast 13y ago
Yeah, I see that. The reason I think what I did became so easy is that I took the component model to the absolute extreme. There were no objects at all, just a table of state data and a collection of functions you could add to an "en
345.
by drblast 13y ago
Conceptually, I think it is harder and kind of a pain to code for at first. But one of the advantages I've found using it is the ability to completely decouple the state of game objects from the code that manipulates them. This gives
346.
by drblast 13y ago
I'm not suggesting the government's sole function is to print and hand out money and call it a day. There are other methods of taxation and spending (income tax over basic income amount, or directly spending money on infrastructu
347.
by drblast 13y ago
I think that if this were the rule, this would be understood going in, and it would be fair. The nature of police service would change. Why should being an officer be a lifetime career? We ask people in the military to protect us at the r
348.
by drblast 13y ago
The lack of accountability here disgusts me. Therefore, I propose a rule: Discharge a firearm while serving as a cop, no matter the reason, and that's it, you're no longer a cop. Take your toys and go home, thank you for your ser
349.
by drblast 13y ago
That's a really good question. There are all manner of dirty jobs that people only do because they have no other option except starve or steal. How that differs qualitatively from slavery is beyond me, but I do get the feeling that w
350.
by drblast 13y ago
Given a massive amount of debt and a problem with deflation, isn't Japan in an ideal position for an aggressive negative income tax? Imagine inflating by printing money and distributing equally among all citizens. Domestic price incre
351.
by drblast 13y ago
Now that my kids are a bit older I really want them to be obsessive about something. Minecraft is one of those things that they obsess over, and I'm torn between "It's too much," and "this is so awesome that they're passionate about someth
352.
by drblast 13y ago
Wow, that's really cool. Now I have an additional question. Assume at one point you were able to see and touch things, then lost your sight, then regained it. I'd think that while blind, you'd still try to form images of things you touche
353.
by drblast 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Amiga The Mac was hardly the only game in town at the time. History does indeed belong to the winners.
354.
by drblast 14y ago
I always wonder how much of the attitude measured among modern parents in the U.S. is due to the number of people who have an only child, and do so later in life. When you have more than one child, I think you're more realistic about their
355.
by drblast 14y ago
Plus you have to add the 8-10 hours a week of complaining about all the sacrifices you're making to be a professor. That can really add up.
356.
by drblast 14y ago
JavaScript has a number of nice features that do make sense, and if you understand how prototype chains work and such the complexity is worthwhile. "This" hasn't been one of those features for me. I'm sure "this" makes sense in some contex
357.
by drblast 14y ago
I'm reminded of the John Gnagy art lessons where you make everything out of boxes. But the flow tended to be like: Box -> Two boxes -> Three boxes -> Horse! I guess it made it seem plausible that you can draw things just fine w
358.
by drblast 14y ago
This is just what I need to complete the in-browser app I'm building to navigate and read these new hypertext pages I'm creating. I've developed a markup language that will let you reference any of these documents from any other. The app
359.
by drblast 14y ago
The Amiga was released a year later and made the Mac look like an overpriced toy.
360.
by drblast 14y ago
I can best explain via example. Let's say I want to iterate through a directory and do something to each file: ls C:\ | foreach{echo $_.Name} That will print out the file name. The $_ variable represents each file object that ls re

More ›