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by drblast 15y ago
Scenario #2: You and your wife have a big argument. She storms out of the house, and says either: A. "I'm going to go hang out and watch a movie alone with Dave." B. "I'm going to go hang out and watch a movie alone with Sally." Still, no
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by drblast 15y ago
Imagine the following conversation between a (heterosexual) married couple: Husband: "Hey honey, I'm going over a friend's house and we're going to hang out on the couch and watch the game." Wife: "OK! See you in a few hours. What's your f
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by drblast 15y ago
Started at age 7 on a C64. I learned binary before I could multiply because you needed to understand binary to create multi-colored sprites on the C64. I made a game where you drove a car and avoided things, then another where you drove a
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by drblast 15y ago
For desktop use I'm migrating back to Windows after having used Ubuntu almost exclusively for the past five years. It's a shame, because Ubuntu was soooo close to surpassing Windows from a "I just want to get stuff done without mucking with
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by drblast 15y ago
You're not the only one. What's a bit silly is the idea that there's someone sitting at home wishing to perform a stalking or rape, but is prevented from doing so by the lack of an app for that.
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by drblast 15y ago
Why would anyone do this? If you've accepted that you're going to pay the cost to link against libc, use C. If you need to do something that specifically requires assembly, write that function (and that function only) in assembly. GCC wi
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by drblast 15y ago
Maybe it's like scrabble where you'd always want a u afterward. It's a rather odd constraint given the other options.
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by drblast 15y ago
I think this will become an increasingly false dichotemy. Imagine if a few hundred years ago we were having this conversation, we might be saying, "Is literacy really necessary for all members of a business?" Technical literacy will soon be
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by drblast 15y ago
I don't know what's cooler, this project, or the index frame on your API page that tracks with the currently viewed text.
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by drblast 15y ago
Patrick, I'm going to email you in a month when the initial flood of emails you're going to get dies down. I don't have much to offer except possibly interesting conversation about software and educational software in particular. This comm
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by drblast 15y ago
And yet Penn and Teller, who show you exactly how a trick is done after they do it, are still really entertaining. There's a disconnect between "magic is an art that has to be practiced religiously to be good" and "we can't reveal the secre
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by drblast 15y ago
It's not like anyone is forcing these people to sell the company. You have the option. If you're a whole-hearted entrepreneur, then don't sell. Otherwise, a startup is a great way to get some experience, prove your value, and get a great j
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by drblast 15y ago
I fail to see the problem with this. Why is it bad to work for a large company? Do you know how ridiculously difficult it is to prove to an established business that "no, I don't have the specific experience you are looking for, but I can
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by drblast 15y ago
Don't ever start using vi. After you do, any text editor that you are forced to use that doesn't have vi key bindings will give you fits and make you cry. Learning vi is your standard process of enlightenment and elation followed by a life
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by drblast 15y ago
What's the point? It's not going to occur in a reasonable amount of time, and if you say, "Well, eventually it will..." then eventually everything that exists will cease to exist anyway. Why not focus on things that are problems now?
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by drblast 15y ago
int a = 10; int b = 20; a = b; The new values of a and b are: False! All that example would really measure is who has had previous programming experience. This is obviously a teaching failure. I don't accept that there are c
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by drblast 15y ago
Warning: I'm about to get all opinionated on you. This "programming sucks" thing could get old quickly. Most of the problems mentioned in these articles are already solved in some language or another. And many of them are too specific. L
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by drblast 15y ago
I work for a large organization. What I've learned from interviewing people is that you should beg, borrow, and steal in order to experience being the interviewer. First, it really will boost your ego if you're competent at all. Second, y
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by drblast 15y ago
This article is light on the details. Here is the paper it's based on (I think): http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~schulman/Papers/intercoding.pd...
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by drblast 15y ago
This is the way it works where I work, and it's a real-world workplace, with bureaucracy and inefficiency and all. I get bitten by HR and stupid hiring policies all the time. It doesn't mean that I (or the company) want to screw the candi
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by drblast 15y ago
You anchor the range. If you as an applicant state a number first you set the top of the range. You say: "I want $100,000." They say: "Oh, well, we were thinking more like 60,000" You say: "Ok, how about 80,000?" They say: "Done." If they
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by drblast 15y ago
Best advice I can give: slow down. Especially if you're nervous, a short time on stage can feel like an eternity so your immediate impulse is to talk quickly and fill every pause with speech. That's what's wrong with "uhhs," you tend to sa
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by drblast 15y ago
I can attempt that one. "Regressive" is bad only in the sense where it's disproportionately affecting the quality of life of lower-income people. So if I have a flat tax that only affects incomes over a certain income level, and that incom
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by drblast 15y ago
The usual assumption about politicians and lawmaking goes something like this: A lawmaker receives large contributions from certain moneyed groups with an agenda, and will introduce legislation favorable to that group. The only way to prev
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by drblast 15y ago
Uggh. All this is is another reminder about how close Commodore Business Machines was in the mid-late 80's at revolutionizing the PC industry and how they then dorked it up inexplicably. Not seeing a whole lot of "falling" in the current PC
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by drblast 15y ago
"Best performance" is irrelevant if the performance of javascript is good enough. Maybe this illustrates the dichotemy between traditional engineering and computer science, but in most other forms of engineering you want just-good-enough-to
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by drblast 15y ago
I don't know why people don't seem to think of this when confronted with the limitations of the standard C preprocessor, but Perl or Lisp both make excellent C preprocessors. You aren't required to only use the C source code transformation
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by drblast 15y ago
I don't like this in a lot of languages. But it's not a showstopper, just an annoyance to be aware of. That said, there should be no reason not to have your new modern programming language support tail calls. It's short-sighted, and can
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by drblast 15y ago
Why is there even an argument about this? Not being able to make a recursive call without potentially blowing the stack is a major drawback in any language. I'd venture to say it's a "bug." And TCO is so handy in so many instances that it
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by drblast 15y ago
I was talking to a group of friends about this and he thought it was weird too. Is that confusing? That's about how it sounds to me when anyone uses a plural pronoun in place of a singular one. I know it's common usage but it's no

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