drblast

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by drblast 8y ago
It's funny how much I dislike the top two alternatives to globals, at least how they're typically implemented today. For me it's a case where the cure is worse than the disease. I've worked with a codebase where the glob
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by drblast 8y ago
Your project looks cool. Here's some overly harsh criticism from an old dude in no particular order. The problem I see upon an extremely cursory view of your project is that it's trying very, very hard not to be a sellable product
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by drblast 8y ago
Don't even have to imagine. NASDAQ: MSFT $104.40
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by drblast 8y ago
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_b.h... That's the algorithm for the common lisp reader. Writing a recursive descent parser based on that spec is fairly straightforward. And once
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by drblast 8y ago
Holy shit, around 2005/6 I took an EE class in programmable logic that used ABEL for the labs. I couldn't find any information on it anywhere and all we had to learn the language was an old single-page photocopy of an example that
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by drblast 8y ago
Oh yes. I just had surgery that requires me to be on crutches for a few months, so I'm temporarily disabled. If you're young and able-bodied (like me pre-surgery) and want to understand what it's like to not be young and able
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by drblast 8y ago
I wonder what the numbers would look like if they were instead "number of people who have attempted suicide one or more times" which would seem to be a more meaningful measurement. If you attempt suicide and succeed you're no
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by drblast 8y ago
I live near a small distillery that does tastings and tours. The mash composition is a huge component of the flavor, and it's a lot of fun to taste the different mashes pre-distillation, along with the final product. The percentage of
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by drblast 8y ago
There are various voluntary ratings associations in existence, focused on their own version of "acceptable." Commonsensemedia is a good example, they have a US-centric Christian bent that doesn't agree with my own, but for th
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by drblast 8y ago
This could work; whitelisting is a far better and easier approach to trying to weed out "bad" stuff. By far the best idea I've ever heard was the creation of a .kids TLD that would be essentially what you described. I believe
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by drblast 8y ago
Of course, this isn't a general solution to every problem and I wouldn't use it if there was a huge distribution in entity sizes like you described. The reason it worked in my case was that for a 2d game, the state of even the max
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by drblast 8y ago
Pretty much. The fact that it solved a specific performance problem (avoiding GC pauses) in a tiny game I was making, along with the ease of reasoning about and debugging game state was really interesting to me. Most of the articles about i
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by drblast 8y ago
A few years ago I wanted to make a shoot-em-up game using C# and XNA I could play with my kids on an Xbox. It worked fine except for slight pauses for GC every once in a while which ruined the experience. The best solution I found was to ge
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by drblast 8y ago
This article is fantastic. As an American who likes the occasional UK show, I have the possibly mistaken impression that BBC shows run on a more similar model to Netflix. It seems like they will tell a story for about as long as the origina
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by drblast 8y ago
Not sure what you're asking; if you're against the idea of government being involved in declaring who is and who isn't married and defining special benefits for married people, then great, me too. Let's abolish marriage
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by drblast 8y ago
Ellen Page had a travel show and I think in the first episode she visited Japan and explored the gay culture there. One of the older Japanese gay men expressed a sentimentality, maybe even a preference, for the time when everything was more
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by drblast 8y ago
Yes, the increased pay is accounted for in the extra housing allowance. Those who live on base give up the housing allowance. If there are no accommodations on base you might have to rent in town, or you can choose to do so depending on ran
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by drblast 8y ago
2) A married service member gets extra housing allowance for dependents. Traditionally this was for a non-working spouse who lives at home and kids. More recently both people could be service members, first with women joining and then with
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by drblast 8y ago
I feel like the guys in Office Space here, but I'll buy some subscriptions to Vibe if somebody can explain theoretically how you can convert a large sum of ill-gotten cryptocurrency to usable money without getting immediately caught? F
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by drblast 8y ago
No, less profitable than not owning it.
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by drblast 8y ago
Inflation is a wealth tax. It's not necessary for the government to ever tax anyone for anything; they could just print the money and all "taxes" would come in the form of inflation instead. And that tax would be simple and u
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by drblast 8y ago
I don't follow this that closely and I've tended to think of self-driving cars as an inevitable thing that results from march toward a "perfect" system. But I think one of our blind spots as a culture is the assumption t
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by drblast 8y ago
The database really is an API, in that client code depends on it and its structure will be difficult to change once you go live, whether you want that to be true or not. Writing the API before code that depends on it seems like an inherentl
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by drblast 8y ago
They're linked. When you are managing people who can legally be put in jail or shot for not following orders, the dynamic is quite different. Especially in the case of Marines, if you have a very well defined objective that requires br
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by drblast 8y ago
This seems to be the impression in the business world, which has what I can only describe as a fetish for stories about the military, but Marines in particular have a very tough time adapting to life and careers outside the military. It&#x2
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by drblast 8y ago
The thought occurs to me that no matter how much planning you do or how good at estimating you are, the development is going to take however long it's going to take. You can plan your trip to the store to buy milk and figure out exactl
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by drblast 8y ago
Yeah. And if we're being honest only new cars are "pre-owned." It's a car before the state of ownership... New. Pre-registered? It's someone who hasn't resistered yet. Shouldn't used cars be post-owned?
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by drblast 8y ago
They can make money because used car dealerships are an anachronism run by sales morons who are hoping to find a bigger fool to siphon money off of. Interacting with a car dealership feels like you're walking into a poker game with &qu
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by drblast 8y ago
Open in private tab. (Shh.)
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by drblast 8y ago
It's funny that most of these that I read start off with a very annoying, cliched "writer" tone. I've always had the impression that authors just can't help buy try to prove how clever they are in the first paragrap

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