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by drblast 9y ago
I often wonder if movies will simply occupy a niche market in the future. I wonder that about a lot of industries. Appealing to huge demographics with excellent movies would certainly be more profitable, but what if the current status quo o
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by drblast 9y ago
I spent nine months as the conning officer on an aircraft carrier and qualified as OOD. On numerous occasions we narrowly averted disaster because the helmsman misunderstood the command, or repeated back the correct command but did the oppo
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by drblast 9y ago
Well-educated...it depends. Many have impressive sounding degrees. However, an extreme anti-intellectual bent is very common. Do you know the people who studied for and aced all exams through brute force memorization, promptly forgot all th
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by drblast 9y ago
My experience in the Navy made me lose all respect for the "leadership" there. It's a place where careers are established by doing everything except that which involves any actual thought or problem solving. The culture is
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by drblast 9y ago
A pm job is conceptually one of the simplest jobs but one of the most difficult to execute. I've worked with two great PM's and a shitload of mediocre to bad ones. Technical competence, organization, willingness to work for a team
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by drblast 9y ago
I'm pretty sure an episode of Scrubs did something very similar.
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by drblast 9y ago
On a very large codebase, developed over decades, not months or years, by thousands of individual teams, using multiple versions of multiple IDE's, some of which didn't exist when the project started, across different languages, a
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by drblast 9y ago
There's an obvious conclusion here we're all dancing around. People who use spaces are just better than those who use tabs.
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by drblast 9y ago
My wife and I discus this all the time. She's in the "descriptive rules" camp, and I straddle the line. The advantage to prescriptive rules for language is that you don't lose the context of a language over time or dista
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by drblast 9y ago
Nobody would ever advise you to take a large percentage of your income and buy options or even stock in a single company in the hopes that that company succeeds enough to make you rich. That's gambling. Being an employee of the company
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by drblast 9y ago
I loved the HBO animation when I was a kid, and I've seen that behind-the-scenes video a number of times since. Conceptually I get the idea, but I'm still baffled as to how they composite all that together to get the final polishe
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by drblast 9y ago
This is a really good argument for subsidized medical care. This fear of not having enough for medical expenses is perfectly reasonable, and I wouldn't fault sometime for hoarding cash for a second. Solve the inherited inequality probl
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by drblast 9y ago
I don't know a whole lot about concert piano, but I don't think you could have picked two better videos to illustrate your point. That student is obviously very practiced and skilled but there's just no comparison.
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by drblast 9y ago
Think of it as data compression that shows you the notes you're most likely to play, without taking up space for notes you probably won't. If there's a piece in C, for example, in most traditional Western music you're un
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by drblast 9y ago
I like the way you think. I'm going to change all error messages to: "Please click this link and type the following GUID into the web page." That way, based on history, I'll at least get an email with the error copied in
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by drblast 9y ago
Doesn't matter what the error message is. It's very unlikely they're reading the error message at all. And yes, I've tried what you mentioned. I did fib a bit though. There is one error we get emailed to us regularly. It
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by drblast 9y ago
Haha, yeah go ahead and try to fight this battle. You'll lose. I'm constantly baffled by bug reports I receive. From other people who work at my company. A tech company. A large one. You've heard of it. We log every operation
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by drblast 9y ago
In my own case, I'm working and making as much as I do because I'm married and have kids and my wife is a stay-at-home-mom. This is still a very socially acceptable arrangement. If I weren't married with kids, I'd be a s
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by drblast 10y ago
I seem to be alone in this, but I actually do about 25-30 hours of actual programming work each week. And that's sit-down-and-concentrate-and-build-shit work. I'm pretty ruthless about declining extraneous meetings and I keep my d
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by drblast 10y ago
Those are s-expressions. It's an in-joke among the Common Lisp crowd.
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by drblast 10y ago
The out variables example for C# 7 is misleading. You don't need the int quantity; declaration. Leaving it in there defeats the purpose of the example which is meant to show that the declaration is not necessary :-)
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by drblast 10y ago
My parents, 1987: "What are you going to do with that? You can't just sit in front of the computer all day for the rest of your life." Me, 2017: "How do you like me NOW?!" It's easy to forget that in the 1980&#
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by drblast 10y ago
Will you learn more in college than you otherwise would on your own? Probably, especially if you dedicate the same amount of effort in each. Will having a college degree hurt your chances for getting a job? Not likely. I'm a developer,
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by drblast 10y ago
Imagine a security guard who can't list from memory everyone who is in the building, but if you show him a picture of Peter from accounting, he can with certainty tell you that he hasn't seen Peter yet. Not sure a bloom filter nee
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by drblast 10y ago
There's no "story," this is a post-mortem. She lost, we get to figure out why. That takes a bit of humility. My lasting impression here was that the DNC's goal was not to win the presidency, it was to get Hillary Clinton
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by drblast 10y ago
Imagine you're a poorly educated working class person who's struggling. You hear both candidates speak. Hillary says "We need to have empathy for those people, " a phrase that's clearly referring to you by the surr
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by drblast 10y ago
Don't forget the in-air refueling cost that's there to save the Navy the embarrassment of taking off and landing anywhere near where the Air Force does.
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by drblast 10y ago
If you're really into guitar, you pretty much need a traditional single coil Stratocaster, humbucker Les Paul or SG, and either a Taylor or Martin acoustic to be minimally happy. And either multiple amps or something expensive like a
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by drblast 10y ago
>There isn't any person behind the screen orchestrating things Yeah, I love that! Even the judges on the reality show have this air of fear and desperation about them.
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by drblast 10y ago
I thought White Bear was going to be a mediocre episode until the end. Just watch it if you haven't seen it. It's unfortunate you can only watch it for the first time once. But every episode is nearly perfect. 15 million merits is

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