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by dreish 19y ago
Applying the Martini Method to coding is not so simple: as has been pointed out countless times, programmer productivity can't be measured in lines of code produced. But maybe something like svn diff | wc -l is a good enough stand-i
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by dreish 19y ago
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=44764&#38... has more than you'd ever want to read about it, but I'll attempt to summarize: Inconclusive, but possibly something like a supernova or a neutron star collision, probably ext
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by dreish 19y ago
You missed the "other way round" part.
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by dreish 19y ago
I think the point is more that they never pay. If they were actually paying and then getting their money back, they really would lose money on this (in float), and it would be easy enough to write a script that would make them run out of m
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by dreish 19y ago
What are they going to do next? Resolve all failed DNS lookups to their paid search engine?* *This was done by VeriSign, but at the time, VeriSign owned Network Solutions.
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by dreish 19y ago
He sounds to me like a southern Ontarian who moved to southern California 15 years ago, and used his dot-com winnings to devote more time to surfing.
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by dreish 19y ago
"The guy is pretty annoying and I can't resist taking cheap shots at him, sorry." Especially when he introduces terms like "encapsulation" and "testing" that don't seem to be connected to anything other than his bad analogy. I can't figure
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by dreish 19y ago
Removing any of the three words results in no candles. They are clearly Kwanzaa candles -- red, black, and green. Googling "kwanzaa" or "candles" does not produce the candles, but googling "kwanzaa candles" does. "hanukkah candles" and "chr
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by dreish 19y ago
I realize I'm howling in the wind by replying 13 days after the fact, but I just noticed this. I would view the sale of "sex.com", at whatever price, to be a good and natural example of free markets tending to reallocate resources for near-
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by dreish 19y ago
Also fun, but 2D: Flash Portal. http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/
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by dreish 19y ago
And this is different from a Weeble how, exactly? I'm going to guess it's of uniform density, unlike a Weeble, but the article completely misses that point. Maybe the author was never a child?
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by dreish 19y ago
If you're looking for 100/100, plug in ZIP code 10001 (no address -- puts you around the corner from Madison Square Garden). 83210, in rural Idaho, gets a donut.
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by dreish 19y ago
I have to admit I understand Haskell a lot less than I thought I did (which wasn't much to begin with -- I've done maybe four or five Euler Project puzzles with it and nothing else). I tried this same Fibonacci function on my machine using
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by dreish 19y ago
This is about the most bogus test the author could have constructed. You have to explicitly memoize functions in languages that aren't purely functional like Haskell. Fibonacci is around O(1.6^n) if you conveniently "forget" to memoize it
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by dreish 19y ago
That's not a very effective defense of domain squatting. The idealistic sex educator should just as rationally say, "I'm not making $1.5m off this site, so I should accept that bid and sell it, and use the money to get my important message
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by dreish 19y ago
Would you complain if someone opened an outdoor testing facility for smelly firecrackers next to your house? LOL right back at ya, especially if you think J. Random Shopper has enough time or interest to keep track of "bad PR", and somehow
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by dreish 19y ago
It can generate wealth in markets where accurate prices lead to more efficient allocation of the resources needed to produce the good in question. That's great for physical commodities, but it doesn't take a genius to see that this doesn't
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by dreish 19y ago
Excuse me if this is a bad idea, since I ditched the social network trend after a few minutes on Friendster some years ago. It seems that the design ought to have however many different levels of friends you want, with the inner circles see