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by dwc 14y ago
Perhaps. Now what about OpenBSD and NetBSD, or whatever else? If they provide specs then they don't have to write drivers, but they don't get to bless or withhold their blessing. There was a stink a while back where Adaptec had been providi
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by dwc 14y ago
> incongruent considering the historically awesome driver support Nvidia has provided for Linux It's not really incongruent. Nvidia has provided driver support for Linux, but that does no good for, say, FreeBSD. This driver support is
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by dwc 14y ago
I use reddit, but I had to unsubscribe from most of the default subreddits, and also from a few subreddits that I'd hand picked. It's a shame, but it's difficult to get programming news from reddit these days. Apart from silly memes, it's s
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by dwc 14y ago
Thanks for saying it explicitly this time. And I mean that. I did not intend to make a huge deal of this. Witness my original content, which was very brief. I wanted to convey that though the hyperbole was meant to garner a "yeah, I know ex
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by dwc 14y ago
Perhaps you're right.
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by dwc 14y ago
If you really like kids that young and you're not a parent, then you probably don't have much to worry about. I never understood the nonchalance of parents who had just been puked on. But when I found myself there I understood.
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by dwc 14y ago
I get frustrated often enough, and infuriated once in a while. But I don't want to freakin' kill my child multiple times a day. That's very sad, and a bit worrying. And if, as we all suspect, it's just to make a point, then it's still sad
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by dwc 14y ago
" because I want to freakin' kill this kid at least three times a day " Nice. I just don't relate to this.
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by dwc 14y ago
Intensely interesting. I'm looking forward to more blog entries. Though not an economist, I've always lamented the way econometrics was starved of opportunities, and the way competing ideas could both thrive with no real hope of resolution.
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by dwc 14y ago
Look beyond the immediate, contrived example. Text can have meaningful structure beyond lines, which line-oriented tools handle poorly. So much power is available with UNIX command line tools, but often you must abandon them for python, rub
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by dwc 14y ago
Just about everything you should know, and way more than you have time to learn: http://senseis.xmp.net If you're on DGS, challenge me (I'm also a beginner) to a game. Same user name as here.
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by dwc 14y ago
Just translate that from corp speak into normal human language: "At this point, years into the social phenomenon, I can't imagine what the heck we were even trying to accomplish with this."
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by dwc 14y ago
You have to go with "whatever works" in any case. If a study showed that technique X improved productivity for 95% of the people, you might still be in the 5% that it didn't help. Research psychologists will emphatically tell you that all p
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by dwc 14y ago
From the article: "...since we wanted users to be able to dial phone numbers rapidly." I think there are specific cases where eliminating the delay is appropriate. The very real concern is that developers will use this with abandon. There a
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by dwc 14y ago
Binocs projecting on white cardboard is working great for me. I can also clearly see sunspots. A steady hand works if you don't have a tripod. Warning! Never look at the sun through binoculars directly! Project the image onto white paper
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by dwc 14y ago
> What, now it's indirect argument over HN? This has obviously been standard procedure for a while now. I see this on almost a daily basis. Afraid your comment on a HN thread won't get enough traction? Make a blog post instead, meant
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by dwc 14y ago
> I've founded a startup to bring them to the masses ... It will not only be informative but also help us design a better algorithm. Everyone wins. Yes, this is how everyone wins. Those with the ability and drive can end up making a d
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by dwc 14y ago
Excessive reviewing can be from lack of trust in the system, or pure procrastination while appearing productive. Nobody starts out trusting. You have to see it work before you can stop worrying. The busywork aspect can be mitigated by alloc
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by dwc 14y ago
First off, I'm all for settling this with data and math. However, I'm afraid that some practical matters were lost in the previous discussions. As I see it, things happened somewhat like this: 1) A/B testing starts to become a Big Deal; 2)
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by dwc 14y ago
I think it would be nice if the linked kickstarter page (which has many "why this" and "what about that" answers) explained why they chose Python. I'm pretty baffled. Just because it's popular? Better to pick C# then. Because it's... er, I
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by dwc 14y ago
Sometimes, yes.
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by dwc 14y ago
As shown in the article, that first recommendation leads directly to the next step(s). In the ideal case (which actually happens sometimes in the real world!), you end up with something like this: if (bad1) fail(); if (bad2) fail(
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by dwc 14y ago
I use both if-return and if-goto. In practice you need both, depending on circumstance. In much of my recent code I've managed to use a lot of if-return checks at the top of functions. Another nice thing about a bunch of if-returns at the
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by dwc 14y ago
I've been around the programming block a few times myself and inherited some perfectly horrible code, and his list of cons makes me shudder. But people differ. I've (purposefully) worked at smaller companies where I had more influence over
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by dwc 14y ago
> There's really no reason... Well, no. Of course not. It's not at all about the technical feasibility, or even the ease, of delivering content up front. The web first began with the ability to deliver content up front and it's remain
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by dwc 14y ago
Depending on your intent, this may be a great reason to avoid PHP, or at least to leave PHP out of your job description.
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by dwc 14y ago
Finding good devs is essentially their stated intent, and so they're not looking to use the results of the contest for free but rather identify talented people. Downvotes on the comment recognize the wrongly cynical views of the poster.
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by dwc 14y ago
Sheesh. This was true of Google in the late 1990s when I was telling my coworkers to use it. If everyone listened to people like you then we'd be using Yahoo! and Altavista today.
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by dwc 14y ago
My impression, based on eyeballing logs for my own low traffic, unimportant sites: Google collects and uses stats on how often pages change, how often they come up in searches, etc., and for static and/or low importance pages they scale cra
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by dwc 14y ago
Most people somehow get stuck assuming they must distribute the marbles evenly (always 50 marbles in each bucket), even though it's neither stated nor implied. It's interesting to see how long it takes people to challenge their own assumpti

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