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by ejk314 12y ago
To an outside observer, no. The tropes are exaggerations. But to someone in public school at the time, it can certainly feel that way.
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by ejk314 12y ago
I bet there's a word for that - using the more general term for something as a proper noun when the meaning is obvious from context. Like calling the largest nearby city just "The City". I figure it's the same general id
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by ejk314 12y ago
I volunteer tutoring underprivileged middle/high school kids in math and programming. People might be surprised how little effort it takes to help out with this sort of thing. And it's one of the most rewarding things I've ev
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by ejk314 12y ago
>and cubicles I'm sure would be a living hell. That's a rather bold assumption. I bet if you just asked employees, you'd get mixed responses. The best part about cubicle walls is that they're easy to put up and tear d
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by ejk314 12y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of making the main function (array) call some other function which does this in such a way that it looks like you implemented a random number generator but it actually prints "Hello World". And
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by ejk314 12y ago
Reminds me of this 'Hello World': http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15182496/why-does-this-co... I bet these two ideas would go well together.
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by ejk314 12y ago
Do you want us to say, "Congratulations, you are clearly an extraordinary person for overcoming greater poverty than the author and we should all defer to your wisdom." ? Fine. I've said it. Let's move on. Everything you
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by ejk314 12y ago
I feel like she was pretty clear on that point; the whole first post was her explanation of what she was thinking/feeling when she made 'poor' decisions. The second portion, in response to criticism, was her justification of
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by ejk314 12y ago
Sounds like a good place to work. But that's in no way typical. At every place I've worked (granted, not all that many) meetings are "free" and when you don't want to be at the meeting you're "not being a
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by ejk314 12y ago
I've recently blocked Reddit on my computer. What happened was a re-balancing of my slacking off. Now I don't spend my time on Reddit but I spend much more time playing Minecraft or otherwise farting around. The main benefit I&#x2
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by ejk314 12y ago
> The caloric intake for all the mice was the same. Yup. Directly from the article.
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by ejk314 12y ago
I tutor high school kids, and I've been charged with the weighty responsibility of teaching them Java in often-missed weekly 45 minute lessons. I'm not sure if it's what I'd choose for a first language, for a number of r
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by ejk314 12y ago
>“They caused a lot of damage and we will respond. We will respond proportionately and we will respond in a place and time and manner we choose,” the president said. So I'm just going to ask, is the Sony hack going to be an excuse f
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by ejk314 12y ago
What is that "faster-than-light propagation of non-information" they mention observing?
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by ejk314 12y ago
I think it's fair to blame the code in this case. It's not written at all for readability (by anyone other than the author while he was writing it). Of course he knew what those 1 or 2 letter variable names meant when he came up w
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by ejk314 12y ago
It's still a problem, even if you can "enjoy the knocks along the way". You're right that you shouldn't use this kind of thing as an excuse, but I think it's valuable to be aware of it. For example, if you&#x27
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by ejk314 12y ago
I can understand how he would see 'framing' as copying a website into another page. But he goes on to argue that we accept this form of 'copying' because of the same 'a visual change is experienced as a physical cha
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by ejk314 12y ago
"I pay a lot of money so I get to treat people like dirt." You sure sound like a wonderful person. That support lady has no control over their system's functionality or their policy and you know it.
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by ejk314 12y ago
'Pururambo' is a documentary available on Netflix about visiting uncontacted tribes like this, if anyone is interested.
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by ejk314 12y ago
At first glance this seemed really creepy and invasive, but it seems like they're just measuring 'engagement' and predicting user preference for ads. If that leads to more interesting ads, I'm not entirely opposed. On th
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by ejk314 12y ago
I would think that if you pursued any job just with an attitude of "get yours and get out" where you were "entirely motivated by having a good paying job" you'd be... kind of miserable. Sure, a girl who loves workin
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by ejk314 12y ago
I hate to resort to this cliche... but our harsh self-view might just be because our industry is so young. We have higher project failure rates than other 'engineering' disciplines; but we're still trying to figure out HOW to
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by ejk314 12y ago
So they want you to send them your physical hard drive, presumably to assure themselves that the data has been erased... But then they also want you to 'delete any data in your possession', so they already know that that is bullsh
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by ejk314 12y ago
I just wrote a script ( https://github.com/Glank/repeat_test ) to see if I could catch these sorts of errors. It does OK. I looked for repeated lines based on their levenshtein percent difference. Then for those repeatin
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by ejk314 12y ago
How could you test for something like that? Maybe, teach an array of skills, and for each skill with subjects of varying degrees of sleep deprivation and for varying time intervals between education and performance, measure response times a
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by ejk314 12y ago
Except this wasn't the "blistering heat of July" like in the article you linked. This was a cool, 50F day. And the author pointed that out. The child was in no danger and the parent was coming right back.
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by ejk314 12y ago
The connections may be more extensive than the average software developer will ever see. But does that make them useful? How can unrecognized connections be useful? And if those connections are not useful without the higher education he&#x2
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by ejk314 12y ago
I see why you do, but that's such a shame. DKI a damn useful feature that could help both customers and businesses, but it's 'exploited' in a way that doesn't even help the people who are destroying it.
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by ejk314 12y ago
Except that analogy of those analogies is itself a false analogy. Bouncing models off each other is a typical mechanic of scientific innovation. No one is suggesting economists take the theories as wrote and apply them without due considera
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by ejk314 13y ago
There's a quote I saw in a users' forum signature that's stuck with me; "My best code was written with the delete key."

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