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by etal 18y ago
I'd enjoy seeing that in a long file of otherwise stale code. I like creative/surreal comments as well, if they fit the code. That said, a sloppy file full of f-bombs can be annoying and repetitive, too.
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by etal 18y ago
For a couple of projects weren't particularly big, we required this set of "specs" before release (for internal use): - Requirements specification - Design specification - Use cases - Test plan Plus some reports. The design included a funct
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by etal 18y ago
And it breaks the split-view Greasemonkey script, too. Alas, plunged into the dark ages of two days ago. It took me some time to stop feeling shame for hitting Ctrl-+ on pages with tiny text, but I've come to terms with it. I'm also a fan o
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by etal 18y ago
I was thinking the same thing. int inverse_square_root(int x) { return x * x; } // patent pending
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by etal 18y ago
Given his conclusion and brief rant, you'd think it would occur to him to grab data about the percentage of the population with a bachelor's degree for each decade, and plot that versus the IQ data. (No, I wasn't going to, it's not my rant.
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by etal 18y ago
Let's raise the bar a little: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html The g that shows up when doing factor analysis on intelligence test results is not necessarily the same concept we all have of innate, immutable intelligence.
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by etal 18y ago
I would have used it. I used to ride with a van pool. Links: http://www.vanpool.com/ (sponsored by Enterprise rent-a-car) http://www.vanpoolusa.com/ (sponsored by VPSI Inc.) This was in Southern California, where public transportation h
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by etal 18y ago
I was thinking about that the other day -- it's an anti-inflammatory drug that seems to work immediately on many patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Why? Apparently it's difficult to tell the difference between Alzheimer's and vascular dem
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by etal 18y ago
The INI format lets you group your options with less syntax, if you need more than just the top level. (It's still much less flexible than YAML, though.) Other than that, yeah, mainly legacy config files and programs that weren't written in
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by etal 18y ago
As others have said, skip Sacramento, stick to the coasts (Hwy. 101). If you ditch the truck, you'll also have a much easier time driving and parking in the cities -- parallel parking in downtown anywhere can require some dexterity. Look fo
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by etal 18y ago
"Ron's first law: All extreme positions are wrong." -- Ron Garret (Naturally that only applies in some cases, but here I think it's pretty apt.)
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by etal 18y ago
Another thing they fail to tell you is that there isn't necessarily a tradeoff between success and fun. When I started college, the idea of majoring and working in "engineering" appalled me -- grind away my youth in a cubicle, then retire j
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by etal 18y ago
It's really just a performance optimization for C, in situations where the switching value can be hashed. In languages that make method dispatch easy, and the overhead of a function call is not something you're terribly concerned about, it
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by etal 18y ago
Maybe it's an IDE thing. I like a skinny column of code next to something else -- either another skinny column of code (maximized gvim, one vertical split) or Firefox with some documentation/reference in it. Firefox and most IDEs seem to wa
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by etal 18y ago
Yeah, exactly. The two projects have a completely different dynamic. Like Python, Django development is cautious, minimal and relatively slow-moving compared to Ruby and Rails. Rails burst onto the scene, brought everyone on board with a 1.
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by etal 18y ago
Rails does have a lot more mindshare than Django right now, but notice Rails had a 2.0 release in December, while Django still hasn't even reached 1.0. I'm not sure about the relative histories of the projects, but it looks like Django is s
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by etal 18y ago
My fiancee is a psych researcher; this is just what she's told me (via rant) a number of times. Plenty of studies showing significant gender differences show up on sagepub.com, but the findings usually have culture mixed in as well, and the
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by etal 18y ago
You're right, I missed Japan in the other group. I'm always suspicious of industrialized-vs-developing groupings because the intersection of industrialized and Western is so large. What do the numbers look like in Latin America, for instanc
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by etal 18y ago
Consider the following analogy: psychology researchers : gender differences :: moths : flame Rosalind Chait Barnett at the bottom of the article has it right. Investigating gender differences is the first quest every psych grad stude
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by etal 18y ago
I thought GMail was done with Google Web Toolkit. Maybe part of this library was already released as part of GWT in some way?
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by etal 18y ago
First, find your school's career center. Every undergrad has the same problem, and your school will try to help you get established -- look for an internship this summer if there's time. Companies are wary of unemployed, inexperienced twent
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by etal 18y ago
There was no single event that led to the creation of the FDA as we know it, but there was an interesting string of medical disasters during the first half of the 20th century that caused the scope of the laws and agency to creep: http://e
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by etal 18y ago
This new resistance to higher system requirements is interesting in the context of ESR's "World Domination 201" ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-dom... ), which looked at the 16-bit and 32-bit transitions and predi
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by etal 18y ago
Agreed, but in this case the readability of the text format is only a minor benefit. I didn't want to go on a tangent, but the problem is that vanilla Windows XP (not sure about Vista) does not make it safe to play with plain text files, es
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by etal 18y ago
For some new work, I originally fought against using XML for storing data. Good ol' "key = value" would have done the trick, mostly, although as we kept adding data it might have been handy to impose more structure on it. Nonetheless, it wa
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by etal 18y ago
Which would you rather have: Gecko/Webkit embedded in an Emacs buffer, or an Emacs/Vim buffer embedded in Firefox? I've seen some stabs at both, but neither really Done Right.
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by etal 18y ago
It's interesting that the limited specs don't mention RAM or processor speed, and don't rule out solid-state drives. A small screen and 40-80 GB storage could be a pretty sweet machine, with or without a touchscreen -- the price for these l
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by etal 18y ago
So, two possible motivations come to mind: 1. This is part of the push for Vista over XP -- computers than can run Vista must run Vista, otherwise, XP is offered to avoid forfeiting the market to Linux. 2. This is a precursor to a campaign
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by etal 18y ago
Good points. One that's not really mentioned is that beginning CS students often want to start learning a language that will make them employable, right away. (Or, their parents want them to.) I know professors get a lot of pressure to teac
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by etal 18y ago
He does know things. For Windows users, Cygwin is a decent alternative to fucking yourself, in case that's the situation on your work computer (nevermind bootability): rsync -rlpv $HOME /cygdrive/e

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