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by fr0sty 16y ago
> Learn to survey, skim, and dive in. All your endeavors will be the better for it. Then why sort comments at all? just order them in date order (or the reverse) and be done with it. Let the reader decide what is useful and what isn't.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
No one on this thread has picked up on the 'range' suggestion by Maro yet, so I'll add a thought: For my purposes, displaying actual scores within the range -4 -> 10 would be sufficient. the low end is already capped, and the high end c
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by fr0sty 16y ago
> The problem is that part of what you like about not displaying the comment scores is the apparent effect it has on other people's behavior. That, I believe is more correct. I miss the scores, personally, and found them rather usef
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Please update your facts. Almost every online broker offers real time pricing for US equities and some even provide the depth of book. What you say above (15minute delayed quotes) was true several years ago but things have changed.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
This has actually been a major issue in light of the recent damage from the earthquake/tsunami. Poser generation on the 50hz half of the country has been greatly diminished and the frequency matching stations have insufficient capacity to m
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Another favorite of mine is the forums that have a 'quick reply' box on a thread with a giant "Post Reply" button just above it and a smaller "post quick reply" button at the bottom right. Guess which button throws away all of your work.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Gitosis is obsolete. If you are starting frsh, set up gitolite servers instead. Gitolite is actively maintained and has more features and better documentation.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
"tax avoidance" is a synonym for "tax compliance". Do you take your allowed deductions on your tax return? or use tax-deferred investment vehicles like IRAs or 401Ks? Do you report your investment losses? If so, why is your tax avoidance ac
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by fr0sty 16y ago
"git clean" does nothing without -f, or the user changing clean.RequireForce=false "git reset" does nothing irrevocable unless you add --hard (why should you also need to add --force?) "git checkout" will only trash uncommitted changes if y
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by fr0sty 16y ago
'rm' prompts by default? since when? Btw, which defaults are, in your opinion, "bad"?
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by fr0sty 16y ago
I think the GP was saying that the landlord was announcing a 10% increase in rent with only 30 days notice not an increase of rent for the last month of the lease.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
I am not advocating any sort of Zero Tolerance policy (e.g. "instantly failing") for this. In fact, I think ZT is insane in most if not all cases. For the purposes of this discussion (which was about having students use version control for
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by fr0sty 16y ago
> That requires professors to be much "tougher" than they often like to be. If a prof/TA can't be bothered to police their students then they forfeit any right to complain about cheating. If students can't follow directions (give grace
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by fr0sty 16y ago
> The work-around is pretty trivial though: just cheat as usual, then claim you forgot to commit until you were already done. The Workaround for this is likewise trivial: make "failure to show work" grounds for a failing assignment grad
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by fr0sty 16y ago
> I'm not sure the article explains enough to put git into perspective - its mostly a "what is version control" parable? The parable walks you through git's data model and is therefore git-centric. The metaphors used are a rather thin v
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by fr0sty 16y ago
My office has a physical trainer that does a one hour interval workout twice a week. We rotate through stations constantly and each workout is different so there is no boredom, only griping. I really should do at least one more day of excer
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Indeed. $25/mo for 'unlimited' data + 300minutes is outstanding, compared to every other option I am aware of in the US. I currently pay that much for the required "data plan for smart phone".
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by fr0sty 16y ago
>"DON'T launch with paypal unless you have all the documentation sorted out" That is the problem. It appears to be impossible to know in advance whether your documentation is sorted out. Even if PayPal had a 'how to not get locked out a
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by fr0sty 16y ago
That appears to be an hg error message. The git version is: $ git push github master To git@gitproxy:rip747/ cfwheels.git ! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward) error: failed to push some refs to ‘git@gitp
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Contrary to the article http://rememberthemilk.com does support multiple lists (I currently have a dozen or so). I've been trying RTM for a few weeks and my biggest cons are: 1. the mobile clients are hobbled. The wife and I Use the andro
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by fr0sty 16y ago
And don't forget that the $10k car can be sold for $4-5k in three years so your net outlay would be closer to $150/mo. Also, it is quite possible that the 600/mo is a three year lease on a new Mercedes/BMW so at the end of the term you don'
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Your mortgage estimates are crap. If their mortgage $600k @ 4.25% they will make principle+interest payments of $2,950/mo. The first year they will pay down $10k in principle. Year 10: $15.5k Year 16: $20k So, unless they had the huge house
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Does anyone know of a way to run HTML5 apps in a standalone environment (on android specifically)? From all I have seen these "apps" are little more than bookmarks to a webpage which then open into just another tab in the browser instead of
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Protip: stack X sheets of foil on top of each other, measure, divide by X.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Mobile devices these days are most definitely _not_ "instant on" devices. They are "always on" devices which fool you into thinking they are off. Try it. Power down your phone, start the clock and measure how long it takes to boot.... ....
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by fr0sty 16y ago
yes, but... $10 ticket + $10 concessions = $10 net revenue (%25 of the ticket and %75 on concessions) $20 ticket + no concessions = $5 net revenue. It is the same reason CEO's take $1 salaries and stock grants/options. Salaries are taxed a
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Ask HN: What are you doing with your TI MSP430 Launchpad?
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by fr0sty 16y ago
I can't edit the parent any more, but I wanted to add a citation: One of the 'people' in opposition is Warren Buffet[1]: > "Dynastic wealth, the enemy of a meritocracy, is on the rise. Equality of opportunity has been on the decline," B
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Renting introduces a Principal-Agent problem[1] because the owner's incentives are not entirely in line with yours. Maximum profit is realized by doing the minimum amount of repairs necessary to keep people from moving out. Switching apartm
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by fr0sty 16y ago
There are people who have an opposition to 'dynastic wealth' and would very much prefer there to be no inheritances or for them to be massively taxed. I don't agree in the least. I also don't buy the radical minimalism/anti-ownership ethic

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