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by geoka9 13y ago
Yes, it's easy (and fun) to write clever code that is unmaintanable. It's much harder to write code that is simple. To me, people who can do that day in, day out are true rock-stars of programming.
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Overhyped Products That Completely Flopped In The Past 20 Years (2011)(businessinsider.com)
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by geoka9 13y ago
> This is probably not a popular view, but I don't really understand why comments are viewed by some people as a bad thing. Probably the same people think that well-written code does not need comments at all. That may be so, but wel
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by geoka9 13y ago
Exactly. My problem is that usually the people who neglect to write a comment in the code, also neglect to write meaningful commit messages. Usually it's just "fixed the layout bug" or something like this, along with a bunch
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by geoka9 13y ago
Bitstamp seems to be good. There's also the Canadian https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com/ , which seems to be top notch as far as the tech (multiple 2FA options, OpenPGP cryptography for email, etc.).
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by geoka9 13y ago
And probably driving a personal car, too. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/03/ocean-aci...
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Feds to Mandate V2V Communications in All New Vehicles by 2017(thedailyheap.com)
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by geoka9 13y ago
The Skytrain in Vancouver goes from the downtown to YVR in about 30 minutes. It is possible to go to the airport and back on a $2.75 ticket (on weekends and holidays; the ticket is valid for 90 minutes).
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by geoka9 13y ago
> It means rule of the people This definition is wrought with controversies. Let's say it's a rule of law? Then everything falls into place.
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by geoka9 13y ago
> Culturally, Ukraine seems to be much closer to Russia than to EU. The south-east of Ukraine, that is. The western regions of Ukraine seem to be much closer to Central Europe (Poland and others).
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by geoka9 13y ago
Why only half?
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by geoka9 13y ago
Well, we're not talking US laws "on the whole". It's about the few specific ones Snowden has been charged breaking.
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by geoka9 13y ago
> First rule of politics: never make a promise you can't keep. Then every politician I know is a glaring exception to this rule.
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by geoka9 13y ago
Well... The new one is not exactly the same. He's a former felon with multiple convictions for violent crimes who, judging by the people he installed in key positions all over the country, still has connections with the organized crime
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by geoka9 13y ago
and way, way buggier
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by geoka9 13y ago
The real act of altruism is to do something to avoid burning oil at all. This way you get to be altruistic towards your posterity as well. The interesting question is, do high oil prices help this cause or not?
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by geoka9 13y ago
> I find simply lifting weights gets too boring and I lose interest. I find it hardly boring when I actually lift. I mean, if it's hard (as it's supposed to be), I may be overexerting, but I'm certainly not bored. I also f
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by geoka9 13y ago
I wonder how it looks. A non-black girl/boy comes along and says that they want to participate, too. The black girls/their instructors tell them to piss off because they are not black and a girl to boot? If this is not racist, I d
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by geoka9 13y ago
But some clients (electrum, for example) refuse to send the transaction if you don't include a fee? There's also this: A transaction may be safely sent without fees if these conditions are met: It is smaller than 10,000 byt
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by geoka9 13y ago
Sure, you can learn something from anybody, but often the managers don't have the time to do actual development and dive into specifics, so they end up being taught more than they teach. A manager is essentially an organizer and decisi
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by geoka9 13y ago
I can't predict the future any more than you do, but the creators of BTC have thought of this, it seems. > If gold goes up in relative value, then that creates a strong incentive for creating more gold mines, which then drives the p
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by geoka9 13y ago
> to put out brush fires that could upset the global status quo. I thought we had UN for that?
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by geoka9 13y ago
> And it's not like there are chefs cooking healthy food in every home. You don't need a chef to quickly cook healthy food at home. In fact, most chefs tend to overcomplicate food by aiming for taste instead of healthiness. Thr
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by geoka9 13y ago
Maybe now, that they've got more publicity, the value went up :)
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by geoka9 13y ago
A donation should suffice (they are running a campaign now, BTW) :)
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by geoka9 13y ago
I wonder what'll happen to F1 when the consumer car industry shifts to driverless cars. Will F1 "catch up" and the teams get rid of the drivers? Will it still be considered a sport?
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by geoka9 13y ago
> Maybe you should first learn the language? Is it actually possible? I've been using Scala for over a year and still have to spend more time learning about the language than writing code in it.
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by geoka9 13y ago
Having used Scala for over a year, I can say it is a mixed blessing for me. On the one hand it's an improvement over the verbosity and rigidity of Java. And often it is fun to write in (lots of clever tricks you can use and feel good a
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by geoka9 13y ago
He could donate it without de-anonymizing himself.
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by geoka9 13y ago
It's handy if you want a quick and simple way to preserve the history of edits for a single file, for example. So instead of a .bak file you can have an RCS file.

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