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by giberson 16y ago
Single most effective thing I do to improve my programming skills? Refactor. It might be enough to get a hack done to get some functionality working but if you never revisit it you wont learn what you did wrong or what you could have done b
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by giberson 16y ago
Grandma, "Event-Driven" is just a fancy word for magic. Don't worry about it.
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by giberson 16y ago
Very good points. Obviously, math is a language in itself and trying to make arguments from the trappings of an inexact translation to another language like English is folly. >I am not trying to be mean here No worries, no maliciousnes
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by giberson 16y ago
Thanks! I'd like to say !Ding, I get it--but that wouldn't quite be accurate. Suffice to say, I understand how you can use a one-to-one correspondence method to proof two collection's equality--despite not really understanding how you are g
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by giberson 16y ago
I contest that infinity != infinity-1. I base this on an assumption that there is more than one "infinity". Additionally, I will contest infinity != infinity necessarily. If we count on the number line from 1 to X, never stopping, that woul
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by giberson 16y ago
Thanks for your response Rider, and let me re-iterate that I'm already aware my reasoning is wrong. Hence my allusion to how I think Spock would reply to me. For clarification, I'm considering my observation that x^x infinitum is not the sa
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by giberson 16y ago
>But the part in brackets is the same as the whole, and hence is equal to 2. Thus we have 2=x^2 The bug is in the third line, the statement is invalid. Obviously (x^x infinitum) is not the same as (x^x infinitum-1). For the same reason
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by giberson 16y ago
The more in-character response from OkCupid would have been to make a new OkTrends blog post that plainly analyzed the data underlying the removal of the original article. Data Points: Dollars Received From match.com | Articles removed
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by giberson 16y ago
You know, I suppose had they put a Paypal button on okcupid's home page saying "donate now to prevent match.com from acquiring us" they would have easily garnered more than $50m. As a user, I almost feel betrayed that they sold out to match
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by giberson 16y ago
Pragmatically, the following scenario underlines why this is practice is overall bad for the consumer. Company A produces product 1. Company B produces product 2 inferior to product 1. Consumers use product 1. Company B enhances p
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by giberson 16y ago
Tangent: When I was reading this essay I couldn't help myself from imagining a counter essay (in satire) that argues a reverse valuing of the hierarchy of argument quality indicated by Graham. Additionally the quality of the argument to arg
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by giberson 16y ago
Here's where Hulu lost me as a consumer, it was simply the decision to make their premium service provide extra content and mobile features instead of eliminating ads. Netflix wins because it spares me from advertisements. You have no idea
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by giberson 16y ago
I imagine theres not much you can be specific about when talking about google's algorithm, but can you at least disclose if the identification of "original" content providers is "determined" (by some automatic process) or is it "specified"
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by giberson 16y ago
The irony of this, is that passing it would practically invalidate every United States citizen citizenship. Since, if you can't become a citizen by being born here, how would our parents have become citizens? Aside from those who gained cit
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by giberson 16y ago
I'm kinda off-put about their decision to censor the software program titles, rather then say copyrighted illegal content. Obviously the former is the "easy" fix, while they should have approached the latter solution instead. And while this
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by giberson 16y ago
First time I've heard this take on a Zeno's paradox (I had to wikipedia it to find out it was a Zeno's paradox). I've always known it from the Meg Ryan movie I.Q. in the scene where Ed tries to cover the distance to Catherine by moving half
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by giberson 16y ago
Libraries don't require you to use them. You are free write your own solution [that makes sense].
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by giberson 16y ago
Interestingly, the factorial function is typically used as a trivial example case for introductions to learning a language. Used for the purpose of learning function calls and recursion and as such we tend to think of it in the simplest con
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by giberson 16y ago
One subtle spacing issue I find quite annoying that I run into a lot is leading tabs before variable names after type definition. IE: int anInt = 7; String aString = "My string value"; ClassName aClass = new ClassN
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by giberson 16y ago
I guess my concern might be the potential for actual crime being unknowingly committed by game partakers. As a simple example, I could imagine a simple "courier mission" which uses a player to pickup and to deliver a package. If the mission
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by giberson 16y ago
Rename to Empire of StarBuilders and move on.
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by giberson 16y ago
It seems like the obvious solution is a crawl on demand service provided by Google-so that when you publish new content, or your content is updated you can get Google to index your new content, and associate it as original content based on
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by giberson 16y ago
This is what kills me about advertising--I literally can't believe it works. Yet, heres an article about a guy using an ad company to show ads to generate revenue, and in the comments here at HN, a viewpoint from some one using an ad compan
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by giberson 16y ago
I employ what I like to call "Personal Hashing". Think of it like the human version of md5. I've come up with an easy to remember, easy to compute (work done in my head), hashing system that I use to generate passwords for all my accounts.
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by giberson 16y ago
I think Scott needs to re-engineer his idea virus, it's not quite on the mark. Ultimately, it will only ever (at best) end up as a famous quote like "Give peace a chance" for similar mentioned reasons, but also because the virus doesn't off
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by giberson 16y ago
Honestly speaking, could I pass this test if I sat down and took it right now? No. However I do believe that, given a study guide (i.e my notes, and a test book) and a reasonable idea of what would be on the test, I could pass the test--jus
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Ask HN: Legal to access data on purchased used NAS?
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by giberson 16y ago
Why not just check the request URL, and if it doesn't match your domain, or a domain of your affiliate, display an invalid domain screen instead of the game? Toss in a frame breakout script for good measure. Doesn't seem like a very difficu