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by gordaco 14y ago
"Probably True"? Really? Are things THAT backwards in some points of the US? Even the "were you there" answer?
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by gordaco 14y ago
No, you're not the only one. To me, this is also a fast way of ruining one of the best things about life. If "making your dreams come true" prevents you from enjoying a nice meals (which is not that much time-consuming, anyway), it may be t
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by gordaco 14y ago
For example, any woman who has some priorities aside money, and who doesn't enjoy those careers. Money is the main reason why we need jobs, but that doesn't mean that a job's only purpose is to earn the maximum amount of money.
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by gordaco 14y ago
I've spent literally about 20 times more money on GOG than Steam, for this very same reason. And although I haven't actually found myself in that situation, I'm willing to pay a little more if that grants me absence of DRM.
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by gordaco 14y ago
http://xkcd.com/603/
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by gordaco 14y ago
That's why I think those are pure evil. I know I'm not alone...
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by gordaco 14y ago
I especially like lucian303's one, which I'll reproduce for those who don't have the appropriate setting: > The 8 hour workday was fought for and won for a reason. To expect more, an employer would be unprofessional. To accept more, exc
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by gordaco 14y ago
True. 35% may be a bit low, however, but I agree with everything else. On my first job, I didn't follow these guidelines. That's a mistake I won't commit again. I'd add: Fourth - say no to overtime, even if it's paid. Unless you're really i
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by gordaco 14y ago
"So the Reinhart-Rogoff fiasco needs to be seen in the broader context of austerity mania: the obviously intense desire of policy makers, politicians and pundits across the Western world to turn their backs on the unemployed and instead use
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by gordaco 14y ago
Good question. It depends on the field, I guess. In academia there are a lot of ad hoc scientific simulations, and yes, many people still prefer C++ over Matlab, R or Numpy (because of speed or because they feel more comfortable with it). I
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by gordaco 14y ago
C++ has plenty of uses outside games and it's still one of the most demanded languages, although here on HN most people seem to work on web development and rarely need C++. The truth is, if you don't like C++, you won't like working on an i
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by gordaco 14y ago
Agree, this is mostly controversial for non-math people. Although the Monty Hall problem supposedly caused a lot of mail from people, some even math teachers, who got it wrong but didn't realize and/or admit it.
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by gordaco 14y ago
I just knew that the first two were going to be the Monty Hall problem and 0.99999...==1. I'm actually surprised that so many people don't accept that last one; I understood it immediately when I learned it (I was 12). The third blows your
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by gordaco 14y ago
More than a game, it's an arms race. Both us and the privacy invaders have to make moves, even if the race won't stop. Surely, they'll come up with something else. Something else that we'll have to counter, and so on.
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by gordaco 14y ago
On the biggest company I worked for (~200-250 people), we had a wiki. I think it was TRAC. Fortunately, most developers were responsible enough to update the pages when they did something relevant (i.e., if you created a script to automate
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by gordaco 14y ago
The problem is, they already became that. A while ago. This, from the article, is a good summary: > "It's the users of the language who decide if it will remain," she said. > "So if the word exists, use it if you want. That's someth
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by gordaco 14y ago
The article reminds me of this blog: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/ . Although lately it's featuring too many articles about the Jetsons.
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by gordaco 14y ago
Solar and wind energy are doing very well in Spain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Spain . There is a lot of FUD about the need of subsidizing, but it seems that the technology is already mature enough, and subsidies are
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by gordaco 14y ago
This. One of the things about vegetarian diets that rarely gets mentioned is that there are people whose body really profits from meat, while others' don't so much (this is why you get a lot of anecdotes like yours, but also a lot of people
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by gordaco 14y ago
Which also applies to the 1 man, 8 hours versus 2 men, 4 hours.
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by gordaco 14y ago
I think that the article's defense of immutability is a bit poor. Making a date mutable means that it won't always reference the same point in time: yeah, a birthday will remain constant, but an appointment may not; the same goes for a lot
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by gordaco 14y ago
I'm sorry, that wasn't at all my intention. In any case, I wouldn't be mocking him, but the educational system he studied under (which definitely wouldn't be his fault; to be honest, I've also suffered a quite bad educational system). And I
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by gordaco 14y ago
Actually, what the article calls "the easy way" is often harder than "the hard way". "The hard way" is a lot about jumping into the obvious approach at the first opportunity, while "the easy way" may require some heavy thinking and discussi
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by gordaco 14y ago
I don't know, that's why I just talked about "the rest of the world". I'm just surprised that this is not as common as I thought it was. Cultural blindness, I guess.
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by gordaco 14y ago
Your first paragraph reminded me of an Ignobel-awarded article, "Chickens prefer beautifl humans": http://cogprints.org/5272/1/ghirlanda_jansson_enquist2002.pd... BTW, I think all birds descend from dinosaurs. From http://en.wikipedia.or
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by gordaco 14y ago
I don't want to sound smug or anything, but didn't you study it in school? In Spain we learn it in fifth or sixth grade, just after learning the concept of square root. I thought it was basic enough to be studied at about that age in the re
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by gordaco 14y ago
Haha! I had the same story about substracting "impossible" numbers (I distinctly remember that it was 6-9) when I was like 5 or 6. Fortunately I had a very good teacher and she dismissed it politely, saying something like that was a little
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by gordaco 14y ago
I wonder if the article is subtly trying to blame the glass ceiling on the few women that got past it. Or maybe I'm being too evil-minded and end up perceiving bias where there isn't.
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by gordaco 14y ago
Although fib grows exponentially, so it does the same for not so big numbers (a back-of-an-envelope calculation gives me that fib(91) doesn't fit in 63 bits). OTOH, if I had to calculate fib(X), and not fib(1..X), I'd use the exponential fo
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by gordaco 14y ago
For those interested in changing the amount of storage per domain in firefox: about:config -> dom.storage.default_quota. Also, dom.storage.enabled to change whether you use local storage at all or not. I don't know if chrome or iexplore

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