halter73

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by halter73 14y ago
I think that in the case of unforeseen error in an application, the program should blow up instead of dropping calls to null objects and continuing on as if nothing has gone wrong. I would not want to work on code that relies on this type
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by halter73 14y ago
Imagine how much harder this would be if you also had to rotate.
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by halter73 14y ago
Interesting. I imagine this method would be particularly helpful for non-anonymized surveys. Obviously, this would only be helpful if you don't have a good idea of how many people would lie in the first place. It also depends on the assumpt
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by halter73 14y ago
Since most other popular languages seem represented: string SortedKeyList<T, U>(params IDictionary<T, U>[] maps) { var keys = new SortedSet<string>(maps.SelectMany(m => m.Keys)
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by halter73 14y ago
But couldn't you just have each core start at a different key frame?
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by halter73 14y ago
What happens then when someone introduces the rule: any player who generates a contradiction in the rules automatically loses? I imagine there could be an initial rule that states the most recent rule generated is authoritative in the event
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by halter73 14y ago
PowerShell for those on Windows: for (;;) { write-host -n (get-random ╱,╲) } Obviously this requires a font supporting those characters. MS Mincho seems to serve well: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=206
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by halter73 14y ago
If you are working with people using Markdown editors built on top of different libraries, they might not really be 100% compatible. John Gruber's spec leaves quite a few ambiguities. http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-
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by halter73 14y ago
I think the obvious solution is to have the client first check for updated scraping rules from a server operated by the client's creator. The client could check for these scraping rule updates every time the client starts up or on some inte
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by halter73 14y ago
The Channel API doesn't currently use WebSockets. Instead it uses Comet techniques like forever frame and long polling. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=25...
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by halter73 14y ago
Look again. There's no actual recursion going on. It's fairly trivial to identify recursion in DTD entities.
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by halter73 14y ago
Funny, but a one connection at a time restriction would break gifsockets just like long polling.
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by halter73 14y ago
When I toured Valve last summer, there were quite a lot of large empty offices. Everyone's desks were on wheels, and the workstations were set up to make them extremely easy to move. Naturally, with no management structure, anyone was free
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by halter73 14y ago
Where do you get the impression that Microsoft's promise is non-binding? Microsoft's official FAQ on their Community Promise explicitly states that it irrevocable and legally binding [1]. I have previously read complaints that the promise d
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by halter73 14y ago
I believe that the CPM for ads on Craigslist would be higher than it is for Reddit or Facebook. The key is that people browsing Craigslist are usually there to buy something rather than seeking free entertainment. Advertisers really value a
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by halter73 14y ago
The link from the blog back to the project's main website doesn't work properly. Is appears that the logo in http://opalang.org/header_blog.xmlt should be linked with target="_top" since the navbar is an iframe.
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by halter73 14y ago
I think that the GP's statement was made ceteris paribus. Naturally, if there was some new information available about the company fundamentals that caused FB stock to drop to $14, it would only be a good buy if you could determine that the
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by halter73 14y ago
What, if not the ends, justifies the means? I understand that, from a deontological perspective, you might believe that certain means can never be justified no matter what the ends, but surely squatting in an office building isn't a means s
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by halter73 14y ago
I started out in boss mode, making it 90% of the way diligently plotting the locations I had been to as nodes on a graph, before realizing I could switch mid-game to the illustrated mode. What really slowed me down was getting to the right
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by halter73 15y ago
"thing1 ?? thing2 ?? thing3 ?? bar" will return the value of the first non-null variable in the list. zmj wants something like Ruby's andand [1] instead. andand negates the need for an explicit null check on each property in a property look
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by halter73 15y ago
It's great to hear that VsVim is finally accepting contributions from outside of Microsoft. During my internship at Microsoft last summer, there was one day where the interns in STB got into groups of about 5 and presented on topics of stra
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by halter73 15y ago
Yeah, because TPB believes that all of its torrents are potentially legitimate (50 cent has released videos for general distribution after all). I'm sure if they were ever notified by rights holders that they were hosting a torrent that was
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by halter73 15y ago
Zip.js only has a .069% size advantage over zip 3.0 given your numbers (4,551,020 bytes & 4,547,885 bytes respectively). Your calculation of 6.8% better than zip just seemed too impressive.
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by halter73 15y ago
The Vanity Fair article (which is great by the way) makes it very clear that, given policies in place on 9/11, there was very little chance of the military being able stop the hijackers even if the drill hadn't been scheduled for that day.
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by halter73 15y ago
What if the following line is executed after the hidden canvas's context has been modified? canvasElement.setAttribute('style', 'display:inline !important'); According to you, non-stupid browsers should have ignored the previous updates to