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by icambron 13y ago
Yeah, I mostly of agree with that and sort of said so in my post. Not sure it has much impact on my central point though. One really key difference with LINQ is that it doesn't produce arrays (or dictionaries, as in your example); it p
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by icambron 13y ago
As someone whose last 8 years of professional work have been largely split between...C# and Ruby, I have to disagree. I do agree about C# being quite nice; it's all the things Java should be but isn't. And it's evolving qui
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by icambron 13y ago
I took a sci-fi writing class from Haldeman in college. He was great.
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by icambron 13y ago
There's a difference between assuming something because it's prudent to do so and actually knowing it's true. And even if Schneier was extremely confident about it, he was still, in the minds of most people, just a paranoid g
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by icambron 13y ago
Happy to be wrong about this, but I wouldn't think that thermal dissipation in the case would make the case less hot. Where does the heat go?
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by icambron 13y ago
Alternative, admittedly uninformed hypothesis: the structure makes it lighter, which means the chord suspending it can be thinner, which makes it harder for ants to crawl down it.
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by icambron 13y ago
If people want to cheat that badly, let 'em.
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by icambron 13y ago
Puzzling enough to spend 5 minutes checking out what I was talking about first? edit: grammar
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by icambron 13y ago
You read some threads on HN about low-level details and they annoyed you, and so now you get to imply that I "just learned js/ruby yesterday and [am] afraid of low level details" because I used the words "OS" and &q
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by icambron 13y ago
Did you read the original? In context it really does mean something different than it sounds like it means here.
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by icambron 13y ago
Parking minimums are subsidy towards car owners from non-car owners. Why do you believe you should receive that subsidy, instead of the developers being able to choose what to build based on demand? If you want a parking spot, you should pa
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by icambron 13y ago
Also you can tell it whether you need it for a long drive or a short one, so it can know when to send you an electric car or an internal combustion car. Or whether you need a big car or a small one.
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by icambron 13y ago
No, no, he really is mentally ill and he really did write an impressive-looking operating system [1]. Also the post quoted above really is packed with racist vitriol. Take all of that literally. [1] http://www.templeos.org/
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by icambron 13y ago
This is basically what sjs said, but you're only allowed to build the building so tall (zoning rules often crazily restrictive about this). So if you put your parking above ground, you'd have to have fewer units.
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by icambron 13y ago
I get that he's mentally ill (I read up on his OS the other day), but I do take exception to the repost of part of his comment. Because his comment is ridiculous. "Monkey" is meant as a racial slur. "American" is me
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by icambron 13y ago
Yeah, it's seems like an assembler would be far less work than the annotation tool he made.
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by icambron 13y ago
Er, that reads quite differently in context than it does here.
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by icambron 13y ago
While I wholeheartedly agree with your reasoning here, I'd also like to ask why it would reasonable if it were, in fact, merely an inconvenience. Let's say, for example, that instead of the no-fly list, we had a hassle-me-extra-at
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by icambron 13y ago
The Inca used forced labor to build temples and roads and provide food and other goods to the military. Cooperative farming can certainly become more efficient with additional infrastructure like irrigation and food storage, but I find it h
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by icambron 13y ago
> There has to be a sweet spot between telling everyone immediately, inciting a panic I disagree. Perfect transparency is always the right way to go with epidemic diseases. That information will go through all kinds of natural filters: s
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by icambron 13y ago
The risk for SARS was massively overblown, but, unlike terrorism, entire populations really have been decimated by plagues.
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by icambron 13y ago
Says the guy who thinks someone traveling alone and carrying bug spray residue and being Hindu should set off the TSA's terrorism alarm. Perhaps you could move that bar a scorch higher?
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by icambron 13y ago
> if a given test were to generate a false positive, you would expect that it wouldn't generate a false positive the next time if run on the same article I don't think that's true. Remember that the test doesn't actua
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by icambron 13y ago
Ah, I see. Yeah, I meant, "additional" as in "above and beyond the standard reaction to setting off the detector". Sorry for the confusion.
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by icambron 13y ago
I think you're missing that there is a sequence of things that happens here: 1. he sets off the chemical detector 2. he is pulled aside for questioning 3. in that questioning, they discover he has a background that makes them n
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by icambron 13y ago
The question is not why he was "picked" to be investigated. The question is why he was kept so long even after it was determined that he did not, in fact, have explosives, and why he was questioned at such length and aggressivenes
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by icambron 13y ago
I don't think I understand how your point applies here. The FBI agent's admission to having profiled the OP seem to be just that; I'm not sure how it could have been a ruse to get him to admit something. If we believe the sto
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by icambron 13y ago
Huh. I wonder how they train the inspectors?
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by icambron 13y ago
This. The craziness of "he set of the detection machine but it's clearly a false-positive, but now that he's on our radar let's grill him in case he just happens to be a terrorist" should be obvious to anyone.
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by icambron 13y ago
An FBI agent in the article: "You’ll have to understand, when a person of your… background walks into here, traveling alone, and sets off our alarms, people start to get a bit nervous. I’m sure you’ve been following what’s been going o

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