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by jack9 11y ago
The reddit comment system is not that good and has been duplicated many times. Almost every comment system is comprised of multiple recognizable elements. 1. The presentation (this is probably what you meant). Reddit's comment threadin
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The fluff movie "A Hologram for the King (2016)" seemed like propaganda on its face but I didn't expect it to be reactionary, timed to combat these public allegations.
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While he made mention of the relative rarity of blue eyes, in animals, blue eyes are common.
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> such that we are limited in the bandwidth of our transmitted communications Every "creature" will have to use energy. Conservation of the energy means a linear optimization to minimal bandwidth. The channels (chemical, sonar,
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Klingons are like Vampires in this case. You know the rules for Vampires, right? Whatever rules you want because they aren't real.
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That's not obvious at all. Political speech can be codified and regulated with channels and times (which is largely already is via the political "seasons" and campaign routes). The questions of how to structure it, are many a
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> No, good OOP has class/object with both private state and associated functions combined to provide a public interface for clients to use. I don't believe there's evidence of this. Inteface scoping (e.g. "private&#x2
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His example has at least 2 missing semicolons. function Logger() { } // Log something to the console at a specified level Logger.prototype.log = function(level) { console[level || 'log'].apply(console,[].slice.apply(
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> When was the last time you met a couple where one person was attractive and the other was not? Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard (Dax is jacked, but that's not part of his movie persona) Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis Katy Perry and R
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> the primary reason for greater productivity of European settlers compared to native inhabitants of Americas would be culture More likely, simple domestication. The "culture" of cities are born of the variety of euro-domestica
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What a great way to fix up the choices that were necessarily lazy (socket to syslogd) and are now attack vectors. I REALLY liked this talk and the concept. It's not perfect, but it leads to better software by thinking about existing pr
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He learned how to bait people into his views about anthropomorphism.
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> It is a contract, though. I didn't sign it. > Minors cannot execute contracts, but can be subjected to contracts by their parents. They didn't sign it either. Not one of my ancestors did. > That's not how contracts
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Almost every single working person who deals with URLs or buys things online...or uses facebook has typed a file path styled URL.
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> It would completely remove the necessity to be productive. That can't turn out well. Take a look at mobile games. People do lots of things just to be 1 rung higher on an artificial competitive ladder (reset every month) about endl
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> It keeps people who want to work from working. That doesn't mean the work (the individual is capable of) is valuable enough to justify the position, in the locality.
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All the solutions he mentions (including the Blizzard system) is just a more complicated first-come-first-claimed. Gamification to get a shorter name, is the same system with a slightly more complicated process of the registration after-fir
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Competition has driven down (non-union) wages and increased profits through aggregation/consolidation. Why compete for 20 years when you can borrow and spend to buy the competition and double your market with no chance for a startup to
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The concept is very powerful. Disney's MMO tried a variation, which was only preapproved conversational phrases. Solving forum trolling could be brutally curbed by this method and would probably be effective with an extensible whitelis
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... is an ellipsis. ! is enunciated as "bang" from BASH parlance, iirc.
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Small modules are also often the result of dealing with different javascript implementations over the years. I've recently seen a simpler version of the left pad that would not have worked on multiple Safari versions or <IE6 The der
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I don't think you understood the problem or the author's attempt at raising awareness, in the context of a cliche. Never once did he tell others what to do.
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No shortage is more like it. Intact cadaverous hearts are plentiful by comparison to awaiting heart transplant patients. Most heart failures are immediate and fatal, but people who have progressive failure are relatively rare. Transplant pa
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You don't want to do that. Pig hearts are notoriously less durable (soft tissue tends to fail quickly, like in a fraction of a decade), so there's not a lot of data on the longevity of the circulatory stability of porcine hearts.
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1. Not good enough for YOU maybe being slightly better at solving a class of problems or a better memory (on almost any metric) is a measurable improvement and qualifies. 2. Irrelevant (just like #3 and #4) because we're not talking ab
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That was clear from the reading of the article.
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> We’ve also seen the ramifications of bad policies that tried to weaken security. In the 1990s, there was a concerted effort by certain outspoken law ... Dillution of the message by polluting it with political nostalgia is annoying. Mak
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Inheritance was wrongly added to the OOP paradigm by convention, not theory. Languages that tried to implement OOP used "classical" inheritance (C++, Java, Pascal, Python, PHP, etc), so it was handy to say the 2 concepts were rela
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I do doubt the random HN poster over someone who definitely worked in the industry daily and was privy to more information. mike seems to have a bug in his butt about how "factual" it is, like the candid precept ensures it's
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Until that empty file has the inode edited so it replaced . in a folder, leaving a particularly difficult-to-notice/find backdoor in an SPARC system.

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