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by jere 14y ago
Ditto for vegans and Hindus.
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by jere 14y ago
I'm not sure how the article goes from interesting hypothesis (which it is) to near certainty. >If we rule out changes in cigaret design and environmental factors as explanations for the enormous increase in lung cancer, what are we lef
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by jere 14y ago
Can I just say that Derek Yu is an indie god? I remember being blown away by Diabolika and Eternal Daughter a decade ago. And Spelunky (released last year) is a ridiculously good game, especially with friends. He got his start doing Klik 'n
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by jere 14y ago
That's right. The article was indicting caffeine, yet the presented graph is "ER visits associated with energy drinks "
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by jere 14y ago
I wonder how many emergency room visits (and deaths) are associated with coffee usage. I suspect the number is negligible, if not plain 0. With billions of cups of coffee consumed daily, I'm skeptical that it's really caffeine that is the v
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by jere 14y ago
Ok, great then!
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by jere 14y ago
I believe so. And they have posted 5 stackoverflow questions in 11 days. IIRC, this is called Power Leveling.
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by jere 14y ago
>Why break conversations into awkward and arbitrary pages, where you have to constantly find the Next Page button? We've replaced all that with the power of just-in-time loading. Want to read more? Just keep scrolling down. While I like
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by jere 14y ago
That's somewhat encouraging. I have not had good results with either ask or submit.
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by jere 14y ago
What about 5 characters? Saw this today on a product that claims "We use advanced technology in a security–rich environment" https://twitter.com/humbit/status/297417037989429248/photo/1
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by jere 14y ago
> If you find yourself repeatedly putting down a technology, then take some time to actually learn and use it. All the jokes and snide remarks aside, Perl is tremendously useful. Ditto for PHP and Java and C++. Who wins, the person who
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by jere 14y ago
Good one. Apparently, no one else is capable of laughing.
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by jere 14y ago
Sure. It's commonly called dead reckoning as I understand it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning#Dead_reckoning_f... But even if you only send a "real" update once a second, I still don't see how this thing scales (that still lea
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by jere 14y ago
I haven't really played Eve, so I can't say. I'm imagining ships flying around and changing course constantly in a battle, but if someone can give a better description, I'd appreciate it. It'd be further reduced by several players sharing a
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by jere 14y ago
[Edit: this comment turned out not to really be about Eve and more about the difficulty of real time MMOs] This blows my mind. I've been thinking about writing a small multiplayer game for a few weeks. And today I was actually doing back of
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by jere 14y ago
I thought the same thing and was especially shocked that the technique could ever be used in the Siberian taiga (both because of the cold and the dense vegetation). Compare this to a quote from the above wikipedia article "Scientists, posit
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by jere 14y ago
Wouldn't this mean ex-employees would know your password scheme indefinitely?
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by jere 14y ago
>Attractive women are, on average, less intelligent and capable than their less attractive counterparts. Seems a bit prejudicial to me. That's not the argument being made. The author is only claiming that hiring by a metric other than c
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by jere 14y ago
You can call it... IncogDepot Thanks, folks. I'm here all week.
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by jere 14y ago
There has, is, and will continue to be. Seeing that Carmack practically invented the FPS genre over 20 years ago and he's still writing games today, I view him as a mythical figure. http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cu
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by jere 14y ago
It's like reverse bike shedding. Bike sheds have proved too boring for anyone to actually care about their color anymore.
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by jere 14y ago
Usually a magazine overlays its title with a very dramatic photo of a person, which makes the person stand out. And usually only a few letters are obscured. Our brains are quite good at filling in the details. Example: http://pixel.nymag.c
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by jere 14y ago
I actually had never looked up the studies Wolf was referencing before (naively, perhaps, I trust the guy to have reviewed the literature). But I think he is probably referencing this: >Researchers at Brigham Young University and the Un
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by jere 14y ago
Sure, you shouldn't let your friends hold you back. But I wouldn't underestimate the value of spending time with friends/family. One quote from Robb Wolf has always stuck with me: "It's understood that people who don't have enough social co
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by jere 14y ago
All I see is a bunch of handwaving and distractions from what is admitted to be a real issue at the start. Imagine we still had slavery in the US in 2013. Who would argue that slavery is perfectly ok because, by golly, slaves live longer an
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by jere 14y ago
>Wasn't there a big Bitcoin heist last month due to the Rails vulnerability? Just curious, but why is there a widespread belief that security incidents that have nothing to do with the bitcoin protocol will lead to the value to implode?
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by jere 14y ago
A while back I would probably think the whole premise that government would go after people who buy/sell a product sometimes associated with criminal activity is flawed. Articles such as the following have made me think otherwise: http://w
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by jere 14y ago
>This rectangular slab will weigh but a few pounds, and have no buttons or knobs to play with. The front surface will be a touch-sensitive display screen... Uh oh. Call the lawyers. Text version: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publicati
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by jere 14y ago
The problem with this question is there is no way to explore a candidate's thought process. They either know it because they just so happen to have needed a sticky footer or they don't. They could guess, but like the author says the intuiti
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by jere 14y ago
>Sorry - your whole post is just weird and I don't get it. Uh... ok. People often, before launching a product, put up a landing page advertising that the product is coming soon. On this page, they give a brief description (or hint) abou

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