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by jff 14y ago
It's overpriced by the definition of MLM. Normal retail: the store buys from a wholesaler and sells to you. MLM: Some guy buys from the wholesaler, and sells it to his downstreams, who sell it to their downstreams, through however many leve
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by jff 14y ago
Aaaand that's why I don't have the Java plugin installed. Anywhere. I'd like to think that we're almost to the point of viewing Java in the same light as Bonzi Buddy or Comet Cursor; IT discovers you got Java on your computer again, they ju
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by jff 14y ago
I'm thinking of buying one of those Raspberry Pi cameras when they become available and whipping up a bit of Go code to make my own dashcam for < $100. I think it would work great. You could even add a cheap USB wifi dongle and have it
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by jff 14y ago
Crutch.
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by jff 14y ago
Things you buy from MLMs are generally overpriced, worthless, or both. Usually both.
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by jff 14y ago
I don't buy it. Here's a 15kt explosion: http://youtu.be/B9F-l_3eLcE?t=9m I've never witnessed a nuclear explosion first-hand, but that seems like a mighty small flash for a nuclear explosion. Edit: Also, why don't we hear any EMP effects
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by jff 14y ago
If the military is using it, isn't it by definition not ahead of its time?
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by jff 14y ago
Wit? Intelligence? The phrase you're searching for is "shameless pandering".
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by jff 14y ago
"Unconstitutional" does not mean "I think this is a really bad thing"
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by jff 14y ago
You should be checking errors immediately after they are returned. Once you've checked it, re-use the variable: x, err := f(a) if err != nil { // probably time to return from the func } y, err := g(x) // we have at least 1 new var,
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by jff 14y ago
If you could cite me what part of the Constitution it violates that would be good, I could use it in the future.
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by jff 14y ago
Yes, but then you're stuck using C++, RAII, and exceptions. Let's not even get into which smart pointer you should use--a Googler I know has recounted stories of massive internal mailing list arguments over exactly which of the half-dozen s
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by jff 14y ago
Well, I think somebody's account will be hellbanned today...
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by jff 14y ago
At the kind of project sizes you see at Google, you start to measure compilation time in tens of minutes. If you have a source control system that triggers an automatic build every time you upload a change for review, can you see how waitin
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by jff 14y ago
It does have a style guide, it's just that gofmt will automatically make your code conform to that style guide :) The Go style is close enough to my normal C style that I end up mostly conforming anyway, but gofmt is great for making code l
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by jff 14y ago
I'm going to make the argument that a lot, if not the majority, of C/C++ programmers don't need complete control over memory management. I think in many cases (not OS, not real-time), saying "but I need absolute control over memory manage
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by jff 14y ago
This stupid meme is getting really fucking old.
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by jff 14y ago
Student Government sold us out. We should have never gotten rid of Al Simone.
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by jff 14y ago
Read the article. The article you've posted conflates jailbreaking with unlocking. As the OP pointed out: Jailbreaking: getting root on the phone Unlocking: configuring the phone so it can be used on any cell network Jailbreaking is still l
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by jff 14y ago
Well, it depends on the light aircraft. A small, 2-person airplane, the kind flown by fat old private pilots? If you can get it coming down toward the ground at a slow enough rate and get the nose up as you're just about to touch down (flar
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by jff 14y ago
Smart guys.
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by jff 14y ago
Well, I should clarify, I like some challenge, I just sorta wish either mineral veins were bigger, or they were more common. I'm happy to go digging for diamond, I just wish it didn't take me an hour of random cave-wandering and digging o
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by jff 14y ago
And I can only assume that Java is why it runs at a crawl even at startup. But then, I only have 4 GB of RAM, enough to play pretty much every AAA game of today, but I guess Minecraft's ~cutting edge graphics~ are too complex.
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by jff 14y ago
The thing that bothered me most was the eternal groveling for resources when I'm trying to build something huge and awesome. Oh boy, my pickaxe broke, time to go spend another hour finding enough iron to make another.
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by jff 14y ago
It's just another example of the "magical natives, so in tune with the natural world" bullshit myth.
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by jff 14y ago
If you sell machines, you get $1300 cash. If you mine, you'll get continually decreasing returns, and you end up with bitcoins instead of USD.
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by jff 14y ago
Take a listen to the video. It seems to me that he's imitating (badly) caller voices, not using recordings. That would indeed by highly unethical.
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by jff 14y ago
People did this quite a bit back when Doom was big, and it caused some controversy, but I don't know of any laws that arose from it.
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by jff 14y ago
There's a difference between "Lots of callers can't remember their SIN, I'll use that" and "David Johnson, of 123 Maple St, Vancouver, BC, gave 112211 as an invalid SIN, let's put him in the game".
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by jff 14y ago
If I were a doctor participating in a study like this, I'd have a really hard time not trying to figure out who had the drug and who didn't. It's a secret; humans love secrets, and a doctor is extremely well-suited to figure this one out.

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