jongraehl

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by jongraehl 12y ago
If you don't score yourself by how much better you're doing than peers (or yourself yesterday), it shouldn't be too hard to be content+optimistic, provided you're lucky enough to be healthy + intelligent + free of bad
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by jongraehl 12y ago
If teaching in California public schools is messed up, what U.S. state is good for teachers?
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by jongraehl 12y ago
devdocs' C++ doesn't have the first thing I tried (list::erase)
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by jongraehl 12y ago
I was always allowed and encouraged to open doors+windows while waiting in a car as a child.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
I love how my 3 year old macbook pro has "alt" and "option" labels on that key that in shortcuts is some awesome unrelated glyph, and the key labeled "control" is in shortcuts described as "^" (which
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by jongraehl 12y ago
wonder how this compares to node - specifically https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
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by jongraehl 12y ago
This piece helped me understand that a popular medium.com piece of non-fiction probably isn't "non-". Reddit with pretensions.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
I'd believe the same endorsements from someone who makes their living primarily off working code, rather than selling edu. material promoting test-heavy coding. That said, rapid "all's still well" feedback is awesome whe
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Andrew Gelman posts a eulogy: http://andrewgelman.com/2014/04/30/seth-roberts/
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by jongraehl 12y ago
Plausible sci-fi. The scheme described would have leaked immediately. Too obvious and too many people.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
The incidence of miscalibrated/misoperated ultrasound is high enough that people should hesitate to perform frivolous scans, even though it's probably safe enough when done properly. Cause autism? Doubtful. Cause damage? Sure. Why
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by jongraehl 12y ago
It would be defined as sugar for the regular syntax "blah" + var. Not sure what specifically you find confusing.
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by jongraehl 12y ago
What? There's absolutely no way for a user string to get scanned for format instructions unless you 'eval' or something like that. The proposed syntax is only for string literals in source code.
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by jongraehl 13y ago
Awful intimidation, my sympathies if true. But why is sexism even in the headline? As far as I can tell, 1. a coworker made advances outside work and acted weird/hostile when rejected, and 2. impromptu sexy hula hoop revue. Incidents 1
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by jongraehl 13y ago
The forces shaping NBA player pay are so unrelated to those in play for programmer salaries that the author sounds shallow when he says that a factor of 4x between max and average in the NBA is why we shouldn't be surprised if there&#x
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by jongraehl 13y ago
Wrong; that's only part of it. Strawmanning is when you impute a weak argument to other-side proponents that isn't actually representative , so that you can knock it down, leaving the impression that there remains nothing against
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by jongraehl 13y ago
Horribly misinformed. Author didn't learn basics of the language - "val" vs "def" is very fundamental - constant vs. function. Scala does not use Hindley-Milner. Legit issues: compile time (of course), library docs
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by jongraehl 13y ago
> When you make a change you test it live in the REPL. This is no different from running a unit test. What?
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by jongraehl 13y ago
This is outside my personal experience/expertise, so I'll accept your statement about Orthodox conversion, but I'm thinking of things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return#Israel : "This
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by jongraehl 13y ago
"If A then B." does not assume A. We're not making that assumption. We're talking about A because Israel extends certain privileges only to A-jews. Orthodox jews only accept A-jews. If there's some explicit cutoff d
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by jongraehl 13y ago
So atmospheric carbon breeds?
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by jongraehl 13y ago
There's weak evidence that light drinking (fewer than 3 beers/day) is good for you, or at least not bad (though if you're like me you'll probably notice that you can't manage top-level coding while drunk). I wrote a
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by jongraehl 13y ago
Why do these people assume that raped people want them putting on such a noisy rape-is-bad awareness show of "support"? How about advocating for changes that make rape less likely and, if possible, the social consequences to victi
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by jongraehl 13y ago
Some people may not realize that rational folk are just humoring spiritual scam artists when we offer to test them. We don't actually waste our time investigating the results of some shoddy trial that doesn't catch them cheating.
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by jongraehl 13y ago
I've never used steroids (I don't even lift and haven't for years), but I had the same thought as well. Incredibly dishonest article.
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by jongraehl 13y ago
So, they promise 50gb cloud storage for $5/mo (not initially, but after you sign up and wait 4 years). That's about $5 at current S3 storage prices - http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ Why not "inves
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by jongraehl 13y ago
Nice. Positional arg descriptions are probably hard to automatically find - e.g. http://explainshell.com/explain/tr?args=-sd+G-Z
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by jongraehl 13y ago
Is a correlation of 0.5 like flipping a coin? No, it isn't. A coin flip would have a correlation of 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence
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by jongraehl 13y ago
The linked http://strlen.com/java-style-classes-in-c was both horrifying and tantalizing. I'd expected a preprocessor that generates appropriate .hpp/.cpp, but instead I learned about yet another corner of C++ I h
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by jongraehl 13y ago
I ran into the idea that people are biased against thick accents in '59 seconds': "If the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit." Rhyme is actually persuasive. (In general things that are easier to understand/r

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