jordyhoyt

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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
Definitely not necessarily. Think about machines with many different apps running on them, and pumping out new feautures or more major bug fixes is more important than some minor issue like a memory leak (in who knows which of your apps) th
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
It would be really cool to see what they could do for those who would like to wake up with their partner. If both could wake up without being groggy, that would be amazing. I'd imagine you might need a bigger window of possible wake up time
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
"Dishonest scientists are still scientists" I disagree. If they are not following the scientific method, but fudging their data to agree with their pre-determined conclusions, they are not scientists.
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
I'm so glad my current corporate job doesn't feel like this. Thanks for inadvertently encouraging me!
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
Wow, I can't imagine working like that. At my workplace, when working out problems, I almost always go to others' code first to see how they solved similar (or identical) problems.
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
I have my girlfriend's family's 13-year-old cat, and she fits my lifestyle perfectly. She's fine while I'm off at work, and is always there to greet me when I get home (usually because she's hoping for some milk). She's cute and cuddly (t
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
How do we know that nobody 10,000 years ago had blue eyes? Er, well, of course it's impossible to _know_, but what leads us to conclude that nobody 10,000 years ago had blue eyes? Anyone know? Edit: posted this before I saw the other thre
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
I never claimed that his example was representative of a useful, short domain name, I simply pointed out that you came to a conclusion that was wrong after doing far too little research. If you have a problem with the length of his domain
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
protip: www
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
The best thing about my linear algebra class was that the professor warned us about this up front. Yet, I still was not prepared for the onslaught of new words, and the bad part of the class is they were all defined in terms of more mathema
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
The thing is, at least for me, we learned these concepts in college, but it was only in terms of getting the right answer on the test. They only provided the abstraction, not its basis in reality. This would have been very helpful to have a
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
Right. I briefly used R for research while I was in school. It was definitely a valuable tool for generating sets of random numbers, doing some statistical operations on them (PCA and SVD if you must know), and outputting them to a file t
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
Thanks for the balanced response. I saw in his article a few symptoms in my own thoughts and feelings and was thinking that maybe I just haven't been self-examining enough or that I'm keeping myself too busy to notice that I'm not feeling
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
"But one of the thems is life itself, so I would argue that yes, it is intrinsically better ;)" All of this is life itself. No experience you can have is more like life than any other.
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
Then, I'm afraid, you're missing the point of the paradox. There are a few stories (improperly called "paradoxes") attributed to Zeno: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes You're probably thinking of The Dichotomy. This story
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
Right, and what first came to mind for me was Melatonin. I was looking into sleep hacks a couple years back and studying up on Melatonin drove me away from trying out anything that would disturb a "normal" amount of time sleeping in the dar
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
Almost 100% fluff, though I feel like it could be a decent idea in practice. I can see the value in the self-esteem boost and the feeling of accomplishment early, since the rest of the day may have no such feelings. Instead of achieving th
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
But she is a Designer/Writer, surely - being a hacker - you understand the need to turn trivial, already-solved tasks into Projects. More efficient, maybe. Fun? Nope!
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
I'm glad she doesn't accept the response given by Matt Amionetti. If you are still telling the offended party why they shouldn't be offended, you are not apologizing. Remaining unapologetic for perpetuating stereotypes about a marginalize
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
How is ANY of this relevant to Rails, though? Of course he has the right to say what he wants and think how he wants to think, but why does that need to come anywhere near a presentation on Rails? I like to play the piano, but I'm not goin
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by jordyhoyt 17y ago
Ding ding ding! You've hit on part of why I don't watch tv. Commercials. The other reason is that the news is just plain dark.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
First, grammar correction is hardly adding to the discussion about the article's content. Second, it is a fairly common practice to pluralize the names of companies in countries that are not the United States. It throws me every time I see
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
And also, less people want to ride in your car. How nice!
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Or, highlight the first http:// , so a paste will overwrite it.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
that order sounds pretty good to me. also, "employees" ought to be a subset of "shareholders", simplifying the prioritization a bit.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
the use of "retarded" doesn't help either.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
I strong agree about the greed, but would like to add one more entry to what their primary focus should be on: the customer.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
i'm happy most of the time: i mostly leave technology at work and only use it as a tool for interacting with people when i'm home. technology is not the end, it's a means.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
http://www.rsspect.com/ Not cumbersome at all.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
VLC media player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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