jordyhoyt

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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
It's always a size problem! ;) I hear ya though, I have had a few close friends with mac books, I know they've had problems (batteries, speed, etc.) but they still wax poetic any time they talk about apple. My desktop has been going strong
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Personally, I only ever block ads that I find offensive or obnoxious and I try not to block any from sites I want to "support".
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Haha, incognito mode. > For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, Riiiiight
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind." Kurt Vonnegut
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Short, and very very good. Those diagrams will definitely stick with me.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
The link to the download didn't work for me, but i was able to get it working through firefox's addons site. Installed, and i'm really really liking it. Maybe i can stop e-mailing myself links now?
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Very interesting! It's important to note (as he said) "recursion" means different things to Linguists, Mathematicians, and Computer Scientists. Still, quite interesting to think about how our brains have developed these tools.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Right, any program that leaves its students thinking any one language solves all problems has failed to do its job.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
haha wait, the javascript injection is "broken" in IE? so does the injection just not work or does it work but the effect looks crappy? because if the injection doesn't work i sure wouldn't call that broken.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Yeah, I like Germany's style: 16 for beer and wine (unless with a parent, then whatever), 18 for "schnapps" That way, drinking is something you are first exposed to at dinner with the family gasp
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
GREAT video! Reminds me of zooming out in google maps on the satellite view, really makes the world feel smaller. > Wanna feel insignificant in the world, watch this. Size != significance
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
So your dogma here is that everything obeys physical laws that are never broken. Although things seem to always act in a certain way, we have no reason to believe that all laws will always hold. Of course, that is an assumption I must reg
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
This kind of statement is just as absurd as saying "God did it" for everything we don't understand.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
True, but code is rarely ever shipped then abandoned. Refactoring is (hopefully) all about making code more manageable and as reusable as possible, not attaining some sort of aesthetic elegance.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Or perhaps, an attempt at humor?
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
please stop flame-baiting on news.yc, almost all of your seven posts in this thread have been of that nature. i come here to avoid flamewars. thanks!
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Do you mean this? > we're adding checksums to proactively detect corruption of system state messages I dobut that means they're actually adding them together, they're adding checksums to the process to ensure data corruption has no ef
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Right, it likely wasn't a bug if it is a single bit and this only happens once in a blue moon. A machine can only transmit perfect 1's and 0's for so long before getting one wrong.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Imagine what cracking this will do for the world of image processing! :)
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
I agree. Along with what you said in your first paragraph, I've found that the times that I've completely lost all my work on a project and had to rewrite it from scratch, the second "draft" was far superior and easier to write than the fi
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Right! It's almost as fast as writing code a second time after you accidentally rm it into oblivion! Thanks for that YAGNI page, makes a lot of sense.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
I find this to be very true, writing the tests at the beginning is exciting because you get to see what your code is going to accomplish. Then filling in the code to pass the tests is exciting because you're working toward a very clear goa
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
You say how the article is flamebaiting, yet the last line of your comment was extremely flammable. To answer your question, if it was honest: I am a hacker and I use Vista daily. I am sure I'm not alone.
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Anything by Vonnegut that you haven't read. Almost all of his books would be readable in a week or so. ("Player Piano" may be most appropriate to suggest given the nature of this site.)
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
Apparently it isn't common knowledge, but I guess I should have guessed it: I've been using food (esp. high protien foods) to stay awake for all-nighters for years. I never would have guessed the opposite would work!
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
I sure wouldn't mind seeing these results...
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
There's a really good quote by a guy named Mark Kroese (who's apparently in charge of this stuff) in the Seattle PI: "We're thinking about the integrity of the user experience, and the appropriate way of doing this, where it feels like ther
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by jordyhoyt 18y ago
> 2. Because that kind of stuff is banned, the average digg/reddit reader, if he comes across News.YC, finds the content boring and leaves I really think keeping it boring is key: not only keeping the stories boring to your average teen