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by jsharpe 15y ago
I'm skeptical when the main source for this article is working on a database meant to replace MySQL, as stated at the end. I'm sure MySQL isn't perfect, but it's a bit hyperbolic to call it 'worse than death'.
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by jsharpe 15y ago
Vancouver's SkyTrain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver) ) is driverless and very smooth. I have a feeling the unpleasantness of the ride of the LDLR has more to do with characteristics of the track or technology, rather t
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Doesn't have to be. It could just be: Average price of those who paid at least $0.01: $5.87
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by jsharpe 16y ago
It doesn't matter. You get nothing directly, but that's not the point (and is part of the reason they got rid of the gold standard). The point is that the store will accept it as payment for an actual thing, and its employees will accept it
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by jsharpe 16y ago
The connection between his successful prediction of current weather and his attempted predictions of global weather patterns 25 years out seems unfounded (at least in the article). His technique of comparing the Sun's behaviour with previou
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by jsharpe 16y ago
He didn't say "stark, utter terror", he said that sometimes you SHOULD back down from a bully. And yes you probably should back down from the government.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
There are much simpler sorts in those cases though, like just outputting (0, 1, 2, ..., n) or (0, 1, 2, ..., k). Those are O(n) without any shenanigans. ;)
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Unemployment and Education(gilbertl.posterous.com)
2 points by jsharpe 16y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 16y ago
this reminds me of my favourite weird coincidence: mile / kilometer ~= golden ratio
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Wait, did he seriously just use goatse as an example of internet humor? "By far the largest majority of humor on the web comprises of memes, catchphrases, remixes and repetition. All your base are belong to us, lolcatz, goatse and the rest.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I posted it because I feel like a lot of the advice they give in the post is applicable to a lot of the things people here do. A number of the points would be directly applicable to selling apps on the iPhone marketplace, for instance.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
It does look very accurate though. It twinges some school nostalgia for me.
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How an indie game developer sold 30k copies on Xbox Live(zeboyd.com)
13 points by jsharpe 16y ago|2 comments
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by jsharpe 16y ago
The idea is that you "waste" 30 minutes, but then get that back in the form of heightened productivity for the last 3 or 4 hours of work.
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A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering(prog21.dadgum.com)
3 points by jsharpe 16y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 16y ago
As always, correlation is not causation. I was unschooled, and a lot of people get into it precisely because school is simply too slow for their kids. It isn't surprising that these kids would go on to be very bright.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Having a global len() function is very, very linked to polymorphism. You can call it on anything that has a __len__() function defined (i.e., any class that implements something like a "HasLength" interface in Java terms).
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I think you mean "nothing says 'you love me' like a Denial of Service attack." ;)
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by jsharpe 16y ago
But has it been documented?
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by jsharpe 16y ago
"Dude" has been unisex for a while now. It would be almost offensive (not to mention dated) to call someone a "dudette".
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Understanding Python Decorators(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by jsharpe 16y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 16y ago
You can already do this rumoured behaviour with Facebook (it's called Friend Lists). If Facebook hasn't managed to get people to adopt this, it seems hard to believe that anyone else will.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Most internships in Software Engineering are paid these days anyway (I wouldn't ever accept an unpaid one). It's probably a good area in which to look.
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The Hailstone Sequence(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by jsharpe 16y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 16y ago
I think the point is that with GitHub, it makes it easy to contribute your patches back to the main project, so you don't have to spend time reapplying your patches to newer versions of the dependency.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Exactly. Coordination of different systems is added value. It's like mechanical turk. Amazon is not actually providing anything except a connection between those who need work done, and those who are willing to do it. They're not adding a
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by jsharpe 16y ago
This is why it's really important to do code reviews. Not just so that any egregious practices are eliminated before they are inflicted on the codebase, but also so that more than one person knows what's going on, and what the original inte
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by jsharpe 16y ago
Same reason toilets are great for thinking. It gets you away from staring at the problem and lets your mind free associate a bit.
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by jsharpe 16y ago
The author says that English doesn't have an explicit way of expressing xor, but I'd disagree. I'd say that the default behaviour of "or" in English is xor. If you say "I'm going to go to the fair or the mall", you're saying you'll go to
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On The Perl Origins Of “&&” And “||” Versus “and” And “or”(prestonlee.com)
2 points by jsharpe 16y ago|1 comments

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