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by jtheory 14y ago
The possibility of rescuing hellbanned users is interesting. But "banned permanently" is possible only for usernames, not actual users, and certainly isn't a punishment more severe than hellbanning. A "permanently-banned" user will presuma
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by jtheory 14y ago
Agreed, and also: total banning is on balance less effective than hellbanning, because it's obvious to a troll when they've been banned... and they immediately get a new username to start afresh (via a new IP if needed -- you don't have t
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by jtheory 14y ago
> the trip really changed our perceptions of the country Interesting; can you elaborate a bit?
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by jtheory 14y ago
Exactly right; date arithmetic is horrible if you only have seconds to work with. Even just saying "24 hours from now" -- as your user would see it -- you'll sometimes get the wrong answer if you just add on 24 hours worth of seconds... s
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by jtheory 14y ago
Because of the leap seconds -- the unix time would show the same time for those two seconds (before/after the leap).
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by jtheory 14y ago
Ah, but negative numbers are not included in the set of counting numbers, and your initial comment referred to "the leap seconds" with no reference to "the leap second offset" or other verbiage that might imply anything other than a simple
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by jtheory 14y ago
I think he needs time more than money. Unless there were a possibility of project donations being sufficient (now, and ongoing ) that he could quit his day job, which seems pretty unlikely.
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by jtheory 14y ago
I haven't touched a sudoku in a few years, but I went through a phase where it was interesting. I developed a system with dots and sometimes little numbers (I think? I don't even quite remember it now) to track the possibilities that worke
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by jtheory 14y ago
It seems like you're arguing for a 60 billion year old Earth, but a SUN that was created no more than 10,000 years ago. "Let there be light" pretty clearly suggests that light didn't exist before that.
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by jtheory 14y ago
Presumably someone asked him "when did this all start?", and he said "when I was, I think, 16? -- Louisiana passed this act and I...", and he didn't stop to calculate it carefully. And it looked about right, and if he was off by one it's co
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by jtheory 14y ago
I'm a bit put off to notice that the default action they discuss for PQLs is "call the customer" to convert them. If I'm interacting with your business in some way, and I hit a threshold that causes a salesperson to ring my phone number, I'
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by jtheory 14y ago
Cool, thanks for the added detail! I suspect the main additions you'll need for this to be useful in a production environment will be around logging and accessing stats -- showing the end user that a particular page performed poorly doesn't
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by jtheory 14y ago
This looks interesting, particularly when the current field of Java profilers is mostly taken up by "enterprise" (read: hugely expensive) and open source projects that were abandoned at least a year or two ago. I'm most interested on what k
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by jtheory 14y ago
I have Java applets that can record and analyze audio and catch MIDI events from any browser including Internet Explorer (any version you're likely to see, really, probably including IE5), as long as Java is installed.... At some point I'm
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by jtheory 14y ago
The actual library does look like it does quite a bit more than waveforms -- it's mostly focused on relationships of notes (in scales, intervals, etc.), and perhaps only secondarily on frequencies. Interesting! I have done similar work in
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by jtheory 14y ago
> So this aspect of music we can attribute to innate psycho-acoustics or even physics rather than cultural bias. It's inextricable from cultural bias, though the physics obviously plays some role. The cultural bias comes into play more
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Are you sure? Both the above and this comment are visible (not dead).
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by jtheory 14y ago
Quite right; I've heard that same warning before, and nowadays if I feel the urge to check my pockets, I check all of them in no particular order. I've traveled extensively and never had my pocket picked -- a little planning goes a long way
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by jtheory 14y ago
tl;dr: the US has a long and tragic history of half-hearted attempts to switch to metric, beginning in the mid-1800s (when metric was made an international standard, with the active participation of the US... one of the original seventeen s
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by jtheory 14y ago
It's worth saying that lots and lots of countries have gone through this conversion process, sometimes multiple times -- think of all the countries colonized by the British (and thus converted from their existing systems to the British meas
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by jtheory 14y ago
If it's a minimal cache, though, you might as well. This is probably the single main concern I have about this -- I've spent chunks of time away from home where I find an internet cafe, sync up email (send and collect new email), and go --
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by jtheory 14y ago
This would be nice to know, because they're serving as a password-management app for all of your email passwords. Presumably, they would not store your Inky password as well -- instead, they'd store a secure hash, not MD5 or SHA-1, whic
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by jtheory 14y ago
...I'm struggling to avoid downvoting this, just out of fear that someone might read this and take it seriously. :) Imagine... Benefit: saved $80 on a flight, once! Cost: OMG, did I just spend 2 hours reading about people doing interesting
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by jtheory 14y ago
I dunno -- most who know me would say I have a sense of humor, but that doesn't mean I think the word "fart" is funny in and of itself, or expect anyone around me to either, beyond my 3-year-old. I'm also occasionally aware of how others bu
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by jtheory 14y ago
> Stereotypically, sure. Statistically? More than 75% of the adult population in the US is overweight, and over 30% are obese. I'm staying out of the "why" question, regardless.
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by jtheory 14y ago
Stripe's old approach was quite direct: the CC companies charge us (and don't refund) for refunded payments and chargebacks, so we pass those on to you. Quite reasonable, but the new policy is taking advantage of the fact that they have the
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by jtheory 14y ago
I got the impression the OP isn't writing their own integration, but bolting together pieces. There are many more products (CMSs etc.) out there which include PayPal integration (or have it readily available with free plugins) than those in
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by jtheory 14y ago
The property taxes = education bit is quite US-specific, but still -- property taxes are paid by the people with the most property -- not the ones with the most children. (Outside the US from what I've seen education is not normally linked
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by jtheory 14y ago
Can you explain? An average teacher posting about what they earned teaching children would be boring; "my salary last year was $X; this year it's up 2%". This is interesting because making educational apps is far riskier than applying for

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