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by judk 12y ago
You can wait for multiple NSFL/SFL votes from users before promoting an image to the main pages.
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by judk 12y ago
This has been done with Scheme and works really well. But Haskell really is too complex.
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by judk 12y ago
Apropos, the title spells Ghent differently from the domain name.
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by judk 12y ago
Indeed, reality has a nasty habit of confounding our models.
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by judk 12y ago
It's still interesting to ask, when fatigue sets in, what degradation looks like. When decisions still must get made, how are they made (differently). They are more instinctive, and out instincts are often selfish and vindictive, and s
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by judk 12y ago
Why would amazon pay you? In furtherance of a business purpose. It turns out that judges aren't stupid.
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by judk 12y ago
Google uses JS on the click handler, or something, for tracking. :visited is not obstructed. https://www.google.com/search?q=ycombinator
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by judk 12y ago
Indeed. The only reason OneBusAway exists in Seattle is because of political connections between the creator (at U Washington) and the trasit agency
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by judk 12y ago
You invented Uber. You could have become billionaire.
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by judk 12y ago
The scroll wheel was a gimmick in the tradition of the Apple hockey puck mouse, that was worse than the obvious alternatives (a regular rocker is much easier to use for scrolling through long lists) but people bought because they look cute
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by judk 12y ago
Considering that your MBP screen issue is the same one always mentioned about Apple, and it was widely discussed online and screens got replaced under warranty, it seems to be the exception that proves the rule.
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by judk 12y ago
Tobacco's original mass market advertising was product placement in movies to associate cigarettes with cool movie stars.
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by judk 12y ago
Indeed, passing on the right is unsafe for bikers and for car-on-car scenarios as well
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by judk 12y ago
If the bike lane were sidewalk-side of the parking lane in USA, 10+% of parked cars would intrude on bike lane. :-(
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by judk 12y ago
An undergraduate's non-publishable homework assignment doesn't undermine a field's credibility. Plenty of physics students like myself bluffed lab data when we fried our experimental apparatus.
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by judk 12y ago
USA is a big country, and sales tax is not federally administered. This isn't an import tax, this is an anti-evasion provision so some city elsewhere can't unilaterally undermine this city's tax policy. The USA recognizes sta
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by judk 12y ago
Is it true that this is O(1) in Haskell? (Making up function names but you get the idea) (fmap a function anArray) `get` n ? How does fmap construct its value?
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by judk 12y ago
After 20 years, maybe get a second opinion from modern medicine.
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by judk 12y ago
A few simple ways: put shared data in PermGen, and rollover to a new process when memory gets low (erlang-style but at OS-level).
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by judk 12y ago
Is ConcurrentMarkAndSweep stop-the-world? How hard are the limits of "soft" realtime?
711.
by judk 12y ago
Because Joel Spolsky is a famous Microsoftie whose community and fan base originally skewed toward Microsoft.
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by judk 12y ago
This is not a revolutionary idea. Public college has traditionally been heavily subsidized by the state, and paid back by income and property taxes , aka an equity stake.
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by judk 12y ago
Why would the global revolutionaries decode to stay home if they have to wait an extra few months to see the treaty?
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by judk 12y ago
The draft or the ratified version?
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by judk 12y ago
Please explain your reasoning. It is not obvious.
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by judk 12y ago
Most postal advertising is for scams -- misleading afs for mortgage refis, carpet ornduct cleaners that harass you for upsells once they have you cornered in your house. And a few bad restaurants. Legitimate businesses don't need mail
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by judk 12y ago
Moved fast and broke the quotation.
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by judk 12y ago
Why does a feminist(?) blog have a logo that is a picture of a woman sticking out her butt with her hand on it? Isn't that the atmosphere that contributes to "the gender gap in tech"?
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by judk 12y ago
Interesting title. It is wordplay on the old movie title "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", where 'videotape' gets changed to the topic under discussion. Of those three, " videotape " is the only one that is obsolete,
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by judk 12y ago
But it still is only for "music streaming", not for any other bits I might want to use on my mobile device (augmented reality, maps, video, games....)

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