justinlardinois

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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   > The most recent edition of the canonical C text (the excitingly named The C Programming Language ) was published in 1988; C is so unfashionable that the authors have neglected to update it in light of 30 years of progress in softwar
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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   The Federal Reserve was established in 1913, long before World War II.
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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   That's certainly a different sentiment that the Reuters quote. But even if it's not an endorsement of Bitcoin and gold, it's still problematic because he's saying that scarcity implies stability, which simply isn't
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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   This dump claims to be from a Clinton Foundation server; it doesn't have anything to do with the email issue. Also, > While I could never vote for either of major party candidates for a variety of reasons Then who are you going to v
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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   > Gross, who oversees the $1.5 billion Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, recommended Bitcoin and gold for investors who are looking for places to preserve capital. Because wild Bitcoin fluctuations are somehow less akin to gambling
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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   I wonder how the detection works. I have three different monitors hooked up to my desktop computer at home, and one of them is exceptionally old and running on a VGA to DVI-I adapter. When I get home I'll see if Netflix complains if I
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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   So you're a freelancer, and your aim is to build a platform for freelancers. What immediately comes to my mind is Justin.tv. It was originally just a website featuring one guy constantly livestreaming his life via a camera on his hat.
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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   > I think some of you forget that the rest of the world isn't New York/Austin/Bay Area. Hell, even if you do live in one of those places you're screwing yourself to shun networking. The tech industry isn't specia
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   by justinlardinois 10y ago

   I think the technical feats involved in creating such a text-to-image program might allow a talented laywer to make an argument for scientific value. There's also the issue that "contemporary community standards" are hard to
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    It's hard to say that changed anything. Obscenity is a notoriously thorny subject in American constitutional law. The legal test for determining obscenity[0] is highly subjective and in the context of the internet very difficult to app
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    Reminds me of this exchange: https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/745332230256459776
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    Identifying an accident that didn't happen isn't an easy problem.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    According to Wikipedia, some US states regulated some engineering titles. It's not really specific but here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    I was suggesting that those comments be read, not necessarily replied to.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    I asked the same question the last time this was posted. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585129
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    This was posted a few days ago, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584747
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    Do they actually have call centers? I always assumed it was just one or two people trying to sound like they were in a call center.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    I think he's referring more to one time expenditures.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    In the US, degree programs actually called "software engineering" are few and far between; most software engineers who are college educated have a computer science degree. It's also worth noting that the term "software e
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    Definitely. Unless you have an extremely simple game, you're probably not even using the OS's built in UI framework; something like Android NDK[0] and whatever its iOS equivalent is are more suitable. [0] https://develo
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    So this is essentially the original Chomskybot?
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    On Hacker News it's usually courtesy to put the year in the title for older works.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    > Computer vision syndrome or CVS (not to be confused with Concurrent Versions System) It remains an open question which CVS is more harmful to software developers.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    Is this only a problem for men? And if so why? I can't help but think that an article this short can't be anything more than fluff.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    That summary could really use some paragraph breaks...
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    If these are their new profile pics, I can only imagine how bad the old ones were.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    I assume there was supposed to be a sharp after the first C?
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    Trademark versus copyright. Also, my guess is that a court would reject the idea that you could trademark as common a word as "scrolls," and Mojang simply conceded to avoid a costly legal battle.
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    Question: In this future without Firefox, what becomes the default browser in Linux distributions? I won't claim that I know what every distro uses, but every one I've ever installed has had Firefox or some derivative of it includ
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    by justinlardinois 10y ago

    So it's conjecture. Going by Occam's razor, Microsoft just had no need to innovate because it had no competition.