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by kedean 11y ago
It probably comes down to pride. Americans are a prideful people, we don't like to admit to being wrong or inferior. If you go around telling all of your coworkers how much you make, chances are good that at least one of them is making
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by kedean 11y ago
Nutrition discussions suck because nobody is demonstrably wrong. It doesn't matter if you can back your opinion up with a study, because the other can can back up his contradicting opinion with another study. There are no canonical fac
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by kedean 11y ago
I don't know of any time the admins have done it, but some subreddits have been known to do it: http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-technology-banned-words/
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by kedean 11y ago
That's where opinion comes in. You can't just force your opinion on people with deeply held, millenia old beliefs and expect it to suddenly work smoothly. It's not even as 'easy' as gay marriage, because now you&#x2
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by kedean 11y ago
No, people blinding defending ride-sharing is the derailment. It's not about whether or not ride-sharing is a thing, it's about the legal gray area these companies operate in and the entitlements they claim with it. The concept is
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by kedean 11y ago
Java can do the reverse, infer an implementations generic types from the declaration. Map<String, String> foo = new HashMap<>();
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by kedean 11y ago
War reparations are in no way related to repeatedly breaking the terms of bailouts.
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That's not a very good example. He did not claim anybody had solved AI, he predicted that somebody would , based on trends at the time. You can't fault people for being optimistic about the future.
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It doesn't need to be. MS in the late 90's dominated, and you could not do work with someone using MS products unless you also used MS products. One person having an iOS device and another having an Android device does not cause a
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by kedean 11y ago
Firefox is a pretty solid example. Started slim as hell, gradually pulled plugins in until it was more bloated than IE and everyone moved to Chrome. They realized the problem and have started pulling back (although you could argue the oppos
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by kedean 11y ago
Yeah, seems like pretty basic blackmail to me.
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Is that so much when the games themselves have ballooned into the double-digits of gigabytes? A .5 gig patch isn't a whole lot when Dragon Age: Origins takes up 20gb in the first place (and thats a pretty old game)
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by kedean 11y ago
ND still seems to be concerned with it. I did not personally play The Last Of Us, but it's cinematic nature (I did watch a movie recut) makes me feel like they put a lot of work into those aspects.
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by kedean 11y ago
The article does mention a few times that all of the vegetables in question are dark leafy greens, so they are extremely bitter. That's why so much effort is being put into recipe research, they aren't particularly palatable veggi
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by kedean 11y ago
I've never thought about it that way. This makes web dev in Eclipse suddenly make so much more sense.
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by kedean 11y ago
While that is generally true, one should remember that programmers spend a lot of their time trying to help abstract that all away. I wouldn't ask my OS to open the top left cabinet and take out a glass, I would ask it to give me a gla
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by kedean 11y ago
It means they want a paycheck, and Uber will give them one. People driving for Uber are generally not particularly well off (they are not in poverty either, but they are not in a position to debate with employers). That means Uber is taking
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by kedean 11y ago
When in doubt, the answer is 'because Guido said so'. Benefits and downsides of having a BDFL on a language.
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by kedean 11y ago
Deleting accounts will cause him to create new accounts. The positive of a hellban is that it lets the person still use their account to broadcast to those who explicitly want to hear it, so there's much less reason for the person to m
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by kedean 11y ago
Well, you have two kinds of progress. One is native speed, which has been heavily sacrificed for the other option: features. Rather than let everything get blazing fast, we've gone for adding more cool new things, like voice recognitio
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by kedean 11y ago
You don't seem to know much about the Terry Davis situation. When a persons posts are 50% racist slurs, there isn't much choice but to block them from posting. The hellban lets that person still post and converse with people who a
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by kedean 11y ago
Is that really that big of a deal, though? There would be effectively zero benefit to giving the students their new grades on demand instead of after a batch process. It's not a reason to upgrade the system, it just shows that the syst
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by kedean 11y ago
My mistake, I always mixed those two up. Both properties address OP, though, as MD5 is not suspected to have preimage resistance either (it's just not to the point of somebody having done it yet).
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by kedean 11y ago
The collision-resistance property that all good hashes should have (and md5 lacks) states that an attacker with an input and its hash cannot arbitrarily produce a second input with the same hash. The possibility of it happening in the wild
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by kedean 11y ago
Working for a consulting company can also be a good middle ground. They provide a corporate support network for you, but you aren't tied to one kind of project for years. Most consulting projects are greenfield, too, because the other
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by kedean 11y ago
That doesn't just apply to multiplayer, though. OP said Diablo 3, which is multi OR single player. Many games now use those phone-home anti-cheating measures (or drm measures) even when you aren't actually playing with anyone else
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by kedean 11y ago
It's also quite common on new projects. Many developers see no point in developing on branching when there isn't even a completed prototype yet, so the commits tend to be very wide-ranging instead of focused.
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by kedean 11y ago
For me the issue with spring-style configuration isn't so much the sheer volume, as almost everything has sensible defaults, it's the loss of type-checking. When everything is configured via xml, you have to run the app before you
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by kedean 11y ago
Also not trying to debate one way or the other, but I'd be interested to see those statistics extrapolated over multiple years so we could see what it looks like when you scale for population size. You obviously can't scale when s
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I don't think it says anything. The vast majority of the seminal papers were written in the 60's and 70's, when few women were even in academia in the first place. A good number are from the 80's, during which you can ar

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