khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
Inertia for one, ubiquity for another. Vim (or at least vi) is available everywhere that I want to do any kind of text editing: An ARM SBC, my old WinXP laptop, my newer Win7+Linux machines, the old HP-UX at work, all the Linux VMs that I s
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by khedoros 10y ago
Perfection is subjective because flaws are subjective. Aesthetics are part of the code. If a piece of code is functionally perfect but ugly or inelegant by some measure, then it is imperfect by that measure.
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> Meaning of "AAA" is totally mixed up It makes me think of a big budget game made by a company that makes big budget games and primarily publishes them through mainstream channels. It makes me think "opposite of Indie&quo
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by khedoros 10y ago
I guess that my overall point is that I dislike almost everything about the idea of disposable possessions, and I would resent being forced into it. I could imagine leasing a car, my washing machine, or another appliance if the TCO was redu
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Honestly, I'd be fine with optimizing products like that if two things were true: If you're talking about technology being expected to break down and be cheaply replaced on the scale of single-digit years, it sounds like a ne
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by khedoros 10y ago
A very small number of laptops can do that, but mostly the answer is "no".
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by khedoros 10y ago
If your prospective partner is not specifically repellent, and there are enough of the appropriate hormones built up in your system, physical response is no problem, if emotions are just right, if there's something arousing about the c
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by khedoros 10y ago
> 3 swipes a second for 30 seconds They're saying 90 swipes in 30 seconds.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Or maybe it was always just saved as a draft on his blog (or on Google Docs/Drive/whatever). It's perfectly possible that he did all his work in a web browser and that it never touched his drive (aside from browser cache). Ma
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by khedoros 10y ago
My grandfather was instrumental in developing several key products and technologies at IBM in the 60s and 70s. I'd been meaning to call him, and he suddenly died last Saturday. You never know when your opportunity to talk to your grand
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by khedoros 10y ago
The article was about people using tdcs for durations and at levels of current that haven't been tested, measured, and documented, and then claiming that it has a known, beneficial effect, while implying that there are no negative side
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by khedoros 10y ago
I suppose so. The next question is economics: Are there enough customers that a company could import the plants and be able to offer them for a price the customers want to pay and that gives them enough profit to make it worthwhile? If no o
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Or why don't we ship the whole plant? :) Ship the whole plant...and then send it back to grow more tomatoes? I'm not sure about production-scale tomato farming, but in my garden, the same tomato plant will continue to grow fr
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by khedoros 10y ago
> What percentage of content needs to use EME before you “can't view the web”? If everything else but Netflix works, is the web open or closed? If the EME are part of the HTML5 standard, but in practice they require some proprietary
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Why do so many Hacker News readers have such an aversion to using the mouse when editing if these luminaries of computing have all moved on to mouse-based editors? What someone else uses doesn't enter into my decision of editor to
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by khedoros 10y ago
We had flexibility in our schedules (CA state school). I mixed major and GE courses throughout my years in college. CS courses rarely had GE requirements, unless you count math.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've got a good friend working at Amazon now, and I've spoken with about 5 other Amazon employees. None of them has ever seen the kinds of abuse identified in the New York Times article from last year. So like anything else: take
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by khedoros 10y ago
> 1. Where did you learn how to implement the Data Structures and Algorithms? Mostly? 1st year undergrad. > 2. Also, I'm in a dilemma between using Python and C/C++. Which one would you suggest? I like Python as a quick-to-w
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've signed Amazon's. If I remember correctly, it says not to talk about any workings of Amazon internals that you might learn during the interview, and not to talk about specifics of the questions. Things like the standard interv
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by khedoros 10y ago
I know that Google's recruiters have told me that they often end up hiring candidates on their second or third interview attempts; even at a company with a fairly standardized interview format, they get a ton of what they consider &quo
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I can't help but to wonder if it was really worth it. It sounds like the kind of thing I might enjoy doing for fun, anyhow. It's my goal not to jump between employers. If I wasn't trying to find somewhere to stay for 5 o
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by khedoros 10y ago
Exactly. * When I bought my laptop 5 years ago, Apple was a candidate. It lost out because I still wanted an optical drive (and was interested in Bluray specifically, at the time), I wanted a 1080p screen, an HDMI output, and at least 3 USB
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by khedoros 10y ago
> What you're talking about is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it is not certain at all. Yes, I am. The weak variation of the hypothesis. Coming from a computing background, it's difficult to convince myself that it's the
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by khedoros 10y ago
What I'm saying is that you took the strongest possible interpretation and knocked it down as a strawman. If there are several possible interpretations of someone's argument, and one of them is obviously flawed, then it's not
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by khedoros 10y ago
Which recycling services would you recommend? What assurances do they provide that it will be responsibly handled? Stories like this make me think that keeping the device, even shoved into the back of my closet, is a better idea: https:&#x
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by khedoros 10y ago
If you're an American to whom general-audience American television doesn't make complete sense, and who misses many of the cultural references, then I'm quite relieved that I have a different interpretation. I've seen a
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by khedoros 10y ago
Where another language lacks the vocabulary, the concept could be expressed through explanation, or through assimilation of that word from English, construction of a new word that makes etymological sense, etc. There isn't anything ext
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by khedoros 10y ago
My mother-in-law is from an island off the coast of Honduras. She's a native English speaker, but has a strong accent, and the dialect of English that they speak has grammatical differences, along with some different vocabulary. I susp
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by khedoros 10y ago
Does it? I think it just means that there's a fair number of things to learn before the dialog makes complete sense. Context fills in many of the gaps, I know that I still miss some cultural references, rhyming slang, and such, even af
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by khedoros 10y ago
I think that the qualifier "if you're from one of the others" applies to your case.

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