krisdol

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by krisdol 12y ago
I completely disagree here. The NYC Uber driver I rode with was checking his GPS and phone literally the whole time, whereas Taxi drivers I've been with almost always know their way around really well. I've called cabs to arrive a
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by krisdol 12y ago
nothing about the future is fact.
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by krisdol 12y ago
If you don't know how to decompress data, you can't know that your compression is preserving all of the original information. If you backup a system but can't restore from it, you can't know that your backup has enough i
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by krisdol 12y ago
USA has always been called "America". Europe the continent has been Europe the continent far longer than the EU has existed. Both are incorrect, and thankfully "The Americas" has caught on to fix one of these wrong label
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by krisdol 12y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that swift requires the optional to be guarded against.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Is this different than setting a default value of nil to user? def print_favorite_dinosaur(user: nil) or def print_favorite_dinosaur(user = nil) Or is it effectively a different syntax for the same concept? In either langua
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by krisdol 12y ago
Honesty, journalistic integrity, understanding an author's known biases are some of the reasons I want to identify an ad.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Thanks! I liked the writing, and the article did a great job of clearly explaining a basic socket.io workflow. I would expand on this with an article either on how to use mongoose to store analytics data across sessions or on how to use som
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by krisdol 12y ago
I love it. I think the concerns about the code being unmaintainable from the example are a bit unfair. There is nothing preventing a developer from moving the blocks out into separate files/classes for a more coder-friendly organizatio
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by krisdol 12y ago
But a minified library is loaded once per visitor (then cached) and is lilely is not going to have a greater bandwidth impact than any one of your actual pages. My site surprisingly breaking without me making changes to it (whether due to
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by krisdol 12y ago
What you say is absolutely true. I just want to give my perspective whose intent is not to counter your point or argue with it. As a tech worker, I'm migrating out of Texas soon. The influx of West Coast companies (and their jobs) to A
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by krisdol 12y ago
Simple: you don't have that right. Consider a nation with a different set of laws, a greater degree of tolerance and open-mindedness, and/or home schooling.
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by krisdol 12y ago
At my university, Python was primarily introduced when teaching certain concepts: scripting & untyped programming, web application development, and deeper diving into list comprehension functions. It was not the first language taught in
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by krisdol 12y ago
How many pedestrians were killed last year in SF when they were hit by cars? It's easy to remember the one or two people killed by bikes in a metropolis when there are only one or two of them. A bike still generally rides slower than a
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by krisdol 12y ago
It's precisely why high income taxes on the wealthy should exist. With high income tax, they have an incentive to invest more money than they keep (rather than hand it over to the government). With low taxation, they can take a small h
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by krisdol 12y ago
Regarding your mom and pop store example: some businesses should fail. If they cannot afford to keep full time workers out of poverty, they cannot afford to run a business that hires workers.
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by krisdol 12y ago
The dialer and call apps are often vendor specific. Even Google is not using the open source version of the dialer and call app. That said, since so many different vendors have this issue, the problem probably exists upstream. Thing is, thi
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by krisdol 12y ago
150 years after the civil war, slavery was finally eradicated by an historic commit to the drupal repository. Thank you, concerned programmers, for using your combined power to enact real, positive change in this world. I can't imagine
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by krisdol 12y ago
Doesn't change the fact that you are always free to go to a cheaper college, or avoid it altogether. Even the college is free to set its own prices. I don't agree that the notion of a "free"-er market would fix this.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Sure, but I usually write tests when I have a good confidence in the API of my class, even if that API isn't implemented. I tend to have more biases and assumptions if I write the tests later, so I find this works better for me. So, un
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by krisdol 12y ago
TDD literally saved our product and, by extension, our team. We took one of the lowest NetPromoter Scores you can imagine (seriously, imagine a really low one right now, I guarantee ours was lower) and by massive investment into TDD and aut
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by krisdol 12y ago
The only point I can identify with here is the implied one about avoiding swift due to its license. Why anyone would prefer a proprietary-licensed programming language is unfathomable.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Agreed. I've been excited at the notion that OpenGL was becoming the de-facto low level graphics API (if you want any multi-platform compatibility), and then Apple throws this new thing out to re-fragment the market.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Eh. In 2000, paying $50 for a game meant much more than 10+ hours of enjoyment (assuming it was a game you liked). For all the polish and technological prowess of modern games, I think most of us consider them a ripoff because of just how l
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by krisdol 12y ago
Yes, as in they've been capitalizing on the same gameplay formulas that have been hits since the mid 90s
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by krisdol 12y ago
I don't think you can objectively say that. I spent many hundreds of hours in Minecraft, which I paid something life $5 for back in infdev. I also spent less on both Dark Souls games and sure enjoyed them more, but I wouldn't call
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by krisdol 12y ago
May be comcast-only. It works for TWC
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by krisdol 12y ago
It'd be better if they stopped having so many cars.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Probably has to do with him not signing up for a debate by mob, rather a speech. I'm sorry, but how often does the TED audience challenge the frequent idiot on stage?
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by krisdol 12y ago
I attended an RMS speech at UT years ago, too; and I don't remember this happening at all. Are you sure it was "heckling"?

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