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by kscaldef 16y ago
And for reduced typing, you can even alias it in your .gitconfig: [alias] cam = commit -a -m Then you can just type 'git cam "look what I changed!"'
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by kscaldef 16y ago
He's in his thirties. But I don't think "productivity" to the point of putting yourself in the hospital is good for you at any age.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
There are other forms of creation than coding. The choices are not just code more or watch TV, as he seems to suggest.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Sorry, no. Some of us prefer having other hobbies even in the absence of a family. And your comment that you "prefer to create something" is offensive and condescending considering the diversity of activities that other people engage in o
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by kscaldef 16y ago
As far as I know he's only been involved with unmanned projects.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'd assume the same as a couple paragraphs earlier: "chugging coke and eating pizza at midnight".
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Sure, but what I think the article is trying to say is that programming is one of these careers that encourages people to spend _way_ too much time doing it, to the detriment of the rest of their lives; and, furthermore, that we do oursel
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I have a friend, he writes software for NASA spacecraft. His job is not inherently physically demanding, but many of those who know him worry that he will "code himself to death" eventually. When crunch time comes, he buries himself in hi
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by kscaldef 16y ago
More likely it was simply logically inconsistent. That's not at all rare in requirements documents.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I think that's meant to read "but John picked up on it". I.e., he found the error in the spec which the client had overlooked.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
And you don't risk scalding yourself. FWIW, my tankless water heater cannot be set any hotter than 120.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I guess I'd consider myself an "experienced alt-tab user", and I have this frustration on a regular basis. Yes, as you say, I can manually reorder the apps, but it annoys me to have to do so.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
A few bits of perspective on this: LA is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country. There's been some decline, but a few years ago a small, poorly-built house in an undesirable part of the metro area would typically run arou
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Something seems profoundly fishy about the numbers. Also from wikipedia, "LAUSD served 694,288 students, and had 45,473 teachers and 38,494 other employees". That's a 15:1 student-teacher ratio, which is not bad at all, but also dramatica
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I don't know why you wouldn't assume that stupidity is roughly as common as intelligence. By definition, 50% of the population is below the median.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It might be trivial for you to backup your computer, but it isn't for most people, and most people don't do it. And, beyond the risk of data loss, people now also have to worry about identity theft and other financial loss if they do the w
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think the error is in concluding outspoken == confident and quiet/shy == low self-esteem.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Bump up your font sizes?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> If this video had not come to light, we'd keep thinking that war was cut and dry I'm not sure why you say that. I didn't think "war was cut and dry" prior to this video being released. Did you?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Except that Facebook requires symmetry and Twitter doesn't. (Assuming that most people are not going to set up a fan page for themselves.)
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I believe that assertion is exactly what the previous commenter proposes to test.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
The problem with the soundbite summary is that the analysis presented is incomplete. On the one side, 10% of customers might have noticed the drop in quality, but we have no idea how many of them would actually go somewhere else to get the
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Starbucks is not great, but they are consistent and not awful. When I'm traveling in most of the US, coffee from an unknown shop is likely to be awful. I'll grab a latte from Starbucks just because I know what I'm getting and that it'll b
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Your second paragraph contradicts itself. You say solving equations is useful. So, why not show your students the use?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Step 1 is figuring out why someone would want, or need, to solve that equation. He's by no means saying that students don't have to learn how to do algebraic manipulations. He's saying that without motivating the process and letting stu
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's worth reading the comment thread, but to summarize: Perl 5 development never stopped, and it certainly wasn't "resumed" because Perl 6 isn't done yet.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Good rant, but can we stop it with the "You need to understand category theory to do IO in Haskell" meme? main = do putStrLn "What's your name?" name <- getLine putStrLn ("Hello " ++ name) Was that really s
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by kscaldef 17y ago
And part of the problem is what we see here, which is that potentially incorrect information cannot be authoritatively debunked, perhaps for months. This gives plenty of time for the wrong "facts" to get lodged in people's heads, so even w
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by kscaldef 17y ago
By "normal people" he means normal Google employees who live near the office; as opposed to his experience as someone traveling to visit the office and separated from his family, friends, and normal daily routines.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think part of the problem is that this article doesn't recognize different categories of friends. The guys I play poker with or go out on a hike with aren't necessarily my closest friends. But there's other guys where we get together, t

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