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by kscaldef 16y ago
TFA: "Mirco Wilhelm has the original files saved elsewhere, but the photos from his extensive Flickr collection had been linked to from all over the web, including the official Flickr blog. Those links will now point to deadspace. Additiona
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Except that Google actually didn't pioneer search advertising...
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by kscaldef 16y ago
FlashBlock is your friend.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> On one axis, housing purchases are cheap or expensive. On the other axis, the local economy is vibrant or moribund. Neither of these things is binary.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I would not say that that's a well-defined problem. What does "run smoothly" mean? Do you mean frame rate? Do you mean lack of discontinuous motion of objects in the game? What does "unreliable connection" mean? How unreliable do you wan
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by kscaldef 16y ago
No, not at all.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I chose the 2D version. My girlfriend and I will pick the 2D version of any movie over the 3D, and won't go to see movies that are only showing in 3D at all. Even if they were the same price, the illusion does not work well for us and mak
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't know if it's gotten more sophisticated recently, but the last time I played with autotest it had a very naive concept of "relevant tests". Certainly not the sort of runtime analysis the parent describes. (Also, on our moderately la
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by kscaldef 16y ago
irb(main):001:0> x = 0; xs = [1,2,3]; xs.each { |x| puts x }; puts x 1 2 3 3
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Wait, are you saying that Ruby _doesn't_ have "weak-ass" multithreading, horrible memory leaks, and screwed up variable scoping?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Right now it would cost me about $400 roundtrip to Hawaii. The flights are a lot cheaper than they used to be.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> and yet there are all these people out there that make more than 10x or even 100x their annual income Where by "all these people" we mean an extremely small fraction of the population. If I think about things honestly, I'm paid more
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Property taxes in Oregon are a little funny. It depends a lot on where your house is located and when it was built. I pay about 0.6% of current market value annually. I have friends that pay 2%.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
My "normal" grocery store has Amy's and the like in a special section I think of as the "food for hippies who didn't have time to go to Whole Foods today" section. They also keep all the "environmentally friendly" cleaners and such in the
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Frozen pizzas with pictures of famous chefs on them.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
You left out the people with no kidneys and no money. They are the reason people frown on selling organs. (That, and the question of whether all the donors would actually be voluntary.)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I think you need to look at outcomes over 5-10 years, not a couple of months. As far as I can tell, radical diets pretty much always work over the short term. I'd speculate this is some combination of: you're not actually replacing all th
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by kscaldef 16y ago
A large chunk also celebrate Ramadan, Diwali, and others. No one seems to suggest that you shouldn't release software on those days. Also, saying "you may have have time off work anyway" suggests a restricted view of the world.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
CPAN can also self-update. So, why is Rubygems bad and CPAN presumably okay?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I believe that early on most of the OCaml community was French-speaking. Personally, I found that aspect of the article borderline offensive. Oh, people shouldn't speak their native language because... speak English dammit! Oh, and don't
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's a matter of balance. I like having more than 5 shirts because I don't want to do laundry every week and, in fact, not having to do laundry all the time makes my life simpler. On the other hand, if you have so many clothes that decidi
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I can't speak for the whole of the US (heck, in many states you can't buy beer in the supermarket at all), but there's plenty of it where "normal supermarkets" do sell decent beer. Craft beer in the US was definitely set back quite a bit b
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Citation? Neither of these wikipedia articles makes such an assertion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka_infusion . There's certainly no shortage of what I've always heard called 'flavored vodkas' on
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Yup, when he declared that 1987 was "the last year that a T-shirt or music preference or pastime could set you apart from the [normals]" it was pretty clear that he was simply unable to differentiate him growing older from society as a who
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> I'll never get two objects in Ruby that can't be used the same way because their system of construction is different. Well, actually you might if they monkeypatch some core class in incompatible ways.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
NilClass DoesNotUnderstand ... is morally equivalent to an NPE in my book.
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I sort of doubt it. From my experience at Overture/Yahoo there were certainly multiple classes of words where advertisers were willing to pay more than $20 (cars, jewelry, mortgages (at the height of the bubble), lawyer services (particular
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> Normal life is pretty crappy You're doing it wrong? My "normal life" is pretty awesome. Happy hour and meals with friends and girlfriend several times a week. Exercise most days. Most weekends include at least one of: hiking, rock
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I completely disagree. When code changes rapidly, and especially when multiple people are working on the same code, documentation which explains the "why" of the code is very valuable. Without it, you're left trying to figure out if some
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by kscaldef 16y ago
My landline has outages. For example, just a couple months ago, workers from the phone company intentionally disconnected my phone line while doing some tree trimming. Didn't even bother to knock on the door and let me know they were goin

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