kstenerud

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   by kstenerud 9y ago

   Because if you don't have resource cleanup to do in the method, the GOTO boilerplate is just making things unnecessarily more complicated than a simple return.
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   by kstenerud 9y ago

   Step 1: Put it into diversified investments designed to beat inflation + a good yearly income. Technically I'd only actually need 40-50k/y for everything I want, so 2.5M is on the high side. Step 2: Work full time on my open sourc
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   by kstenerud 9y ago

   Large, established companies with expensive legal advice and financial incentives to not dismantle parts of their business model seem to disagree.
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   by kstenerud 9y ago

   Move GDC to a friendlier country?
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   by kstenerud 9y ago

   So then say "Do x, y, and z. But this is usually the wrong approach. Tell me what you're trying to do." Don't be their babysitter. There's nothing more infuriating than "I know how, but I'm not going to te
6. 3276.▲
   by kstenerud 9y ago

   Or, just use IEEE 754 decimal types? That's what they were built for.
7. 3277.▲
   by kstenerud 9y ago

   No matter what format/tool you come up with, there will be use cases it doesn't support, yet are needed. When it comes to the written word, the world of legitimate, needed use cases is HUGE. The word processor is the natural evolu
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   by kstenerud 9y ago

   It's unfortunate that their front page has broken layout. "Madoko = LATEX x Markd"
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   by kstenerud 9y ago

   Yes, even TED talks. They're not magically better. If I can't read a summary to judge the quality of information, it's likely I can just skip the whole thing and save myself from having my time wasted.
10. 3280.▲
    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Another major source of frustration for infrequent developers is tools & commands that cater to the 10% first and the 90% second (commands that require a bunch of flags/configuration to be set for the 90% use case). If your tools&#
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Absolutely this. Even the base dev environment is often an exercise in madness. I loathe every new iOS version because Xcode will break my code in new and interesting ways, requiring me to recheck every single library I've developed to
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Wow, violently disagree? So stories like The Fugitive, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Leon, Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Up, Die Hard, and The Big Lebowski sucked because they made use of this technique?
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    With the cherry picked attacks on the article and author, coupled with the competitiveness of the deeper threads about it on HN (example: 270 pounds? That's nothing! Not following a regimented process? Lack of discipline! Your body&#x2
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Every 10 years or so, I look back on my life in wonderment at how clueless I was, and then congratulate myself on having finally figured everything out.
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    So then, the suggested policy is to not offer novel solutions to catching criminals if the victim is a large corporation, unless they pay for it out of pocket?
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    So, if I understand you correctly, the cost of apprehending criminals should be borne by those who would benefit most from their capture (i.e. the victims)? Does this mean that victims of stalking or criminal threats should pay extra for th
17. 3287.▲
    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Ugh no. I hate sleeping under covers, and only do it when necessary. On some days I just turn up the heat enough to be able to sleep without them.
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    One big issue common with autism is blindness to body language, which apparently comprises 90% of the (in-person) communication we do. Does anyone know if there are courses one can take to learn how to recognize and produce correct body lan
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    A friend of a friend spoke about getting pregnant and having a baby. For the entire duration up until the baby's birth, she worried because she didn't have any strong feelings. The moment the baby was delivered, something inside h
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    I've lived in San Francisco and I've lived in Europe, and while SF isn't quite as bad as other places in the USA (for example, Philadelphia), I was still shocked at how fat everyone was.
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Beanie babies aren't worth anything because the people who grew up with them aren't in their 40s and 50s yet.
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    You say it like it's a bad thing.
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    An anecdote fwiw: I rarely brushed my teeth as a child, and had numerous cavities. But for some reason, they only occurred on my baby teeth, not my adult teeth. My brushing habits atrophied further and by the time I was 18, not only was I n
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Beefsteak tomatoes are super bland, as is iceberg lettuce, because they are selected for volume, not taste (it's the best way to make a profit while keeping end-consumer prices low). Same goes for most large varieties of produce. Try g
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Cool idea, if not for the quality issues that plague movie & TV subtitles. Subtitles are often condensed due to space constraints (time to read, space on screen). The number of flat out wrong translations is alarmingly high, even with p
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    I can't even listen to Tears in Heaven let alone play it after I played it at my mother's funeral. I have no idea how Clapton managed to play it so many times...
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Screenshot and publish the hate mail and death threats. Push it all into the open so that people can actually see what's going on, not just second hand information.
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    From the article: "Do you see any other opportunities for savings? Can you help us crop the Bionic Beaver images any further? Is there something that we've culled, that you see as problematic? We're interested in your feed
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Docker is awesome for making virtual desktop systems. My dev environment + all required IDEs and apps is a docker image running xrdp, x2go, and google remote desktop, and my home directory is mounted as a volume. Works great! Now when I nee
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    by kstenerud 9y ago

    Star Wars (and pretty much all modern tales) splits good and evil along ideological lines, as in the "baddies" are all about oppression and rule by fear, whereas the "goodies" are all about the power of love. It's s