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by lectrick 12y ago
1970's: It's time for the US to use the metric system 1980's: It's time for the US to use the metric system 1990's: It's time for the US to use the metric system 2000's: It's time for the US to use th
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by lectrick 12y ago
> As a part of the cutthroat competition, Microsoft decided to revise the SSL 2 protocol with some additions of their own, and specified a protocol called "PCT" that was derived from SSL 2. It was only supported in IE and IIS.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Learn to write GOOD test suites. Once you realize that they are preserving your sanity, they will actually become fun to write.
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by lectrick 12y ago
> (and why complex regexes will inevitably hurt you) This is a needless bash on Regex (which is not even mentioned in the article at all, except as a YAML footnote!). I have a tip, though- If you DO need to write a complex regex (hint: i
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by lectrick 12y ago
This is NOT a 'murica story. If you look elsewhere in the thread, there are links to this sort of thing happening around the world. It is a "bystander intervention" and "diffusion of responsibility" human-psychology
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by lectrick 12y ago
Do people with a normal amount of self-esteem look "entitled" to those who don't possess that?
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by lectrick 12y ago
Agreed 100%. Love SF but the crazy homeless person situation there is off the charts relative to everywhere else I've been.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Former Psych major here (not grad student). Pretty easy to test yourself: Walk into a random aisle in a grocery store and say "Can anyone help me?" Elsewhere, point to an employee and say "can YOU help me?" Observe diffe
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by lectrick 12y ago
> I started fighting him, and his GF (who he had just been beating) smashed a bottle on my head. I'd say "what in the actual fuck," but I know that those sorts of patterns are self-perpetuating and that since the woman was
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by lectrick 12y ago
> 2 joysticks You must be talking about Karate Champ. STILL a fun game when played against someone else! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_Champ
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by lectrick 12y ago
Is combustible energy storage currently the densest known, short of nuclear power?
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by lectrick 12y ago
Well, I think there is a physics limit there, and gasoline happens to be VERY energy-dense (unfortunately for us trying to get away from depending on that property of it), but yes, that is fun to speculate on
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by lectrick 12y ago
Because affordable, fast, dense, safe electrical energy storage is pretty much the biggest obstacle to moving many technologies forward.
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by lectrick 12y ago
As a firstborn American with a German family, I am not too bothered by "Nazi", "kraut" or other terms... It all depends on context, which is poorly conveyed over text
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by lectrick 12y ago
So Google killed Metafilter?
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by lectrick 12y ago
He could have just Googled. I think Twitter's Snowflake came to some very similar conclusions. https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/ I even wrote something in Ruby as an idea based off it (although it hasn&#x
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by lectrick 12y ago
> To get the tests working, you end up having to write a lot more infrastructure and abstraction to support it. So you end up with 6 classes where one would do, because you end up needing an extra interface, and then impl, and then mocks
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by lectrick 12y ago
If you work on a team and/or on a large codebase with many moving parts, unit tests on isolated parts are pretty much a necessity (by which I mean, the hands-on observed cost of not having them vs. having them, becomes so great and app
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by lectrick 12y ago
No. If there is a bizarre password restriction like this, it is almost certainly because they are storing the password in cleartext somewhere (bad) or because they expect users to be able to enter the password in via a telephone keypad, whi
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by lectrick 12y ago
As a person who is hypersensitive to guilt-tripping (I blame my mother and past relationships), this also set off my radar
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by lectrick 12y ago
Did anyone here ever get a chance to play around with the Squeak VM? http://www.squeak.org/ It's basically "Smalltalk OS", running on any modern machine. Has some really interesting ideas, such as every visib
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by lectrick 12y ago
If you are going to disagree with 97% of scientists whose job it is to identify whether this is real or not, then at what point (given how crucial this is) would you actually agree with a consensus? http://climate.nasa.gov&#x2F
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by lectrick 12y ago
Agreed 100%. I can learn both, given enough time.
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by lectrick 12y ago
I am a Ruby guy torn between diving into Haskell or Clojure. Help! Every time I get excited about one feature of one (ClojureScript) I learn the other has something equivalent or potentially better (Haste). One thing that has put me off on
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by lectrick 12y ago
You know you're not covering your tracks very well when there are full-fledged watch accounts named after you which are trying to keep your uninformed opinion in check lol
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by lectrick 12y ago
> The supermarket is located over a major highway Instantly I thought of the Star Market over the Mass Pike, before I read the next sentence. And I only lived in Boston for a few years!
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by lectrick 12y ago
In some (maybe most?) cases, you can. Bullies look for easy targets. So all you have to do is decide not to be an easy target and ignore any size difference. I told a story of doing that here, and it did work: https://news.ycombi
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by lectrick 12y ago
> Throw punches (literally), let them be suspended, arrested, do everything you can do to punish everyone who tries to mess with you that way. You will gain respect, because you have to, even if you sometimes lose a fight - legal or phys
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by lectrick 12y ago
Do internet hugs work? I was bullied from about 12 (right after moving to a new school, a VERY susceptible time, in hindsight) until at least 14. I wouldn't call this justice but the main bullier ended up taking a shotgun to his own he
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by lectrick 12y ago
FYI, she wants to block hackernews visitors (probably due to a hosting issue), so can someone throw up a mirror?

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