litewulf

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by litewulf 18y ago
This is probably more a function of the fact that languages change over time, so if a common task is hard to talk about, new forms will appear that make it easier. Programming languages see very little change (and even rarer are ambiguity o
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by litewulf 18y ago
Not a linguist, but I took some classes ;) I think the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a pretty imperfect fit for the question. Even the weaker form doesn't really gel well. The question seems more do certain modes of thought make you tend to thi
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by litewulf 18y ago
I associate certain activities with certain languages. Food -> Chinese. Programming -> English. At least for me, the language that people usually speak to me in when I do that task or learn that task is usually what sets the languag
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by litewulf 18y ago
Actually, I think the Army came up with it first. I could have sworn they've been prepared for dropping in boxes of servers with power/network hookups into warzones for awhile.
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by litewulf 18y ago
You CAN use apt-get to install ruby packages. But it totally totally sucks. (And as for the Ubuntu thing. I keep around the tarball with the ruby gem source, and have a script that scps, untars, and runs the install script. I have to type i
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by litewulf 18y ago
Doesn't gem install path_to_gem.gem work? (I could have sworn there was something like that.) Though, most of your complaints are very vaild. Also add on that ruby gems LOOOVES to eat all the memory on your machine if at all possible...
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by litewulf 18y ago
AHA! I looked into it a bit, psmtp is actually Postini, which Google bought. I assume they use psmtp for corporate accounts that need better um. something. So blame postini perhaps ;)
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by litewulf 18y ago
I don't know if anyone ever looked at my GPA. (It might be on my resume, and "they" might have filtered resumes with some hard GPA cutoff) It usually came down to my interviews and such I think.
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by litewulf 18y ago
If you like abbrev, try out pabbrev, its even more awesome. (Theres also another predictive abbrevation mode that seems to have better UI, but I had difficulty getting it working in my "I will spend 30 minutes mucking with my .emacs" moment
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by litewulf 18y ago
Okay, I understand your objection, and I think we're going to just have to disagree on that one. I'm actually curious about that psmtp.com thing, I remember setting my mx records to point to something that shouted "yes, I use Google", maybe
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by litewulf 18y ago
+1 sounds about right. My offers were 80k to 120k. (I'd say I went to a pretty decent university, but I wasn't too amazing.) There is massive massive variance based on the kind of position you are talking about. I would say your numbers see
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by litewulf 18y ago
I don't understand this objection. I could forward their email to a random gmail user. I could actually be using Google apps for my domain (which I do). There are many many ways for an email to end up in gmail that don't require you to send
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by litewulf 18y ago
Have you considered the wonders of forwarded email? I have tons of my_name@random_domain emails, some serious, some not. They all forward to my gmail (and also to another IMAP server because storage is cheap) And gmail even lets you send em
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by litewulf 18y ago
Also, these guys have been making pretty amazing games for a while. (I mean, they're indie developers, so check out their demo videos and let your jaw drop.)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Wow, thats pretty lame, I use biofuel for everything, I stick plants in one side and my computer comes on. I have to find new suns periodically...
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by litewulf 18y ago
ETags can be arbitrary, the server can put whatever it wants.
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by litewulf 18y ago
But to answer the original question: yes it is just as risky. But because people are all uploading and downloading the same file (if they used the same torrent), bad files are negatively reinforced and good files positively.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Dumb/obvious idea: Generate 7 random numbers, pick the index that had the highest value. (If theres a tie, run it again!) (Note: not guaranteed to terminate.)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Agreed. Though, one caveat: SVN will slow down as it diffes large binary files. I remember reading a developer works article file about this. ( http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-svnbins.htm... thanks Google!) (PS: if I'm mis
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by litewulf 18y ago
I got ESTP and I've done the test before and gotten INTJ. Anecdotally, I've heard a common complaint against MBTI is that it often changes by just retaking the test. (And it's horribly unfalsifiable.)
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by litewulf 18y ago
I'm surprised they don't put it in the lobby, because its way more awe inspiring than seeing searches scroll by.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Honestly, I'd say the opposite is true. The more the language design changes, the more implementor time is going towards servicing the changes and not squeezing the fat out of the implementation. That being said, the two often occur togethe
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by litewulf 18y ago
Honestly, I think the syntax sugar is great because thats what I need the vast majority of the time. And the scaling aficionados probably prefer single table selects anyway. ;) (Not that it makes a difference given how little traffic my blo
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by litewulf 18y ago
Agree on #2. I have seen the average commenter on the internet, and he depresses me deeply.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Hm, I have a 12" with 1400x1050, and its pretty eyestraining, and I'm only getting 145ppi?! 160 seems scary :(
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by litewulf 18y ago
Perhaps some parts of Gmail are RC and some are beta? (No idea, beta really doesn't have any meaning here)
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by litewulf 18y ago
To be fair though, Microsoft is pretty much the company people think of when you mention an evil corporation (in the tech world), and I think they are criticized for largely the same thing. Cohesive, all inclusive environments that provid
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by litewulf 18y ago
Translation: I like it when I am mistreated by Apple because I can believe it is part of some greater purpose. (I think this is a very meaningless argument. Some people care about one thing, other people care about other things. Products ma
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by litewulf 18y ago
"Post-religion anti-indoctrination memetic inoculation" Those words all make sense in my head, but not really together. I really don't understand the anti-religious dogma, I think that there is a gradient in the beliefs of religious people
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by litewulf 18y ago
I doubt the global minimum is going to change too much in the short term. There are people with philosophical objections against say genetic treatment for diseases, and I think certain developmental disabilities will remain with us for a lo

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