lusr

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by lusr 14y ago
Given the small time window for an attack to be viable I have to wonder why a more concise and succinct message wasn't used. It does make me wonder if the bark is bigger than the bite.
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by lusr 14y ago
The article title claims "comprehensive high-skill immigration reform". As a highly-skilled South African (which, interestingly enough, appears to be where parent ultimately decided to emigrate), the effort, duration and uncertainty involve
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by lusr 14y ago
What is your opinion on the following scenario: An "Islamic gay man living in Tehran" in 1997 creates a web page and populates it with exactly the same personal information you are describing. Sometime later Google comes of age and indexe
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by lusr 14y ago
Assuming I understand it correctly, the paradoxical thing about this article is that it seems to imply the engineers currently working there would have failed this interview question.
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by lusr 14y ago
In the ones where you don't have the flat edges to work from, I found Helvectica is the "bolder" one.
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by lusr 14y ago
Is this agency you refer to a marketing or design agency? If so, this data point is most likely somewhat deceptive. The core competency of a marketing or design agency is creative work, and naturally you want exceptional talent in that res
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by lusr 14y ago
I currently work on a client accounting system at a large bank, and have worked at another large bank previously. While what you described may happen somewhere, the pattern in banking systems that I've seen is pretty straightforward and sim
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by lusr 14y ago
If you're building a simple system then it probably won't matter what you do. My opinion is it's good practice to follow sound architectural principles and just because your language lets you get away with crazy stuff doesn't necessarily m
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by lusr 14y ago
Your "function returning a function" is a closure, and yup the class's instance variables act much like a (mutable) closure here. The clever bit is that the consumer (e.g. a web callback or UI event handler) of IArticleService is not the
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by lusr 14y ago
Finally, somebody talking sense. You define a class to encapsulate rules (data, permissions) specific to a class of problems in your domain so that you don't have to repeat those rules elsewhere, which has all sorts of problems (the worst
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by lusr 14y ago
> I often say if 51% of the population were psycopaths then they would not be psycopaths but normals and the other 49% would be the exceptions and outcasts in many ways. There's good reason to believe that such a world would be unstable
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by lusr 14y ago
Design Patterns: 1994 [1] Java: 1995 [2] Scala: 2003 [3] Clojure: 2007 [4] Unless these hypothetical developers of yours are time travellers, your proposed solution wasn't an option for more than half of Java's life. Sometimes Java is
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by lusr 14y ago
Ah cool, I was foozy... Hit me up with an email by picking any word at my username .org :)
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by lusr 14y ago
This may be completely left field, but are you the same Peaker from #programmers on DALnet years ago?
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by lusr 14y ago
> Using DI is just a glorified way to have "globals". How so? > Wanna unit test? Pass in a modified function giving back the time you want. Right. And all DI does is make it possible for the following constructor to be invoked with
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by lusr 14y ago
For me the spinning wobbles on Chrome 23.0.1271.97 and doesn't work at all on IE9 despite the site banner claiming IE7 support?
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by lusr 14y ago
This simply cannot be possible. Perhaps you've been fortunate enough not to encounter the sort of people the article is referring to, and consequently aren't familiar with the drain these people are. Some examples from my own life, a more
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by lusr 14y ago
Why are you limiting your scenario to only one of these lights?
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by lusr 14y ago
I was born in South Africa and have spent half my life in its neighbour, Namibia. Both countries are well known for diverse wildlife and vast unspoiled natural habitats. "Safari", to me, is a word foreigners use unnecessarily and some loca
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by lusr 14y ago
My girlfriend and I saw Monopoly in the store the other day. We both thought it'd be awesome to play because as kids none of the adults around ever wanted to play with us. After about 2 hours of going around the board waiting for one of u
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by lusr 14y ago
The thing I really don't understand is this seems like such a simple thing to test! Search for X in our data set vs. competitor data set: flag for review if we are not within 1km radius. Don't release until the number and scope of flags
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by lusr 14y ago
Ah, I miss those long windy trails of concrete and rocket turrets built right at their base :) Also the first game I learned to 'hack', and it's what set me on the path to learning programming: I discovered a hex file editor on a floppy an
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by lusr 14y ago
I'm familiar with the theory that men are more expendable [1], but I don't think you can take that to imply that men don't have a breeding role. Men are critical to the family unit. Beside that, I'm suggesting that even on top of gender r
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by lusr 14y ago
The problem with the article is it lumps together a whole bunch of different reasons for not wanting kids as if they're all equally reasonable reasons. It also doesn't address "normal" within any objective framework. It's an interesting qu
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by lusr 14y ago
Terrible article. It lumps together all the following scenarios and more: 1. A woman forced into motherhood by a partner who refuses to allow her to terminate the pregnancy 2. A forced mother (rape, abandonment) who was unable to opt for te
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by lusr 14y ago
Actually the author clearly states as much: "Object-oriented programming [...] is a powerful idea. It truly is. But it's not always the best idea." The problem is the opionated flamebait title submitted to Hacker News, the text of which is
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by lusr 14y ago
What I don't understand is all the attention to technical risks of exposure. Ultimately his physical activities would surely have raised suspicion anyway? I find it hard to believe that the CIA and FBI rely solely on intercepting electronic
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by lusr 14y ago
I had no clue who he was before watching Shark Tank. But it greatly impressed me when he straight-up called the woowoo "ions" guy on his bullshit and outright called it a scam [1]. Watching the YouTube video you linked it doesn't look like
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by lusr 14y ago
I've commented about the Shark Tank 5% before [1]; I believe it's quite reasonable, why don't you? Have you seen Dragon's Den (UK)? I saw Shark Tank first and thought it was great but the more hardline Dragon's Den grew on me and I believ
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by lusr 14y ago
The real question is whether 4 (or 5, etc.) years of running your own business gives you more business skill than 2 years of MBA education and 2 (or 3, etc.) years of running your own business.

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