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by m_myers 12y ago
There's a checkbox at the bottom of the "Ask" screen that lets you write your answer before posting the question. Makes it easier to document a piece of knowledge if you don't have a blog to post it on. http:/&#x2F
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by m_myers 13y ago
After a lot of trial, error, and attempted code injection, I found that it was much easier than I had expected. It can in fact be solved with a single character.
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by m_myers 13y ago
If you went back to 1400 and asked someone in, say, Lwow what country they were in, I guarantee 0% would tell you "Poland-Lithuania". Sure, Poland and Lithuania were both ruled by Wladyslaw Jagiello (pardon my spelling and/or
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by m_myers 13y ago
My immediate reaction was "I've seen all this just by clicking through the dates in EUIV's start screen!" And I think the game's data was more accurate, too, except for missing some tiny German principalities.
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by m_myers 13y ago
I downvoted because the GP doesn't even bother to make a coherent point, let alone back it up. This isn't Facebook.
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by m_myers 13y ago
> You have reached the limit of 5 free articles a month. I haven't read any Newsweek articles this month. And it appears I'm not going to, either. Google cache link for anyone else who gets the same message: http://w
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by m_myers 13y ago
The question specifies "early in the game"; the correct call can and will vary in a late game or late first half situation (and of course depends on the strengths and weaknesses of the teams involved). As Bill Barnwell of Grantlan
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by m_myers 13y ago
Sure, on any modern platform. But you don't change 25-year-old code unless there's a pressing reason.
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by m_myers 13y ago
The notice is playing the odds; it doesn't track referrers, and right now most of the traffic is actually coming from Reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1vs4uu/have... to be pr
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by m_myers 13y ago
It recursively calls both itself and another copy of itself. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/991142/how-does-this-bash...
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by m_myers 13y ago
To be clear: there is no version of the actual Stack Overflow code that is publicly available. There are, however, numerous open-source reimplementations of portions of the site code. Also (as the video perhaps mentioned), the Stack Overflo
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by m_myers 13y ago
Well put. There is actually a major difference between a joke thread here and a joke thread on Stack Overflow: on HN, it would be on the front page for a few hours or perhaps a day at most (less if the volume of comments triggered the anti-
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by m_myers 13y ago
There's another whole thread devoted to cartoons: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite... Yes, it's locked too, and it too was deleted for a year or so before the current crop of
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by m_myers 13y ago
Huh. I was pretty sure this was one question everyone could understand was off-topic, but I guess I was wrong. Interestingly, this HN submission is illustrating the original reason Jeff Atwood locked the post in 2009 - nobody can be bothere
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by m_myers 13y ago
That would be http://slant.co . Disclosure: I am not affiliated with slant.co, but I am a Stack Overflow moderator. I like slant.co a lot.
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by m_myers 13y ago
http://slant.co is pretty much that.
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by m_myers 13y ago
There is a time and a place for everything. For opinion-based questions about programming, that place is http://www.slant.co/ (not affiliated with Stack Exchange).
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by m_myers 13y ago
Someone who was paid to move to a town so they could be on a jury could never get onto a jury.
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by m_myers 13y ago
Examples? I find myself on SO quite often through searches and can only remember one or maybe two questions that were closed.
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by m_myers 13y ago
Or maybe the "questions police" is the reason the community is there and not in yet another weed-infested forum. Disclosure: Card-carrying member of the "questions police".
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by m_myers 13y ago
No, no, football causes poverty. And obesity causes football.
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by m_myers 13y ago
Because it doesn't actually affect the site and it gets around HN's duplicate detector.
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by m_myers 13y ago
This seems like a Simon-Ehrlich wager case. We don't know of an immediate way to stop the crisis, but does that mean we really will run out of helium before someone discovers a better method of production? I am not an economist and I&#
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by m_myers 13y ago
Or for PowerShell: dir -Path "$env:userprofile\AppData" -Filter *.exe -Recurse > "$env:userprofile\Desktop\FoundFiles.txt" Useful if your corporate security policy, like mine, has disabled the command prompt
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by m_myers 13y ago
I've noticed that I can't make it to 4 AM anymore, but I'd just attributed it to getting older. Perhaps it is f.lux's doing after all.
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by m_myers 13y ago
As usual, xkcd did it first: http://xkcd.com/376/
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by m_myers 13y ago
Reminds me of the classic James Stewart film Call Northside 777 [1], about two Chicago men falsely imprisoned for a murder during Prohibition. The real-life case it was based on ([2]) hinged on a witness identification that occurred a day
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by m_myers 13y ago
Conversely, I skimmed down the page, saw the list of references at the bottom, and knew it had to be a tokenadult comment.
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by m_myers 13y ago
I downloaded all 7 CDs for Woody, but didn't actually know how to burn a CD from an ISO, so I ended up with 7 coasters. I figured out my mistake and tried again the next week, but this time I picked a distro that only needed one CD: Ub
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by m_myers 13y ago
That happens because of the "old shoe or glass bottle?" question.[1] When newbies (or even oldbies) ask how to do something, often the real question could be solved much better by taking a completely different tack. This has also

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