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by m_myers 14y ago
See, this is exactly the kind of comment I'd expect from Reddit.
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by m_myers 14y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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by m_myers 14y ago
I received a similar package from my participation in the English Language and Usage site (I was a temporary moderator there while the site was in beta). The letter that came with it had several intentional mistakes noted with copy-editing
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by m_myers 14y ago
There's a complete list on http://stackexchange.com/sites ; there are actually way more than 41 sites in the SE network.
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by m_myers 15y ago
It is possible to set up a cross-site question filter on stackexchange.com ( http://stackexchange.com/filters ). As far as I can tell, it only allows filtering by tags, not full text, so your mileage may vary.
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by m_myers 15y ago
I rarely post anymore, but I have enough old content in popular tags to gain close to 1k a month through random upvotes (that's about three votes per day).
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Bruce Schneier: What specific harms has post-911 airport security caused?(schneier.com)
7 points by m_myers 15y ago|0 comments
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by m_myers 15y ago
I've run across Prufrock451 before on the Paradox gaming boards, where he was known years ago as one of the most creative AAR (After Action Report) writers. Two of his most popular works, both dating from 2002: - WAAR of the Worlds, in whic
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by m_myers 15y ago
Are you the one who posted this exact comment on Reddit? http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/qw5y4/why_joker_and...
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by m_myers 15y ago
It's far from a settled subject. Nobody is (or at least I'm not) quite sure how to treat those old questions (other than the cartoon/joke threads, of course); if you check http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes , you'll see several
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by m_myers 15y ago
Some questions in the early days were more like lists than questions; for example, "Hidden Features of C#/Java/C++", "What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?", "How do you clear your mind after a day of coding
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by m_myers 15y ago
Galloping Gertie[1] was built in less than two years and lasted three months before collapsing. There is a reason behind most bureaucratic procedures, forgotten though it may be. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(194
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by m_myers 15y ago
That wouldn't necessarily be safer; smaller players tend to be faster, which means the total momentum of an average collision might not drop much.
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by m_myers 15y ago
I think part of it is the title also. "787 plane draws a 7-8-7" doesn't tell enough to interest me, while "Dreamliner spells out "787" & Boeing logo over US during test flight" elicits an immediate "Oh, cool!"
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by m_myers 15y ago
-4^2 is -16. (-4)^2 is 16.
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by m_myers 15y ago
In Windows 7, you can use the Problem Steps Recorder to handle screenshots and descriptions for you: Start -> Run -> psr.exe. (Stolen from the Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p9mxq/dear_boss... )
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What would one need to do in order to hijack a satellite?(security.stackexchange.com)
7 points by m_myers 15y ago|1 comments
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by m_myers 15y ago
Indeed. We never seriously considered DRM as an option for For the Glory, nor will I again in the foreseeable future. If I would hate something as a gamer, it's a good bet I won't be doing it as a developer.
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by m_myers 15y ago
On a mostly technical note, you're most likely seeing closed questions, not locked ones. Locking prevents discussion, answering, or any other actions by anyone except one of the 12 moderators; there are currently 16 locked questions on the
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by m_myers 15y ago
I don't think that downvotes necessarily mean that people didn't get the joke. If I see a witty one-liner comment to a serious story, my normal reaction is "Ha ha ha! Downvote." Or else I ignore it entirely. (And sometimes it simply _isn't_
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by m_myers 15y ago
No, it's closed because it's a list question and there is no actual answer.
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by m_myers 15y ago
1.5 * 10 = 15 MB, not 150 MB. So you can actually fetch 166 such pages unmodified. Roughly how large is a TechCrunch page with Ghostery?
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by m_myers 15y ago
I actually found The Triangle on Grantland through Chris Brown's blog: http://smartfootball.com/ . He has a large archive covering both offensive and defensive strategy, well worth a look.
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by m_myers 15y ago
Watch the movie Mr. Smith goes to Washington for an example of a filibuster in action (and to see a great movie, too). James Stewart as a freshman senator holds the floor to try to stop a political machine's crooked scheme. It's a Frank C
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by m_myers 15y ago
Funny, my fear of being wrong is what led me to engineering. I didn't like the writing-based classes because I couldn't tell whether I was right before I let anyone else see my work. I'm trying to get over that now.
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by m_myers 15y ago
Judging by the percentage given, I'm pretty sure the trailing 0 was stripped and it's really $36,780.
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by m_myers 15y ago
At least in Oracle Java 1.6 update 24, which is supposed to have escape analysis enabled by default, it is a huge difference. I don't know if Java 7's analysis is smarter.
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by m_myers 15y ago
The JVM does rewrite individual concatenations as StringBuilders (so a+b+c+d results in one StringBuilder with three .append() operations), but the real performance problem is concatenating in a loop. String result = ""; for (Stri
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by m_myers 15y ago
If it is indeed new, then my first guess is that the leftward lean is from Reddit.
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by m_myers 15y ago
It's funny today, but I hope this doesn't happen every time someone references the speed of light from now on.

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