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by mcantor 16y ago
Hey Matt, out of curiosity, why do you want to avoid this blog post showing up in Google searches? Thanks for these posts, by the way--I find them patently inspiring. It's nice to know I'm not the only developer with a million ridiculous p
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by mcantor 16y ago
Jeez, you guys are harsh! He didn't call him the bloody Dalai Lama. He simply felt in awe of his friend's power and influence and was correspondingly honored to be treated with attentiveness uncharacteristic of the stereotypical high-powe
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by mcantor 16y ago
Was there a particular part of the spec you found illuminating / readable?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Besides; everyone knows that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas. (A gigantic nuclear furnace.)
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by mcantor 16y ago
Perhaps "entropy inaction" would be more fitting.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Man! You're like the MacGyver of bridge-related quotes. It's amazing.
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by mcantor 16y ago
What's with all of these CSS posts that don't have an example of what it looks like right up top, much less hidden behind a link? The first thing I want to know about any CSS technique is how it looks.
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Lapsed Atheist(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
Another problem is that you’re assuming you need the same number of hours of sleep every night, which is a false assumption. Your sleep needs vary from day to day. Dear lord. No joke; this blew my mind. I think I have in
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Bnter(bnter.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
I enjoyed playing on the SC2 newbie maps for that reason, actually; the boulders placed in front of the bases changed macro-strategy drastically. I'm awful enough as a player that it didn't help me win at all, but it was an interesting var
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by mcantor 16y ago
With both games, I am a novice at best; but I'd be interested to hear why you find SC:BW more interesting to spectate.
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by mcantor 16y ago
But it's not Machinima... it's just a broadcast of their product being used exactly as it is intended. Wouldn't that be like a baseball bat manufacturer telling someone to take videos of their Little League game off of YouTube?
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How to Write a Better Weblog(alistapart.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
I wasn't aware that cheating is such a huge deal in pro gaming. Source? Also, it occurs to me that cheating has been a big deal in regular sports, too...! ;-) In fact, I would say the same about interest levels. I found football excruci
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by mcantor 16y ago
Maybe I'm having a brain fart, but... under what legal auspice could Blizzard force them to shut down the streams?
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by mcantor 16y ago
I do; I expanded it to "ls -l" for the benefit of other hackers who might not be familiar with the convention. :-)
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Necessary Elements of a Blog Post(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
alter table accounts add column confirmed_not_a_fraudster boolean not null default false;
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by mcantor 16y ago
Did anyone else start experiencing physical pain when the hacker accessed the right file in the wrong place for the hundredth time without typing "ls" ONCE? I had no idea the reflex was so strong, but I almost starting twitching. I caugh
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by mcantor 16y ago
Every time I read an article like this, I wonder again: Why is no one competing with PayPal? People talk about sites like Google Checkout or WePay, but they are not viable alternatives, either because of different fee structures, internati
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's OK. We're all that guy sometimes. All we can do is watch out for it and adjust accordingly.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I downvoted you for being sarcastic, and because I was discouraged by the tone you used in this SO comment: Gordon, you downvoted my answer and left a misleading comment because you assumed that a user wouldn't edit the textarea? For
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by mcantor 16y ago
This post appears to be written from the perspective that the goal of Stack Overflow is to gain points, when I believe the goal of Stack Overflow is to answer questions.
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by mcantor 16y ago
They should have made one of the search terms "Agloe, New York"! [1] Footnotes [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by mcantor 16y ago
You're welcome; and thank you in turn for being so appreciative! I hope it helped a little. Edit: FWIW: I was introduced to code at age 10, but I honestly believe that there is no "best" age. As kids, we have the inbuilt zen-like child mi
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by mcantor 16y ago
CONNECT BY/STARTS WITH can be brain-bending, too, if you are doing anything except the most straightforward use case. I found the "pseudocode" on this page under the "Interpreting connect by statements" header to be very enlightening: htt
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by mcantor 16y ago
Agreed. The thorough support for hierarchical queries is quite tasty, though.
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's not easy to overcome that inertia without the passion for programming itself. I have two suggestions: 1. Start small Don't start with Java. Find something simple as hell, like QBASIC[1], or easy as hell (to begin with) like Ruby or P
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Ask HN: When do you exercise?
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