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by mcn 16y ago
That's what I would think, too. I was surprised to see that it was the one complaint he couldn't make: > And as far as pairing is concerned, I know for a fact that I'm not as productive as when I pair-programmed at Pivotal. We got some
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by mcn 16y ago
The two quibbles above seem nearly identical to me. It's interesting what role the assumptions of the audience play in their reaction to a statement. I assumed that a snopes link would credit or discredit the claim (that this was a test fro
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by mcn 16y ago
Also, a sample chapter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1709600
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by mcn 16y ago
The grandparent comment links version 0.1 of the book, get the current version (0.5 as of now) from the book's website at http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ (I found that out in the process of attempting to report an error in version 0.1 -
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by mcn 16y ago
I think the point is that it depends on what prompt the man is implicitly answering. If you ask parents of two children if they have a boy 3/4 of them will say they do, but if you ask the same parents to randomly name the gender of one of t
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by mcn 16y ago
I'm not sure about the wider population, but the abstainers in the study linked by the article were both "lower SES" and more likely to have had drinking problems in the past.
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by mcn 16y ago
I'm hesitant to post this link because I don't have any personal experience in the area, but this interview speaks to those questions and is currently on the front page, so you might benefit from the live discussion: http://news.ycombinato
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by mcn 16y ago
Assuming no friction and given a fast tug of the rope I still don't think the near equal weight would hold still or sink while the other near equal weight flew up quickly. With the large weight difference, I think the required speed of pull
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by mcn 16y ago
>If the rope really is weightless and the pulleys really are fictionless (and inertialess) then it doesn't matter how hard or fast you pull, the lighter weight will rise first. I'm considering a thought experiments that make me believe
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by mcn 16y ago
Another thing in favor of a tiling WM (and a keyboard centric setup in general) on a netbook is that it is often more convenient to use a netbook without a mouse. I am happy to reduce my track pad use in general, especially hold-button-and-
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by mcn 16y ago
The previous sentence was: >Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want. I think he was building on his joke.
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by mcn 16y ago
I had the same reaction, except that I found a bar that moves to be even more distracting than the adds. Hitting full screen (in the middle of the bottom bar) and turning off autohide (move the right toggle up) made it usable for me.
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by mcn 16y ago
Are you sure? The Librarian of Congress's statement says that: > Nor is this rulemaking about the ability to make or distribute products or services used for purposes of circumventing access controls, which are governed by a different p
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by mcn 16y ago
I found this blog post about stack overflow's experience with advertising very interesting. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising... "So, onward to plan B: we now auto-insert Stack Overflow affiliate info into any a
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by mcn 16y ago
>I've noticed a pattern every time any website launches a redesign: users immediately and vehemently dislike it; a couple of months pass; everyone looks back and wonders what the fuss was and would hate to go back to the old design. -sp
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by mcn 16y ago
wmcc stated he was in the same OS class as the blog poster.