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by mquander 14y ago
I played for about two and a half years fighting in the big war leading up to that event. I'd say it was about 10% having really exciting and fun things happen, 60% plotting how to have future fun things with other people, and 30% feeling l
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It wasn't factually incorrect, you just didn't understand him because you're not using the video-game-specific meaning of the word "server." As you suggested, it refers to multiple "parallel dimensions" between which the playerbase is split
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by mquander 14y ago
"Almost certainly" seems like a stretch. - The arguments regarding Traynor's behavior on Twitter carry absolutely no water with me and sound like totally average behavior. It's not very intuitive that only people you follow can message you
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You're totally wrong about Chromium; the vast majority of Chrome functionality continues to be implemented in Chromium. You could fix it if you cared enough. In addition, it's perfectly legal (and easy) to install the Google apps on Cyanog
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by mquander 14y ago
Hype is a bunch of people claiming something is good. If there are enough people, you should probably go find out whether it really is good. If it really is, then voila ! Progress happened. If it's not, you stop. This guy is busy find
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http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co... Think exceptions, but instead of blowing away the stack on the way up to your exception handler, it gives you the option of resuming execution in some way where you left off.
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Your statement seems self-contradictory. Should we strive to learn new things, or should we not jump on the next bandwagon? Are you saying that we should try new things but not really try them very hard, or what? There is such a thing as pr
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by mquander 14y ago
I think writing out anything, even just your own thoughts on a subject, makes you a vastly more empathetic person... Why do you think that?
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I disagree that there are other, more reasonable avenues to achieve the goal of putting as much information as possible into the public's hands. Breaking into a closet that you think you can access and downloading a lot of it is undeniably
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Yes, but unfortunately, if the site has good numbers on the desktop, they aren't always good in other browsers.
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Allow me to retreat slightly, because the quality of journalism as opposed to other information sources isn't my true objection, and I'd rather not argue about it. My true objection is the "new" in "news." I have absolutely no interest in
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Why is tuning out the wrong solution? Almost everyone can "get away with being uninformed," because current events have no bearing on most people's lives most of the time. I can name one hundred things that I could learn in twenty min
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Sure, but the answer is you just make an arbitrary decision that feels right. Same thing with name ordering and the other issues you mention. There isn't much benefit to coming up with some elaborate system of rules for these things -- af
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Your despair and anxiety don't result from your philosophical beliefs, which should be trivially obvious since lots of people share your beliefs and do not regularly suffer from despair and anxiety. You can feel how you please, but you ar
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by mquander 14y ago
What's the point of redefining "founder" to mean "good employee?" There is nothing magical about any of those criteria you listed; they're just basic aspects of being an effective human being.
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Do you, in fact, have small apps that you send to companies you apply to? Because I personally will spend time asking that flavor of "bullshit" questions if and only if the candidate can't show me any significant code they've written. I h
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But that's not a problem, either. In my music collection I have, e.g. tags ARTIST=AFX and FILED_UNDER=Aphex Twin. Then when you make a playlist with your favorite music player, you can just sort things by FILED_UNDER, if you prefer. What
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by mquander 14y ago
Don't you think it's ridiculous that you've picked a guy earning a government pension at $301k a year and you're castigating him, when there are loads of people in the private sector earning up to tens or hundreds of times more than that?
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by mquander 14y ago
What's there to "invalidate"? You just made an assertion, not an argument. You say that nobody wants to use desktops and people want computers to disappear. Unlike you, I don't believe that already, so do you have some evidence for it?
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by mquander 14y ago
If only I had two downvotes for this nasty insinuation, to distinguish it from the rest of the off-topic meta-arguing.
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by mquander 14y ago
Is this an attempt at mockery? Please, let me be the next 60-year-old with my code powering half of the planet, a philosophy thirty years ahead of its time, touring the world, with my laptop stolen en route to my next talk.
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I'd appreciate an invite. My email address is in my profile for the moment.
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I assume his reason is trite and superfluous because it's a stupid question. When you're a high school senior, all you know about colleges probably boils down to - General reputation - About famous people (or family members) that went ther
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No, it's not that far from the worst offense. The hardest code I have ever had to read has always been code with ten+ levels of nesting in a big function, where I had to keep a big mental stack of what was necessarily true to be in the bra
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It seems to me like the lesson here is that you can't write a program without having any idea how the program ought to work.
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We sort of have enough (for me, zero of those is enough) but I think more is still better than less, since individual applications of that type might come up with some useful ideas that get adopted by others.
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Although I really sympathize with your frustration at the amount of crappy software being written, the alternative is the same software not existing at all; there aren't nearly enough programmers to write everything we need. In most cases,
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I can't imagine an HR department sharp enough to find, read, and think about your blog posts, yet dull enough to bin your resume because one of them describes some day-to-day error you made.
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What's absurd? There's not much artifice here. Nobody thinks less of people who have a commit history because there are errors in it! I don't think tendency toward self-promotion really correlates with technical chops in one direction or
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It's almost impossible to get some self-balancing system of karma incentives to work out exactly right. But we don't need to do that. There are lots of smart, thoughtful humans here who will work for free or cheap in good faith to keep

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