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by mquander 15y ago
That seems like a pretty serious argument to me. Not only is it a pain in the ass to remember and write that every time you consume a resource that needs to be released somehow, it also introduces all kinds of scoping headaches in Java. I
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Generalizing and criticizing delta debugging(blog.regehr.org)
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by mquander 15y ago
* Great non-emacs Lisp IDE, powerful, cross-platform, and easy for newbies (but emacs works fine too) * Tons of interesting language extensions -- any Scheme you have ever thought of -- implementations of laziness, static typing, logic prog
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by mquander 15y ago
"Actually explain?" Come on, read it. It says "casinos make money, but if you count cards, you make money." It's a worthless statement and it has nothing to do with the comment it replies to. I downvoted dtby's comment because the reason
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by mquander 15y ago
Your post is all noise too. Just use the downvote button when you see a bad comment -- don't make another bad one ten times as long.
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by mquander 16y ago
If you're a real honest-to-Allah member of Al Qaeda, I think that the civilian "release 'em until they actually kill someone then try 'em for murder" is a good strategy. Specifically, I think it's a better strategy than the "occupy their c
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by mquander 16y ago
On the off chance you're reading and you want to pursue more IF, allow me to suggest the following really exemplary works of the past decade and a half which require only a modest time commitment of perhaps 1-3 hours. (Of course, there are
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by mquander 16y ago
That's true, I made a bit of a straw man up there, but in my defense it's one I have encountered in non-straw form over and over.
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by mquander 16y ago
As only a 5 kyu, I like Go, but I think it's extremely silly to claim that a game is more interesting for humans because computers are worse at it. Computer chess has made the game more fun for humans, not less; it's as if you have the wor
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by mquander 16y ago
Regarding those two lessons, I'm not so sure. Rephrased, you might say that chess's lesson is that small advantages snowball and give you leverage to make bigger advantages. That is certainly a key insight that needs to be in your intuiti
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by mquander 16y ago
That's a pretty unusual conclusion. I would suppose that chess might teach the opposite -- it's apparent that when you practice chess deliberately, you get better and better, and that improvement is reflected very clearly in your results.
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by mquander 16y ago
Honestly? On the front page: Magical Block Store: Why EBS Can't Work -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479613 Russia's Crime of the Century -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479865 How many zeros are there in 2^n? -- http:
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by mquander 16y ago
Parchment has always worked for me in various browsers, and works for me at the moment using Chrome dev channel on Ubuntu. However, you can find it for download here: http://emshort.wordpress.com/my-work/ You'll need a Z-machine interpre
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by mquander 16y ago
Apparently you like re-flamewars, too. Can't we leave this kind of stuff for meta posts?
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by mquander 16y ago
Regarding your second edit, it's not as if brand loyalty is some amazing emergent phenomenon in the 14-year-old-game-console-consumer-ecosystem. People are just as loyal to brands of operating systems, cars, banks, food, pants, cigarettes,
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by mquander 16y ago
It might be true that nobody depends on him, but that's sure a long way from "nothing to lose." Notwithstanding his own self, I'm sure he has a lot of friends and loved ones that suffer when he's hurt. I don't think it takes extraordinary
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by mquander 16y ago
I can see where you're coming from because you've already determined that you don't have anything to lose by standing up for yourself. What? That sounds insane. In what sense does he have nothing to lose? Bowing to bullies is cowardice,
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by mquander 16y ago
The flag button, not the comment box, is the appropriate way to express that sentiment.
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by mquander 16y ago
As someone who knows nothing about the Indian education system, can you clarify? Do Indian children have their major chosen for them via parents, tests, or administrators? Or do they decide on their own focus, but prior to college? I woul
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by mquander 16y ago
I strongly disagree. If you use a DataAdapter to populate a dataset, all it's doing is iterating over a reader internally and loading the results into the dataset. There's no reason it would ever be as fast, let alone faster, than using a
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by mquander 16y ago
This is by far my favorite suggestion, although I think that the messengers should be hand-picked, not based on karma. I make a lot of lousy comments, because I don't really have a lot of respect for the quality of discussion here. But, yo
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by mquander 16y ago
The downvote button is the "meh" flag! Why would you hesitate before downvoting such a comment? Slay evil instantly!
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by mquander 16y ago
I memorized pi to a hundred digits out of boredom in middle school, and I naturally did the rhythm thing, mostly with triplets of digits, sometimes otherwise. The interesting thing is that I can't remember any of it without using the rhythm
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by mquander 16y ago
Wait a second, it is completely that person's fault, don't you think? People have a responsibility to submit well-considered, high-quality links. Granted, a lot of people completely abdicate that responsibility and submit whatever strikes
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by mquander 16y ago
What makes you think there's any server-side code running at all? It looks quite straightforward to me.
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by mquander 16y ago
OK, sorry for mischaracterizing your point.
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by mquander 16y ago
"Everything is going to shit" is a much easier thing to argue about than "you should listen to critical people."
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by mquander 16y ago
Hah, but he added citations! I would never have had this nitpicking opportunity if I hadn't asked! I know there's a lot of evidence that increased screen time for kids is harmful for studies, so I won't begrudge that point. Let me argue
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by mquander 16y ago
At the same time, the average individual's ability to commit to something of any duration has decreased dramatically. Citation? It wasn't unusual for a (home-schooled) pre-teen in the 1700s to know Greek and Latin. Bullshit. Pre-teen
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by mquander 16y ago
It would be hard to come up with a vision of the future that freaks me out any more than that description.

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