mquander

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by mquander 16y ago
Shrug. Seems pretty well in the spirit of PHP; lots of flexibility with almost no structure.
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by mquander 16y ago
If I were talking to someone, I'd give #1. If I were writing to someone, I'd write #3. If someone told me #2, I would hear "I am a loud person with no soul and I am going to try to sell you something. Please interpret everything I am ab
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't think that you're accurately representing the state of affairs. At the time I'm reading it, your second comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799442 ) is neutral at 1 point. That is not a symptom of people acting "toxic" a
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by mquander 16y ago
Yeah, it's existed for quite some time (over a year.)
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by mquander 16y ago
Fucking good idea. That is awesome. The directly linked post rather understates its claimed capabilities. Look at all the stuff this does: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3977534 However, it's hard to get around the fac
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't think it's fair to characterize that as the "new tactic." Liberals were complaining that it wasn't enough while and ever since the Recovery Act was passed. Krugman himself was yelling pretty loudly about it, cite: http://krugman.
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by mquander 16y ago
I remember clearly in elementary school when I suddenly understood that gravity is just a constant acceleration; if I were in a box in space accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2, it would feel exactly the same. For some reason, I found that absolutel
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by mquander 16y ago
Clearly. The reason they weren't mentioned is because nobody makes the claim that the bank bailouts served to generally improve the economy; they were primarily an attempt to loosen up the credit market. They are not a very useful form of
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by mquander 16y ago
Krugman details exactly where he claims most of the stimulus money went. Go read the link.
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't really see from that article what the issue is. It just tries to SSH into your phone, and if you left the default root password, ta-da, it's in; then it tries to use your phone to SSH into other people's phones. Is there some part
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by mquander 16y ago
People who want higher taxes don't agree that they do bad stuff, or they wouldn't want higher taxes.
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by mquander 16y ago
I downmodded this because it's content-free ("Either AGW is real, or it's not. Maybe we should find out.") and it's sprinkled with emotionally-laden words like "scam" and "conspiracy theorists." I don't think it's good to approach a flame
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by mquander 16y ago
Sure, but Dell would love to have something to do with the process, and with phones, they can finally try their damnedest, e.g.: http://androinica.com/2010/07/14/motorola-says-if-you-want-t... http://www.tomsguide.com/us/G2-HTC-G2-Root
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by mquander 16y ago
Sorry, I deleted my comment because I felt it wasn't very useful. The software needs to be tied to the hardware because the carriers are completely incompetent at software, and are generally unable to expend the effort to QA all the crapwa
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by mquander 16y ago
Nope, I'm not sure.
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by mquander 16y ago
Surprise, it's Wired. The news is that it's minimal enough that it functions on e-reader browsers, and the Kindle is the dominant e-reader.
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by mquander 16y ago
Note that there is already a very high-quality Z-machine interpreter in Javascript available to any device that has a modern web browser (e.g. tablets:) http://parchment.toolness.com/
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by mquander 16y ago
I'm not sure what the current state of law is. Morally speaking, I don't believe that people should be paying those kinds of fines for either downloading or uploading in "casual" use ("casual" meaning that they're not original distributors
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by mquander 16y ago
Scale of OK-ness: 1) Downloading a KISS album from BitTorrent: A little bit not-OK 2) Prosecuting some kid who downloads a KISS album from BitTorrent, costing him or his family tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars: Extremely not-OK
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by mquander 16y ago
I totally disagree. That may have been too open to serve Mark Pinkus's interests, but it was exactly the right openness for the common good. If other companies were equally open, we'd be better off.
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by mquander 16y ago
I'm not a TDD person at all, nor even a "unit test everything" person, but the idea is that by testing even the trivial degenerate cases, you can refactor everything with confidence that you didn't accidentally slip and typo one of them or
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't think it's a parody, because I can see what he's getting at. If the programmer had written the "simpler" test first, he might have stumbled upon the algorithm as illustrated without the false starts at the beginning, and then it wo
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, the stereotype I was shooting for was someone who overarchitects things and who is really shackled to some particular set of concepts, methodologies, and tools; the sort of person who will go on implementing "factories" and "strategie
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by mquander 16y ago
My bias is exactly the opposite; I assume that anyone calling themselves a "software developer" or a "software engineer" is probably more interested in implementing a design pattern than writing good code, and probably knows about as much a
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by mquander 16y ago
On the one hand: Demand Media seek to produce huge amounts of content that is just good enough to be the most relevant content for any given long-tail search term. On the other hand: If you know how to form a search query then you can fi
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by mquander 16y ago
This used to be called "Startup News." It's a news site explicitly established for people who want to become Mark Zuckerberg. Flag it if you don't like it, but move on.
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by mquander 16y ago
Honestly, there's no good reason at all. I'm just so used to resizing my web browser with the mouse all the time to read things better. I should probably break that habit.
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by mquander 16y ago
I've used Fluxbox and Blackbox basically since I was in diapers, but I recently decided that it's really way past time to try a tiling WM, and settled on xmonad after initially trying awesome. I like it a lot so far; it's lightweight, flex
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by mquander 16y ago
Yeah, there's a few hundred achievements (!) which exist for a combination of fun and to unlock the alternate weapons. (If you don't get the achievements, you'll gradually get the weapons anyway via random "drops" when you die and/or craft
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by mquander 16y ago
Have you actually tried it and been discouraged? Honestly, 100% of the core gameplay is identical to what it was in 2008. The bonuses are just new maps, slightly different alternate weapons, a new game mode or two (payload, king of the hi

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