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by msluyter 12y ago
Indent the code with two or more spaces: public T get_v() { return v; } See: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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The Joy of Clojure. I highly recommend it.
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I think this has happened in part already. Although I try to listen to my local station (KUT) via their app, I also use the NPR app to time shift programs like All Things Considered that I tend to otherwise miss. (If you miss a program by a
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Of course you don't have to lie to win at Diplomacy, but even in an iterated game scenario, I believe that never lying is a suboptimal strategy. As the article notes, players who do this are derisively called "care bears"
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Even as I was hitting "submit" I was reconsidering my comment above, so your point is granted. I think I was just imagining the epitome of a great diplomacy player. In my head, this is someone not just smart, but charismatic, pers
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I'd argue that Diplomacy is only a game for "nerds" in a rather peculiar sense. The people who are really good at it are those that are capable of lying/acting convincingly. Face to face, that's quite difficult and
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The compelling use case for me was that I was already used to the Intellij key bindings, which tend to (mostly) remain constant across JetBrains products. It does use a fair amount of RAM, but these days 8GB seems fairly standard and seems
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I use it; I auto deposit a small portion on my paycheck and use it only for pocket cash via ATM withdrawals. For that, it's been great. The mobile app is well done and I never have to worry about accidental over-withdrawals or whatnot.
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It's not just kids. About 6 months ago, I started reading "Constellation Games," a really fun and clever sci-fi novel. Yet it now sits on my desk about 2/3 complete. I didn't lose interest or anything -- I simply fi
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by msluyter 13y ago
Nothing against make, but I've found that it feels really nice when the majority of your toolset uses the same language. This is what I liked about Rails. Rails is ruby. Bundler is ruby. Rake is ruby. It's all ruby, which allows f
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by msluyter 13y ago
I would agree with the gist of your comment, which is that autarchy can be a stable equilibrium. However, I don't read Piketty as saying that inequality itself is unsustainable. Rather, inequality tends to undermine democracy. Thus, &q
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Well, that seems obvious in retrospect... ;) Yes, that works.
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The article recommends mit-scheme. Anyone know how to get that working as a Sublime Text build? From what I can tell, to invoke mit-scheme on a file, you redirect stdin, a la: mit-scheme < foo.scm This doesn't play so nicely
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by msluyter 13y ago
I think it may be possible for all of the following to be true: 1. Comments explaining the 'why' can be helpful. 2. However, due to their inherent DRY violation, comments may become out of sync with the code and impose maintenance
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by msluyter 13y ago
I call your one study and raise you 100: In 2011, the organizational psychologist Matthew Davis reviewed more than a hundred studies about office environments. He found that, though open offices often fostered a symbolic sense of organizat
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The Optimal Office(theatlantic.com)
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What about your wrists? The angle of your monitor stand would suggest that they have to be bent at least 20 degrees or so.
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My first thought is that the monitors would be way too far away for someone with poor eyesight like myself. Which reminded me... At my last dentist appointment I was thinking about how comfortable the chair was and wondering whether you cou
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I had some luck (winning the game, that is) by following this general heuristic: - Default to placing tiles in one corner, so, for example, using Up & Left primarily so that high numbers will accumulate in the upper left corner. - Don&#
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by msluyter 13y ago
Regarding Mockito specifically, I think there are worse and better ways to use it. I think it's great for mocking out external services, like web services calls or database queries. That way, you can easily test a bit of functionality
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How long do you think it'd take for a reasonably decent developer with no prior experience to pick up and become competent with Haskell and Snap?
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A book that may capture and elaborate on the above (esp. re: modesty) is "How to Want What You Have" by Timothy Miller: http://www.amazon.com/How-Want-What-You-Have/dp/0805033173 The typical "wester
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Well, this gets you the day of the week for whatever the current time is. The example in the article didn't do that exactly. It took a string of some sort (in what format, exactly, isn't clear to me) and mapped it to another strin
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by msluyter 13y ago
For a while I tried Bikn, which worked pretty well but covered up the standard iPhone connector and replaced it with a Micro-USB. It also broke within a few months. Then I tried the Cirago iAlertTag: http://www.amazon.com/Ci
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It's fun to watch observations like the following re-discovered again and again. From the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968: Ross: The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be follo
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I remember seeing this when it first came out. As an aspiring classical musician at the time who was interested in the avant-garde, I was naturally curious about Glass's music, but I went in without any concept of what the movie was li
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by msluyter 13y ago
Having used Spring for a year or so now, I'm curious what people think of singletons in Spring? Most of the problems noted in the OP (inability to use interfaces, unable to mock, tight coupling, etc...) aren't really problems that
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+1 on that book. It's by Esther Gokhale: http://www.amazon.com/Steps-Pain-Free-Back-Solutions-Shoulde...
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I met my wife at a friend's birthday party, so I'll vouch for that. But there's a difference between <pool of strangers whom I might like to meet> and <pool of strangers I want to life updates from>. I'd vent
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I went from from a company that generally adopted the implicit syntax to one that uses explicit, and after some adjustment, I've come to slightly prefer the latter. One thing that helps is to indent the join condition, formatting the S

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