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by msluyter 14y ago
Intellij makes java much easier to bear for me. The one thing I miss is a single key combination to select a line and then select subsequent lines when pressed again (like cmd-L in Sublime). The intellij alternatives seem awkward to me.
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"We need to find a better way to teach children, one that doesn’t kill their innate sense of curiosity and play." But how do you objectively measure creativity and play? You can't. So it's not surprising that American public education is mo
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One caveat: if you're going to make a t-shirt, do it right and spend the money to print it on decent material, i.e., soft, not scratchy, fitting decently, etc... (American Apparel's t-shirts are nice.) Any cheaply made t-shirts I get go str
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"In the worst case scenario, a large number of people go "up" to the point where they're no longer capable of doing the job they're in and then go "out" after a brief period of doing their job badly." AKA, "The Peter Principle." http://en.
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With the caveat that all of this falls into the category of first world problems... Regarding the economics, as someone with a serious diet coke addiction, the SodaStream has been a godsend. My first step in getting off diet coke: switching
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"Think of how many times companies miss out on really good developers just because they're not open to remote workers." Assuming that this is a real problem and not a pseudoproblem[1], then one would think that market forces would eventuall
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This is Lamar Alexander, one of the top senate recipients of NRA contributions ( http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/12/18/nra-and-congre... ), so this sort of misdirection is rather unsurprising.
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Question: in the object tree for Point3d, it looks like there are two __proto__ attributes at the same level of nesting. Should the second belong to Point and be indented? (I'm not that experienced with javascript so I could simply be confu
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And by "humiliate you of Facebook" they mean "spam your friends with messages that'll quickly cause all posts from the app to be hidden." (I invariably hide all posts from apps anyway.) And, honestly, I don't find "Mike was too weak willed
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On the subject of psychology, I think part of the problem is cognitive overload. It's difficult to make good long term decisions and maintain self control when you're overwhelmed by economic choices. The poor suffer from this even more than
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On the same topic, "The Great Porn Experiment" TED talk, which provides some empirical grounding for the anecdote in the article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
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Your question reminded me of this recent article, which is focused on coffee rather than caffeine specifically. Nonetheless, it's rather interesting: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/the-case-f...
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Given that these A/V products are only marginally effective, does anyone have any suggestions for what might be the best bang for the buck in terms of protection a Win7 machine? My preference would be just not to run windows, but it's my mo
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Aside; It's funny: I never though anyone actually used the word "za" seriously (for "pizza") until I saw it used in an episode of "The Office." When we saw that, my wife and I burst out laughing. Now we use it all the time ironically. In an
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I don't think the weakness question has much to do with your actual weaknesses. It a) tests whether a candidate has minimally prepared for the interview (if they stumble over this question, then the answer is "no.") and b) whether they're s
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who, honestly, still wears a watch? Well, there's always aesthetics/fashion. I wear a (very attractive, IMHO) self-winding watch. As someone else has mentioned, it's actually really convenient compared to getting my phone out of my pocket
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We actually have all of the expansions. They add a small but non-trivial element to the game. The additional powerplant deck also helps; otherwise, you begin to memorize the plants and know to wait until 25/26 hit the board and whatnot. If
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by msluyter 14y ago
Hardcore boardgamer checking in. Some random thoughts... Our gaming group tends to binge on a given game; if we like it, we'll play it dozens of times and then burnout and never play it again. One game that's stood the test of time is Power
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I think a lot of these discussions -- Programming is/isn't Engineering/Math/Science/Craft/etc... -- suffer from what I call "the moon is like an onion" problem. The moon is like an onion. This is obvious! After all, both are whitish, more o
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Here's a seldom mentioned advantage of pair programming: reducing hand/wrist strain. If this seems irrelevant to you, wait 10-15 years.
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How do you get to the 2.0 version? I'm not finding it via searching the app store. (I do however, find dozens of various gmail related crapware.) Edit: tried the link above and still get the same error (and I've never installed it before, s
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I think these are all quite nice, however... am I the only person out there who likes comments to show up in a nice bright color (my preference, usually a bright terminal green). The faded comment look that most of these share is really har
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A little tangential, but it's interesting the extent to which phone communication has dropped in my life. The phone on my office desk sits unused in the corner, covered with dust. For personal calls, I'm down to a perhaps 2-3 a week, total;
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Indeed. The ability to click on an interval and immediately hear it -- and/or simultaneously see it played on the piano -- would be quite nice. (Or, conversely, the ability to see piano notes instantly rendered on a staff and have the inter
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by msluyter 14y ago
Anyone know of something like Evernote that includes syntax highlighting and other features that would make it useful for storing code snippets and the like?
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That was my experience as well. Although exploring the world was initially interesting -- and I enjoyed outfitting my character with a fez -- after a while wandering around squeezing chickens got a little dreary. And when you leveled up and
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This question comes up a lot. My latest formulation is that programming has elements of a all sorts of disciplines: science (debugging is often about making and then testing hypotheses), engineering, mathematics, design, art, but can't enti
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An IDE for poets As shown on Hacker News I'll venture: it's a nice opus But sometimes slow to use
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I get spam robocalls on my iPhone and have no way to block them. +1 Indeed. Somehow I've ended up on a number of phone spammer databases, such that I go through periods of getting 5+ calls per day. (Yes, of course I'm on the national do-n
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Being fairly absent minded, I've been intrigued by this and similar concepts. I tried Bikn for a while, and I liked the general idea, but the phone case was bulky, prevented use of the standard iPhone adapter, and stopped working after a fe

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