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by mxavier 16y ago
I've been a member for about 3 or 4 months. I was in one short relationship from OKC during that time. I would say that my experience has been good so far. Surely I'm doing much better than I would have trying to meet women considering that
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by mxavier 16y ago
Unity looks silly to me. This moreover confirms to me that Ubuntu is turning the distro into something that everyone's mom/dad can use. While that's fine for popularizing linux, that isn't the OS I signed up for years ago. Switching to Arc
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by mxavier 16y ago
While we do have a phenomenal amount of power in our hands, the fact is that the rest of the industry has grown in step with the hardware in a lot of ways. Browsing the web (admittedly as a power user) is one of the most intensive things I
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by mxavier 16y ago
I think there are obvious male privilege issues in programming in general but singling out Ruby is silly. The only correlation I can see perhaps is that Ruby programmers tend to find humor or other forms of informality acceptable in present
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by mxavier 16y ago
I enjoyed working on Riak for an internship project I did but I would say that if you are not familiar with using map reduce heavily for querying that you factor that into the amount of time you are going to spend to get Riak up and running
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by mxavier 16y ago
I'd also imagine more people would avoid sleeping on the floor for cultural reasons too. We perceive someone sleeping on an airport waiting bench to be a weary traveler. Seeing someone sleep on the floor in a very busy place communicates va
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by mxavier 16y ago
That is a fairly risky move on Microsoft's part but I applaud them for taking it, especially if it works. Every average Windows user I knows notices and complains about the constant UAC popups. What's funny to me is that since 7 has come ou
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by mxavier 16y ago
Ruby has by far made me the happiest because I understand it the best and can get the most done in an elegant way. However, I do get bouts of language jealousy. For example, I am enamored with the way Haskell deals with looping constructs a
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by mxavier 16y ago
It's kind of tricky. I don't have a big problem with friends of mine who post their Farmville junk on their streams because it is dead simple to block those types of updates. Unfortunately, facebook doesn't offer a "filter this user's compl
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by mxavier 16y ago
Wow their offices are gorgeous. Kind of makes me a little jealous working here at this rented out apartment startup, as superficial as that may be.
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by mxavier 16y ago
FarmVille is a good barometer for telling you which of your friends on Facebook don't make good use of their free time.
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by mxavier 16y ago
I find myself in the same position. I wish naps were more effective for me because I tend to hit a slump around 2:30 or 3PM, but I find that when I nap, I wake up feeling dehydrated, confused, and in a surprisingly bad mood.
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by mxavier 16y ago
The search engine registration feature is fantastic. I do a ton of searching all day on various sites and when I ever have to use firefox, I find myself start typing en.wiki-- hitting tab and remembering that firefox still has quite a bit o
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by mxavier 16y ago
I find it hard to believe that a grown adult can write like that. The whole thing was formatted and written like a MySpace bulletin from a high school kid circa 2004. Obviously the man is good at what he does but there is something to be sa
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by mxavier 16y ago
This approach isn't perfect, as people have pointed out, but I think its better than the alternative. A lot of freelance coding sites are practically unusable from the employer's side because every yokel can give a low rate and not even rea
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by mxavier 16y ago
This will be great. I've been using zsh for probably a year now but I'm definitely underutilizing it. vi mode for zsh seems to be better implemented in zsh and thats something I could definitely not survive without.
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by mxavier 16y ago
Right and doesn't roooting your phone void the warranty? If so, I have to root my HTC Evo, voiding its warranty to get rid of a NASCAR app I will never in my life use.
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by mxavier 16y ago
I really could have gone the whole day without seeing a cartoon panda's anus.
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by mxavier 16y ago
Slightly off topic but I really hate how youtube tests stuff. I'm sure theres some rhyme or reason to it but from the end-user's perspective it just seems random. Example: I really like the "lower lights" feature on hulu which darkens the p
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by mxavier 16y ago
This article is of particular interest to me. I spend a good deal of my time as a young single guy immersed in technology and hacker culture. However, when I'm around women or trying to meet women, I instinctively will only discuss general
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by mxavier 16y ago
Woah woah woah. I'm sorry but best, more money correlating to more sex is baseless. I have a hunch that the statistics probably go in the exact opposite direction. Without taking into account birth control, it's well known that birth rates
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by mxavier 16y ago
It really bums me out when companies that have terrible, user-hostile policies get rewarded with record-smashing sales. You know their CEOs see the sales report and are all too happy to attribute it to their own doing. See Call of Duty Mode
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by mxavier 16y ago
I wish this story would have just been a link to the actual decision. This article is just the news story wrapped in a Sauce Labs ad. I love the idea of Sauce Labs but is a tongue-in-cheek response to an actually interesting and controversi
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by mxavier 16y ago
I'm not necessarily against this but I don't see anything here that couldn't be accomplished by one of the dozens of other job sites with the GitHub API.
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by mxavier 16y ago
Currently doing an internship project for storing and aggregating site request logs with Riak. It was hard for me to get used to all the subtle gotchas with Map/Reduce but the people on their IRC channel are very helpful and extremely patie
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by mxavier 16y ago
Yeah except in Ruby (I don't know about smalltalk) private access has the loophole of the send method. FreeHouse.send(:open_employees_only_door) Matz would never deny us of our right to snoop around where we don't belong.
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by mxavier 16y ago
I think you might have misplaced blame on some of those points. I was not aware that the US government sponsored reality TV, celebrity news, facebook simply by the virtue of not making people pay for them. The government not taxing somethin
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by mxavier 16y ago
Is it possible for you to provide some context for this project? I get the vague sense this has something to do with the Afghanistan war?
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by mxavier 16y ago
Unfortunately I haven't gotten far enough in Real-World Haskell to have fully understood the parts about Monads but as I've been learning the language, I'd often wondered how common it was to use functional languages for pipeline processes
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by mxavier 16y ago
They usually use a tool called the "Low Orbital Ion Cannon" which is really just a DDoS app with a silly GUI slapped on top of it.

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