nearestneighbor

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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> the level of formality and carefulness in discourse is considerably higher than SO or HN Well, HN is pre-college kids arguing with those who went to college about whether it was worth it.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> Why was this submitted again? Why? I only submitted this once. The first submitter may have deleted his submission. Actually, there is no way to know what that linked to for sure. > jrockway already did an excellent point-by-point
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
From Wiki: "In the cases in which they had entered failed logins, Mark tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts. He successfully accessed two of them." If this was buffer overflows, I might have looked the oth
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Anything a cop says is copyrighted by the police department.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Out of curiosity, who paid for your year-long chronic Lyme treatment? It's not an official disease, as far as I know.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Some people have negative reactions to probiotic yogurts. It's better to take it slow.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
It's not just Lisp. Language advocates are the snake oil salesmen among computer scientists. Case in point: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bnnoh/fast_auto...
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
I don't know why I'm not allowed to vote up or down, but I do see both arrows. If someone's not allowed to vote, how about a little courtesy of not wasting their time on voting?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
STOP bugging me about my email address! When I signed up, it wasn't part of the deal. The same goes for you, Reddit.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> Ok. I never even used the word teach in the original piece though... But you misinterpreted my use of it, so what's your point? I see that I'm getting downmodded on top of having to waste my time on this, so that'll teach me how to he
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> He needs to improve his skills, and that's teaching someone how to sell as well, but not from scratch. Or isn't it ? OK, I didn't realize you were from Netherlands until I read that sentence and clicked on your profile. In English, le
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> Right, because no salesman ever managed to improve his sales skills. That's not what I said.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Never try to teach a salesman how to sell. This will not end well. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHRLN66Q2E
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Sure. Add "-site:www.thedevsea.com -site:www.bigresource.com" to your search query.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Why did you pick him out of tons of "business guys looking for tech guy"?
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DOW -= 376(bloomberg.com)
1 points by nearestneighbor 16y ago|0 comments
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Thanks. I think it's more bug than a non-feature though.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> You haven't voted on any of the stories currently on the frontpage. He doesn't like any of the stories on the front page, so why is this a surprise?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> If anyone knows where I can find the same stats, broken down by make and model, it would be very useful to me. Never mind. Found it.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
My original submission linked to http://www.iihs.org/research/fatality_facts_2008/occupants.h... which is where "Driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles 1-3 years old, 2008" are to be found. Someone changed the link and th
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
It used to be that SUVs were more dangerous overall because of roll-overs, but not anymore, apparently. By the way, I'll be in the market for a new vehicle soon. If anyone knows where I can find the same stats, broken down by make and model
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Fatality rates for occupants of cars, pickups, and SUVs(iihs.org)
2 points by nearestneighbor 16y ago|4 comments
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> The final release of Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.4) has finally arrived. Premature blogging.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> Well, if you love a language enough, you'll eventually be dragged through all of its weak areas and get real perspective. You'll be dragged, but you won't get any perspective if you know only that language.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
tl;dr: PHP noob discovers Ruby and OOP. Thinks he's now so awesome that people care about his opinion about unrelated topics like Linux distros.
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> Learn how Linux works. If that's your goal, you may be better off learning C or Assembly (since you are coming from PHP)
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> To learn. Learn what? How to get the basic functionality working? So that when when you are installing Arch, you would know how to do it? Sounds perfectly reasonable, I guess. P.S. I've been using Linux since the '90s. Configured X, e
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> If you don't love the language you're programming with, you should find another. It's the other way around. If you love a language, you are probably unaware of its flaws or of other languages (It's like the stupidity-confidence correl
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
> And then I recommend something like Arch Linux whenever you feel like you are ready for something more advanced! What's so great about Arch? Why should I waste my time getting the basic functionality working, like X or audio?
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by nearestneighbor 16y ago
Alt-F4?

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