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by neild 16y ago
Being poor is having the child of a partner at a top CPA firm tell you that you don't need more handouts.
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by neild 16y ago
It's old code that nobody touches. It's written in C. Of course it's going to be bad. Tcl/Tk is old code written in C. It's beautiful code; an absolute joy to work with. It was beautiful ten years ago, and it'll still be beautiful a hun
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by neild 16y ago
The first of your links isn't sushi, by the way. It's a kit for making grape-flavored candy in the shape of sushi.
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by neild 16y ago
So, I'm going to say that, yes, I really could retire and not work again with a $5-10M payout. I calculated some time ago that ~$4M would be enough for me to never think about money again. I could do anything that I wanted to do for the
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by neild 16y ago
She's the author of my favorite iPhone crossword app. Good on her for getting hired by Apple, although I'm a bit sad if that's the reason there's no iPad version of 2 Across.
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by neild 16y ago
OS/2.
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by neild 16y ago
Indeed, and bravo for recognizing this. Not all meetings are meaningful, of course, but communicating with your coworkers and customers is an essential part of the practice of producing software.
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by neild 16y ago
Last few novels I've read, in reverse chronological order: - Past Imperative, Present Tense, and Future Imperfect by Dave Duncan. (Trilogy.) - Foreigner, Invader, Inheritor, by C.J. Cherryh. (First three books of an ongoing series; reread
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by neild 16y ago
My take on the article is that: 1) The author is crazy and shouldn't be trusted. 2) Most of what he says in this article is accurate. Stopped clocks, and all that. So, if you're on statins please do look into their actual effectiveness--es
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by neild 16y ago
People are writing good novels faster than I can read them. Perhaps there's some great, untapped supply of people out there who aren't finding enough that's worth reading, but I'm certainly not in that camp nor is anyone else I know who re
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by neild 16y ago
I was responding to a comment in which chromatic specifically asked for reasons to prefer Python over Perl. As such, "we have all seen the arguments" is needlessly dismissive at best.
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by neild 16y ago
I much prefer Python's argument-passing to Perl's barely-there conventions. Python gives me positional arguments, named arguments, named positional arguments, required arguments, and default values. Perl gives me @_. I can, of course, bu
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by neild 16y ago
Note that this is not the end of source code releases of Solaris: We will continue to use the CDDL license statement in nearly all Solaris source code files. We will not remove the CDDL from any files in Solaris to which it already appli
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by neild 16y ago
In other words: neither group lost more weight than the other, at any time point. That's not the point, however--again, nobody argues that you can't cause people to lose weight by severely restricting their caloric intake. As study after
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by neild 16y ago
What does the fifth study cited ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20670466 -- note that the link provided in the original post is wrong) have to do with carbohydrate-restricted diets? Carbohydrate restriction makes no appearance in the
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by neild 16y ago
Why these studies do not support your conclusion: 1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20679559 As has been mentioned by other posters, this study demonstrated that carbohydrate restriction was as effective as extreme calorie restriction
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by neild 16y ago
There's a difference between motivating people to do their job better, and convincing people to do the job in the first place. You would need to pay me a lot of money to convince me to work with COBOL full-time. Once you've convinced me to
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by neild 17y ago
I've always been very impressed by how accurate the Economist's tech articles are. It gives me more confidence in their articles on topics I don't know enough about to catch errors in.
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by neild 17y ago
More to the point, it defines a byte in terms of a char. sizeof(char) will always be 1, but UCHAR_MAX need not be 255.