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by nollidge 17y ago
Ah, OK. I do see what you're saying. At the same time, it's not really possible to come with an example that everyone's going to agree with. The author's point should still stand - regardless of how you feel about GIMP specifically , su
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by nollidge 17y ago
So if I said to you that my laptop "weighs a ton", it will diminish my credibility with you simply because its mass is not literally 2000 pounds? That seems rather cynical, or at least uncharitable.
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by nollidge 17y ago
I see what you're saying, but that's not the point of hyperbole. He's just saying it's terrible, not trying to quantify it. If I said that some band "sounds worse than a dying giraffe", are you going to ask me how much worse it sounds, or
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by nollidge 17y ago
> The validity of this here depends on how much blindness you think Gimp actually induces. Perhaps you've mistyped, but how much blindness do you actually think it may induce? Perhaps you could specify a range of blindness which you fi
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by nollidge 17y ago
Really? I don't think there's any more stuff on there than before, particularly looking at the screenshots they show. Looks like they just freshened things up a bit.
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by nollidge 17y ago
C#'s got lambdas, closures, generics, reflection, extension methods (weak form of monkey-patching), and anonymous types (I can't speak to Java, but it's got a lot of these as well). Can you please describe the flexible features C# is missi
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by nollidge 17y ago
Not sure why you brought it up, but convention-over-configuration is characteristic of Rails, not Ruby.
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by nollidge 17y ago
Some examples? I haven't used Java for a while now, so I'm asking in earnest.
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by nollidge 17y ago
Also, and this is probably highly subjective, but do not make your blog light foreground on dark background. It burns my eyes everytime I switch focus from that to any other application or website I'm using.
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by nollidge 17y ago
It's not very well presented in the demo (there's no need for the Confirm inputbox), but the point is not for password creation, but for login. From the author's github page ( http://github.com/mattt/Chroma-Hash/tree/master ): Chroma-Has
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by nollidge 17y ago
It's on the first page of the report, last paragraph, lines 4-7: "Whalen...told me it was she who called. She went on to tell me that she observed what appeared to be two black males with backpacks on the porch of [redacted] Ware Street."
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by nollidge 17y ago
Who said anything about force?
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by nollidge 17y ago
He keeps saying "backslash" when it's a forward-slash (or just "slash").
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by nollidge 17y ago
Ah! I thought it had something to do with holidays... Also, on the US graph there's also a discernable a mini-spike right on or just before the first quarter. I can't come up with an answer for that. One guess is that people are looking
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by nollidge 17y ago
None of the above, I guess: I have a TV, but it's really acting as a monitor hooked up to a PC so I can watch shows online on-demand (using hulu or pbs.org or whatever)
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by nollidge 17y ago
There's a couple issues here: this would be fairly difficult, as you'd need to change the DNA in probably several billions of cells before any phenotypic change could be effected. Perhaps one mechanism may be to engineer a retrovirus that
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by nollidge 17y ago
From the guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. " From what I can tell, jokes are not tolerated h
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by nollidge 17y ago
If you're arguing about science using words like treason and betrayal is out of line. Sure, if you're just arguing about science. Once words like "hoax" and "conspiracy" are thrown about, however, we're not talking about the science anym
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by nollidge 17y ago
Why has no one phrased the answer like that before? That makes way more sense then talking about "adding information". I never grokked the solution until you described it that way.
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by nollidge 17y ago
I still don't get it? There's nothing interesting at the bottom of their pages...
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by nollidge 17y ago
Yeah, and we have plate tectonics which explains... oh, geez, I guess nothing, since we can't fit an entire tectonic plate into a lab in order to repeatedly test it. Well at least we know that the planet's magnetic field is produced by alig
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by nollidge 18y ago
"Because it's my money that I earned that represents my hard work and the risks I've taken to generate that wealth." Interesting. I, for one, am reticent to take credit for having been conceived by a pair of white, upper-middle-class, nurt