palish

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901.
by palish 17y ago
You're missing the point. I don't care about karma. I said I was in the top 10 to establish that hey, I'm not some random guy, I've been here since the beginning and contributed enough to actually matter, and so therefore when I say HN h
902.
by palish 17y ago
You're right. I'm not quite sure why I felt so strongly negative just then. I think it's because capping downvoting to -4 is still too low. I really wish downvoting was capped at 0. That way, comments still get filtered to the bottom, bu
903.
by palish 17y ago
What a strange fear -- being afraid of not having health insurance. I haven't had a "real job" or health insurance for about a year now, and I don't care at all. If something bad happens to me, I'll put the bill on my credit cards. I dou
904.
by palish 17y ago
What does the modification actually do?
905.
by palish 17y ago
So if I made a webapp "Cats On Keyboards", which displays pictures of wonderfully cute kitties blissfully sleeping on keyboards, then that would be HN material? Don't think so.
906.
by palish 17y ago
Can we get this crap off HN? Please? It's just sad that the current #1 story is one about people having sex. And not even anything intellectually interesting about sex. Just "there are people having sex". Um... Great?
907.
by palish 17y ago
Why? What does the error mean?
908.
by palish 17y ago
But I don't see why detail is bad. Too much detail is bad because it hides the relevant knowledge. That is, there are certain paragraphs / certain images that the programmer will remember. Those are the important components. Brevity is
909.
by palish 17y ago
You sound like you've worked on physics simulations. Care to elaborate? That sounds interesting.
910.
by palish 17y ago
That is a very good point. Every C/C++ developer should be familiar with #pragma pack (Visual Studio... not sure what the GCC equivalent is).
911.
by palish 17y ago
Man, you are reading way way too far into what I said. Aren't introverts like us supposed to always be taking statements at face value? And isn't what I said true? Attacks like "algorithms junkie", and completely shoving words into my
912.
by palish 17y ago
Keep in mind that 99% of the time, choice of algorithm determines your code's performance way more than worrying about cache lines.
913.
by palish 17y ago
Heh. You know, there's probably nothing wrong with having a recommendation engine for Hacker News. After all, the frontpage is still the frontpage, so people can use the recommendation engine without it degrading the quality of the site,
914.
by palish 17y ago
"As HN grows, there is more interesting content added to it. What if there was a way to get this content that would be interesting to you, with less of the pain?" Then for the average user the front page would consist of mostly annoyingness
915.
by palish 17y ago
Damn. You must read very quickly. Or I spend way too much time in my programming bubble.
916.
by palish 17y ago
"Explaining Benford's Law" may have been a more accurate title, but "Why 30.1% of numbers start with 1" brought this neat article to a larger audience. Taken too far, though, that kind of thing can ruin social news sites. Headlines have a
917.
by palish 17y ago
Seconded. As your command of mathematics becomes stronger, many aspects of programming become a lot easier.
918.
by palish 17y ago
a) C and C++. Oh, but they're not modern, you say; balls, I say. Both standards were revised very recently and C++ is changing quite a bit. I develop quite quickly in C/C++.
919.
by palish 17y ago
I wish the source code was cross-platform. It doesn't build in Visual Studio. 'erand48': identifier not found 'M_PI' : undeclared identifier Obviously #define M_PI 3.1415926 should do the trick, but I need to track down an erand48
920.
by palish 17y ago
Doesn't work in Chrome 1.0.154.55 ..... :)
921.
by palish 17y ago
Or, we could not worry about it and let the article take its natural course. It's not like it's a terrible thing for one slot of the front page to be occupied for a small amount of time.
922.
by palish 17y ago
You can also buy this using Steam, which is very painless.
923.
by palish 17y ago
Does it finally not crash on Windows yet? Because I'd love to mess around with it, but it's hard to make a game when it occasionally crashes deep within SBCL's internals.
924.
by palish 17y ago
How old is Jeremy Stoppelman?
925.
by palish 17y ago
Yes.
926.
by palish 17y ago
Good. Personally, I'm glad a competent engineer was responsible for making a weapon of war function successfully (even if it was being misused -- let's not forget that it is actually important to have a technologically-advanced arsenal,
927.
by palish 17y ago
Ah, if there's voice communication, then yes. Voice comm is important.
928.
by palish 17y ago
remote pair-programming Doesn't that defeat the supposed purpose of pair-programming?
929.
by palish 17y ago
I think... hope... he was being sarcastic.
930.
by palish 17y ago
Thinking about it... Everyone does live by that motto. Mostly.

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