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by paragraft 13y ago
I came here to say something similar, but you took the words out of my mouth. My experience reading through it was it was a mix of good advice with some questionable advice, some advice that was really only good for Java, and some advice th
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by paragraft 14y ago
Aha, thanks! That would explain why it didn't work for me...
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by paragraft 14y ago
There was a talk recently Gabe gave a university, where he was sort of talk generically about how Valve compensates, and the figure of half a million was mentioned for a hypothetical hire from Weta. That's the closest to a number from Valve
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by paragraft 14y ago
I'm curious now in light of the article as to how a whole round of lay-offs occur in an environment like that (particularly across the board, to people of varying tenure like the recent one). Awkwardly, I assume.
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by paragraft 14y ago
He's still at the top of the Valve staff page.
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by paragraft 14y ago
Corruption is a separate concern from centrality of power. Otherwise Singapore wouldn't rank anywhere near the top.
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by paragraft 14y ago
Could someone explain to a market novice what the rationale would be for this? I thought buybacks were a way of delivering value back to existing shareholders, but why take on debt to do that?
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by paragraft 14y ago
Black Friday's a US thing, while the Apple sale happens world-wide. No mention of Black Friday = one theme across all international sites.
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by paragraft 14y ago
From what I've read of the origins of Portal 2 (and I can't provide a link citation, it was in The Final Hours of Portal 2, a long form piece released as an ipad app), Valve did something very similar to this, all the employees went away to
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by paragraft 14y ago
NZ down
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by paragraft 14y ago
The rather excellent Foobar2000 for Windows has a library view that lets you switch between folder structure and tagged properties (album, artist, genre etc)
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by paragraft 15y ago
It's a fairly well studied area, deriving unbiased randomness from a consistently biased source eg http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~qstout/abs/AnnProb84.html The simplest approach I know of is to extract a random bit repeatedly until it transit
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by paragraft 15y ago
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. A similar thought occured to me; that like "minimalist" has been by a similar group of people, the word beautiful is being diluted of its meaning. Beauty's in the eye of the beholder, and I've never thou
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by paragraft 15y ago
I've found the drone music this guy does fantastic for zoning in while coding: http://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/ Particularly of note is his 8 hour album "Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell" http://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/field-recor
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by paragraft 15y ago
Did you see the section on the front page where it describes recent new users as "Latest kiwis"? I.e an attempt to create a shorthand description for one group of people (their customers), using a word already used to (self-)describe anothe
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by paragraft 15y ago
Yes, but the context in question is "names for a group of people", since that's the context the site is using the term in. lancewiggs' point is there's already a meaning for this word in this context.
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by paragraft 15y ago
Might have helped to linked to the Rich Hickey talk I assume you're borrowing those semantics for "easy" and "complect" from: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy (a thought provoking talk for those who haven't seen it)
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by paragraft 15y ago
Why do you claim logic is a superset of math? My understanding of Gödel's incompleteness theorems is they show you can't reduce arithmetic to a consistent & complete logic.
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by paragraft 15y ago
Appending doesn't work for translation: not all languages will have the object at the end of the sentence. Better to stick with format strings.
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by paragraft 15y ago
I was under the impression that HN does have down arrows, but only for higher karma users?
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by paragraft 15y ago
What I mean is whether there's a niche for a single entity whose job it is to be knowledgeable about all the sorts of issues you can run into in trying to internationalize software and services, whether they be local tax issues, best practi
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by paragraft 15y ago
Something I've been pondering lately is whether there's a viable niche in internationalization as a middleware library & service: it takes a lot of effort to get right, it's tedious stuff (as I discovered when trying to document postal
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by paragraft 15y ago
But that requires you to know what it is you don't know. Cue Rumsfeld's piece about known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
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by paragraft 16y ago
They were later removed because they cause difficulties in performance optimization. They're hard to implement consistently and correctly (i.e, so things like post counts for each thread etc add up correctly for the hellbanned user) without
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by paragraft 16y ago
I'm always having to stop and check that I'm pressing the right function key (volume control, play/pause), particularly if I'm watching a movie in the dark
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by paragraft 16y ago
The physical world is never going to fit one taxonomy neatly, let alone the conceptual one.
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by paragraft 16y ago
They were giving away music because that was always a feature of Baidu that they had been hurting for not having. Last I heard they had gained up to ~25% market share. 25% of a market that large and with that much potential is enough to run
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by paragraft 16y ago
They're opinionated but they're clear and upfront on what their opinions are.
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by paragraft 16y ago
Stratfor is my daily geopolitics fix. They occasionally offer $99 subscriptions, but there's a free weekly email and podcast that's a good way to get an idea of what they do. They're not news so much as forecasting. A lot of what happens in
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by paragraft 17y ago
Wow. A friend of mine had an Ilizarov frame for some 5 years at least (born with a shorter leg on one side, they were aiming for 4 inches I think) starting at age 10 or 11, and after seeing what an absolute mission that was for him, I'm sta

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