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by phaedrus 19y ago
I knew a kid from Vo-Tech who was homeschooled up to then. He was noticeably more civil & polite than the kids from public highschools his age, and seemed more mature in his poise. If anything the socialization you receive in public s
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Frameworks written for general use will always be overengineered yet clunky compared to what you could write for your own project, and here's why: if I'm writing a framework and it has a collection of foo, and I know I only ever add(foo),
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Actually Paul Graham's "Why Nerds are Unpopular" is closer in topic: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Interestingly though my college professors were talking about Internet2 and they seem to think the problem is too much anonymity; they want the US government to be able to track down any communications, you know, to catch "teh terrists" E
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Well I think the point is that it is small enough that you can place the purifier on the other end of the pipe (in the home) and so what contaminates the water on its way there isn't as much a problem. But then again like you said, even at
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I wonder - would it be technically feasible to page the continuations out to temporary files on the server? Kind of like cookies, but on the server instead of the client!
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by phaedrus 19y ago
From a philosophical standpoint, I surmise free will does exist over the long-term course of your life - but not the short term.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Makes sense; I try to work on my documentation during times when I can't devote enough hours to get into the zone to code.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Thanks for posting this - we've decided to use Git on our project, but there's still a lot we don't know about how to use it. For instance, finding out that we can send Git updates by email is welcome news!
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I've noticed coding after consuming (a small amount of) alcohol has the same effect for me - I tend to go off on fewer tangents and stick to what I need to do.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Not quite. Long term memory does hold much more than a hard drive. But what the GP is talking about is the limited capacity of short-term memory. When you are thinking about something and fill up your short-term memory, things start drop
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I agree with your first premise - Paul Graham's writing is enjoyable because it is terse. I can't support your second premise. Just because Steve Yeggi's writing is long, doesn't mean it's full of fluff. It may not be as compact as a PG e
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Sometimes when I get stuck on a code problem, I start writing an essay describing how the system works. Even if I don't have a clear idea what that should be, by the time I finish the essay, I've worked out what I should write in the code.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
This is based on the fallacious premise that the limitations of the human brain are that it "doesn't store enough bits" or that those "bits" aren't getting stored permanently enough. In fact the human brain is a much denser information sto
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Plus I don't think he can be faulted for thinking a recession was coming the first time he predicted it - maybe the signs were there that one was coming, but just didn't happen, or was delayed until now when it will finally hit harder.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
It's very productive and a lot of fun too. When you find someone who's a good wingman, things just click. I can understand you're concern about getting matched poorly but the experience I had with pair programming is that there is a much g
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by phaedrus 19y ago
This reminds me of the Doctor Who episode where the Doctor tells the Prime Minister he could destroy her with six little words, and all he does is whisper to one of her aides, "Don't you think she looks tired...?" It becomes a rumor that s
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Yes. Essentially there's a technical reason why Apple would restrict OS X to only Apple hardware. Microsoft spends (or at least spent, they seemed to have given that up with Vista) lots of money & time ensuring Windows works with weir
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I like to do this sort of thing with Age of Empires II.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I propose a new sport - Google Crawler hunting. Kind of like Snipe hunting, only you lay traps. Object is to see how long you can keep the Google bot there by generating new pages programmatically, and how many unique things you can get t
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Quote: "These people used to be called pirates . Now they're open source enthusiasts ." What is that supposed to mean? The issue is way more complex than that, and how can you paint all the legitimate open source companies with a big re
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Document it anyway! Although it might seem like a waste of time to write about something that will change, the fact is that all software is potentially throw-away code. That's the "soft" in software - you can and should change it if it
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by phaedrus 19y ago
We recently implemented a wiki for our project and it's been a big help.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Beware governments bearing gifts... Edit: Context of that statement is that this makes me particularly nervous in light of how the NSA pushed an elliptical encryption algorithm through the review process and into common libraries, and it t
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Amid all the criticism I'm seeing of this guy in the comments - yes, as jgrahamc pointed out, this post expressed a thought that shouldn't have been made public - let's back up and discuss what he's really talking about. Imagine if he had
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by phaedrus 19y ago
The thing that bothers me is you only tend to hear about the successes, so it's hard to get a feel for the true success/failure ratio.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Announcing "Windows Beta"... "As the successor to Windows Vista, we believe 'Windows Beta' (formerly known as Windows 7) will bring unprecendented levels of stability and usability."
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Well we already get treated differently (badly) by IE-only sites! It would be nice to see the tables turned.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
This is exactly the reason I became concerned and ticked off when learned of this RoHS regulation when buying electronics components for hobby projects. You get these politicians who are not scientists or engineers making mandates that make
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I'm taking a computer forensics class, and the professor is an active policeman who does computer forensics. They make a lot of use of hashes in computer forensics - they use hashes to determine if evidence has been tampered with. He's sp

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