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by philangist 13y ago
IC? What's that mean?
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by philangist 13y ago
It's not really that hyperbolic. Only thing that clued me in was surprise push to production.
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by philangist 13y ago
The japanese Twitter community as a whole is actually really big. I believe Twitter has most of its users in Japan.
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by philangist 13y ago
I love Russell but I can't help but feel like he's either constantly drugged up or has some kind of manic disorder. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. How else would you explain his uncompromising honesty in the face of
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by philangist 13y ago
I'm really glad for the kid, but was anybody else concerned by the fact that he doesn't listen to music? Or that he dismissed the Harry Potter books because they had no objective gain for him? Whatever happened to having fun for t
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by philangist 13y ago
I think the'generational gap' here is fascinating. I'm 18 years old and I browse the net like this, as do most of my male friends from conversations we've had. The only difference for me is that I don't have porn up
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by philangist 13y ago
Yeah I interned there a couple of years ago. Honestly very surprised they're not more well known in the tech community.
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by philangist 13y ago
This reminds me very much of what [Bug Labs] ( http://buglabs.net/products/blocks ) is doing. Building modular hardware components for rapid prototyping and development. Cool stuff.
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by philangist 13y ago
That article on the Gervais principle blew my mind and I'd suggest that everyone reads it.
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by philangist 13y ago
Was his name Mr. Miyagi?
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by philangist 13y ago
Some people can't just "fix" their accents though. I think that's a large part of the problem most people have with what Paul said. It's not completely irrelevant. It's the whole point.
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by philangist 13y ago
I know hacker news is going to kill me for asking this, but what's wrong with center?
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by philangist 13y ago
I have to disagree. I think it's 80% 1) and 20% 2)
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by philangist 13y ago
I originally thought it might be that too, but it seems to me like you'll have to hit the database n times for n queries no matter what. Unless Django has some builtin batch save functionality.
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by philangist 13y ago
Coding noob here. Can someone explain the problem with the `for foo in queryset` implementation? Is it that for loops are inherently inefficient? What would be a better alternative?
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by philangist 13y ago
> If you continue to make poor life decisions, the outcome is living below the poverty line. What makes you think everyone who's poor got there from making poor decisions?
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by philangist 13y ago
Or being 18 years old ;)
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by philangist 13y ago
Leave it up.I think the fact that you're the type of developer who goes out of his/her way to learn Clojure trumps the fact that it might not be the highest standard code.
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by philangist 13y ago
The thing I like about bitcoin is that it's just the first of many. It's not perfect, but the fact that there's a decentralized cryptocurrency with major traction out there makes me giddy for what the future holds. We're
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by philangist 13y ago
I've been thinking about getting an external SSD to install Fedora on, and this post has convinced me to do it. Any suggestions for brands/models? Also is anyone else really impressed by the design on this blog? So clean, so prett
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by philangist 13y ago
I'm a coder and one of the young redditors/HN readers you're talking about (18 years old). I've grown up in a post-9/11 world so it can be sometimes hard for me to understand that there was a time that it wasn'