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by prawks 13y ago
Cool post, and nice tool! Until now I've kind of been one of those that have been able to identify NP problems and know that "there are ways to optimize them" but haven't had much experience in actually optimizing any in
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by prawks 13y ago
Doesn't this go against the Pythonic notion of handling exceptions rather than "looking before you leap"?
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by prawks 13y ago
See my response as well, but it depends on your intent. None and '' are two completely different things, and could mean different thing sin the context of the application. It's quite likely that choosing either is a conscious
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by prawks 13y ago
> it's possible to over-simplify things in a way that obfuscates instead of clarifying While this is true, I think it's important to keep in mind that a big benefit of being able to handle a situation programatically in differe
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by prawks 13y ago
> All tech companies/startups are starting to look the same. I think it's more that they are just starting to advertise the same way that all other companies do. More and more they're evoking emotional responses from the a
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by prawks 13y ago
"Adversary" might not technically be a synonym to "enemy", but in modern-day, common, spoken language, they are both thought of as very militaristic terms.
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by prawks 13y ago
Fun. If people are more interested in either Bill Gates or Magnus Carlsen, then here's a starting point. Many people likely don't know who Magnus is, now they do. Bill Gates' involvement makes it more likely that people would
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by prawks 13y ago
I think children's worldview is largely determined by how their parents teach them (usually indirectly) how to internalize information they absorb and encounters they have. What would your 11-year-old do if she saw porn? How would she
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by prawks 13y ago
Thanks for reminding me to backup!
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by prawks 13y ago
Final Fantasy is a poor example, I think. Games like Castlevania, Mario, Zelda, Metroid which have simple but well-executed mechanics have basically gone out of flavor because the broader populace... I originally said this is because they d
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by prawks 13y ago
Not enough thinking leads to less consideration of alternatives and vaguer goals. That being said, it's very, very difficult to dismiss mistakes, as wastes of time, as everything is a learning opportunity in the end. Of course mistakes
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by prawks 13y ago
It's neat because the barrier to entry to Netflix is so minimal. Previously, when someone said "I saw this documentary XYZ", you basically had to say "Oh that's neat, wish I could watch it..." Even outside Netf
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by prawks 13y ago
> public relations exercise Without reading through it, it would seem it may have a great deal of effect on public relations in the participating countries. I'd imagine it may be used as PR leverage against countries who did not par
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by prawks 13y ago
Color me surprised. I was under the impression most software shops had extremely liberal time off. Do you mind if I ask what kind of software/position? That sounds like a gulag.
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by prawks 13y ago
A massive component I see to rest vs. work is flexible scheduling, not just vacation time. You don't need as much time off if you are working at a pace where you are comfortable and not overly stressed. I'm not sure it applies to
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by prawks 13y ago
A lot of jobs out there give 2 weeks PTO to entry-level employees. It's mainly "blue collar" (for lack of a better term) jobs like trades (I suspect due to many being smaller family-owned "Father & Sons" busines
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by prawks 13y ago
Exactly what I thought. Especially given the above quote: researchers could study only the psychopaths’ behavior, in most cases through their criminal records It's a fascinating disorder, really, in that the most severe cases are dif
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by prawks 13y ago
If you ever get the time, I feel like Half-Life would be an awesome play-through for you. It really is the #1 FPS in terms of story for me, and I've been playing through the new Black Mesa port (it's HL on a newer engine) and it&#
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by prawks 13y ago
After thinking about it a bit, I this I disagree. Your fixed algorithm will change the meaning of controversy to depend too much on the number of votes (popularity), and too little on the fact that there is an even debate on either side of
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by prawks 13y ago
Say there are a couple hundred servers in various games they're observing and participating in (not an absurd number given that one person with a 40-hour week could play quite a bit), it's reasonable to assume multiple agencies mi
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by prawks 13y ago
Is anyone aware of articles or books that deal with the creation of these types of systems? I'm guessing some sort of cryptography text would lead to it, but the last sentence of your post has me particularly interested. What kind of c
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by prawks 13y ago
Many people in the DotA scene have been calling for players unions, as many of the teams' contracts are not well thought-out and leave room for a lot of exploitation of players (citation: /r/DotA2 has like one posted every ot
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by prawks 13y ago
Cost is a likely factor.
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by prawks 13y ago
> They are tedious, but for the wrong reasons: you have to make a lot of guesses on what are exactly the semantics of what you're supposed to implement, sifting through the forum and the FAQ for relevant information. I look at their
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by prawks 13y ago
Is this really a valid point still? Surely two million is a drop in the bucket in the group of Facebook users accessing via OS X or Windows.
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by prawks 13y ago
I did, but only because I said to myself "Who in the hell writes a block comment there? Can you even do tha- Oh." Not sure if that counts as careful attention, but it's usually clear something could be wrong when someone writ
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by prawks 13y ago
You're also forgetting re-training thousands of employees on an entirely new operating system. That's far more of an issue than commercial support at this point (as the argumentors responding to you have pointed out). Even though
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by prawks 13y ago
In college, when we were hanging out all around a TV watching a game or something, we would mute the TV during the commercials. It was strange at first for new people, but surprisingly effective.
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by prawks 13y ago
I switched to quodlibet for the fast indexing and searching of large libraries. I'm sure other media library managers do that too, but it seems to be very nice in quod.
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by prawks 13y ago
Parent was suggesting that an existing system's tests should already pass (green) before you monkey with it (red). Although if you're fixing bugs, red-green-refactor can work well.

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