qu4z-2

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   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   Eh, I hated EE long before I came across SO or heard of Jeff Atwood. My experience of it was basically just an annoying minigame in Google where you had to remember not to click certain results no matter how useful they sounded .
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   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   I think that way of looking at poverty is also very telling about the people doing the assessing.
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   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   I understood the grandparent's point to be that the taxes contribute to the tax-payers welfare in the form of keeping society more-or-less together, which is a huge benefit. Maybe I misunderstood though.
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   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   That game was amazing. If you decide to, please post it on HN once you've made some progress.
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   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   Him calling you an idiot isn't an ad hominem. It's only an ad hominem if he's arguing "You're an idiot, and therefore you are wrong ". "You're being an idiot, and here's why: <reasons>&qu
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   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   And a few things that can't, I suspect.
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   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   You may be interested in the Matasano crypto challenges: http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ They walk you through cracking some basic codes, and step up from there.
8. 458.▲
   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   Come on, that was clearly on-topic.
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   by qu4z-2 13y ago

   So you're suggesting we should just frequently change almost-certainly-flawed algorithms, but rely on their obscurity for security? I feel like there's a term for this strategy, but I can't think what it is...
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    Brace expansion is great! My understanding, though, is that you'd need to write: cp file{,.bak} Was it a typo, or is there some feature/special-case I don't know about?
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    Or if apropos isn't on your system, man -k does the same thing. ... I think it works when apropos isn't installed. Possibly it just calls out to it.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    Enabling/disabling features by user agent tends to break over time. Browsers implement features, but your user agent sniffing keeps them disabled. Or as I get a lot, you use a non-standard but standards-compliant browser and then have
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    Assuming "interesting" means "relevant to finding the identity", and you strip the metadata before sending the photo you should be fine.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    To me "My ask" translated to "My request", not "my question". Having said that, it still sounds a bit lost in time.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I'm not sure what you're telling me.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    You may be interested in a parser generator someone at my uni was working on. It generates a possibly-non-deterministic parser which can be disambiguated at the semantic level. Paper here: [0], Source code: [1] It is unfortunately in Java,
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I feel like GUIs these days cater too much to novice users. Obviously the old-school terminal/no-graphics style is pretty dated, but I have yet to see a nicely integrated solution with the advantages of GUIs and the power of the cli.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I wonder if the test tells you when you read faster without it. Subjectively I feel that I did, but the test just returned "No improvement with BeeLineReader"
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    It did tell you it was gonna ask questions. Anecdotally I read the second paragraph faster because I had an idea of the difficulty-level of the questions involved. (ie not very)
20. 470.▲
    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I actually enjoying the lack of firing while moving in Starcraft. It forces you to choose between running and fighting.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    But not Free Software
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I just use the old basic html view. On the one hand, it's ugly as sin, but on the bright side, you can open any link in the UI in a new tab and it works as expected, which is like a breath of fresh air. So I can just middle click the c
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    Forwarding the entire thread with each email is also bad netiquette. If anyone still cares.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    In fairness, my university changed systems every year or so while I was there. They all sucked, so sticking with your existing solution is possibly not the worst decision.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    Do people disagree? I've met plenty of humble men and plenty of excellent female programmers. That seems to disprove both theories, as far as I can see. Anyone wanting to prove a universal in the face of counterexamples is welcome to h
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I'm pretty sure you can buy most 3DS or WiiU games as downloads these days, if that's what you mean. Personally I like my 3DS carts. WiiU discs less so, 'cause I don't already have the WiiU in my hands/can't fi
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I know I'm an edge case here, but for me it'd be my DS. We're nowhere near significant marketshare, but we do exist. In fairness, that says more about my phone than my DS, I think.
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    For fans of the original bookmarklet: [ http://readable.tastefulwords.com/ ]
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I don't know if this is up your alley, but have you looked into the aesthetic called 'wabi-sabi'?
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    by qu4z-2 13y ago

    I'm highly skeptical that humility is unique to women. Nearly as skeptical as I am of the claim that programming/tech is unique to men.