qu4z-2

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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Thank you for pointing out the common misunderstanding of the Frankenstein story. It bugs me almost as much as all of the "Before Colombus, people thought the world was flat." repetition.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I'm not sure if it's technically a pun, but it's definitely a typographical joke.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
The issue is that it won't be nearly as effective as you think it will be.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I know at least one person whose parents have overlooked the earth-shattering moral conclusion that "Homosexuals are not evil incarnate".
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
In fairness, parent was replying to GP who mentioned Axis of Evil, so you're one post late :)
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I would argue that Zelda I is "explore this cool world"-based, with a bit of "damsel-in-distress" and "evil overlord" and "find the magical macguffin" bolted on.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
> (Whether I'm being sarcastic is entirely up to you.) This is the best part of the comment, even if there was a voice echoing in my head "What was the author's intention in writing that sentence?"
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
The thing is, unused RAM gets used as disk cache, which helps performance. Also, good luck figuring out how much is "as much RAM as possible without having to swap out".
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
My UI lets me press b to do a substring search on the url/title, which makes managing 100+ tabs trivial. And I often need to have a lot of tickets/revisions/forum threads/stack overflow questions open in tabs at the same time for my work. D
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
For me the speed-up I liked in Chrome was the UI responsiveness, and start-up time. And it seemed to just load pages faster. My current browser of choice is surf from suckless.org (although it's pretty limited) because it somehow just manag
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
If by "better" you mean "blew up my browser's RAM usage to 2GB AND maxed out an entire core" then that's consistent with my flash experience (on 64-bit Linux, which I realise is not exactly a first-class citizen)
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Not that they are having them for that reason currently, but it's not implausible they would start were the total human population of earth to drop below, say, 100k.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
But those are both ways to keep your two different notations for structure in sync. If you only have one structure, you don't have that problem in the first place.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
There's no reason an editor can't reformat most cases. If you copy a block of text out of one indentation-level and into another, you simply need to adjust the leading indents by a fixed amount. Obviously if you're changing which statements
735.
by qu4z-2 14y ago
I agree with you. It seems odd that we have the structural information in our program twice: Once for humans, and once for computers. The computers are perfectly capable of understanding the human construct, so let's use that.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Much as I like the /. "semantic rating" system, I'm glad HN doesn't have it, so we don't get these sorts of passive-aggressive ratings. Regarding your second point, curly braces do cause potentially hard-to-find errors, specifically when th
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I would agree. Depending on implementation details tends to lead to much tighter coupling between components.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
My friend-group has taken to calling it the Sometimes Helpful Suggestion of Demeter. It's sometimes helpful, but as you say, not really a "Law".
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Ah, so I did misinterpret your statement first time 'round? I was thinking that "children" may be a function of total population. At least below some threshold people may have more kids than they would otherwise out of a sense of "duty", or
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Makes me wonder if there's anything with the opposite progression: No effect -> harmful -> helpful I'd guess not, but I'm curious as to why.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
You seem to be begging the question. The point is that if they influence other people's children into being atheists too, then the atheist section of the population grows. If your argument is that an entirely atheist population would eventu
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
It's the combination of the two, I think. That's hardly fair... but I need the money => Accept. I don't need the money, but it's fair => Accept. It's unfair, and I don't need the money => Turn down.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
But it won't lock up the user's browser in that time, which is helpful.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
For me it depends largely on the surrounding lighting conditions. During the day I prefer dark-on-light; in the evenings I prefer light-on-dark. If pressed to choose one I'd go for light-on-dark, because having your retinas exploded by a pu
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
But 2+2 is something you learn by rote, really.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Personally I much prefer a[i - 1] syntax over a.charAt(i - 1). The extra "charAt" seems noisy to me. But that's probably just my C background showing.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I dunno. I enjoy solving puzzles. Maybe I'm not a star :)
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I believe the counter to that quote is "Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead."
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I disagree that static language users will want an IDE. I'm a static-typing advocate, but I much prefer vim over IDEs. Then again, I design static-type systems in my spare time, so maybe I'm not the target of your comment :)
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Like the sibling poster, I think "hacker" perhaps shouldn't be on the list. I'm not a pirate, a samurai, or a ninja. But I am a hacker.

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