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by req2 17y ago
Kenta Cho, sole member of ABA Games, uses D to write his (excellent, open source, freeware) shmups. Go for the code, stay for the games: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html
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by req2 17y ago
Patrick tells us everything we need to know about "revisiting 'the fold'"- we don't, it's still there, and it's still important. Go upvote him: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840972
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by req2 17y ago
I'm not sure why I'm doing this, but I'll try once more... 'My argument' was not that there are roughly almost equivalent words in English. There are multiple things: - the case of linguistic relativity is largely resolved contrary to your
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by req2 17y ago
Language is a product of culture. [...] Your culture shapes language - not the other way around. I'm not sure why you would repeat what I said like this, except to buttress the dubious claim you sandwich in the middle. For a lot of New Yo
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by req2 17y ago
And in the same sense, your great-grandmother lives on in you. I'm not sure what you're getting at, especially because the Vatican has had an imperceptible effect on Spanish, Portuguese, et al.
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by req2 17y ago
Language reflects cultural views, not the other way around. (Note how master and mistress were gendered but equivalent terms, and how many similar divergences occur, as with sir and madam.) Using "sir" in English can serve some of the same
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by req2 17y ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky lays out the Bayesian reductionist argument in his Zombies sequence: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Zombies_(sequence) It's a good accessible read, mentions a few of the interesting questions zombies can shed light on, a
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by req2 17y ago
Your argument follows the same form as the one that says a world without a god is full of evil. You overextrapolate from an overstated initial cause, and offer no evidence whatsoever for any of your bald assertions.
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by req2 17y ago
Rome wasn't much worse off- a 20 year old would expect to hit 54. Here's hoping for the hockey stick. http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/Life.html
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by req2 17y ago
A 23 year old in the 17th century would expect to live nearly as long as a 23 year old today- the depressed life expectancy statistics are largely due to the fact that 3 out of 4 children died before they hit the age of five. http://en.wik
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by req2 17y ago
I'll note that, at least in business, some research indicates that women do not earn less than men: "Women executives who do not have children follow career paths that closely replicate those of their male peers. Successful M.B.A. couples
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by req2 17y ago
The furor over creationism vs. evolution indicates that even if the ideas themselves are not well exposed to uneducated people, some of the basic building materials and one of the frameworks of the discussion is there.
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by req2 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence A modicum of research reveals that 'The authors reported a correlation of 0.60 between atheism rates and level of intelligence, which is “highly statistically significant.”'
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by req2 17y ago
Can someone hook edw519 up with searchyc.com? It seems all he does is post dups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=891137
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by req2 17y ago
Compare to engineers becoming marketers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=890110
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by req2 17y ago
Though true, a 2 space indent visually 'breaks' whenever there's (conservatively speaking) more than 8 lines of code on a single level followed by several further indented lines. After that, the indentation level of the immediately followin
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by req2 17y ago
A 2 space indent loses at 'visual overview' of larger (and more representative) expanses of code. A 4 space indent maintains clarity at the level of a skim or casual glance, even if it "fails" at the contrived (but simple) example shown her
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by req2 17y ago
The presently available materials on Red Ryder are unclear, but Toady definitely survives solely on donations [ http://www.kwanzoo.com/social-trivia/tarn-adams-interview-pa... ] Randy Mulholland of the webcomic Something Positive quit his j
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by req2 17y ago
Before advocating any countermeasures, you need to control for the self-selection of university vs. college students.
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by req2 17y ago
This is why you can't make a business out of donation-ware. What about Red Ryder, way back when, or Toady, of Dwarf Fortress, or the relative legions of successful webcomic artists that live on donations?
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by req2 17y ago
Sounds good to me. Thanks.
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by req2 17y ago
Please note that average height a mere hundred fifty years ago was a few centimetres shorter. The reversal of a trend (admittedly spurred by different causes) is notable. If you do wish to call a development a "non-story", please refute it
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by req2 17y ago
Human women have around 400000 oocytes; their consumption is not a limiting factor.
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Why snark works(agrammar.tumblr.com)
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by req2 17y ago
This is similar to the view advanced by Freeman Dyson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson#Global_warming
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by req2 17y ago
Does working on your serve improve your tennis game?
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by req2 17y ago
As with most language comparisons, the author is clearly established on one side of the fence and unwilling to investigate in any meaningful sense. He begins with a somewhat spurious statement on how code must be arranged, continues with a
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by req2 17y ago
Where do you place rights like access to clean water?
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by req2 17y ago
It's the difference between a 18 year old French speaker that learned French from the cradle, and a 43 year old French speaker that learned French to fluency in college.
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by req2 17y ago
"When it's done" doesn't tell the whole story for Blizzard. They continue to patch and support Starcraft, and they are currently working on a sizable content patch for Diablo II. WoW has been constantly receiving additional content and bala

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