rleisti

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by rleisti 16y ago
It probably doesn't help when you insult the entire .Net community and imply that anyone unwilling to work ridiculous hours is lazy.
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by rleisti 16y ago
One of the things that a 'dynamic' type system (or as the author would see it, a restriction to a single type) imposes on its creators is the need to make that single type as useful as possible. This includes things like being able to easi
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by rleisti 16y ago
I got 21. I have a feeling that if I took this test a bunch of times (with different faces) that I'd probably get better at it.
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by rleisti 16y ago
At the beginning of April, I picked up a book called "The New Rules of Lifting". I like it, because it explains how to do a variety of exercises of six kinds: squat, deadlift, lunge, push, pull, twist. Also, it describes a few programs, w
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by rleisti 16y ago
Step 2: Don't follow random advice that doesn't take into account the particulars of your situation.
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by rleisti 16y ago
I wonder if this would change the popular morality of suicide? What if you're 800 years old, and you truly feel that you've had enough? Should you be forced to keep on going, potentially indefinitely? Or even just knowing when to step asi
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by rleisti 16y ago
Problem: board members want to pretend the problem doesn't exist. Solution: install token software and pretend that the problem is solved.
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by rleisti 17y ago
An invention market for software is complete BS. All the effort involved in producing a software patent can be summarized as a small amount for the idea, and most for wordsmithing. The real value comes from the implementation, which is on
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by rleisti 17y ago
It would mean that if you port windows to a large endian machine, then you can't share registry files (ie. as in roaming profiles). It's not as much about the file format as it is about the implementation (simply dumping C structures to di
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by rleisti 17y ago
It isn't really the same. Anyone that needs access to something in /etc can get what they're looking for without having the first pierce a difficult binary format. Deciphering what they get back is another issue, but typically it's just a
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by rleisti 17y ago
You could create a library to read the setting, and everyone could just use the library. I like the Unix way better myself, as it's more about building up functionality through composition, rather than setting out to create grand unified ar
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by rleisti 17y ago
'Fair' is tied to a moral context, as in "morally pure, unblemished" (from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair ). So an argument about what's 'fair' is an argument about what is morally "pure" (or good). Then that depends on yo
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by rleisti 17y ago
In a more general sense, increased productivity means more value is created per unit cost. This could mean the same value with less jobs; it could also mean the same amount of jobs with more value. A growing pool of displaced labour is als
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by rleisti 17y ago
Furthermore, I do it myself to prevent complications down the road. I've found that it's all to easy for one piece of misinformation slipped into a conversation to snowball into something much bigger, and based on a false premise.
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by rleisti 17y ago
While reading this article, I felt there was as strong connection to this one (recently posted on hacker news): http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?... ...which basically says that entitled people in positions of p
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by rleisti 17y ago
You can hope that they encrypt your password; but never trust that they do. Use your own password database.
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by rleisti 17y ago
Are you saying Turing didn't invent the hourglass notation? j/k
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by rleisti 17y ago
It seems to me that a central part of this argument is having "...suddenly had to allocate a bunch of resources to customer support and bug fixes...". Building the smallest possible marketable product doesn't mean building a low quality pro
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by rleisti 17y ago
Doh! It would have made more sense if I had some other piece of information to inject in, like if you had a database reference that needed to be passed in to the Delete() method. Then: AddButton("Delete " + obj.ToString(), () => obj
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by rleisti 17y ago
You could try an example showing what a closure does 'under the hood' by showing an equivalent non-closure example, like: With Closure: foreach (var obj in objects) { AddButton("Delete " + obj.ToString(), () => obj.Delete());
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by rleisti 17y ago
Agreed. But the amount of value you get out of the product vs network is subjective to the user and to the product. It depends on how independent you are as a product user, and how easy the product itself is to use. Take Microsoft Windows
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by rleisti 17y ago
The network affect of a bug tracker is that having a larger user-base means: (a) more people have run into the same problems as you, and have either posted their own solutions or pressured the company into fixing them (b) more people may h
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by rleisti 17y ago
Ruby does have libraries for dealing with real numbers with an arbitrary precision.
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by rleisti 17y ago
Maybe some sort of namespacing on tags would fix that; ie. so that your 'conf' tag for a software project doesn't conflict with the system 'conf' tag, which may have a different set of permissions.
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by rleisti 17y ago
CouchDB is ACID compliant
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by rleisti 17y ago
I've seen some people suggest hitting the ctrl key with the 'side' of your hand instead of your pinky. I've found that using the bone directly below your pinky (towards your palm) also works (at least in my case), and is fairly comfortable
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by rleisti 17y ago
What I'd really like, is a way to express xml in xml, so I can be super-productive all day long recursively writing a single xml document.
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by rleisti 17y ago
http://www22.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+best+in+life%... What is best in life?