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by samspot 13y ago
Sure, but in most programming classes they want the source so they can compare to others to see who cheated. It's unusual to be graded on the binary.
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by samspot 13y ago
The main value I get from stack overflow is easy to find answers to easy questions. I find it easier to find documentation of how to do X on stack overflow than I do in the manuals for most of the tools I use. Here is the workflow: 1. Goog
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by samspot 13y ago
There is an annoying trend in software where the devs want 1.0.0 to be the final version. Look at c3p0.
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by samspot 13y ago
I have to say that I find the gmail experience vastly superior to thunderbird with my work email. There is something to be said for having a server do all the work instead of my desktop. Thunderbird is currently my #4 memory hog, behind ja
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by samspot 13y ago
I don't think a hobby is comparable. They do the raiding thing because it is fun. They have only a social obligation to stay, and they can quit anytime that it doesn't fit into their life anymore.
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by samspot 13y ago
It's because so many of us have seen joins go bad, either due to poor code or other factors. I regularly hear people talk of never doing joins again. Not that I agree with this attitude, but it is certainly out there.
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by samspot 13y ago
I have respect for people who are doing waterfall and admit to it. In my personal sphere I see far too many people talking agile all day while actually running waterfall projects. It seems like people think agile means "waterfall, bu
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by samspot 13y ago
I am often consuming API's that I have no control over, and this is great for that use case.
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by samspot 13y ago
According to the article, the point is to ease the author's repetitive strain injury and tendonitis.
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by samspot 13y ago
I imagine it wouldn't work very well at all in your pocket. How do you get your face in there anyway?
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by samspot 13y ago
Are we ever allowed to change our mind about something without being called a hypocrite? I don't think changing as you age is hypocrisy.
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by samspot 13y ago
They wouldn't be able to tell which babies were premies because of the cocaine, and which were because of other factors. A study of only premies would be interesting, but might yield the same result as this study.
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by samspot 13y ago
My vote for the key quote (from the bottom of the article): "Dr. Friedman-Kien said he had tested nine of the victims and found severe defects in their immunological systems. The patients had serious malfunctions of two types of cells
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by samspot 13y ago
It is really scary to think that you could have drowned in swimming class. I will definitely be attentive of my own children when they are learning. Glad you survived!
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by samspot 13y ago
I don't think you really learned to swim at 6 months. At that age you are learning to be comfortable with the water, but you have a ways to go before you can actually swim. Your parents probably told you that you were able to swim be
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by samspot 13y ago
My pet peeve is when people are bleeding to death onscreen as their friends just watch. What a great opportunity to give just a bit of lifesaving information by showing them apply pressure to stop the bleeding.
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by samspot 13y ago
I almost never use my facebook account, so I'm interested to see what the site thinks my "interests" are. Probably toilet paper and towels since my wife uses my account for couponing.
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by samspot 13y ago
It looks amazing, but I haven't been able to get it to work since 0.2. alert('foo'); Produces 'SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier'. I'm looking forward to the kinks being ironed out.
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by samspot 13y ago
Are you a politician? :) (On a serious note, great exploration of the topic)
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by samspot 14y ago
I'm sure they did, since those games were humongous hits and the developers are still famous for them.
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by samspot 14y ago
As far as I'm concerned "AAA" refers only to the development budget.
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by samspot 14y ago
> devised by people that want to enforce a repressive sexual morality on society. It absolutely is their intention to make any sexually oriented activity by anyone under 18 illegal. A little off topic, but I just have to ask, at what a
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by samspot 14y ago
To me the purpose of ThingManager is perfectly clear--to manage miscellaneous or common functionality that doesn't belong in Thing. In our apps we call it ThingService, and I'm sure other groups have a different convention. For example, we'
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by samspot 14y ago
I don't think it is a misunderstanding. For example, the overall rate of heart attacks could be something like 10%, but that doesn't mean that I personally have a 10% chance of having a heart attack. My actual chance is likely higher or l
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by samspot 14y ago
Perhaps so, but it still seems unscientific. I even left out that an even better test would be if you had identical history in both browsers (which I know would be inconvenient to set up). I honestly do not understand why I am being downv
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by samspot 14y ago
Your comparison would be stronger if you searched for the same string in both.
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by samspot 14y ago
I had this problem early on, but I started doing regular pruning. I only have 2-3 sources that update daily now, and the rest are weekly or monthly. I can consume a day's worth of feeds in about 10 minutes.
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by samspot 14y ago
IMO this doesn't make the cut because they didn't externalize the Strings "Fizz" and "Buzz".
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by samspot 14y ago
RSS was a literal life changer when I first discovered it. Instead of going to the 5-10 websites I frequented to look for new stories throughout the day, I could check my reader when I took a break and stay up to date on everything. It pr
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by samspot 14y ago
Between the massive interest in this topic and the fact that many google reader competitors were crushed by load last night, I'm having a hard time believing use has 'declined' as much as Google is implying.

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