saucetenuto

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by saucetenuto 13y ago
People write comments when they feel that they have useful contributions to make. It is much easier to notice that you have nothing worthwhile to say about a vectorizing compiler than about, say, the NSA. One way to get around this is to g
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Except that the prospective franchise owners, able to see the trap you've just described, wouldn't have opened any franchises without some sort of long-term guarantee, and customers would ultimately have lost out. I'm not en
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Because you'd need lots of upfront capital, you're gambling that the land will still be valuable 2 years later when you've finished and there's probably a local regulation against buildings above a certain height.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
That's a pretty unfair standard; no psychological statement is true of literally all humanity, and only someone very naive would try to generalize that broadly. I don't know the author at all, but I'm willing to give them that much credit.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Yeah, and then you wind up sending mail to "joe@hotmailcom" or "liz@gmailc.om", and your users don't get your messages and are sad. Don't validate the local part, do validate the domain.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
It used to be that almost all PC games were single threaded. Many still are: Civilization 4, Dwarf Fortress, and Morrowind, for example.
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
I'm not the grandparent poster, but one classic problem with STL iterators is that they always have to come in pairs. If you think about it, most STL algorithms don't really work on iterators, they work on ranges that happen to be define
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
I basically agree, but those who made Tabula Rasa shouldn't throw stones.
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
I'd sign that letter. SCS '06
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
I don't want to be That Guy, but this isn't the first time Bitcoin hit $30.
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
So, why not "slut loves his cock"? Why "destroy"?
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
So if you're marketing porn to men, it's better to write "slut gets destroyed by huge cock" than e.g. "man has great sex"? I think you're right, but it's pretty disturbing, hearing it put that way.
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
Think of it as a nerd minstrel show; then those writing and directing choices make a lot more sense. That's what gets people so upset. I have nerd friends who like it, but these same friends rarely notice that they're being made fun of. S
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
Amazon might be able to measure this effect, by taking comparing to their projections over the next day. Imperfect, but...
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
I was thinking of it as a tool for shortening dev cycle time, more than for patching: a more general, cross-platform version of Edit and Continue. My mistake; I shouldn't have started with the MUD example, I was just writing out my thought
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
It'd be incredibly interesting for MUD development, if anyone still did that. No need to kick everybody out for bug fixes, just post a new build. Actually, I could see it for any game with a lot of built-in state that's hard to set up bet
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
Yeah, that jarred me too. The author's dad is a farmer, and her go-to example of a job that requires stamina is...porn star? The fuck?
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
Eh, I needed that shot of wakeup adrenaline anyway.
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
The point isn't (just) that people should get lifesaving treatment even if they can't afford it, it's (also) that people in life-threatening situations can have a hard time proving that they're capable of paying even when they are . For e
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
True, but there are plenty of 1:1 replacements out there, at least if you don't care about the quality of your writing: use -> utilize, do -> implement, and so forth.
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
> “I will need ______ (tool/condition) to complete this task” Yeah, this one is nonsense. I think I see what the author meant, though. Consider this conversation: Engineer: “I will need ______ (tool/condition) to complete this tas
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
You can, but I've been told that integrating Python is a lot more involved than integrating Lua. People who've done it mostly seem to complain about (a) the relative complexity of Python's object model, and (b) how obnoxious it is to maint
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by saucetenuto 14y ago
Meta: there's a delay between when a comment is posted, and when the reply link becomes active. That delay is larger for deeper comment threads. I've never heard an official explanation, but one can imagine a few reasonable ones, e.g. to
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by saucetenuto 15y ago
Does Paul Allen actually whine, or is it just that other people whine on his behalf? All the quotes I've read from him have been classy, or at least reserved.
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by saucetenuto 15y ago
Woah. Is there any available material on how they're doing that/how it's working out?
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by saucetenuto 15y ago
Is that the default? If not, why not?
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by saucetenuto 15y ago
I've only used OpenTable twice, but it seems to be the start of what you're describing. It bills itself as a way to easily make restaurant reservations from your computer or mobile phone...but after you've been, they invite you to review t
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by saucetenuto 15y ago
This is the part I don't follow - who benefits from this? Yellow Cab? How? It seems like "easier communication between service seekers and service providers" would be a win for everybody.
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by saucetenuto 15y ago
> With the story so oddly slanted it makes me wonder who bought this placement. I had the same thought, and guessed I.P.G (or their allies in the publishing industry). This is not a great feat of analysis, though: there are two parties
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by saucetenuto 15y ago
Yeah, pretty much. One of the essential principles of Western democracy is that everyone should be equal under the law, that what is a crime for a peasant should also be a crime for a noble. If you can use money to purchase better legal o

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