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by scandox 8y ago
Well at least your trolls are paid. A lot of our trolls seem to be volunteers.
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by scandox 8y ago
In Dublin (Ireland) the drivers at Dublin Bus call this polling (or poling...not sure of spelling). The explanation given to me by a former driver is very simple. When a driver is very hungover or in bad form for one reason or another they
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Flood Fill Algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by scandox 8y ago|0 comments
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by scandox 8y ago
> Several of the stock fake Apple apps such as Compass, Stocks, Clock ask for “invasive permissions,” such as reading text messages. It’s unclear if this is a sign that the developers were mediocre or malicious, Evans wrote. > “The mi
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by scandox 8y ago
What seems missing here and in the article is the way in which an Artist’s physical interaction with media affect their ideas - it’s a feedback loop. I think an Artist with huge experience of certain materials and processes can readily outs
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by scandox 8y ago
And I also just realised how link filtering works by typing the first letter to only see some. So that is pretty swift also. Thanks for this.
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by scandox 8y ago
I think maybe this is the problem I would pay $100,000 to solve / improve? https://imgur.com/a/7axkPSW
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by scandox 8y ago
Thanks I will try that out though my Emacs-hands may get confused.
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by scandox 8y ago
I'd certainly contribute to a fund to raise money for a way of making the internet easily browse-able using the keyboard. Then I would not need a pointing or scrolling device at ALL. Which would be heaven.
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by scandox 8y ago
Doesn't select have a maximum of 1024 file descriptors it can handle at any one time? Or some such?
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by scandox 8y ago
> A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix was such a threat to freedom that I felt uncomfortable with legitimizing it in this way. I do
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3 Byte Integers(embeddedgurus.com)
2 points by scandox 8y ago|0 comments
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by scandox 8y ago
Depends on the type of thinker someone is. Everyone thinks best at a particular level. While a certain data structure might be complex, it’s use might be simple. If I show someone a list of lists in C# the semantics of that will be very eas
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by scandox 8y ago
> It's async unlike JS which makes what you learn more transferable to other languages. Isn’t that backwards or I am missing something?
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by scandox 8y ago
> It was as if Alexander Fleming had discovered penicillin but kept the details hidden in order to make more money. It just seemed wrong. Because your right to make money is equivalent to other people's right to remain alive.
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by scandox 8y ago
It's amazing what you get if you just stay on the phone with the reference. People want to talk. They want to say something meaningful. Once the cliches are dispensed with they're forced to say something real and at that point you
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by scandox 8y ago
As per another commenter I used Elixir for 6 months a couple of years ago and very quickly started using pattern matching and guards to provide most of the If-type control flow. It didn't cover every case but it came very naturally in
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by scandox 8y ago
In Dublin we have Mattress Mick.
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by scandox 8y ago
I have no problem with your original, or particularly with your use of "guy". But the dictionary excerpt seemed to clearly show that the usage was incorrect, as it only applies to groups. So my comment is entirely about the person
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by scandox 8y ago
If it's virtue signalling to point out a lack of precision then...well...harrumph...etc
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by scandox 8y ago
> Years of testing and battle hardening? No, it's super green. But hey, if you try it you'll help make it less green! I’m interested: how long does it take for a piece of critical software like this to gain widespread adoption
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by scandox 8y ago
Reader, I married them...?
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by scandox 8y ago
> What About: > python: 3.5.3 > postgres: 9.3 > {'python': '3.5.3', 'postgres': 9.3} Surely that's reasonable?
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by scandox 8y ago
"objective-based" != "objectivity". The objective is to please the customer (for example): do what they want in a timely fashion and send them a bill. There's quite little need for feelings in that. Call them up and
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by scandox 8y ago
What makes you think that talking to customers involves feelings? It can also be completely professional and objective based - the only difference is that you certainly need good skills in showing appropriate affect in a wide range of situa
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by scandox 8y ago
I think this can be a matter of taste and usage. Personally I find this perfectly readable. However, modern style favours short sentences and a minimal use of sub-clauses. For example these two sentences: "What the absence of such mode
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by scandox 8y ago
In Homesick by Lyn Venables the first interstellar crew arrive home and find that people have been lapping them for 30 years. That’s 1952. Probably it was already a trope by then...
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by scandox 8y ago
Napping. I take a 15 minute nap after I've put the kids to bed in the evening. I now feel like I've gained a second day every day. It's magical.
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by scandox 8y ago
I feel like points 1 + 2/3 are in pretty stark contradiction to each other, honestly speaking. Work is a pretty important part of life (if one must work that is). It's clear that you're finding the work culture there dispirit
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by scandox 8y ago
Sounds like you need to focus on yourself. There are many unanswered questions in the situation you've described: 1. Why are you in Japan? Is it a good place for you? 2. Why have you not been able to hold a programming job? 3. Why have

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