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by scelerat 12y ago
Are you going to elaborate, or just leave it as a snarky comment?
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by scelerat 12y ago
Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000) made heavy use of this, too, to distinguish different locales and parts of the story. The Mexico/Benicio Del Toro partions were heavy on gold/orange, burnt, sepia, while the Washington/
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by scelerat 12y ago
A few selections from this list might make up a fraction of a phone screen, not so much a full in-person interview. But it's a good list of things frontend developers should know, nevertheless.
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by scelerat 12y ago
I was trying to follow what happened. It appears that prior to the start of the AMA, various subreddits, such as r/teslamotors, collected questions within their subreddit that they wished Musk to answer, then posted them in the AMA and
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by scelerat 12y ago
Every programmer should read Strunk & White's The Elements of Style . Its emphasis on clarity and concision translates directly to code, both in terms of algorithmic efficiency and human readability, comprehension, maintainability
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by scelerat 12y ago
Sony hasn't capitulated. This is PR gold. Just wait for them to change their minds on down the line. The pent-up demand will drive sales far beyond anything that would have happened had they ignored the "threat."
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by scelerat 12y ago
Ugh, well, Terminal. iTerm 2, rather. I barely have need of Finder on a day-to-day basis. When I do use it, it's sufficient for what I need. No major complaints. I'm a long time Mac user (since 1984) and the paradigms and shortcut
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by scelerat 12y ago
One of the first things I learned about programming was to write the problem down on paper. Diagram it. Don't even start coding until you have a good map of where you're going, at least at couple levels of detail. Most of the prob
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by scelerat 12y ago
This is one thing that has always bothered me about the PEP style guide.
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by scelerat 12y ago
I like to format my code in ways that make it more readable, too. Vertical alignment is one way. I'm familiar with the arguments against it, but it always seems to come down to the limitations of source control tools. My half-fix: make
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by scelerat 12y ago
My first forays into BASIC programming were laboriously copying the text from a choose your own adventure and making a simple online version using IFs an GOSUBs.
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by scelerat 12y ago
The announcement is set in the same typeface that the texts Choose Your Own Adventure series were set: ITC Souvenir. The title texts on the cover were ITC Korinna. These seemed to be a popular choice in the late '70s/early '8
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by scelerat 12y ago
Daly City is south and west of San Francisco. It's served by BART (the regional rail system that spans the SF bay area and runs between SFO, Oakland (and its airport), Richmond, Pittsburg (north east bay), Dublin/Pleasanton, and F
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by scelerat 12y ago
I wish reddit would remember my folds / unfolds per comment thread. Always stinks to read the comments, collapse some of the discussion for readability, click a link and then return to find the entire thread expanded again.
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by scelerat 12y ago
> In the grand scheme of things office locations aren't that big a deal. Location is a make-or-break proposition for a lot of people. If you have employees with lives outside of the company, location will matter quite a bit. From th
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by scelerat 12y ago
Article about one such study in the April 2011 UK Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1374632/Smart...
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by scelerat 12y ago
A 20 minute nap does way more for me than a cup of coffee, but this is a promising approach I'll definitely try.
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by scelerat 12y ago
There are fundamental freedoms the government cannot and should not be able to subvert. Communicating with others, via any means necessary is one of them. I feel I am politically very far away from many guns rights activists, and am wary of
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by scelerat 12y ago
It wasn't really an X, more "stretch marks" to visually indicate the mouse-down event.
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by scelerat 12y ago
Yep anything that engages your language processing: speaking, listening to conversations, singing, etc. interferes with your ability to process what's going on in front of you. Carrying on any sort of conversation, hands-free or no, im
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by scelerat 12y ago
Just adding some anecdata to the chatter about these sites and the experience of buying a home: I began searching for a house in the East Bay about two years ago, culminating in a purchase in June 2013. The first year or so I was using Redf
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by scelerat 12y ago
My first reaction was that the absurdity level is so high, there has to be an ulterior motive for the prosecutor here, to expose how ridiculous it is to prosecute children for normal, healthy (if potentially socially risky) sexual experimen
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by scelerat 12y ago
I've learned to love the modal nature of vim, or rather, the notion that text entry ('insert' mode) is merely one aspect of manipulating text. The combination of movement of commands is very powerful and these days I feel nak
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by scelerat 12y ago
I am not surprised that the NSA is spying on US citizens. I am angry. The "I can't believe people are surprised..." trope is dismissive and condescending.
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by scelerat 12y ago
...because music is the next big thing on the horizon? Does Apple have an answer to Nest? To Tesla? To Comcast? I understand Beats is a powerful brand, with a youthful and enthusiastic customer base, and they've entered the streaming s
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by scelerat 12y ago
Ok, thought exercise. Comcast's owner decides that he doesn't like the KKK or any anti-semitic group. And Comcast starts charging them extra, or throttling their traffic or blocking them outright. Should they be allowed to?
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by scelerat 12y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at... I can at the very least vote for the people who are writing laws and making policy. The people, via democratic government, have (theoretically) some influence on how the network is to be adm
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by scelerat 12y ago
This is not a snark at all: was there any more information in this clip that hasn't already been discussed in FT, NYT, etc. USA Today almost makes it sound like a done deal, but there's nothing substantial here that I can see.
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by scelerat 12y ago
Article's behind a paywall, so I can't read it. But if I were to guess, someone at Apple is talking to someone at Beats about something. The meeting could be anything and someone would still write a story about acquisition talks.
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by scelerat 12y ago
I conceive of science as being a methodology or a process. Can a process be "true"? Depends on what you mean by "true." I say no, and that Tyson's quoted statement is incoherent, also for the reasons in the article.

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