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by shasta 15y ago
Were you going for irony?
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by shasta 15y ago
What did the email say? Something like: Thank you for faxing us. Your fax is important to us. We are experiencing heavier than normal fax volume, and your fax will be answered in the order it was received.
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by shasta 15y ago
Here's the argument that shows that the educators are doing something wrong. I'll break it down into numbered points: 1. If you spend three weeks on only the topic of assignment, any idiot (who has been admitted to university) can master th
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by shasta 15y ago
This is exactly right, and why people like languages that support DSL building. You do want to let programmers encode their concerns in a natural way as outlined in the article. But then assuming that the implementation of these all of the
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by shasta 15y ago
Your "results oriented" is what everyone else means by "declarative". It is true that functional and logic programming are not fully declarative because you end up having to worry about the way your declarations will be evaluated, but the s
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by shasta 15y ago
It's just a humorous way of saying they were stuck in the past (probably because they didn't integrate other language advances into basic).
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by shasta 15y ago
Yes, it's very reasonable. The main problem with the decision is just that it magnifies the other inequities of legal system.
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by shasta 15y ago
...unless Chris Norstrom is your real name and they know how to use a search engine to find this post.
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by shasta 15y ago
Accidental down vote. Sorry.
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by shasta 15y ago
"Use software that will work great in two years" is the reason we're looking at using Trello.
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by shasta 15y ago
Seems reasonable, but can adults stop boasting that they're behaving like adults? Unless 37 signals is being run by children, in which case: good job kids.
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by shasta 15y ago
And the main point Alexis did make was that companies should compete with the pirates on quality of service. So now the only real piece on SOPA in the MSM has the anti- camp associated with some Hippy sounding bullshit... which the clearly
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by shasta 15y ago
I assume xyzzyz was referring to the undecidability of the halting problem, not just user input. Comparisons to the halting problem are often made inappropriately, as would be the case here, since the compiler doesn't need to answer whethe
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by shasta 15y ago
Do you think stopping piracy of foreign IP is a big concern for the Chinese government? I don't think it's fair to say that this proves that censorship doesn't stop piracy, when that probably isn't a goal (my guess is the Chinese governmen
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by shasta 15y ago
Zelda took place in Hyrule, a land which I would years later learn is topologically a torus.
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by shasta 15y ago
Though if you're appreciated (I won't say good), you can get a big raise when you announce you're leaving.
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by shasta 15y ago
Sorry, but that's a reasonable question for assessing a particular type of skill. That you seem to think they're looking for you to remember some particular parallel sorting algorithm from college tells me that this probably isn't your stro
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by shasta 15y ago
Eh? The movie was about lab rats that became intelligent, wasn't it?
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by shasta 15y ago
Am I the only one who gets tired of the first sentence of so many replies being along the lines of "I understand where you're coming from and I respect you as a person, but..."? Be respectful, but if you disagree, just disagree. Don't patr
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by shasta 15y ago
Next week: counterfeit kitten claims lead to international PR disaster for Paypal.
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by shasta 15y ago
Most people don't play games, but I do. If even 200ms was common, it would be widely known among gamers that certain TVs are unsuitable for games. If you can't provide a citation, can you at least explain why you hold this belief? I'm o
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by shasta 15y ago
Citation? sites.google.com/site/hdtvlag/results shows some tests that show it's usually under 100ms for a wide range of TVs. That's bad but more believable. 400ms of latency is not believable. Such a TV would be unsuitable for real time
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by shasta 15y ago
The way you're describing the feeling puts it into the 10-40ms range. In the 100-400ms range you'd immediately and consciously wonder WTF was wrong with the game.
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by shasta 15y ago
Uh, four tenths of a second to change the camera angle would make every 3d game completely and totally unplayable. Even one tenth would have everyone up in arms about how terrible every game is. Maybe you meant 10 and 40ms.
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by shasta 15y ago
This is like a really nice, hand carved slide rule.
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by shasta 15y ago
Steeply increasing the cost of water bottles or scarce items during a flood or hurricane lessens stockpiling more effectively than rationing. Furthermore, prohibiting "gouging" eliminates the incentive for shops to keep an oversupply of wat
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by shasta 15y ago
Really? That's the best analogy you could come up with? It's more like a newspaper printing advertisements that there will be stolen radios for sale or prostitutes behind the Walmart on Saturday.
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by shasta 15y ago
You know that bacteria is "life", right? Does the government need to protect them? Obviously you intend "human life", but equally obviously that doesn't just mean living human cells (scratching -- killing skin cells -- isn't murder). The
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by shasta 15y ago
No, the nuclear option would be if the group created a device that produced a cascading fission reaction, destroying Washington. I think it's unlikely at this point, but SOPA is an existential threat.
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by shasta 15y ago
You forgot to discount future benefits. Interest is exponential, meaning bounded gains that last forever have finite present day value.

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