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by singular 13y ago
So any kind of tone is ok if you disagree with somebody? I mean I disagree with you here, so can I get condescending? I didn't read it because a. I don't have time to read a 20 page report which I have no skill to assess as correc
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by singular 13y ago
It seems like you didn't read my comment... > Please correct me if the report is of equivalent quality. Like I said, I'm no expert, so even if I had time to read the report (I don't) it isn't a scientific
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by singular 13y ago
I'm no expert, but that seems to be a report by a probably biased organisation, rather than a scientific metastudy looking at sufficient sample sizes and eliminating confounding factors. Please correct me if the report is of equivale
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by singular 13y ago
I want to see the detailed metastudies that clearly suggest exposure to internet porn does significant damage to kids. I also want to know why this has to be enforced by the nanny state, rather than provided for by already available softw
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by singular 13y ago
This is ridiculous, outrageous, insane. Terrorism is less likely to happen to you than a great many extremely unlikely events, I can't find a citation right now but I suspect it's less than being struck by lightning, yet the risk
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by singular 13y ago
To me it's somewhat disappointing to see how quickly HN jumps on an article like this. With all due respect to the obviously enormous hard work these people put into getting in to an IIT, and their obvious intelligence, isn't this
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by singular 13y ago
"I am incredibly competent. I make maybe 1 minor mistake a month - if that" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger
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by singular 13y ago
Very good point. The studies that conclude that tasters are no good at differentiating wine seem to presuppose that price is a good indication of quality to begin with, and when an expert picks a cheaper wine over a more expensive one they
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by singular 13y ago
Yeah that kind of approach is typically how you resolve this issue, coffeescript even has a neat wrapper around (function([args...]) { ... })([args...]) of do (args...) -> ... to make this less painful. Interesting how the go syntax make
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by singular 13y ago
After I wrote my reply I played around with some C# and found to my surprise that foreach does in fact provide a new variable to be captured on each iteration, so clearly this is a design decision that varies between languages.
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by singular 13y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted! That's interesting. I can see why, this seems a rather common gotcha.
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by singular 13y ago
This seems to me to be the same class of error as those that aren't so much a go thing as a very comma gotcha for closures; you're placing x in the scope of the for loop and passing it into a series of anonymous functions, so it g
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by singular 13y ago
Interesting, will give that a go when next I notice it happening (it's intermittent for me too which is good + bad... hard to repro :)
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by singular 13y ago
Finally! Somebody who shares my pain! :-)
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by singular 13y ago
I have had an issue both with my previous mac, a second gen air and a first gen pro retina with sustaining a connection (I am immediately next to the wifi router and get wifi drop outs yet my colleague, a distance away using a PC, has no dr
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by singular 13y ago
Public transport is an enormous problem in the UK outside of London - the prices are very high, and the service is often dreadful. In my home town for instance the local operator regularly cancelled buses without notification, ran late all
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by singular 13y ago
I'm not going to deny that our weather is awful :) but there is a lot of good too - a relatively free democracy (aside from all the questionable stuff listed above that let's face it is likely occurring in every western country, t
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by singular 13y ago
"It's a horrible place to live" Though we have many problems, please speak for yourself and stay off general comments about the country. Your other points are valid and interesting but you really ruin them with your
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by singular 13y ago
Ah fair enough, that made me suspicious in particular as that title seemed unrelated to the bug :-) I wonder whether my HDMI -> DVI adapter is making a difference somehow?
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by singular 13y ago
Not experiencing this with a mid-2012 Mac Book Pro Retina hooked up to an external display via an HDMI/DVI adapter. I wonder if this is some strange prank designed to get people to look at a screenshot of https://optin.stopw
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by singular 13y ago
Fine for me in the UK:- $ host algasm.io algasm.io has address 176.58.123.62
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by singular 13y ago
Interesting. It's still useful to have the data in REDIS so you can easily search through data server-side, but of course that could simply load from static JSON if + when REDIS is restarted/new data is added.
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by singular 13y ago
With aggressive disk caching on servers static files are probably near enough in-memory anyhow (+ I'm sure you could configure a modern web server application to cache anyhow), so yeah it's probably pretty fast. However it's more limiting t
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by singular 13y ago
Seems interesting, I've always appreciated the simplicity of a Jekyll-type approach. Apologies for semi-hijacking to mention it but, I take a slightly different approach in my personal blog (custom, messy code) - I rsync markdown documents
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by singular 13y ago
I don't like to waste my life on internet arguments (nicely in alignment with your comments, there), but seriously? I hate to join the 'hacker news is going downhill' parade, but this is pretty bad. Go read http://ycombinator.com/newsguide
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by singular 13y ago
"I can admit to stating a preference for men over six feet, but have dated men not even an inch taller than my 5'6" self." QED. I think it's less of a conscious thing a lot of the time, rather it's an ingredient in sexual attraction + 'chem
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by singular 13y ago
Sure, actually this is far better reply than most here, sorry you got downvoted. You at least accept the premise. I hate to sound like a terrible hypocrite, but I do have to apply filter enough that I'd be able to honestly say I found them
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by singular 13y ago
Yes, this is indeed something I've considered :-) I'd be completely average height in Mexico, say.
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by singular 13y ago
Except there is plenty of evidence that women have a massive preference for tall men. Just go round asking some women, seriously. Or check out dating sites/columns. Height is a biiig thing. How tall are you can I ask compared to your nation
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by singular 13y ago
I had a very beautiful girlfriend during uni + didn't believe this was a problem at all. Then that ended + it became quite obvious. Just because you managed to overcome the disadvantage, doesn't make it not a thing. It's not all about the

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