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by snorkel 16y ago
Sit on it and say "we're reviewing it" and in the meantime keep the other party interested and excited, then tell them after reviewing it that you've been advised that it needs to be reduced.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Tyranny of the cloud. Never trust it.
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by snorkel 16y ago
The backward subject-verb semantics in the OO examples are typical anti-OOP straw men. It doesn't have to be Room.look() and Object.examine(), when it could simply be Player.look(Room), Player.examine(Object), Player.put(Meat, Basket), etc.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Even if the Linux kernel were rewritten in Erlang and it won't change the fact the vast majority of *NIX systems level code is entrenched in C. The most popular LAMP stack ingredients are also written in C. Face it; it's a good language.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Is it no longer fashionable to put comments in source code, or is that like asking Jackson Pollock to explain each blob of paint?
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by snorkel 16y ago
It's a fair question. Emacs is one of few editors left that makes it possible to work on multiple files at once without taking your hands off the keyboard. No fumbling with the mouse. Watch someone who has mastered Emacs edit some code and
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by snorkel 17y ago
When it's called a Singleton.
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by snorkel 17y ago
Have no fear. If you click "View web search results" you get back to the same classic cuil you know and love.
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by snorkel 17y ago
I have a patch if [ -z $MOUNTPOINT ]; then echo "MOUNTPOINT not defined. Not deleting your file system."; exit(1); fi This patch will be included in Zippy Zebra due out in 2018
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by snorkel 17y ago
Quibbling over the delayed launch of Digg V4. Ahhh, the perils of waterfall release cycles.
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by snorkel 17y ago
Didn't go far enough. They should've changed the branding on all inside pages too.
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by snorkel 17y ago
This is just throwing red raw meat to the tin foil hat crowd.
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by snorkel 17y ago
Personalized News Aggregation/Filtering: Having personally witnessed a few flame outs in this category I can honestly say though this area has lots of ideas and interest you will find very people willing to actually pay for personalizing it
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by snorkel 17y ago
(in caveman speak) MP: Grrrr. Spec is too big! Burn spec with fire make it smaller! TBL: Arrrr. Spec is too big. Break spec into pieces with club!! W3C: Uuugghhhh!!! Spec is good!
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by snorkel 17y ago
Perhaps this pretty graphic is true for at most 15% of the 30000 people laid off from Bear Stearns and Lehman but it's certainly not true for the all 30000 people who were working at those banks because the headcount at the remaining banks
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by snorkel 17y ago
I don't see any mention of Buzz in any of my Gmail accounts settings pages. Please tell me I would've had to consciously enable Buzz in order to have the option to turn it off. Please tell me Google is not automatically making my Google acc
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by snorkel 17y ago
I don't like it. I should have a choice whether to use quotes or not, and let me suffer the consequences. I don't like API's forcing "best practices" on me. The quotes add crappy visual noise and extra bytes.
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by snorkel 17y ago
The value 1.618... is not as interesting as its recursive fraction form which happens to be = 1 + (1 + 1/ ( 1 + 1/ ( 1 + 1/ ... an infinite recursion based on the number 1 is somewhat interesting and could be insightful.
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by snorkel 17y ago
IPC semaphore ops using the semop() function are also supposed to be atomic at the kernel level.
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by snorkel 17y ago
I have yet to meet anyone from the middle east region who is not an engineer.
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by snorkel 17y ago
"NASA had put the chances that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 as 1-in-45,000. In October, after researchers recalculated the asteroid's path, the agency changed its estimate to 1-in-250,000." So this could end up being history's most notab
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by snorkel 17y ago
All my methods take 1 argument: the entire state of the universe and everything in it.
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by snorkel 17y ago
I never expected employers to provide snacks and beverages but it is demoralizing when executives take away such perks but continue to fly first-class for the same cost as buying a month of snacks for everyone.
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by snorkel 17y ago
It's 2009 and there are still app frameworks not using parameterized statements?
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by snorkel 17y ago
"Suppose there is a locked room with 3 light bulbs..." I hate brain teasers. I'd much rather answer the old standards than try to determine which direction Jane and Johnny should run through the tunnel to avoid being hit by the train when
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by snorkel 17y ago
Clever use of ## in preprocessor directives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_preprocessor
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by snorkel 17y ago
Bookmarked. Keep writing.
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by snorkel 17y ago
Just a quick critique on roorky.com, you should make it more obvious how many books are available there. As far as I can tell there's only two books mentioned on your site, which are the 2 free samples linked to from the front page. Are the
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by snorkel 17y ago
It's not free play algorithms that doomed pinball so much as the fact that video game arcades were doomed by improved home gaming systems, and pinball machines are expensive to design, manufacture, and maintain, and pinball operators charge
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by snorkel 17y ago
Reminds me of this classic cautionary tale of poor PRNG seeding, How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker, http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...

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