thedufer

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by thedufer 12y ago
> Some things, like 600% debt to GDP ratio that currently the US has are just facts of life. That's...not true. I don't know where you're getting your information, but the ratio is about 106%. They're both in the ra
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by thedufer 12y ago
> I think part of why it's so good is because it's "just" a modernized IRC In fact, the worst part about slack is the completely unnecessary attachments UI. When I click on an attachment, just open it in a new tab an
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by thedufer 12y ago
That argument makes no sense in this context. The claim put forward is perfectly falsifiable.
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by thedufer 12y ago
> So if you need to check another position around the current one Key word "around". If a coordinate object is immutable, then doing operations on a neighboring one requires another allocation for the new coordinate object. Un
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by thedufer 12y ago
> I'm much more in favor of deprecating WORD as a synonym for byte Its not a synonym for byte. In modern systems, a word is typically 4 or 8 bytes.
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by thedufer 12y ago
Oh, I don't doubt it. Outliers among outliers and all that. I didn't mean to pick you two out as particularly high earners among the top HN users, FTR. You're just the two username/real name pairs I can come up with of
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by thedufer 12y ago
I believe the argument is that most top commenters (which I suspect correlates quite well with high rates) are not pseudonymous, and thus unlikely to respond. See: patio11, tptacek, etc.
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by thedufer 12y ago
I implemented this style of login in the app I'm currently building. I don't think its necessarily appropriate everywhere; the reason I decided to use it is that its the type of service you very rarely log into. For things like
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by thedufer 12y ago
> What does it mean for a particle to be "gradually absorbed"? I assume it means that the number of particles decreases smoothly as altitude decreases, as opposed to largely being absorbed at distinct altitudes (as one might ex
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by thedufer 12y ago
This page appears to be Twitter branded at certain window sizes. Specifically, if the Twitter icon in the header happens to show up more or less centered, it looks just like the header on Twitter (when you're logged in). Maybe use te
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by thedufer 12y ago
400 MB costs less than 2 cents. Is it really worth your time and energy to worry about disk space when you could double the space on your machine for $50?
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by thedufer 12y ago
You may have missed > To get your chance of winning down to a coin toss, or 50 percent If it takes 86 million tickets to get a 50% chance of winning, the odds per ticket must be somewhat worse than 1 in 86 million.
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by thedufer 12y ago
If you use the subway twice a day, 5 times a week, you're only one round-trip per month away from break-even on a monthly unlimited. So unless you really never do anything else, its a pretty sensible option.
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by thedufer 12y ago
Oh yes, it would go over much better to promise a $10 card and then give only $9. That's _definitely_ theft. > if a new card is needed This is the "new card" screen. That question has already been answered if you get her
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by thedufer 12y ago
It disincentivizes buying a single fare (amounts under $5 don't get the bonus). Its a dumb way of doing so, yes, but there is a real purpose. Of course, now that there's the $1 per card fee, it might not be a useful purpose, but
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by thedufer 12y ago
That's a completely different screen. I usually use unlimited, but I'm pretty sure it has the expected 10/20/40 amounts (each with the +5% "bonus").
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by thedufer 12y ago
That's a fairly recent change. The fare thing described in the article drastically predates it.
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by thedufer 12y ago
> object (not guaranteed to be ordered) This is true as per the ECMAScript spec, but realistically you can count on it (unless your keys are stringified numbers). On the server side of things, this is explicitly depended on in a number
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by thedufer 12y ago
The startup that is working on the app you want, covering every city with any public transportation, is going to release sometime in 2036. Coming soon!
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by thedufer 12y ago
"Undefined behavior" affects the entire output of the compilation - it allows the compiler to change anything, anywhere (dropping overflow checks on the assumption that overflow can't happen is perfectly legal, for example).
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by thedufer 12y ago
That's actually the reason there's no cleaning fee; its more or less the same amount of work per day, regardless of turnover. If it only gets cleaned once at the end of each stay (typical of AirBnB), then it costs more per day fo
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by thedufer 12y ago
The £2 fare, £45 processing fee example was a RyanAir tactic (although the internet seems to remember it as £1/£65, based on a quick google search).
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by thedufer 12y ago
What browser are you using? As far as I can tell, all modern browsers know how to get the name of a function defined like `var foo = function(){}` for stack traces.
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by thedufer 12y ago
The 10,000 hour rule is often taken out of context. In Outliers, it is made clear that Gladwell means 10,000 hours of focused practice with the intent to improve. A small percentage of day-to-day programming fits that criteria (unless you
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by thedufer 12y ago
I used 50% because it is easy to work with, and it shows that 50% isn't a magical breakeven point - which would have to exist if you agree that the expected return is a continuous function and you believe there is a point where your ex
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by thedufer 12y ago
If you exactly double the pot right before a drawing, you'll have a 50% of losing 50% of the pot (what you put in) and a 50% chance of winning 48% of the pot, with an expected value of, you guessed it, losing 2% of your money each time
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by thedufer 12y ago
How often do you see a new hardcover of a book that's been our for more than a year or so? The surplus hardcovers historically capture is of the people who want early access - for the first month or two after publishing, only hardcove
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by thedufer 12y ago
Your math is a little off. Inverse square law means that every doubling in distance quarters the power, so it'd be .625W at 4 inches (or 1.111W at 3 inches).
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by thedufer 12y ago
>Rather than trying to specify the exact algorithm for everything (which is what the JS spec typically does, for example), they chose to describe the Zend model (or close enough) and say “it has to appear to work like this”. To be fair,
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by thedufer 12y ago
I'm not a whiskey drinker, but they make a damn good gin. Maybe that in addition to the whiskey would make it worthwhile?

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