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by thenonsequitur 13y ago
The fact that Neil Armstrong's heart rate went up to 150 confirms that.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
"However, the act of writing tests first has a powerful benefit: the code you write _must_ be testable. It is hard to understate this benefit. If forces a level of decoupling that most programmers, even very experience programmers, would no
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
You are conflating Ruby with RoR. You start by saying "I think it is necessary hygiene for Ruby." but then go on to say "RoR is very error-prone and a lot of work by comparison" and "So many bits and pieces need to be glued together, from
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Having spent altogether way too much time playing this game (so addictive), I disagree. I've played about a dozen sessions with several rounds each, so I've had the chance to play full rounds as well as entering part way through rounds, and
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
It actually sounds like you got disillusioned and probably heartbroken and are now scared of intimacy but don't realize it because you've activated a defense mechanism and are rationalizing your fear as "having realistic expectations".
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Some of what Putnam reported was flawed, and his book that you cited was interpretative . These "actual mesasurements" that you speak of do not show that in-person social engagement has been in decline -- that is Putnam's interpretation
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Wow. The "Unknown or expired link" is a horrible solution. How bad is it? So bad that even though I've been browsing hacker news for over a year, only just now after reading this did I realize that the "More" link was inaccessible only be
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
While the method itself may not be doing in-band signaling, the vulnerability is certainly very related. What was supposed to be strictly data, params[:username], actually becomes an in-band signal -- and that's the exploit.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Was there any way to enter different shipping and billing addresses? Right now I can't have anything shipped to my billing address, and on that form, I didn't see an option to set different addresses, so I couldn't pay for it. If you do thi
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I made a similar mistake. I saw it, but saw no clear way to post different addresses for shipping and billing. I asked if there was a way on their facebook page, figuring that if I got an answer explaining how, I would pay (was planning on
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
The site was in super-alpha. I think it was intentional.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I completely agree. I call myself a "web developer" because that's the most accurate description of what I do. "web programmer", "software engineer", and "systems engineer" are all too narrow. On top of programming, I also do system ops, ui
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Agreed. Indeed, your argument naturally follows from a "bug fixes are features" type mindset.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Whenever I encounter one of these articles, I just google the title. Easy enough for me.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
If I was looking for someone to do web dev work for me, and I went as far as checking out their portfolio site's HTML/CSS/Javascript, I'd say that not minifying code would reflect badly on them. Certainly forgivable if everything else check
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I think the joke here is actually on CoffeeScript, not Javascript. And really the joke is on CoffeeScript evangelists, not CoffeeScript.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
A little off-topic, but why is your xkcd link using ssl? Really curious, since I didn't think xkcd ever exposed https links, can't see any reason for it, and not sure how you got it. Did you add the "s" manually, for, I dunno, the sake of a
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I would give it up to them for perfect purity if it weren't the fact that they weren't actually being perfectly pure. They gave up 9 bytes to show the score at the end because it was, in their words, "totally worth i
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Ill Doctrine: All These Sexist Gamer Dudes Are Some Shook Ones(vimeo.com)
1 points by thenonsequitur 14y ago|0 comments
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I agree with the point about comments being useful for a really long complicated regex, but any really long complicated regex is a coding problem to begin with. Really, instead of comments (or in addition to comments), the regex should be b
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Case in point: the site we're looking at right now. It's an opinion of course, but I personally find the hacker news design to be dreadfully ugly; yet it's one of the sites I visit and interact with the most frequently. It's simple and very
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Actually, the author is inaccurate, comparing apples to oranges. Consider the opposite subtraction than you proposed: irb(0main):001:0> Object.methods - Object.new.methods => [:allocate, :new, ...] That means doing "Arr
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
If you have a choice in framework, I'd actually recommend not learning Ruby through Rails. I'd learn it through Sinatra. Sinatra is a lightweight web framework (Rails is a heavyweight), and it has a lot less "magic", so it's more plain Ru
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I personally agree that copying answers where the copier knows how to do it is a victimless act. But to take the position of devil's advocate here, one could say that there are actually potential victims. One potential victim is an employer
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Contrast this with ordering something from Amazon with a Prime account -- you can usually place an order, pay, and receive the physical product within 24-48 hours. It's absurd that Adobe can't even do this for a digital product.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
I think the illusion is reinforced by virtue of the square itself being flush with the right-hand edge of the image, but offset from the bottom edge.
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
No need to limit it to self-taught/trade-taught programmers, CS people, and EE people. I once worked with a brilliant programmer who was studying Classics and English Literature and he had an entirely novel approach too, and brought real va
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Given the amount of focus the physics world is putting on string theory right now, and given that hidden dimensions offer us the possibility of a mathematical basis for warp drive, I wouldn't be shocked if a theoretical blueprint for an act
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Fear of releasing a hobby project - how to overcome?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
5 points by thenonsequitur 14y ago|1 comments
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by thenonsequitur 14y ago
Well it doesn't have to be a symbol, just something that would not be likely to start a real tweet. Just as an example let's say "q", followed by a space, followed by the command with the appropriate number of parameters, e.g., "q get usern

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