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by unoti 13y ago
At first I thought this was going to be like "write the manual first" a la Fred Brooks. But it actually made a great point. Yesterday for the first time I read pg's outstanding growth essay http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html which co
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by unoti 13y ago
> git ls-tree HEAD -r |pn 4|xargs touch What's pn? I've never heard of it, I don't have it, and simple searches don't tell me anything about it. It looks like it might be a simple replacement for awk argument parsing, but I'm unsure...
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by unoti 13y ago
He mentions switching to Share Mouse, after struggling with Synergy. I've been using Synergy with Mac, Win, and Linux for years. It just stopped working for me and I've been struggling to make it work. Over the years, it's broken every a
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by unoti 14y ago
I have no doubt that this near-slavery condition will always exist, but that doesn't make it right. Confederates before the US Civil War argued in favor of slavery, and some of the arguments weren't far off from that thinking. http://www.
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by unoti 14y ago
Great idea! Do we get to pollute the local ecology and go totally-hands off to let the businesses exploit the workers, too? Maybe a little child labor here and there? I'm envisioning the 21st century version of The Jungle http://en.wikipe
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by unoti 14y ago
The sensibilities for everything you just said are entirely subjective, and change as you are exposed to them. If you spend all day every day writing SQL, it is different than if you do it a little here and there. The entire codebase of Or
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by unoti 14y ago
A neat trick on writing sql that I learned working with Oracle consultants: SELECT field1 , field2 , field3 , another_field FROM ... By placing the comma at the beginning of the line, instead of at the end, we can v
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by unoti 14y ago
I prefer a cluttered page that the users know how to use, to a clean page they don't realize they can edit. I also wonder what the best practice is here. The shown solution is fine for internal tools, but not very good for a site designed
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by unoti 14y ago
It's ok to use one letter variable names when the letter is mere notation and doesn't really mean much. In this context, it's somewhat analogous to 'self' all over the place in Python, and idiomatic.
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by unoti 14y ago
Deadlines are not artificial. If you screw around long enough, various real world things happen, such as your competition leaving you in the dust, your product becoming irrelevant, customers not caring any more whether the problem is fixed
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by unoti 14y ago
Here's some intelligent behaviors that can be simply modelled as entropy: http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/wiki/Collaborative... That's a very simple model that can be used, in that example, to make a number of ghost agents work
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by unoti 14y ago
Where I come from, we derisively called this "Lasagna code." It's not tangled like spaghetti, but there are many, many layers.
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by unoti 14y ago
Here's the go-to article regarding equal equity splits. Solid reasoning, and extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445447
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by unoti 14y ago
Cool site! Typo on the book The Selfish Hene.
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by unoti 14y ago
> There's no reason you can't make an indie game when you're older and have more responsibilities Something else that people will start to understand more over the next few years as programmers get older: Once you get past a certain ag
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by unoti 14y ago
Seriously, good job. Why is it so hard to be honest with customers once a company grows past a certain point? Does the money corrupt, or am I naive, or both?
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by unoti 14y ago
> This is the same poll that last year judged us as worse than companies responsible for the biggest oil spill in history, the mortgage crisis, and bank bailouts that cost millions of taxpayer dollars. Thing is, customers don't have a l
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by unoti 14y ago
Interesting. Do we have the same situation with gold? Continuous deflation, caused by constant supply combined with increasing demand, causing its value to rise to infinity? How is gold different?
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by unoti 14y ago
Float compared to supply and demand in a free market. Instead of issuing 1-hour coupons, they should have issued an arbitrary currency, say, Shillings. Then buyers can request babysitting paying at 1 shilling per hour, and sellers could sa
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by unoti 14y ago
This kinda goes well beyond that, from what I gather. Here's a thread where someone counted all the cars in his city, and found 90% of them were Nissan Leafs. Someone on the thread is asking how to uninstall the mod, because even when not
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by unoti 14y ago
Just read the link and decide for yourself. I encourage you to give it a shot. Stronglifts 5x5 is very far from deserving of the bravado accusation you make. You start out on this program with a humble empty bar and work your way up. Th
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by unoti 14y ago
Is it just me, or has EA gone completely off the rails? How does this happen? Do all organizations lose their ability to care about their customers at some point along their growth?
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by unoti 14y ago
Soreness is seriously not a problem. That's because you start with (the very humbling) empty bar, and add only 5lbs each workout. Eating is key-- the progression and ease of working out is noticeably easier when eating a lot of protein.
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by unoti 14y ago
If it doesn't hurt when you do body weight squats with zero weight, then you can make it not hurt when you do heavier weights. The trick is to start with body weight squats, or an empty bar, and build slowly. At every step, keeping proper
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by unoti 14y ago
I've been doing strength training (the program is called Stronglifts 5x5[1]) with freeweights for about 9 months now. I just turned 44, and I've never felt better, and I'm stronger now than I have ever been. The program I use describes 3
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by unoti 14y ago
OP has learned the wrong lesson from some bad experiences. When you lose your keys, your wallet, your cellphone: the right lesson to learn is to evaluate how you can change your personal procedures to avoid this loss in the future. I've l
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by unoti 14y ago
This article, and its presence on the front page of HN, helped make it abundantly clear to me that I should probably be working right now instead of wasting my time on Hacker News.
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by unoti 14y ago
>Fact is, the brothers of all the other people who attended that course could have (and might had) said the exact same things to their brother. And most of them would be proven wrong. Exactly. But those people don't talk about it a deca
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by unoti 14y ago
That sounds cool, and a lot like Erlang's iolists, right? The idea being that lists of byte arrays lets you do IO without all the memcpy that might otherwise be required?
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by unoti 14y ago
Isn't it really fair to say that it's designed for both? The way it uses immutable state and something-similar-to-s-expressions to express data make it very straightforward (or even transparent) to distribute work between multiple processe

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