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by usea 5y ago
I bought ff6 when it was released for the snes and I've played through it many dozens of times over the years. My last two playthroughs were with the Brave New World mod, and it's truly fantastic. It's become my favorite way
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by usea 5y ago
Painting any criticism of deno as simply the work of haters is much more a tactic of stopping thought. Whether or not ideas and discussion are negative or positive is not relevant at all. When they're presented in some detail and in go
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by usea 5y ago
They take samples, randomly sequence some, and use those to estimate the proportion of different variants. Apparently 100% of them were omicron in the week of 12/26/2021
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by usea 5y ago
Wealthy people usually still want more money, even past what non-wealthy people would consider enough.
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by usea 5y ago
* Maybe there are some people desperate to eat and so will think a job is essential Maybe? I feel like this describes virtually every living human being. Only the most fortunate of the most fortunate have the luxury of not struggling for su
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by usea 5y ago
An activity being in their interests is not a good enough reason to be allowed to do it. Is there anything you would prohibit them from doing, even though it might benefit them?
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by usea 6y ago
I worked on software that interfaced with industrial control systems on some large machinery that could definitely kill people (and sometimes did, anyway). We absolutely flew out to every location to make changes, around the world. Yes, it
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by usea 7y ago
- if your code isn't important enough to be tested, it's not important to be written Does this rule cover all code? Do your tests, which are code themselves, not need their own tests? If not, what is special about a test that yo
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by usea 8y ago
It's my understanding (from hearsay) that they use software to look at signatures, and use that data as a fraud signal, among other data.
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by usea 8y ago
Here [0] is a list of currently live streams who have categorized their stream as programming. At time of writing, there's about 50 live streams. [0]: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming
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by usea 8y ago
I've written that logging code, and over the years I've used both the StringBuilder and Aggregate styles. I've discovered that string.Join(", ", list) is a great fit for this, too. It's as quick as using String
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by usea 8y ago
Any new experience is interesting. People will often feel compelled to get a glimpse at an event they haven't seen before, or that is rare. New stimuli is sought-after. People also derive their perception of safety from past experience
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by usea 9y ago
C# does have a feature called Code Contracts [0][1]. I haven't used them, and in my experience they aren't super popular. They look like mostly convenience for specifying when to throw, rather than as an alternative to throwing. T
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by usea 9y ago
You can actually drag a file from one window to the other without having both showing (such as between two maximized windows). While dragging a file, you can still manipulate windows around using the keyboard, like with alt-tab. For example
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by usea 9y ago
This kind of explanation would be really useful on the website. Right now it has nothing to describe what it is/does.
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by usea 9y ago
Louisiana. http://www.uno.edu/housing/residency-requirement.aspx Other schools in system have a similar policy.
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by usea 10y ago
Agreed. My last two jobs had no line length limit on commit messages (or code) and it was great. But culturally, C# developers don't live in an 80-column terminal window, either.
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by usea 10y ago
I'm not parent, but experiencing the same problem. Yes, it's also very thin at the google font site, on 18 px Thin. Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bUe7gNs.png The arrow points to the "Thin" lin
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by usea 10y ago
My university has several required CS classes where students must use some VCS (an SVN server is provided), as part of their grade. They're nominally software engineering classes, but really they're about finishing a project in a
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by usea 10y ago
I live in Louisiana, southern US. I generally leave the thermostat set to ~23°C, so the AC comes on periodically to try and maintain that temperature indoors. During the warmer months, that's a significant portion of every day. During
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by usea 10y ago
Ideally you would avoid this situation, but if you find yourself here: a good mitigation strategy is feature flags. If it's been agreed to build feature Y for one customer, then enable that feature for only that one customer. It's
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by usea 10y ago
> How often did you test that? Not parent, but here is a single data point. When I was a student, I worked for some sysadmins who managed a small, internal data center. ~200 IBM servers, a SAN, an old VAX, etc. It had a backup gas genera
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by usea 10y ago
It's a feature, which Blizzard has invested a significant amount of time and money into, and has definitely contributed to the game's success. It allows players to modify the game's interface, not just arbitrary game code. Th
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by usea 10y ago
The mockery/bullying that happens around technology decisions in the field is regrettable. It's really unfortunate that this kind of behavior turned you off of programming or any curious pursuit. That's not cool. Definitely d
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by usea 11y ago
At my previous job, mobile projects were all done in xamarin (after like 2013/14 or so) and the developers who did those projects raved about it, often. If I were going to make a mobile app right now, I would definitely use it. However
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by usea 11y ago
Sometimes you have to satisfy the compiler because it has less information about a situation than you do. Ideally this would be captured in the type system, but limitations (language, project, politics, time, etc) may prevent this. As anoth
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by usea 11y ago
I read a (software) patent for a job I was working a few weeks ago. I stumbled on the patent when doing a broad google search on the topic. I had to read it carefully because of the way it was worded, but I will admit that I came away from
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by usea 11y ago
Many schools require taking said "total package" for the first semester or first year. I know at my university, all incoming freshmen were required to live on campus and purchase a meal plan. For anyone who lives nearby or planned
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by usea 11y ago
HN has a direct link to this feature now. There's a link under the story labeled "past." Although it goes to the official search instead of your link. Cheers.
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by usea 11y ago
This would be a significantly regressive tax, like sales tax. Why is this the best plan exactly? Why have lower taxes on commercial traffic and trucks, which cause a relatively larger amount of road maintenance?

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