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by vadman 13y ago
Side note: what's with the over-the-top political correctness epidemic on HN? Every time somebody talks about a random programmer it's "her" or "herself". I am all for gender equality and more women in tech,
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by vadman 13y ago
Human beings are not perfectly rational automatons. Sometimes they want brand new stuff. I have a friend who is 15 years older than me and very financially savvy. He grew up in India in a poor family and his father spent all his free time
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by vadman 13y ago
Unfortunately yes. But there is lots of good stuff outside the Diageo umbrella :)
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by vadman 13y ago
Scotland has 100 distilleries in 5 major whiskey-producing regions with their own traditions. There is really no such thing as "scotch", they are all different, so this generalization is wrong.
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by vadman 13y ago
But the good thing about it, unlike its superior rival George Dickel, is that JD is not owned by Diageo. It's a pity that I have to boycott Dickel because of that, but I'm not giving my money to those assholes. EDIT: and yeah, ra
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by vadman 13y ago
+1 Felten's book ( http://www.amazon.com/Hows-Your-Drink-Cocktails-Drinking/dp/... ) has a good overview of all the classic cocktails, and in general is an interesting read. I have yet to try the Sazerac, ha
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by vadman 13y ago
Must be the same in every profession. How many of e.g. your school teachers were good? About 10%. I am wondering if the ratio holds for crap to good parents. The scarier aspect of this is that people are actually being trained for their pr
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by vadman 13y ago
Not really. Take the Staten Island express bus for example. Between SI and Manhattan, there is about 35 min on the Verrazano Bridge and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, without any opportunity to get off (BQE does not even have shoulders for
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by vadman 13y ago
T-Mobile prepaid plans are great in that regard. I only pay the New York sales tax on top of the quoted price (8.875% or something). My parents were on AT&T and they were paying close to $15 in mysterious fees + taxes per line, for dum
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by vadman 13y ago
Simple != easy, as per this great talk by Rich Hickey: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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by vadman 13y ago
Sources? I'm really interested to learn who has been killed for speaking Ukrainian.
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by vadman 13y ago
I think you are oversimplifying things. People comprising the government are not "just" people. They may have personality traits that compel them to seek out high-power positions. They may suppress their natural good intentions be
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by vadman 13y ago
Off-topic, but it's the first time I see somebody use "tannoy" in place of "PA" - really identifies you as a Brit :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannoy
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by vadman 13y ago
The rest of the world is the other 2 countries that matter (and shit like that doesn't happen to them), a multitude of countries that don't matter (the USA doesn't give a fuck what their impression is) and a handful of "
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by vadman 13y ago
Not sure why everybody is downvoting you, especially sicne you don't claim to be happy about the facts, just stating them. Bolivia is, well, unimportant, and their complaints to the US will amount to nothing. There are exactly 2 count
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by vadman 13y ago
The quote is nice but it's a great justification for illegal/unconstitutional actions. Those in power can do a lot of harm while abusing this idea.
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by vadman 13y ago
60 fps, but the current drivers for both AMD and Nvidia (still in development) make you connect 2 cables and essentially treat it like 2 1920x2160 displays from what I read.
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by vadman 13y ago
They are using Sharp's 4K IGZO panel. The MSRP for Sharp's own monitor is $5500, the street price is closer to $4800. ASUS will be in the same ballpark most likely. If you can just order 3 of them to put side by side in portrait mode, I
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by vadman 13y ago
A scary percentage of "naturally polite americans" feel entitled to to whatever they want with complete disregard for others' convenience, as long as they politely say "Excuse me".
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by vadman 13y ago
Surely you mean (++ A)?
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by vadman 13y ago
Actually I didn't justify anything, just asked a question. Your explanation makes sense, thanks.
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by vadman 13y ago
I don't know much about Bayesian statistics, but wouldn't it be "terrorist, given Arabic descent AND participation in the targeted event AND proximity to the explosion AND high probability of a follow up explosion (judging from past events)
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by vadman 13y ago
I remember reading some article about Japanese gamedev years ago that said the same thing. No OO, no standards, lots of repetition, &c.
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by vadman 14y ago
So it's a bug after all :/ hope the author fixes it, such a neat idea otherwise.
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by vadman 14y ago
No, that's circumference - 3.14 * 12742 is approx. 40K. You are looking at the Earth side-on, so you only see the 2D projection of the half-equator. (EDIT: I think it should be "1D projection") Another nitpick - presumably our view axis is
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by vadman 14y ago
Not sure if it's a bug or a typo, but the "width" (diameter) of the Earth is 12,742 km, not 6,371 (which is the radius).
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by vadman 14y ago
I use a soft-ish guideline of 100 columns per line, but I mostly code in C# at work, so normally namespace/class/try-catch is already 3 indentations, and 80 chars is simply not enough for everything. I do my best to keep it between 80 and 1
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by vadman 14y ago
Well women spend their time and health bearing and nursing our (hopefully :) children. That's resources they could have dedicated to pumping their social status. So in the end it's fair I guess...
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by vadman 14y ago
The main thing I took away was in this passage: "you prove to me I'm worth it. ...make me know how valuable I am. Because I don't have any idea..." But then, I don't see how she'll be satisfied with any ring. Surely if a guy could sacrifi
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by vadman 14y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. There is an interesting couple of articles on the subject here: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/01/what_would_you_do_if_... http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/02/what_would_you_do_if_...

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