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Ask HN: When to sign an NDA?
9 points by wcarss 16y ago|9 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
("letters in this sentence".split(//) & "and this one".split(//)).sort.reverse.join I'm just learning, but I think this performs it correctly with sets.
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by wcarss 16y ago
I clearly stated in my bug post that I have javascript enabled.
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by wcarss 16y ago
For whatever reason, search now works. This has been a confounding and annoying experience, but whatever was wrong is not now.
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by wcarss 16y ago
Actually, that was not the correct reply - but it was a swift reply! I ended up using 'bug' and 'search' as tags. I've cooled down considerably now - but as a user, that was a terrible set of experiences that left me very frustrated. Even a
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by wcarss 16y ago
I am a pissed off new user to Area 51. I had an idea for a stackexchange site a while ago - but did not take the time to go and make it. Upon seeing this, I thought "hooray, now I can see if it holds any merit!" So I went to the site. First
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by wcarss 16y ago
While reading, I hit upon this sentence: "Dad’s example made me feel that, if I wanted to write for a living, I had an obligation to try and do it, and I’ve been writing full-time since 1996, when my first novel did well enough to let me qu
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by wcarss 16y ago
It could be argued that the browser itself is ripe to undergo a rather radical change over the next few years. Google's strategy here is to fatten the browser so that it becomes the Operating System, and then offer web-aware apps through th
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by wcarss 16y ago
My friends and I began working on building a service which provides this functionality not long ago -- we planned to offer an application service available through the web browser, but after Google announced the Chrome Web Store, we may piv
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Corporations are Re-enacting the histories of Nations(wcarss.blogspot.com)
1 points by wcarss 16y ago|0 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
There, I upvoted; don't haunt me!
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by wcarss 17y ago
The guy who originally devised the algorithm is a professor at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. He's a pretty interesting professor - escaped from being drafted into the Polish army during World War II, wrote some of TCP at Sta
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by wcarss 17y ago
It sounds like you have some misconceptions about Baumol's Cost Disease. I'm absolutely not intimately familiar with it, but the principle is clearly: 1) Effectiveness increases in one industry. 2) Wages increase accordingly in that industr
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by wcarss 17y ago
It does seem more like C is Algol with some features cut out.
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by wcarss 17y ago
http://users.socis.ca/~wcarss/ph.pdf a bit more usable (article in pdf format)
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by wcarss 17y ago
I attend a university which does not hold a ".edu" domain.
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by wcarss 17y ago
I'll join. @a-priori: The point isn't to help champion vague and undifferentiable ideals. It's to help the Pirate Party define those ideals and bring the issues to non-technical and uninterested Canadians so that they understand and care. W
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by wcarss 17y ago
I agree with your overarching point here, that a broken machine or account shouldn't need to have the customer call or email a support line to get it fixed, and that customer support tends to suck -- especially any sort of support we would
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by wcarss 17y ago
I don't really have an opinion to state on the actual discussion at hand, but I figured I'd toss in an old link which contains what some of "those" might be: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-March/0... Javier Kragen Si
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by wcarss 17y ago
The response to this situation is the thing I take most offense with. Google has too long operated on this notion - one we were exposed to in Fight Club, and horrified by - that reaction is an equation of cost. If they're nobody, fuck them.
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by wcarss 17y ago
In this particular case though, where you have operations depending on evenness/oddness of some attribute related to position in a set (either position by index, or count) and the index starts with 0, there is absolutely confusion to be had
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by wcarss 17y ago
I can't find that "August 19th shall be known as _why Fawkes day" bit - where'd you see that?
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by wcarss 17y ago
I think that any programmer worth their weight must disagree with the larger message you're giving here. C does _not_ suck at networking, concurrency, security, or readability. Most code you write in a 'modern language' like Java, Python, o