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by wtracy 8y ago
You know, I meant the top tenth percentile, but you have a point. It's easy on the internet to see how many people are performing better than you, and not just how many people are worse than you. I guess I was thinking in terms of be
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by wtracy 8y ago
Really? Because I see these things all the time. Of course, there's usually market forces keeping things that way. In case you need examples: I can't find a good surface subdivision modeler for Android tablets. The desktop clients
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by wtracy 8y ago
I had a little epiphany: Before the internet, and before people lived in large cities, the circle of people we came into contact might be only a couple hundred people. Out of two or three hundred people, it's not hard to be in the top
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by wtracy 8y ago
Even more confusing, the linked website seems to work just fine on my Moto.
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by wtracy 8y ago
I'm curious what happens if you use a phone that's incompatible with the app. Do you get a free pass, or is China going to only allow the use of compatible devices?
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by wtracy 8y ago
Okay, I have a slightly more nuanced rebuttal: You seem to be making a blanket dismissal of all outsider art. Am I understanding you correctly? Why is having a background in the history of art necessary, other to know that you're doing
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by wtracy 8y ago
I stand corrected.
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by wtracy 8y ago
I could just as easily claim that 100% of Cubist art is "fridge art". You need a little better argument than that.
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by wtracy 8y ago
Twenty times the total amount of deuterium currently present in the world's oceans. Basically, you'd have to completely change the chemistry of the oceans on a global scale. Also, AFAIK there is no realistic way to synthesize deut
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by wtracy 8y ago
I don't think you're wrong, but I want to mention another possibility. It might just a CYA move on the part of an individual actor in middle management. The manager doesn't want to risk getting penalized for handing out &quot
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by wtracy 8y ago
Even if the operators themselves don't count as "part of the language", the complex precedence rules around them certainly should.
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by wtracy 8y ago
I have to ask: does the author not have the same problem in other languages? If not, why not? Any major language has dozens of libraries that do almost-but-not-quite what you want. Any language with support for mactos, templates, or generic
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by wtracy 8y ago
Haskell has a ridiculous number of obscure operators. Here's a list of "common surprising" operators in Haskell: https://haskell-lang.org/tutorial/operators
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by wtracy 8y ago
Transitions? All I saw was that scrolling would bring me back to graphs that I'd already seen, which, after a ten second wait, would be abruptly replaced by new graphs. If these long pauses are "transitions", I see nothing to
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by wtracy 8y ago
Some of the diagrams don't fit on the screen on my phone. Since the diagrams are fixed in place and don't scroll, there are parts that I literally can't read.
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by wtracy 8y ago
What if the allotment of cheap electricity for each company was calculated as a function of the number of people employed by the company whose primary residence is within county limits?
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by wtracy 8y ago
You might want to test the market first with 3d printed parts. There's a little cottage industry making 3d printed accessories for Lego.
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by wtracy 8y ago
I could have sworn that Credo supports BYOD, but now I see sources saying that it doesn't. Credo's whole sales pitch is that they're connected to liberal causes, and they donate money to those causes. Of course they're g
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by wtracy 8y ago
Credo Mobile is a MVNO that has made pro-net neutrality statements in the past: http://www.credomobile.com I've never done business with them, so I can't say anything else about them. Another option might be Google Fi.
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by wtracy 9y ago
The article is a from 2005, so the salary information is probably out of date.
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by wtracy 9y ago
That's just the cost of doing business. There are good groups on Meetup, at least in my area, but you do have to sift through a lot of chaff to find the wheat. EDIT: "a lot of time-wasting inquiries wanting you to fix their Window
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by wtracy 9y ago
If you're only doing business with techies, that's probably the best way to do it. When dealing with small business owners, you will meet people who don't have a smartphone handy to fire off an email from. Shoot, you will mee
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by wtracy 9y ago
The problems with Upwork and Freelancer, while significant, are regularly blown out of proportion. I don't recommend them for more than finding short gigs when you're in a pinch, but they are useful for that. Do be prepared to los
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by wtracy 9y ago
It happens pretty quickly once you start producing database queries by manually concatenating strings, or manually parsing database response strings.
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by wtracy 9y ago
It won't even load at all on the Ice Cream Sandwich system browser.
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by wtracy 9y ago
Not only does being around objective machines all day long not make us more objective, I think it has the opposite effect. Specifically, programmers like to perceive themselves as being objective and logical. This opens a giant blind spot t
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by wtracy 9y ago
I would very much like to find a way to use something like this on old devices that have locked bootloaders that prevent third-party kernels from booting. Is anyone looking at a way to bootstrap a system like this underneath the manufacture
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Ada: a C Developer's Perspective(methodsandtools.com)
127 points by wtracy 9y ago|151 comments
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by wtracy 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand Adam Smith used the phrase "invisible hand" to describe the way markets reward certain business ventures. The previous poster called the invisible hand "myo
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by wtracy 9y ago
From what I've seen of this industry, there's two major hurdles to getting this working: One, getting the shipping companies to provide any kind of network infrastructure would be like pulling teeth, and two, a lot of the companie

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