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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
I know right? The fact that the metric makes absolute sense is beautiful. Yes it probably misses out on a ton of factors that contribute to ranking (see TIOBE index metrics) but the transparency and simplicity of it all make up for it. You
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
Debugging Journal. Though to be honest, it's hard to stick to this habit. When I do make entries, they are of the form: - Symptoms (how is the bug manifesting) - Initial Observations (This is where you dig into the code/debugger
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
Apparently the link itself is to a twitter post by Julia Evans.
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
Is it just me or he sucks at presenting an argument. I read the whole thing and am still not clear exactly what he is trying to say. He keeps equating hard work or success with height. What's the point? You are either born to be succes
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
That was my first thought as well, but then I realized normal people aren't just waiting with stow away guns waiting for the day they can go on a killing frenzy. The type who are like that are possibly connected to drug as wells (as ei
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
While the actual curiosity-following-adventure is amazing, i think one other aspect to all of this that deserves a lot of praise is his writing. He managed to take us on his adventure along with him. Not every blogger pulls that off success
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
This is actually pretty cool. One of the major things that actually help learning JS is how easy it is to test out a piece of code before writing it to your main code base. Simply pop open a JS console on any browser and test that line out
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
wouldn't the slowness of bcrpyt be a hindrance enough? Of course rate limiting is a much greater barrier, but I thought the whole point of using bcrypt is that its naturally slow and prevents checking several passwords in a short time
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
Then you happened to avoid the places in those cities where people defecate. Trust me, it's a thing. Though it surprises me that even SF has this problem
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
Your comment > Cost of living, specifically real-estate, is silly low Clashes with another comment From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845054 : > Portland is "expensive" for rent (you're very luc
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
> oversimplify a complicated phenomenon I thought the author acknowledged that it's complicated and that it has many aspects to it and that it's not easy to solve at all. > useless drivel on medium You are entitled to your o
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
stuck* That is a great metric btw. I usually do this at the end of the day on the ride back home from work when my dad and I discuss things we read that day
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
in ST3 beta, one issue i faced was large files that changed frequently, like a log file. ST3 would neither keep the uncharged version, nor just append changes, but load the entire file from scratch and show me loading bar every time the fil
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
It's scary how many of these policies my company follows...
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
So what is the benefit of this over the Web version? Same UI, both need the internet, both have desktop notifications, both need your cellphone to be connected to the internet. Not to mention, no linux version
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
This is what I love about fb messenger over whatsapp. You can use it on your pc even without your cellphone. This dependency on the mobile makes no sense at all. It kills half the usecase.
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
As a software developer, I am inclined to trust the surgeon more.
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
Yes, but is it really that absurd to think the govt could monitor all twitter traffic and form a superior analytical tool if it wanted to?
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
Well, getting five 6's in a row is 1/7776 , so I suppose it is debatable if one could establish the dice are loaded from such a small sample set.
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
I haven't read that but I assume it goes along the lines of... Gambler: "I already got five 6's. I can't possibly get another one. That's a statistical improbability!" Wrong assumption: Past dice rolls affect f
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
I disagree. It gives you stuff to talk about when you meet. Ask details of things you saw in a post or a picture etc etc. Besides, there are so so so many aspects of people's lives they do NOT post or tweet about. My "reconnect af
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
> I've never once ran into a chat "bot" that wasn't human. Well that's absurd. Siri? Eliza? There are multitudes of actual chat bots out there. They usually good to fool a good lot of the general population. But
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
I assume you didn't accumulate the 128297 pdf's in the space of a day or a week or even an year (that would be over 351 pdf's per day, every day of the year). I assume you download like what? 10 pdf's per day? If you can
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
> $5 in South Asia is mostly mythical, Much to everyone's surprise, it's not. People from the region attest to the fact. > Even where it would be true, that's a large multiple over what they could make otherwise. Only i
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
It's interesting how almost everyone he photographed completely ignored him by either closing their eyes, diving into their cellphone or just pretending to be interested in something else
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by xerophyte12932 10y ago
You are right, I saw this as that as well. Someone who looks bland may actually have a very fun and colorful life. That's an important lesson here.
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by xerophyte12932 11y ago
Minor nitpick: Prostitutes make a lot? I guess depends on which part of the world we are talking about. I hear you can get them in South Asia for as low as $5. Probably lower.
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by xerophyte12932 11y ago
This may be a stupid question, but why not store cards/tweets in a hashmap and add a .contains() check before adding?
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by xerophyte12932 11y ago
I have been following her for well over an year now for exactly this reason. She never preaches. It's more like taking her readers along on this journey of discovery. Very very humble and yet insightful
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by xerophyte12932 11y ago
What I think in such cases is "unless I can convince him that this is a bad idea, then I should let him do it". Yes, I understand that sometimes we aren't entirely sure why a thing is bad, we just have a gut feeling that it

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