DerKommissar

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by DerKommissar 9y ago
I don't see how it's any better than a comment here. I just wanted clarification as to whether the poster thinks elemental magnesium is a good thing or a bad thing.
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by DerKommissar 9y ago
Is elemental magnesium good or bad? Looking at reviews on Amazon they make it seem like a good thing.
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by DerKommissar 10y ago
I went to the Louvre last year a few days after Christmas which I assume is not tourist season (first time in Paris). It was packed, and the Mona Lisa was surrounded by a sea of people 10 feet thick, most of them waving their phones around
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by DerKommissar 10y ago
Reminded me of a great sleep app I used to use. It's called Gentle Alarm and it really is a great hack. I don't know if the authors of the software came up with this idea but it works great. Here's how it works. If you are wo
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by DerKommissar 10y ago
I'm not sure I remember any good books. There's quite a bit of info on the web though. Besides bloggers who exclusively focus on sleep, the only communities that take it seriously are athletics and paleo. And there's a lot of
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by DerKommissar 10y ago
I was a night owl when I was younger. Went to bed around 2am and felt like a sack of potatoes for a couple hours in the morning. I have no idea what time I would naturally wake up because I always had to get up earlier than that. I remember
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by DerKommissar 11y ago
While I agree with the general premise, it appears Harvey Silverglate is a fraud. This came up on HN a while ago and I looked up a few of the cases mentioned. A brief search revealed that these people were all actual criminals and he had gr
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by DerKommissar 11y ago
So was Ronald Fisher. He was a big proponent of eugenics.
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by DerKommissar 11y ago
I agree in general, but in many parts of Italy they generally fry everything in extra virgin olive oil.
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by DerKommissar 11y ago
Much the those issues are addressed in various boost libraries. There is one which wraps all the algorithms and containers in range classes so that all the f(c.begin(), c.end(), g) silliness gets replaced with f(c, g). There is another one
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by DerKommissar 11y ago
Outside of jobs where it's pretty easy to hurt someone if you're intoxicated (construction, etc.), my personal theory is that it's all about control. As far as I know companies use piss tests, which don't detect most har
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by DerKommissar 11y ago
Yup. Read my comment above if you're interested. I had never heard of the guy, but you are being way too easy on him. Presenting the arguments as he does is in my opinion an objective intellectual fraud.
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by DerKommissar 11y ago
I looked up the first one, Violating the Lacey Act. What they say happened: Two men were sent to prison for 8 years and one woman was sent to prison for 2 years for violating the Lacey Act which makes it illegal for importers to violate any
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by DerKommissar 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer Spain seems to have multiple poop based Christmas traditions.
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by DerKommissar 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas
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by DerKommissar 12y ago
Seems to me they found a witch. Or is bigotry just a myth?
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by DerKommissar 12y ago
I think Eich is a bigot and I'm glad he stepped down. I don't see how someone can be against gay marriage and not have a problem with homosexuality in general. How does one go about changing their views? They just wake up one day
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by DerKommissar 12y ago
Would you say the same of people who hold opinions you've always thought were immoral? Do you respect the current remaining members of the KKK for sticking to their guns?
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by DerKommissar 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but blacklisting was done by the government. It wasn't just some business owners that decides they weren't going to hire non-communists. Big difference.
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by DerKommissar 12y ago
If Mozilla changed their mind and asked him to be CEO again he could. If another company asked him he could. Just because no one wants you to be CEO does not mean you don't have the right to be.
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
mutex.lock(); doStuff(); /*throws an exception, mutex is never unlocked*/ mutex.unlock(); ScopedLock lock(mutex); doStuff(); /*mutex unlocked by destructor in all cases*/ It guarantees that resources are
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
Unrelated to the post but related to the code you wrote - I have found that changing the tag struct definition to a declaration will cause a compilation failure if something accidentally tries to instantiate the tag struct.
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
C++ FAQ Lite is actually the "lite" version of the C++ FAQs ( http://www.amazon.com/FAQs-2nd-Edition-Marshall-Cline/dp/020... ) which is great.
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
Yes, also Effective STL. These books turned me from a C++ coder into the "the C++ guy" at work.
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
Just because a system is chaotic doesn't mean nothing about it can be predicted.
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
I have read that before no fault divorces it was common to make up something that someone did in order to be granted a divorce. It's sad, but I think what he is described as doing was seen as more reasonable back then.
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
It wasn't that long ago that everyone had a 13 year old nephew that made websites. Also it is easier to create a very simple website than to create a very simple desktop app, since a simple website doesn't really do anything. Ther
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
Another one is Asus. I always thought it was "A-sys". Turns out it's "Uh-seuss" like Dr. Seuss, with the accent over the last syllable.
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by DerKommissar 13y ago
> I enjoy manipulating other people's feelings. I've had this exact same thought before. I love manipulating people's feelings in certain ways. I like making people have fun. If you're in a bad mood and someone goes out of their way to
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by DerKommissar 14y ago
These guys do this often. If they're running around they will eventually slip, and who knows what equipment they'll damage on the way down. Now he can't help and the problem is much worse than if it took him an extra 10 seconds to get over

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