James_Duval

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by James_Duval 13y ago
Well, even if the price doesn't go up you may be able to increase your original investment with a DRIP. BTC don't give dividends.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
They are not scared of homosexuals, but of homosexuality. It represents a threat to set values and a set way of living to certain individuals. If it wasn't considered a threat to those values, why suppress it? It's homophobia.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I hope that most people would say the same thing as seivan in a face-to-face conversation. I know I would.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Quite simply, they thought it would be too hard for me. I don't actually program for a living (yet?), although I do work in a related field where programming knowledge is useful. So perhaps there was something to it, but I still enjoy
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by James_Duval 13y ago
No, in fact they actively discouraged me from pursuing an interest in programming.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
A CPU will be better off mining Vertcoin in the long-term, as it uses what they call Adaptive N-Factor scrypt algorithm, meaning that RAM becomes more important over time than raw processing power. That, of course, is assuming that they hav
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by James_Duval 13y ago
That leapt out at me, too! The image used on his Wikipedia page is very Jobsian, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satya_Nadella.jpg
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I find that much less readable than S-expressions. Well-formatted S-expressions actually make it pretty fast for me to find what I'm looking for in code, probably faster than in C-like languages - and I mostly use languages which are m
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I thought that your GP did hold your full medical history. I did some work doing data entry for a GP, and most patients had their full medical history on file at the surgery - in both physical and digitised form for the majority.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
On the Dogecoin subreddit, people have been arguing that Bitcoin is gold, Litecoin silver, and Dogecoin is money.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Another adjective springs to mind, also beginning with "P-A"...
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Great to see this confirmed. ~ an SEO
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by James_Duval 13y ago
It is indeed still awful. I know someone who works in Magento and they frequently come to me with genuine WTF bits of code. Added functionality would be a nightmare. A rewrite is sorely needed, and will help developers who have to work with
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I think masters of great works are pretty well-recognised in Japan. Matsuo Basho, for instance.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I have to admit I don't see the difference between what Udacity are doing in this particular course and what Open University has been doing for years.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
It is different from BTC - it's a fork of Litecoin, meaning it uses scrypt rather than SHA-256 and cannot be effectively mined using BTC-oriented ASICs. There is already at least one scrypt-focussed ASIC, however. https://al
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Twitter - yes at least one https://twitter.com/tipdoge , Email - I've seen rumblings, but not now I think.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Most of these fall under: > They can get a better deal (non-monetary) elsewhere Just won the lottery, close relative received terminal diagnosis, got pregnant, believed their horoscope, saved enough to retire - these are all cases where
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by James_Duval 13y ago
You might like Clearly? I've found it pretty useful, especially for Wikipedia articles with big, complex tables. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I get the appeal of a premium service, but what's wrong with ArsTechnica or The Register? I'm constantly impressed by the quality of these site's articles (although I find The Register difficult to get on with for the same re
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Oh yes, that's what I was thinking. I wasn't implying that kaizen was causing culture which was causing JRPGs. I was implying that the same culture was causing kaizen and JRPGs. I was also talking only about kaizen, rather than ab
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Could such attitudes form part of an explanation for the JRPG/WRPG gulf? JRPGs typically encourage training, finding efficient ways to grind (improving processes) and perfecting character builds through trial and error - at least on th
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> I wonder if people who came of age after that period see him more as a global good guy and philanthropist From personal experience, almost exclusively. The difference is more marked outside the tech sector, too. None of my acquaintance
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I think it's supposed to be useful insight into how you can improve your approach to daily life, nothing more -- at least in the context of being posted to Hacker News, that's what it is. It's a dirty cognitive hack to help y
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I had absolutely no FP background and I found it fantastic. Hard, yes, but fantastic. You have to be prepared to put in the hours that the course says you should put in, and you have to be prepared to spend a lot of time reading about other
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by James_Duval 13y ago
You used to be able to do this, though.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
You'd have to eat it first, and servers can be crunchy.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Typically, that would be Amazon, or the big banks. Starbucks is actually a new one on me.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Really glad to see Sussex getting recognition for their work. The fantastic thing about Sussex is that they are passionate and enthusiastic about teaching non-scientist students about quantum physics - and talented teachers as well.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I think that they are saying that Scala is the proverbial bread being offered to you, and your concerns about productivity are akin to insisting that your bread be soaked so that it's easy to eat. If that is what they're saying,

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