Locke

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by Locke 5y ago
I wish we responded to situations more proportionally. In this case, someone made a joke about women not liking to reveal their true age as they get older. It's a boring cliched joke. Something I've heard too many times in my life
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by Locke 10y ago
> One of the most amazing things about suicide is that over the past 80 years or so in the United States, suicide rates have been extremely flat. The fact that suicide rates have not changed in response to changes in medical technology a
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by Locke 10y ago
Hi Sid, Thanks for the follow-up. I appreciate it and I'm glad that my feedback might help improve your hiring process. I don't mind your comment, and I hope you understand that there are no hard feelings at all. I hope you unders
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by Locke 10y ago
My recent experience with Gitlab: Went through several interviews with them, including their technical interview and had a blast. Met some nice folks and was having a lot of fun interviewing with them. Was told, "I am confident that yo
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by Locke 10y ago
As a thought exercise, suppose I have my User class and now I would like to write it as json. Do you think it would be strange if the established solution were this? class User < JSON::Base Where by extending JSON::Base, I now h
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by Locke 10y ago
Nostalgia warning: I also grew frustrated with Rails / ActiveRecord and jumped to Merb / DataMapper with excitement. Perhaps it will sound like a small thing, but I remember feeling especially frustrated that every ActiveRecord mo
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by Locke 15y ago
I read somewhere recently that replacing the dollar bill with a dollar coin would save about $5 billion over something like 30 years. The trick is no one actually wants a dollar coin.
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by Locke 15y ago
I hate to be unhelpful, but I think this problem is intractable. The fact that these meta discussions predictably offer a wide array of solutions -- many of which are at odds with one another -- leads me to believe there isn't a solution.
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by Locke 16y ago
Earnings are important, I'm sure -- but don't mistake them for wealth. I've known people with ludicrous earnings who still lived pay check to pay check. In fact, I suspect it's all too common. Here's an eye opener: You're a mid-level e
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by Locke 16y ago
This is not so much a possibility as an inevitability. Chances are you will fall in love and it will disrupt your life whether you're starting up or doing something else entirely. If you're fortunate, you're new significant other will be
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Why Minecraft Works(hobbygamedev.com)
2 points by Locke 16y ago|0 comments
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by Locke 16y ago
I don't think this article is making a claim about whether or not these phrases indicate that someone is about to lie to you. The phrases themselves are often untrue. For example, if I say "It’s not about the money, but...", what follow
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by Locke 16y ago
- Write a video game emulator (any old console or computer platform) - Create a programming language - Restore an old broken down pinball machine - Build a mame arcade cabinet - Write some Interactive Fiction - Learn to make awesome progr
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by Locke 16y ago
The quote is fine. I worry about this glorification of violence. The original article and this thread seem to be filled with adolescent fantasies of revenge against bullies past and future. I hope this is mainly internet posturing and bra
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by Locke 16y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the original article or this sentiment. However, I have a hard time reconciling telling your child to stick up for him or herself when bullied vs "send him to the cemetary" or "As soon as he turns around,
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by Locke 16y ago
My use of fvwm has become so minimal that I'd probably be better off switching to one of the tiling window managers. I have chromium occupying an entire page of my virtual desktop with no window decorations. On another I have firefox (most
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by Locke 16y ago
I've noticed that the more time I spend focused on work the more out of date I get with the cutting edge. I'm on a 3 or 4 year old thinkpad (love the keyboard!) running gentoo linux. I use fvwm, xterm, gnu screen, chromium, firefox, ruby,
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by Locke 16y ago
This is a great post from a publicity standpoint. It's never a bad thing to put a human face on your business, especially if you're still small. But, I'm afraid, the only real long-term solution to a security problem is better security. T
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by Locke 16y ago
I was just thinking today how wonderful it would be if my web browser let me navigate tabs with the same key bindings as screen. If I had a nickel for every time I've done "select all" when I wanted to quickly switch back to the last active
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Evaluating Game Mechanics For Depth(gamasutra.com)
2 points by Locke 16y ago|0 comments
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by Locke 16y ago
I'd have preferred to see a more detailed breakdown of apps. It may be a terrible market for utility apps. Or, for apps that are more feature than product. How many apps are truly products with solid business models? How do these apps d
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by Locke 16y ago
The liquidity of Facebook Credits is a major problem. They are asking game developers to give up control of their virtual currencies. When you control your virtual currency you can use it in so many ways to influence user behavior. You ca
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by Locke 17y ago
Some of the stats are kind of self-explanatory. For example, "#8 seeds often upset higher ranked teams. In the four match-ups against #2 teams, #8 teams won twice. They have also beaten #4 and #5 seeds more often than they lost to them." Fo
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by Locke 17y ago
I think this observation is very true with respect to sharing with the internet at large. It's easy to dismiss some new (personal) discovery as unremarkable or obvious -- but, there are probably people out there who would find a write-up o
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by Locke 17y ago
Yes, they are different. For example: def ex1 a = 5 if a puts "a: #{a}" end end def ex2 if a = 5 puts "a: #{a}" end end def ex3 puts "a: #{a}" if a = 5 end
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by Locke 17y ago
There is a graphing library for Raphael. Last I checked it didn't seem very mature, but it might make a good starting point: http://g.raphaeljs.com/
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by Locke 17y ago
It seems like I've run across a couple implementations of Logo in javascript recently. Here's another: http://www.calormen.com/Logo/ And, here's one that uses svg instead of canvas: http://www.amberfrog.com/logo/ I think it'd be a lot
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by Locke 17y ago
I love how casually detailed this article is. Touches like the subtly blinking blink tag -- and the subject matter itself -- lead me to believe there are gems here waiting to be discovered on subsequent reads. "13 months and 11k lines of c
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Reverse Geocache Puzzle(arduiniana.org)
3 points by Locke 17y ago|0 comments
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by Locke 17y ago
Sorry, I meant to give the opposite impression. Everyone sucks when starting out with something new. Maybe acknowledging that can help with "first move" anxiety. Either I didn't express that very well, or it's just not that insightful.

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