MrRage

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by MrRage 10y ago
It isn't limited to Google. At the end of 2014 Facebook put this thing in my brother's feed that said "It's been a great year" and then put in post he made right after our mother passed away. I wonder if it's a
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by MrRage 11y ago
Of course. You can't learn that sort of judgement (when to use vs when not to use) from a book. But our profession's training material, at least in my experience reading, drills it in your head to use all these abstracting devices
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by MrRage 11y ago
> I can tell an amateur programmer from a professional by looking at their order of priorities when they grow a code base. > Amateur programmers tend to put code de-duplication at the top of their priority list and will burn the whole
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by MrRage 11y ago
I can only partially answer your question for Pascal: Look at the Free Pascal compiler. I learned (Turbo) Pascal many years ago. Recently I've revived my usage while writing a video game. I wanted a mature, compiled, no GC language tha
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by MrRage 11y ago
I'm using only Ghostery, and I did not see any ads. Perhaps it stops such code from running?
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by MrRage 12y ago
I always thought the fastest was the closed form formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex... Unless looping and counting is that much faster than doing some floating point math?
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by MrRage 12y ago
Isn't a Microwave a Farady Cage for the frequency used by the oven? I'm guessing the Cell frequencies are different so they can penetrate the cage?
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by MrRage 12y ago
I was thinking about driving before GPS recently and I had to go somewhere I've never been to before. So I resolved to just look at Google maps before hand and then just try to driver there and back without my GPS unit or resorting to
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by MrRage 12y ago
Interesting. I guess it actually emits all sorts of frequencies of light visible or not, but Superman is still wrong. :)
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by MrRage 12y ago
Sun is actually white... which is why you see a all the colors in a rainbow. I know Superman lied to you. :)
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by MrRage 12y ago
> In a similar timeframe will anyone be able to read our digital thoughts? Lots of famous writing from the ancient world doesn't survive in the original and had to be copied; what we have is copies of copies of copies, etc. And ple
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by MrRage 12y ago
Most mainstream music (i.e. stuff that makes it into Billboard's charts) is obviously targeted at teenagers and maybe people in their young 20's. I'd say the same thing is true about movies. I guess I wouldn't call any o
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by MrRage 12y ago
Hmm so when were was there a lull? Serious question. I grew up in the 80's and although I don't check space news every day it doesn't seem like activity in space decreased in that time. All I'm really aware of is the los
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by MrRage 12y ago
When did this era start? This probe was launched 10 years go, and the planning must have started at least a few years before that.
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by MrRage 12y ago
I submit, as argued in my other comment, that greggman is the one assuming his/her experience should take priority. If you are able to work years on end at 70 hours a week then more power to you. But that doesn't mean other people
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by MrRage 12y ago
Good to hear that you're happy and your choices have worked out, sincerely. But kindly please consider the following points: 1. You may not have worked enough to burn out. If you're in your 20's you can work longer too. If yo
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by MrRage 12y ago
The author's analogy with Mozart's music is curious. Mozart's compositions are closer to the classical forms of a symphony, concerto, etc. than other well known composers who came later. He didn't slavishly follow some r
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by MrRage 12y ago
Most artist, according to my understanding, have never really made money on record sales even before the advent of Napster (for example, google "The Problem with Music" by Steve Albini). Most musicians are going to make money off
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by MrRage 13y ago
Album is _Hurt Seconds_ by The Shy Trafficker. I'll warn you that it's a long poorly recorded slog. There's a couple songs with some vocals but most of it is instrumental. Instrumental rock tends to be pretty unpopular I&#x27
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by MrRage 13y ago
I was in a band in my college years that played this "indie / experimental" instrumental rock. We only played maybe a dozen shows that were sparsely attended. There's one show we played that had at least 50-100 people, b
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by MrRage 13y ago
That made me wonder what the procedures are if one was to die on the ISS. You'd have to store the remains somewhere until the next Soyuz ship can launch? That's probably enough morbid thinking for today.
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by MrRage 14y ago
This is not an example of racist hashtags, but I remember hearing about a lot of racist tweets when Obama's speech about the Newtown massacre interrupted Sunday Night Football. Edit: grammar
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by MrRage 14y ago
I certainly agree with what you're saying. There is a difference between fiscal and social conservatives, and the fiscal camp is larger. The religious right by themselves are not as powerful as some on the left make them out to be. But I s
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by MrRage 14y ago
Speaking as someone who grew up in Texas in conservative evangelical family, there are plenty of churches that are politically active (not all but there are a lot). So you basically have a voting block that takes marching orders from their
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by MrRage 15y ago
I'm not sure how compelling my argument is... but if I have nothing to hide then why does anybody need to look? For example does the TSA seeing everybody naked actually improve security?
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by MrRage 16y ago
I attended two state Universities in Texas, and both had cheap licenses like you describe. I don't think it's so weird.
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by MrRage 16y ago
I agree it is a red herring in general. That's why I asked when do you see NC-17 movies in a cinema (in the US).
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by MrRage 16y ago
True it was in the US release. I guess I assumed that since we're talking about censoring nudity we were talking primarily about the US market. This is getting off topic, but I don't think it was a bad movie, although certainly not his best
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by MrRage 16y ago
Censorship does happen. Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, was censored to avoid an NC-17 rating. You're correct NC-17 movies do get made, but how often can you go to your local cinema and see an NC-17 movie?
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by MrRage 16y ago
> My old boss at Apple told me back in the day if you wanted a job you just showed up at the door ready to work. A few weeks later if you lasted you're hired. Sorta sound like how people joined Project Mayhem in Fight Club.

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