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by Scriptor 14y ago
It's rather odd when someone says natural selection is completely 'dead'. Do they think everyone in the world has an equal chance of finding a partner and has the same number of children? Of course not. Even to this day there are factors th
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by Scriptor 14y ago
There's a lab that adds a 'Mark as read' button. I usually just archive them with keyboard shortcuts. Just hit *-u and then press e.
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by Scriptor 14y ago
Not all villages in developing countries are dirt-poor and desperate for the slightest technology. Cheap cell phones are used quite a bit in many rural areas in Africa, for example: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/13/world/africa/mobile-phones-
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by Scriptor 14y ago
It's really not terribly complicated to figure out what it does, here's the formatted version for adding two numbers (function() { var __opal = Opal, self = __opal.top, __scope = __opal, nil = __opal.nil, __breaker = __opal.
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by Scriptor 14y ago
What languages do you typically work iwth?
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by Scriptor 14y ago
> 1. It is an IDE's job, to keep track of changes of individual expressions in the code of a project. Is the IDE supposed to have it's own revision history stored somewhere? I understand how it might be an IDE's job to recognize individ
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by Scriptor 14y ago
One advantage is that you can view your repo's history as a list of new functions being added/removed/changed instead of just diffs of what lines are removed and added. You could add editor support and look at all previous versions of a spe
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by Scriptor 14y ago
At some point you have to relax a little with the side projects and just sit down with a book and read. Maybe go to a park or coffee shop to get a change in scenery so you're not tempted to open the laptop and start coding again. If you tak
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by Scriptor 14y ago
Have there ever been any studies done to look at the effects of any biases when you're actively trying to tell a bot apart from a human? My guess is that the judges end up looking for specific traits and characteristics. Bot developers can
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by Scriptor 14y ago
For what it's worth, you can turn off emails for repos you're watching here: https://github.com/settings/notifications
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by Scriptor 14y ago
That's true, actual tools need all those criteria that you described. If you believe that functional languages don't meet those criteria, can you provide evidence for that? For example, from what I've gathered Clojure certainly has high qua
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by Scriptor 14y ago
People always mention the infix operators, but really, how often do you come across them in your code? Unless you're working on something highly mathematic, it really isn't that big of a deal. Otherwise, sexprs visually are a matter of rear
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by Scriptor 14y ago
We don't know what those birds are feeling, but we have no reason to assume it's grief over other feelings. At face value, they are making alarm calls and gathering around the dead body. Of course we don't know how birds display grief and m
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by Scriptor 14y ago
And if the parents aren't homozygous it could be attributed to recessive genes. Same reason why two brown-haired parents can have a blond child.
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by Scriptor 14y ago
And if the parents aren't homozygous it could be attributed to recessive genes. Same reason why two brunettes can have a blond child.
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by Scriptor 14y ago
Technically 'prehistoric' could fit. The remains are from a time before written records existed there. But when you consider that written records had already long existed elsewhere in the world and that 'prehistoric' can go as far back as a
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by Scriptor 14y ago
Evidenced by the phrase, "Rich Internet Application" :)
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by Scriptor 14y ago
From my personal experience I think some numbers do get reused. When I first got my Google Voice number I kept getting a bunch of calls asking for some other person, so I guess Google just reused someone else's old number.
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by Scriptor 14y ago
When I was 10 I started reading a VB book and was inordinately proud of myself for learning how to customize the toolbars in the IDE. I just assumed that that was a major part of programming. I also misunderstood the part on autocompletion
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by Scriptor 14y ago
Also, I'm curious what the actual impact of it is. One of the main arguments against meat is that it takes a great deal more energy and work to create 1 pound of plant food than 1 pound of meat. From what I've seen, beyond meat uses some so
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by Scriptor 14y ago
It seems like a knee-jerk reaction to believe that all those papers are sponsored by the soy industry and everything saying that soy does have estrogen is coming from a reputable source.
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by Scriptor 14y ago
Actually, someone did a great job succinctly explaining it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286701 The attitude that Clojure is only for some enlightened few who are worthy enough to understand it is extremely alienating. Lisps aren'
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by Scriptor 14y ago
I think you went through Facebook's deactivation process, which is meant to be a temporary break from using facebook. To actually permanently delete your account so you can never log in again you have to go to https://www.facebook.com/he
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by Scriptor 14y ago
There's also the intellectual property facet of this. Someone who steals your work could try and sell it to your competitors. This includes code as well as a list of your clients and your business plans.
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by Scriptor 14y ago
Right, the alternative is to just sort of guess how much you need to ctrl-u/d or j and k to get to a specific line. Also, I guess it depends on screen size. I usually have plenty so the line numbers' usefulness outweighs the extra space req
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by Scriptor 14y ago
The Inuit snow thing is actually a common misconception and like you mention it comes from a difference in our understanding of what a 'word' is. The Inuit language typically uses suffixes to modify nouns. Also, the Inuit language can use o
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by Scriptor 14y ago
There are tools that can cover this. I'm curious, which tools can you use for this?
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by Scriptor 14y ago
So, what's so special about this? It's literally nothing more than a resizeable textbox that shows up where you click. Why does this merit my e-mail address?
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by Scriptor 14y ago
Well, you get your logo on the home page for a year, which could be very good advertising if the project becomes big. However, I have no clue how much the advertising would actually be valued for a typical company.
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by Scriptor 14y ago
C or C++ aren't competing with PHP. You'd have to look at Python or Ruby in this case. While it's definitely possible to write shitty code in those languages it doesn't provide nearly as many ways to screw up. Besides the lack of language f

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