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by agrona 9y ago
The author suggests one "symptom" of using git wrong is >Have you ever did a code review, and gave feedback that was longer than doing the fix yourself, while you’re at it? But this seems to neglect the utility of teaching peop
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by agrona 9y ago
The real trick is to know somebody who works on the product. Seems to be the only way I've ever seen any bug get reported and fixed.
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by agrona 9y ago
This is great. Although part of me has a desire for the person to be outed so Trump can lose yet another horrendously baseless first amendment lawsuit. Hopefully a lot more visibly, this time.
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by agrona 10y ago
A mod of /r/sports (~6M users? is that right?) said >Send me your automoderator rule once it's done, we'll add it our sub as well. Seems likely to spread pretty quickly.
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by agrona 10y ago
GiveDirectly's previous work involves finding the poorest communities in the world and targeting the poorest members with direct cash transfers. I was turned on to them a few years ago by GiveWell (unrelated), which attempts to evaluat
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by agrona 10y ago
The article claims that >We have no control over our basal metabolic rate and then links to a page[1] that explains >Muscle cells require more energy to maintain than fat cells, so people with a higher muscle to fat ratio tend to have
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by agrona 10y ago
The mathematical properties of the distribution of the numbers on the sides are very pleasing. They remind me of the (absolutely fascinating) "Go first" dice[1], any subset of which are guaranteed to produce a perfectly fair ranki
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by agrona 11y ago
We'd like to! We're thinking of something this winter, but are taking a much-needed break for a few weeks. Our first event was a lot of work and these are entirely labors of love--the ticket cost lets us basically break even.
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by agrona 11y ago
We just ran two events in Seattle. The "MegaGame Society" is sort of the over-arching organizing group (they licensed Watch the Skies from the UK group, updated it significantly, and are recruiting more groups to run it locally).
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by agrona 11y ago
Oh I see. The confusion arises because the antecedent of "it" is unclear. I read "it" as referring to "gay marriage" and not "the case against gay marriage". How confusing.
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by agrona 11y ago
I don't understand the headline. It seems to be saying "Top Law Firms Won't Support Gay Marriage", this is a mark against it. However, the article seems to be saying the opposite: top law firms are all FOR it, and those
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by agrona 12y ago
There's a guide (in development) at eyesonthesky.com[1] aimed at newcomers, who may be using poor telescopes in poor atmospheric and lighting conditions. I've been following it quite successfully from my back yard in Seattle. It f
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by agrona 12y ago
I went into a Fedex/Kinko's in the US, to try to print something on A3. They looked at me as if I had just asked them to sell me a unicorn. They then offered to custom cut a piece of paper for what I'd approximate as several
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by agrona 12y ago
Sorry to rain on your parade, but þ is a voiceless "th" sound (as in "thing"). Also, that's the part that means "muscle".
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by agrona 12y ago
The comment you're replying to is word-for-word copied from a highly upvoted comment on reddit yesterday (but is now deleted) by a user with a handle I won't repeat here. [1] So what you're seeing is cross-pollination. I&#x27
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by agrona 12y ago
Except for every 400th year.
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by agrona 12y ago
The intriguing point to me that I haven't seen addressed on any reporting of the announcement is this: Is the plan to put humans on the surface and then bring them back home? How do they intend to land and get back off of the planet? (
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by agrona 12y ago
Art and source photos aside, this link is sort of disappointing. For example, >As Mars' diameter is about half of the Earths, the elevator cable wouldn't have to be as long to reach geostationary orbit and due to the lighter gr
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by agrona 12y ago
Dave Sirlin had a recent(ish) post about balance in fighting games here: http://www.sirlin.net/articles/game-balance-and-yomi He mentions a few different Street Fighters.
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by agrona 12y ago
From my reading of it: >The size of the highest mountain of order ∼ εR can be roughly estimated from the inequality (292). >P, P˙ and I are, respectively, the pulsar’s period, period derivative and moment of inertia [in inequality (29
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by agrona 12y ago
>Unless it's against some kind of law for someone to observe police, you should know better than that. What isn't against the law? This probably doesn't apply exactly, but there are plenty of laws about "disobeying la
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by agrona 13y ago
I had a discussion with the creator about beating the last level. I had a solution that solved 95% of it, but I have no idea if it was close to working. Zachary confessed he hadn't beaten it either, but he did prove that it was possib
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by agrona 13y ago
You don't have to blindly trust a third party. I have a KeePass which can generate random passwords. I trust that because it's open source, so I could look at what they're doing--and build it myself--if I wanted. I store the
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by agrona 13y ago
FORTRAN and Algol60 are also not-0-indexed. From the exple.tive.org page Guido links to: > On top of that other languages that antedate BCPL and C aren’t zero-indexed. Algol 60 uses one-indexed arrays, and arrays in Fortran are arbitrari
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by agrona 13y ago
FTA >Er, an earlier version of this said the software bug was 20 years old. It's 30! Thanks, Sidhekin
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by agrona 13y ago
Is there some way I can submit corrections? I've found a few typos/grammar mistakes on the first few pages, but can't seem to find any contact information.
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by agrona 13y ago
Not exactly a comment, but I immediately thought of this: "Whoa, that’s a full fog all the way. Double fog, oh my god. It’s a double fog, all the way. Whoa that’s so intense. Whoa man! Wow! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa ho ho oh my god! Oh my god!
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by agrona 13y ago
Please do. I was hoping to find an option to turn it off.
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by agrona 13y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but what does it mean for a founder to be "formidable"? e.g. in this context: > The founder who handles fundraising should be the CEO, who should in turn be the most formidable of the founders.
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by agrona 13y ago
I want to quash this rumor: Nintendo does not require 3rd parties to use particular features (3D screen, waggle, etc.)

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