borkabrak

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by borkabrak 8y ago
Good point. I think there's real value in replacing even just the verbiage of "Closed as duplicate" with something like a "Related Questions" section. It would remove a lot of the hostility, intentional or not, fe
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by borkabrak 9y ago
I'm not sure a strong case can be made that Google should be obliged to do that. There already exist TLD suffixes reserved for testing. ".dev" just isn't one of them.
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by borkabrak 9y ago
This.. seems to resolve every issue I might have otherwise had with the story, including the impulse to yell at Google about it, but the author himself makes a fair case for not doing that. It turns out that part of the way the internet is
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by borkabrak 9y ago
I guess we're wandering a bit from the topic, but I used to feel the same way about, of all things, that childhood pastime of spinning around with your arms out. I spent more time than I'm comfortable specifying believing that ev
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by borkabrak 10y ago
I apologize if this is too far off-topic, but all this talk of "focus" lately keeps reminding me of A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge, where a much more sinister (and more sci-fi) version of it is called exactly that - they f
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by borkabrak 10y ago
Just that, when you run '$ git nonstandard-subcommand', then the git executable looks for anything executable in the path that is named 'git-nonstandard-subcommand'. Then it runs it. That's all. But at that point
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by borkabrak 10y ago
Say someone decides to mark all the significant events in his life. And notices that it's beginning to spell words.. maybe a neat story?
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by borkabrak 10y ago
Holy cow, was this a refreshing perspective. I'm one of those underrated engineers who has had trouble getting past nearly every phase of the hiring process at various times. It's frustrating because I'm pretty smart and ver
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by borkabrak 11y ago
That's one where experience playing darts really helps. :-)
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by borkabrak 11y ago
She's right about squaring on each iteration, though. And granted, a square root is much more expensive, though done only once. Which method is faster would depend on the number of iterations.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Honestly, just stand a little bit farther back. The main factor seems to be the angle at which each participant has to crane their necks in order to make eye contact.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
The dismissive exaggeration with which this comment describes the topic seems to indicate a hostile disdain that I find confusing, all the more for how common it seems to be. I can't quite get my mind to really understand why some view
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I'll take two of this on a t-shirt, please.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I would rather have incomplete knowledge of a topic than none. The toughest part of learning something, like so many other cases, is in getting started. Also, I can't be sure pending research into this, but I would be surprised if the
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by borkabrak 11y ago
> that doesn't mean we treat them like sub-humans... we just have less patience with the shit they are inevitably going to give us. While I have difficulty agreeing that the homeless generally want to be, it seems worth noting that
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by borkabrak 11y ago
This has really got me wondering: What would be a format that is fundamentally readable by both humans and computers? And what does that question really mean?
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Without looking into the source, I'd bet someone tweeted the "exploit", just to make the point that going to that page basically runs arbitrary javascript in your browser.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I love this idea. Unfortunately, everything I tried gave me: Sorry, I couldn't do this search. Could not find a location matching "Nashville, Tennessee" I'm.. so proud. :-/ One more reason (as if I n
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Great idea, but -- why limit it to one site? If bandwidth is the concern, I'd still suggest making available a small suite of sites of special interest to the homeless.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I agree that a five-second startup can hardly be said to break usability, especially for something that many people will leave running for a long time. That said, though, if I was accustomed to one of my primary tools taking a half-second t
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by borkabrak 11y ago
May I inquire after your basis for the apparent certainty you have for this position?
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by borkabrak 11y ago
If free will didn't exist, it would be necessary to create it.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
My PC must not be "proper". Aw, snap.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Hardcore vim user seconds this.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
It's about time a Comcast rep showed up here. :-)
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Good point. It is important to realize that being too obsessive about security is possible, and to know a reasonable point at which to draw the line. But there is a difference between the two types of attack you describe that seems to
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Your points are well-taken, but I would expect academics to be the only demographic more likely than governments to compromise a well-designed security system. Although I suppose the academics I mean aren't undergrads..
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Try David Graeber's Debt, The First 5,000 Years :)
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I find this viewpoint surprising, given the problems with arbitration pointed out in the article. What are your reasons for preferring arbitration? Are the courts in Brazil that corrupt? If so, how would arbitration be better?
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Me, too. I just turned 40, and got carded for alcohol two days later. I've always looked far below my age, but I have no guarantees about how long that will last. I'm only getting better as a developer.

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