cgmorton

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by cgmorton 13y ago
Eh. Your construction is perhaps easier to understand if you've never used the language, and are trying to learn it just by reading arbitrary source code. But who writes code for such a person? You might as well spell out: int iterat
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by cgmorton 13y ago
The correct solution would be to tell you what's happening. "Your data will be deleted in 24 hours. You can undo this deletion at any time before then."
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by cgmorton 13y ago
There's a reason 'Phobia' is a clinical diagnosis, not a policy justification.
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by cgmorton 13y ago
> Second: Six months, you say? Can any of us think of a cohort of job seekers that routinely needs to contend with 6+ month employment gaps? I wonder, maybe, just maybe, do you think that has a powerful "objective" stigma attached to it
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by cgmorton 13y ago
Man, $1 million is more money than I will ever need. So I'll do it for $3 million. Your move.
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by cgmorton 14y ago
They wouldn't even need to trade securities. Just search the future data for some successful tech IPOs and then invest in those companies early and heavily. Returns would be fantastic, and the risk of feedback from your future-influenced
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by cgmorton 14y ago
Or, one was a good salesman and the other was not. Or maybe the second one was strapped for cash and really needed the sale. I'd rather not theorize until we get some more data points.
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by cgmorton 14y ago
I played a different game called 'which one appeals to me more on first glance'. I ended up with a perfect 10/10 split. Could it be that different fonts will be more aesthetically pleasing for different uses? Even if they're typographical
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by cgmorton 14y ago
My question is, what are you doing 'enjoy[ing] things that you can buy with money'? Hasn't it been well enough established that things don't make you happy? The Greeks figured that out two thousand years ago, guy! Let me tell you, I bough
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by cgmorton 14y ago
This sheds some light on this comment about the pawns: '(Move "forward" indicated in white.)' The 2006 picture has white lines and this new one doesn't.
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by cgmorton 14y ago
This argues equally well for completely supporting the family indefinitely for any reason. The only difference between paying medical bills and paying for the whole lifestyle is a matter of cost, and medical bills can be really expensive.
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by cgmorton 14y ago
But then you can easily, heck trivially, argue that people should be forced to exercise or to eat a particular diet that makes them more productive. Look, more goods and services are rendered! It's a public situation! People should be for
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by cgmorton 14y ago
"Thank you for your placing an order with NASDAQ. Please do not hit the back button or refresh this page, or your order may be registered more than once."
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by cgmorton 14y ago
Hold on. I might have misread, but I thought the point was he -didn't lie-. He put 'Mensa' because he was in Mensa. It stood out because so many other people had an 'education' section at that spot on their resumes.
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by cgmorton 14y ago
If the universe is infinite in size, does that automatically imply that it is infinite in mass? That is, I can imagine a mass distribution that decreases as it moves away from the center, such that the total amount of mass is finite. In wh
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by cgmorton 14y ago
Everyone who is getting angry, listen: This isn't a test for suitability for the position. It's a matter of signalling. This is a cheap test (surely can't take more than 5 minutes to complete a grammar test), but with the property that the
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by cgmorton 14y ago
It's an interesting point about the speed. In this case, since it's just a function pointer, there's no polymorphic overhead, so avoiding branches is a no-brainer. On the other hand, if you were actually extending a class to make a DoNothi
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by cgmorton 14y ago
I'm not clear on how that makes your code more maintainable though. The first case makes it explicit that any of the actions can fail to occur, whereas the second one, on first glance, seems to have all the actions occuring. I, as a newco
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by cgmorton 14y ago
So all the clever people have concluded that this system is useless, because you can pull a gun on someone and force them to play the game. Not to mention: it's not even that much entropy! So let's all just forget about it move on with ou
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by cgmorton 14y ago
If my friend grows tomatoes in her back yard, should I be prohibited and fined for eating one without it first being inspected? Inspections are there because large institutions don't always take the care they should, and as a consumer I sur
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by cgmorton 14y ago
"This is the problem of intelligent people doing stupid things for selfish reasons." I'm gonna disagree. What these people are doing is very much the smart thing to do. They make huge, I mean HUGE amounts of money by doing just these sort o
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by cgmorton 14y ago
This is actually really easy. "but I need to go out a lot (every day, or more, if I can help it" Therefore, you are an extrovert.
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by cgmorton 14y ago
So you're planning to buy your kid a ferrari, because he wants it? Screw that. If my kid is the kind of person who wants a ferrari, that will motivate him to get rich and buy one. But I would be really disappointed in myself as a parent i
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by cgmorton 14y ago
Okay lets do some simple math on this. If I buy a song off iTunes, the artist gets $.09 Every time I listen to it on Rhapsody, they get $.0022 Some quick division: .09/.0022 = ~41 What this means is that, if I've listened to a song less tha
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by cgmorton 14y ago
I think the confusion here is that 'short selling' is a misnomer - it doesn't involve any merchandise at all. From the article: "In other words, 107% of all Overstock shares available for trade were short – a physical impossibility, unless
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by cgmorton 14y ago
There's a lovely browser addon called 'Facebook Disconnect' than blocks all third-party calls to the Facebook API. Available in Chrome and Firefox, and probably others.
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by cgmorton 14y ago
Answer: walk away from the river.
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by cgmorton 14y ago
Not to be glib, but has this guy never heard of IRC? First thing I do if I'm learning a new language is join the IRC channel. Frankly, there are smarter people in there than you're likely to find at a local meetup. It sounds more like the
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by cgmorton 14y ago
"In return, you must recognize that the success of the projects on which we work together depends largely upon the degree to which you treat us with respect, both as skilled professionals and as a diversity of autonomous living people." It'
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by cgmorton 15y ago
Another excellent trick I read somewhere is to map 'jj' or 'jk' to esc when in insert mode (so 'inoremap jj <ESC>'). As a digraph they never occur in a natural language, so you'll never type it accidentally. And you can hit it on

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