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by devonrt 13y ago
HN has terrible opinions and ideas about exercise. For a group that is generally pretty critical, they are surprisingly naive and uncritical when it comes to exercise. Go figure.
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by devonrt 13y ago
This is still a lot better than working on someone else's (or even your own!) jQuery-only project.
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by devonrt 13y ago
What if you programmed in a different programming language every week or so? Roughly the same result. You'd know a little bit about a lot of languages, but never enough to be very productive, and you'd never build anything worth u
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by devonrt 14y ago
This strikes me as underpants gnome logic: 1. Google will allow .edu Google Apps users to activate G+. 2. ? 3. G+ will "dominate" Facebook.
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by devonrt 15y ago
NHL Game Center is even worse—there is NO online cancellation process and don't let you cancel your subscription partway through the season. I live in Canada an pretty much any game that is aired on TSN or TSN2 is blacked out for me. Watchi
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by devonrt 15y ago
I cut cable, but now I'm going back to it. Not having cable has been expensive. For sports, the only viable alternative has been services like NFL Game Pass and NHL Game Center, both of which clock in at around $250 a season, and that's jus
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by devonrt 15y ago
Very sophisticated. Almost like magic :)
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by devonrt 15y ago
The upside to you is that your photographs are tagged and categorized in more and more useful ways. Without this suggestion what is the likelihood that you would go back to old albums and tag them in such a way? I know for me, it's almost z
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by devonrt 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing. On government contracts we're still required to support IE6 even though we can't seem to find an actual computer running IE6.
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by devonrt 15y ago
It's not just larger organizations. I've seen exactly what you're citing — where even the most trivial objects were injected — in an organization with roughly 5 developers.
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by devonrt 15y ago
This is my biggest complaint as well. The new features of the UI are great, but it still looks pretty bad. There's a lot of white space and very little contrast between elements are groups of elements. The "Compose Mail" but just sort of ha
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by devonrt 15y ago
The great thing about the Haskell signature is that if you understand functional programming at all, it's fairly easy to understand, at least in my opinion. Scala's method signature requires knowledge of Scala's brand of functional programm
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by devonrt 15y ago
Awesome and also illegal in most western countries.
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by devonrt 15y ago
I can't help but feel that the original list skews a little "nerdy" and aren't really a draw for most people. Some of the arguments are just specious and/or dubious. Privacy & trust? Facebook's privacy controls are actually more fine gr
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by devonrt 15y ago
I think one of the reasons that RoR might seem bigger is because RoR is a much bigger part of the "Ruby experience" than Django is for Python. Rails had a huge hand in making Ruby what it is today and I think you'd have a hard time finding
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by devonrt 15y ago
Yes, but that's not specific to copyright law, it's a problem with tort law in the US in general (although, admittedly, its abuse is pretty prevalent when it comes to copyrights).
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by devonrt 15y ago
Was it really a scare tactic in this case, though? The copyright holder felt that his copyright had been infringed, so he sent a cease and desist, backed up with the threat of legal action. What should the copyright holder have done instead
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by devonrt 16y ago
This is a really great textbook. Probably one of the only textbooks I kept around after school.
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by devonrt 16y ago
That really is a much better example. The first example implies some sort of correlation between impulsiveness or lack of self control and a willingness to perform criminal behavior.
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by devonrt 16y ago
It's really, really hard to take an article seriously when it takes an "impulsive" five year old and has him committing statutory rape as an adult. Kind of an unnecessary example, no?
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by devonrt 16y ago
This was roughly my thought too. A social network that will only ever be available to a small niche (iTunes users that purchase music on the ITMS) is hardly social. Last.fm is available to anyone regardless of their platform or where they
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by devonrt 16y ago
I can't tell if this is tongue-in-cheek or not, but I'll reply seriously anyway: When I want a carrot I grab one out of the fridge, grab the peeler off of the counter, pull my compost box out from under the sink and peel it directly into th
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by devonrt 16y ago
Is it really that inconvenient to clean a carrot? Just peel it and eat it. I can peel a carrot quicker than most people can even decide what to have at a vending machine.
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by devonrt 16y ago
I'm sorry, but really? It was obvious to me within 5 seconds that I was playing with humans.
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by devonrt 16y ago
The ending isn't confusing, just ambiguous.
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by devonrt 16y ago
Looks kind of neat, but I always thought it was a shame that spherical mercator has become the standard projection for web maps; it's kind of ugly.
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by devonrt 16y ago
The article conveniently ignores every other game that does not have the same restrictions on user generated content, and then claims the "death of content freedom." Starcraft 2 is one datapoint. Where was the article trumpeting the "renewa
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by devonrt 16y ago
You've assumed that statically typed languages are somehow "better" than dynamically typed languages and then asked "Why doesn't everyone use the better languages?" Dynamically typed vs. statically typed is still an open question and is a l
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by devonrt 16y ago
Harvesting as much sheet music as possible from free sources (Icking, Petrucci, etc) converting it to MusicXML and LilyPad and then doing... something with it. I have a few ideas, but harvesting it all is a start. I'd like to put it online
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by devonrt 16y ago
Leiningen's goals are slightly different than clrj's. Leiningen is more like a Maven type project descriptor/build system whereas cljr is more like an easy_install-esque tool. cljr can be used without creating a project.

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