lectrick

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by lectrick 10y ago
Evidence? Also false dichotomy. We do not know the percentage of successful marriages with undiscovered affairs.
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by lectrick 10y ago
Similar to Global Thermonuclear War in the movie WarGames, the only winning move may soon simply be not to play :O
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by lectrick 10y ago
While this sounds sexist, would any husband actually argue against that part? Let's be frank, here
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by lectrick 10y ago
That limits your choices quite a bit. For example there are a large number of attractive women with terrible incomes and/or no savings, for which "scoring a successful man" may be a "valid" mating strategy
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by lectrick 10y ago
I actually think this biases mate selection (not necessarily in a good way) toward people of similar or slightly greater/lesser income
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by lectrick 11y ago
"Throughout its history Norsk Data produced a long string of extremely innovative systems, with a disproportionately large number of world firsts." Still seems like something worth being proud of. It just got sideswiped by the per
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by lectrick 11y ago
Fascinating. I see it as yellow. This also hints at the "qualia" mystery...
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by lectrick 11y ago
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_convers... Page 3, point 4: "Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense in
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by lectrick 11y ago
Don't be jaded! Stay excited! You were way ahead of the curve! ;)
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by lectrick 11y ago
As someone who has only recently (finally) become disillusioned by OO (especially in larger codebases and/or on programming teams, which both seem to rapidly escalate tech debt and complexity thanks to things like mutability, class reo
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by lectrick 11y ago
> I also like the immutable variables aspect. Elixir has the same immutable variables. I don't know why this is such a misconception. Erlang conflates rebinding and reassignment, Elixir does not, and the tradeoffs seem to (overall)
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by lectrick 11y ago
I thought Erlang looked weirder than Elixir (to the extent that I was turned off until Elixir came along), but fortunately, both of our opinions are compatible as everything compiles down to BEAM and is interoperable :) From a semantic pers
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by lectrick 11y ago
"I couldn't be bothered to Google the problem, but based on my sample size of 1, I think your problem doesn't exist" Thanks for that useful comment, man.
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by lectrick 11y ago
This is a quite beautiful post about engineering in general, actually. You try to solve a practical problem as best as you can, and you get sort of an unintended-beneficial-consequences effect and end up creating principles that have a more
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by lectrick 11y ago
I think physics and art are nearly the perfect potential sources of a good programmer
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by lectrick 11y ago
I could not get into Witcher 1 OR 2. Witcher 3 is as different from 1 and 2 as Assassins' Creed 2 was different from Assassins' Creed 1. I recommend it
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by lectrick 11y ago
I'm kinda glad I left frontend dev just as JQuery peaked lol
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by lectrick 11y ago
Zynga And I would personally argue for Microsoft's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish program
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by lectrick 11y ago
Might I recommend Witcher 3 (amazing!) and Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain, both of which I enjoyed (slightly) more than FO4 (sadly) and DA:I. They are both also more "mature" games (and TPP is set in 1980's Afghanistan an
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by lectrick 11y ago
/sarcasm
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by lectrick 11y ago
Homebrew... The only Homebrew I know about is http://brew.sh/ 1) There is almost definitely an emacs equivalent for iOS 2) Pycharm- Maybe Textastic ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textastic-code-e
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by lectrick 11y ago
I am ONLY interested in this if it will be possible to code on it. I am fairly certain most of the HN community would agree that a device that "completes the circle" (allows you to create native apps on the device, for the devic
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by lectrick 11y ago
EDIT: I was wrong. I assumed Chrome iOS and Chrome Android used the same rendering engine. I'm rather shocked that they don't, actually.
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by lectrick 11y ago
What's the software you're referring to, Android fanboy?
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by lectrick 11y ago
Is anyone else a person who loves games but is disgusted by Clash of Clans (and anything else that uses any business model invented by Farmville)?
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by lectrick 11y ago
Of course I can't find the links now via Google, but I saw an announcement recently (multiple actually) about batteries in development that are not affected by cold temperatures AND have higher charge capacity AND speed than Li-Ion.
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by lectrick 11y ago
While outputting toxic carbon monoxide directly into the breathing air of the vehicles following immediately behind
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by lectrick 11y ago
About half the time the NRO has been mentioned in my lifetime, it's in relation to some story about a UFO that got away (but was tracked by NRO radar)
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by lectrick 11y ago
> "We own the night" That has such an 80's, "The Lost Boys"-esque flavor to it (reference for the uninitiated: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lost_boys/ )
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by lectrick 11y ago
1) The Tesla just surpassed the Leaf as the most popular electric car (yes, even with the price difference). 2) Electric car perks are everywhere and rarely mentioned. Free charging, way better parking, fielding questions from curious onloo

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