leorocky

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by leorocky 12y ago
I think the way out of this is a basic income guarantee. When a basic income is provided without requiring labor and this basic income meets the needs of an individual the cost of human labor will increase (the cost of everything will incre
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by leorocky 12y ago
> Lots of people lost money. Maybe it was done on purpose? The models I mean. Cause I bet someone made a fortune. Someone short-selling the game? The considerable amount of collusion required across fifa, the teams and players, multiple
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by leorocky 12y ago
I guess the major benefit is for people who do not actually have alzheimers being falsely diagnosed, but early detection doesn't help in any way for people who do have it, right? I'm not sure I'd want to know until it was una
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by leorocky 12y ago
These may be reasons why you cannot sell lower than $99 but they are not reasons why someone should pay so much. The stated plan to keep updating the app reveals a fear that they are not creating enough value despite the cost to develop. Th
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by leorocky 12y ago
I've only ever heard good things about C#. I believe C# has first class anonymous functions, makes async operations easy, and a combination of VisualStudio and JetBrains resharper you have a pretty amazing development environment. I ha
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by leorocky 12y ago
I like Wells Fargo ATM machines, the thing you insert the card into is a transparent green glowing device and all the ATMS look the same and have touch screens. It's easier to tell if someone put a skimmer on them. I do not use non-Wel
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by leorocky 12y ago
Eh, I don't think Techcrunch is so bad. They don't usually have link baity titles like wired, they genuinely try to do a good job reporting on new startups and many yc companies get an initial post on TC which gives them that firs
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by leorocky 12y ago
I quite like fish and have been using it painlessly for nearly 6 months now. I wish fish included an actual programming language that could replace bash scripts, but the sane advice from fish devs is to use a real programming language inste
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by leorocky 12y ago
While I can admire your stance, I think it is naive and doesn't reflect reality. Look at how weev's statements on reddit were used against him at his trial. Also if you look at the people involved in NinjaVideo, an illicit online
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by leorocky 12y ago
A big suggestion missing here is a CS degree. I like Steve Yegge's take on it[1]: > The best tip is: go get a computer science degree. The more computer science you have, the better. You don't have to have a CS degree, but it h
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by leorocky 12y ago
It's not the NSA_SUSPICIOUN_INT rising I worry about. I am certain that individual monitoring of the average hobo like your or me (I don't know maybe you're actually a TOR dev or something) isn't happing, BUT someday you
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by leorocky 12y ago
This is awesome and probably took considerable work. There is no plugin system for Xcode, which has always bugged me. Why would Apple not make Xcode officially extensible. Xcode plugins make Xcode unstable and break when Xcode is updated.
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by leorocky 12y ago
You cannot require the memory requirements of Ubuntu server with a desktop version of Ubuntu. Desktop Ubuntu's minimum is also 512MB: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequire...
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by leorocky 12y ago
I don't think this qualifies as a separate distro unless you also think Kubuntu and Xubuntu are separate distros. They are just Ubuntu with different packages for the UI preinstalled. You can probably install them side by side and swit
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by leorocky 12y ago
> "What would you say separates the strongest and the weakest members of your team?" It's easy to reply to this phrasing with a canned answer and very little though. "Experience, skill, and a positive attitude."
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by leorocky 12y ago
Nay, the big companies that care a lot about these languages own them through and through. Look at Adobe's attempt at converging ActionScript and JavaScript in the abandoned ECMAScript 4th edition: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by leorocky 12y ago
I'm not making the case it won't be available as torrents, I just think there's no compelling reason to torrent it if you have a Netflix account, and in fact you might even get an account to support that kind of entertainment
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by leorocky 12y ago
> [* Dearest Netflix: Want to make up for missing this one? You could always bring back Firefly and/or Pushing Daisies... Please?] Netflix might be able to make a space based sci-fi show, the Netflix audience is probably young enoug
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by leorocky 12y ago
I think the point of Quora was just to get engagement up with whatever it took to keep people posting and upvoting. It was addicting, but forget getting answers to questions unless you were one of the sites better known users. Quora is the
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by leorocky 12y ago
I think scales of magnitude are informative. The difference between 100 and 200 lines or 10,000 and 20,000 are probably not useful, but you can get an idea of the scale of a project when you compare orders of magnitude. At the smallest scal
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by leorocky 12y ago
I'm sorry for your tough week. Not to pile on the negativity, it was an innovative product, and none of this is your fault, but it probably doesn't make sense to resell copyrighted content. As for not being done, your CEO, Kanojia
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by leorocky 12y ago
1.3 million is a really tiny number. Why is it so small? The city of Tucson, Arizona has about 1 million people and it's in the middle of an uninhabitable desert.
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by leorocky 12y ago
I've read about studies where just seeing someone else smile and be happy makes others who see it also happier. Like a happy person gets on a bus full of less than happy people and the entire bus ends up happier. I don't think thi
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by leorocky 12y ago
You can just pretty much replace everything in Android. Replace home screen, the app selector, the lockscreen. Get those with less or no animation.
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by leorocky 12y ago
Yeah setting up fuzzy finding on emacs is a huge pain. It's not a hard problem to solve, so maybe if I end up making more use of evil I'll try and write something although elisp is not fun. I currently use helm, ido and projectile
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by leorocky 12y ago
What I said wasn't harsh, it just wasn't apparently enough genuflection and awe to appease the people that happened to be interested enough to check the comments on this link. I care about as much as I did yesterday, which is not
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by leorocky 12y ago
Looks like this comment of mine was irrevocably wrong and completely irredeemable. No apology is possible and I'm sorry for my very existence. Go social voting sites! Go internet culture! Yay.
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by leorocky 12y ago
These kinds of ray casters are really cool, but at this point in time I don't care about how small the code base is, just make a really cool ray caster in JavaScript and don't worry about how big the code is (within reasonable lim
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by leorocky 12y ago
This reminds me of Atwood's Discourse. I don't know if there's anything broken with old forums. They don't have the whizbang features, but it's nice to not load a gimmicky JavaScript UI that adds no value to what is
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by leorocky 12y ago
I own a Kindle Fire HDX, which is a nice tablet, but really the only reason I own it instead of a regular Android tablet is because Amazon Video is not available on Android. Given that I don't care about video for a tiny phone screen,

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