lostInTheWoods3

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by lostInTheWoods3 9y ago
Yet another reason to stop drinking Soda, one of the most acidic things that can be in a person's diet.
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Why It’s So Hard to Make a Video Game(vice.com)
1 points by lostInTheWoods3 10y ago|0 comments
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by lostInTheWoods3 10y ago
And don't forget JavaFX
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The art of writing small and plain functions(rainsoft.io)
3 points by lostInTheWoods3 10y ago|0 comments
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by lostInTheWoods3 10y ago
Agreed. Cleaning and correcting a code base is only part of the solution. Putting in place the policies and culture to make sure the code stays clean is the other part.
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by lostInTheWoods3 10y ago
The people on top desperately want us gone This is a cynical view of the world. Maybe the people "on top" simply want to improve their company's efficiency in order to return value to investors, etc. My point being its econ
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by lostInTheWoods3 10y ago
I had a wine opener confiscated because of the 1 inch knife ... can't imagine how someone might use a wine opener to hijack a plane
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by lostInTheWoods3 10y ago
Depends on where you get your news from. If all you do is watch the evening news, you will never get the full picture. Most of what is on television is so dumbed down as to be useless.
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by lostInTheWoods3 11y ago
Are we headed for civil war in cyber space? This is the kind of bs that starts to wake people up.
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by lostInTheWoods3 11y ago
"just, wow" > "wow", denotes staggering astonishment. Or put more simply: minds were blown.
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by lostInTheWoods3 11y ago
"The purpose of art is to ...." Um, no, Art can have any purpose its creator bestows, including none at all.
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by lostInTheWoods3 11y ago
a billion more potential farmers yes, but land and water are finite resources
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by lostInTheWoods3 11y ago
Shouldn't people who want to learn web development use the workflow and tools of professional web developers? And since these tools are free, I don't see the case for Thimble.
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by lostInTheWoods3 11y ago
Starbucks customers go there for the customer experience, not for the coffee Actually we go for the coffee. But there is something to be said for the store experience of Starbucks, it is high-class and delightful, compared to something li
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
It's not that the name is offensive. The definition of the word Payola, is not something you should want your product to be associated with.
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
It sounds like you're burned out. Possibly, from spending way too much time in front of your computer. You need to find some other interests, there is more to life than writing code.
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
You've got to consider the inflation rate which is currently hovering around 2-3%.
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
To quote Walter White: We are not in danger, we are the danger. And would we want it any other way? Could we as a nation accept being second best at the delivery of death and destruction?
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
The female version of guy is gal, I believe. You could write guy/gal. The word "person" is probably the only gender neutral substitute available.
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
Obfuscation of the rules is clearly a key component of the voting system on HN. The less we know about the rules, the less we can game the system.
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
Avocado ... Also called alligator pear. a large, usually pear-shaped fruit having green to blackish skin, a single large seed, and soft, light-green pulp, borne by the tropical American tree Persea americana and its variety P. adrymifolia,
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
Sounds more like a bug than a backdoor. I would think spaces aren't an allowed character. Likely their validation regex didn't expect a series of spaces, and this edge case not being caught, somehow allows access.
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
Make a public example of this termination WTF? When did this become feudal Japan?
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by lostInTheWoods3 12y ago
He didn't demand the termination He didn't have to. And learning of the consequence, he didn't seem to care. a power play by the heads of HR who seem to be the real bad guys here Really? Blame the minions? They offered so
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by lostInTheWoods3 13y ago
- Make small changes, frequent commits - Make testing habitual - Keep a record of everything you do - Have a backup. Be ready and able to revert. - Automate what you can - Create procedures (checklists) for common tasks - Slow down. Never r
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by lostInTheWoods3 13y ago
> Better to have rent control and other cost-of-living regulation. Rent control is another government program that messes with the natural order of things (aka the free market). It kills the incentive of developers to build affordable ho
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by lostInTheWoods3 13y ago
Giving out "free" money is the equivalent of the government printing money. You don't have to be an economics major to realize that printing money (or dropping it out of an airplane) cheapens the value of that money. Hence, y