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p333347
10y ago
The task of verification looks like a nice AI problem to solve.
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tvtropes.org. plato.stanford.edu, which is a philosophy encyclopedia by Stanford university.
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Nice content but had forgotten what the site looked like. It literally kills the eyes and gives a headache when the green on black index page suddenly changes to black on white text file page.
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10y ago
Indie movie maker (with story, screenplay, editing, cinematography, directing and money all being mine so that I am in total control of creativity). Making movies has been a long time dream for me. I will do that when I am older and have en
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c++ 03. (This works well for me and never felt a need to switch to newer versions beyond using a few things here and there like auto, with new meaning. I have been using latest Visual Studio Express versions since 2010 so this 'mix
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Two things stood out right away (on Firefox 42) and point 2 particularly dissuaded me from checking it out any further. 1. It doesn't check for empty content and produces a pdf with just 'memo' and horizontal line. 2. Can
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> Notice how much of the countries and people living near the equator fail to have built great civilizations, humans just aren't as productive in the heat. I think Iraq, Egypt, Iran and India were all as hot as they are now and they
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> Perhaps the best advice is from Michelle Obama: "When they go low, we go high" Brilliant appropriation.
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10y ago
The usage "big omega" and "little omega" always makes me chuckle, as they translate to "big big oh" and "little big oh".
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10y ago
Printed copies stored in libraries of UN and each of the Security Council permanent member countries, and whoever volunteers to make it "technology proof". Further, the paper and ink could be engineered to last for many centuries.
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OK. Going by what you said, the best way is to actually build something that works, and if possible non trivial (you can even try to clone an existing popular app as you can focus on actually implementing it than brainstorming ideas), and s
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Stick to your specialty and scratch the programming itch as a hobby. If you get good at that hobby, see if you really want to be a professional dev and look for a job. If you get nothing you like start your own thing (your experience with s
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> I am constantly seeking to remind her that it is a lack of lightheartedness that is at the rock of extremism....I know the likelihood that I'll ever succeed is small, but it's important to me to wake people from what I consid
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10y ago
Have you talked to this person in order to understand his "serious personality problems" or just basing these on what you hear or observe? You said you brought all the team members, so I assume all of you think alike, which seems
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10y ago
Be it web application development in specific, or software engineering in general, or even in life itself, I'd say its much better to be good at many things than great at one thing. For one, it makes a person self sufficient and indepe
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I have been a C++ dev for all my career (about 14 years), so JavaScript was pretty cool relatively speaking. For various reasons I had been a Luddite of sorts and late to the webapp party. But when I finally got in, (more like circumstances
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I have never been involved with one, directly or indirectly, so I can't comment on the culture. I am planning to start one though. However, as a strict outsider looking at things, I find it amusing that every startup claims to disrupt
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10y ago
Search and Replace for Windows (that nifty little tool with blue binoculars icon), HxD - Hexeditor, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Express (web and desktop), Beyond Compare, MS Paint, GIMP, sometimes Inkscape, Calculator, Glary Utilities (This
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> YMMV, but you should take some time to examine yourself and discover what genuinely refreshes you. I hope by 'you' you mean 'one'.
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By going beyond frameworks and languages and investing in more abstract things like design and algorithms.
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10y ago
When this sort of thing happens to me it is usually because either I didn't have a concrete plan on what I was going to do beyond describing it as "useful" (or the project wasn't really interesting), or I had been depriv
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The connotation of the word 'union' is of a group of poor laborers, often working in harsh environment, coming together for fight against arbitrariness of their rich employers with regards to matters such as salary, job security,
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> But all candidates get demonized, and then you choose between the least of both evils. In practice, it results in a similar outcome. Media could paint all candidates as the greatest hero, and you'd pick the bigger Saint of them al
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Not sure of the (technical) feasibility of this, but I have some social observations. It seems the motivating factor, ostensibly, is to protect children. However, the primary concern of those who don't like this seems to be with leaks
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> I just don't think that you provided a well-justified reason I was implying something like why reading something from a textbook is better than a random answer on reddit or yahoo answers. Mind you, I am talking about posters talki
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> How have the downstream job prospects gone after taking a demotion? I haven't done anything like that first hand, and this response might not be useful, but FWIW I have browsed many profile on LinkedIn (mostly stackexchange users
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You quoted me "it reassures me that I am not reading comments by newly minted young adult or a 20+ years experienced person doing mostly rote work." and said "What does that matter, if the comment is good? Nothing is inherent
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It seems we have quite different ways of looking at things, so it would be futile, and honestly unnecessary, to debate on that. > If it's important to the conversation, the commenter can point out their own past experience (which An
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I wonder how you deal with remarks made by known people in real life where there isn't this obscuring mechanism. If you have a plan to deal with that, the same can be applied here. Personally, having a "blue tick" like thing
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For me it is the sharp spikes in sound curve that is annoying and distracting, like honking of vehicles, screaming kids etc in an otherwise quieter environment. Any uniform/sustained sound, for that matter even constant blaring of horn
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