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by skittles 12y ago
I should have put "off topic" in my comment, but I thought it was obvious since I didn't mention a pesticide or depression. I just thought my comment might be of interest to anyone that would be reading the post.
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by skittles 12y ago
Just read about Roundup being commonly used by wheat farmers to "desiccate" the crop before harvest (allowing for earlier harvest). Maybe this whole gluten intolerance thing is actually a Roundup intolerance.
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by skittles 12y ago
There aren't very many schools that make your resume stand out. If you aren't going to one of them (Harvard, MIT, etc.), then any cheap, accredited school will do. The degree on the resume gets you past the filtering process, an
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by skittles 12y ago
This is going to be a huge boost to ClojureCLR, IronPython, and F#. I think F# especially is going to take off in popularity now that its best VM target is going to run on Linux and Mac.
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by skittles 12y ago
This is the best Wikipedia page on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer Basically, a balanced-ternary system would be smaller and more efficient than a binary system that can match it. I'd lik
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by skittles 12y ago
Haskell is strongly and statically typed which means its compiler can generate more optimized code. The compiler also creates programs that run without a virtual machine. Clojure is dynamically typed and runs on the JVM. It is still real
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by skittles 12y ago
TCO isn't really transparent to the programmer. Some recursive calls cannot be optimized, so the programmer has to know how to write recursive functions that can be.
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by skittles 12y ago
The U.S. is full of people that can barely make it to the next paycheck, but they'll have an iPhone, a car, cable tv, cigarettes, etc. Unless you are taking public transportation to your 2 jobs without all the consumer goods I've
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by skittles 12y ago
The U.S. is overly protective of children and young adults. We can't drink alcohol until 21 and many cities have curfew laws for kids up to the age of 16 or so. My city has a curfew for those 16 and under. They can't be out aft
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by skittles 12y ago
There's not enough science to support either side in this debate. My guess is that a small percentage of people actually have a gluten intolerance. I also think that modern wheat can cause inflammation and gut problems. Mostly I thi
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by skittles 12y ago
If it is possible, move one person to another role in the company so that one isn't reviewing the work of the other.
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by skittles 12y ago
When I read about the falling asleep at work and waking up to a headache, I thought sleep apnea was a probable root of the problems. Lack of sleep does terrible things to a person.
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by skittles 12y ago
Technically it has taken cues from ActionScript (which is also an EcmaScript language).
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by skittles 12y ago
Don't worry about it. He is schizophrenic and believes God talks directly to him. If you had this problem, you probably wouldn't want to take medication for it. He thinks he has been chosen. It really isn't under his cont
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by skittles 12y ago
I donated about 20 programming books to the local library after seeing that the selection was decades old and almost non-existent. It was very frustrating to find out that they sold all of them in order to buy a few popular titles.
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by skittles 12y ago
A four minute mile is under four minutes.
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by skittles 12y ago
I think TDD is good when writing something you've done a few times before ("I know exactly how to write this app"). I tend to get projects that require exploration. I refuse to write a bunch of test code for each new class
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by skittles 12y ago
I have 2 counter examples. My wife's step father would come home from his sales job and drink glass after glass of whiskey and coke. Each was about 15 ounces of whiskey with 1 ounce of coke to give it color (trying to hide how much h
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by skittles 12y ago
Go read the blog now. He did the drug trial, and it went well.
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by skittles 12y ago
This question shows a lack of self confidence. Be confident in your skills when networking and interviewing. Seems like you are latching onto one way of getting a more interesting job. It is a reckless plan and totally unnecessary. Fi
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by skittles 12y ago
Anyone know why clang on mac os x doesn't know about edit/history.h? The line editing portion of the book requires it.
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by skittles 12y ago
I don't like IntelliJ, but I do like Netbeans for Java and PHP development. IntelliJ has a behavior that I can't stand (almost an OCD trigger for me). When I click on a page of code somewhere past the last character in a line, I
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by skittles 12y ago
A free-market society would never average a 15 hour work week unless there's no incentive to pay for the work anymore. This could happen if we find a limitless energy source and real artificial intelligence. As long as someone is w
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by skittles 13y ago
Seems like switching from yellow to red still leaves them open to law suite. They'll be less likely to lose the suite, but I don't think the court will throw it out based upon the trademark wording. Just make it black.
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by skittles 13y ago
I think the better message is to think about what would happen if you or your spouse died or couldn't work. There isn't a one-size-fits-all plan. Someone with a $500,000 mortgage, $50,000 in other loans, and no real nest egg nee
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by skittles 13y ago
Microsoft says TS is supported in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web. That's a free download with a license that allows one to do commercial development. It won't have everything the pay versions have, but it will be more than e
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by skittles 13y ago
Erlang needs a production quality web server that is a fully compliant OTP application, and mnesia needs to have its dependency on dets abstracted away so that other storage engines can be used (relational database of choice, dynamodb, etc.
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by skittles 13y ago
Article says to talk to your talent at least once a quarter. You should do it once a week.
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by skittles 13y ago
My kids have mentioned how adults always end messages (especially facebook postings) with "...". I wonder how that started?
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by skittles 13y ago
In assembly language, a sub-procedure can save the state of all the registers it will use before using them and then set the state back when it is done (push register values on the stack, do work using those registers, and then pop the stat

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