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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
The ".NET Rocks!" podcast did three GeekOut shows this year on nuclear fusion, which will probably make you only more skeptical of fusion research claims. Fusion Power GeekOut: http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.as
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I see nothing particularly negative with that. I found it distracting and it struck me as lazy writing. Apparently, though, you can't criticize writing style on HN submissions.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Why acknowledge sample size when snark is on the line?
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I'm not saying this to be negative, necessarily, but something struck me in this essay, so I grep'd it. There are 47 instances of "I", by my count.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I've heard (anecdata alert!) that some men get frustrated and will start sending out "form messages" because they will take the time to craft meaningful messages only to get no reply This was documented on the old OKCupid b
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I think programming is great, it's people that are terrible. People write horrible APIs and document them poorly (ugh, Microsoft's SetupAPI put me into burnout mode last year). People make demands of the programmer but kick and sc
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
It's my recollection that it was very well designed in almost every way aside from appearance . As in, the creature comforts were good, considerations for rear loading, ease of access, reasonable performance, etc. Unfortunately, whe
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Couldn't one just as simply say "Programmers are toxic to business. They're classically myopic optimizing for 'fun' technical stacks without understanding the business they're working in." That's obv
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
If I remember correctly, legislation was passed in 2007 requiring trains everywhere in the US to blast their horn four times (length unspecified) before every crossing. The only exceptions are quad-gated crossing (I believe that means a ga
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
It's disturbing to see so many people insist that the NFL doesn't "deserve" to be a non-profit, because they don't give enough to charity. The NFL shouldn't qualify as a non-profit because they promote only N
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Yeah, the weird thing is how large and critical these VBA applications are that he works on. Lots of local banks and small businesses have, essentially, their entire business wrapped up in an old VBA CRUD app. Not that there's anythi
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I have an older relative who is still cashing in nicely on his VBA skills. There was a "demand vs pay" graph for tech skills going around awhile. VBA is low demand, but among the highest paid of the technologies.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I always find stories like this troubling because 1) how much of it was actually driven by the parents? 2) what's going to happen when it's no longer a quirky action by a cute little girl? Planet Money's podcast 567 covered
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I took a trip to ground zero for today's computer revolution, Stanford University, and randomly asked over a dozen students if they knew who were the first computer programmers. Almost none knew. I'm simultaneously horrified
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
you're saying that CCleaner is a bad idea simply because they cannot possibly understand the registry well enough to make the changes that they're making. It sounds more like, "the software vendor is doing incorrect or inco
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
reddit hires incompetent people who are not getting much work done. That explains why I don't recall ever seeing a new user feature (e.g. tagging, user blocking, a useful save or search function) in the years I've been on Reddit
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
As someone who graduated with a math minor and promptly forgot the vast majority of what he learned, something that really messed me up were gaps in my education. For example, I took a graduate level course in the foundations of mathematics
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
A corporate trainer once told me there's specific kinds of learners. I don't believe there is compelling evidence that this is the case. Instead, different people have different backgrounds and experiences. Learning requires ma
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Project Euler. Also, the whole 'kata' movement, where you write and rewrite relatively brief solutions to problems until you master them.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I went to college in the late 90's, before laptops were really viable for use in lectures (despite what I recall from the 1986 movie Back to School). We did have our math class in the computer lab, so we could graph functions. Of c
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
In my opinion, the problem is that drivers, by and large, are absolutely terrible at driving. They're so bad at driving that they have no idea how bad they are at it. We're a nation of self-promoting, self-obsessed, angry nar
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
“The reason mountain biking is so popular,” says Charlie Kelly, “is that it’s one of the only ways in modern life that you can turn on your adrenaline pump, and leave it on for a long time. You can go big-wave surfing or skydiving, but dow
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
My revisionist view of the mountain bike craze is to see it as a natural reaction to what politicians, planners and motorists were doing to our roads. I disagree with this entirely. Mountain biking (and BMX) grew entirely out of the motoc
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
there isn't really a $400 category for mountain bikes ... then there are the $1000+ bike store bikes. That's not quite accurate. Here's a random example: http://www.rei.com/c/mountain-bikes You should
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I would say that if you're riding on rough terrain (e.g. rocky, boulder-strewn, heavily rutted, etc.), you would be shocked at what you can do on a full suspension bike. I know I spent the first couple of months with a F/S bike
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
People with STEM degrees who don't have jobs are stupid. That is probably the dumbest assertion I've ever read on HN.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Uh. What? Did you intend to reply to someone else?
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Funnily, modern file systems (extfs3/4, NFTS, HPFS+?) all support extended attributes in some form or another. However, they are currently only rarely used: Mostly for the "this file was downloaded from the internet, do you reall
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
How about it being cheaper for companies to hire and maintain Don't forget about being able to effectively deport them on a whim if they voice any objection over their treatment.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Not GP, but my Nexus 4 is perpetually at its limit, filled with podcasts and a small selection of my music. I spend a lot of time in areas with a very poor signal, so streaming isn't useful to me. Personally, I want a MicroSD slot b

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