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elperroborrachotoo
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Ah well... errrr.... well spotted, of course! I think it's my masterpiece ;)
(I blame my bad spelling entirely on Visual Assist)
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i thought of one more use-case specially C and if you are not allowed goto :
> using functions and returning from there : you need to call your cleanup routines everytime you return from there. Using this you can have your cleanup routines at the end and at one place.
I found that useful.
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I've been using it for a while. It's become a font, that I don't pay too much attention to, which is good. It just works and looks the way it should for me. One of the main reasons I started using it is because not many programming fonts have more symbols than just ASCII. And I need my Baltic alphabet.
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kyz
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US2815488 is blatantly a hardware patent. It's how early memory was actually constructed. You couldn't construe that as a creative list of instructions to a turing-machine.
What's nice about Mr von Neumann, however, is that he published papers about the development of computers, hence the basic structure of a load-store computer (the so-called "von Neumann architecture") is *not* patentable, while patents can be sought for specific implementations.
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Taladar
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Presumably the name refers to the programmer who left the company after being driven insane by the API he had to use.
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iluvatar
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How can this possibly have been upvoted so much when the guy clearly doesn't know what he's talking about (and even emphasises the fact in the comments when someone tries to point out he doesn't mean "kerning")?
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khoury
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I can't fathom how these are getting approved when the economy is in the shitter. This is horseshit.
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I_Am_Coder
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I may be a dreamer, but I connect the halograph via USB.
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I_Am_Coder
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> [...] hack [...]
Thanks bro!
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* The software is at http://lucid-code.com/LucidScribe
* The hardware will be at http://lucid-code.com/Halographs
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What issues do you have, just out of interest? I don't think I even notice fonts when I'm developing ...
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paolog
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What song does it play? Losing My Religion? Shiny Happy People?
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*Not programming.*
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zingbot3000
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It doesn't, though, it brings them to F#. And then you are an MS guy if you use that.
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*Not programming.*
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nestoras
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Thank you kind sir! This is so good, it deserves many more upvotes.
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big-o-notation
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Day took our jerbs!!
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tinou
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And as function parameters, `char a[]` and `char* a` are synonyms.
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JonDum
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How the F did Monaco nor Menlo make this list?
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Boojum
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For a slightly different (i.e., procedural) take, there was [an old 1998 DDJ article on this topic.](http://drdobbs.com/database/184410529)
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Accounting? wtf? It that for positions involving international taxation or something?
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IntergalacticTowel
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That's beautiful. Thank you for sharing it!
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Nolari
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Like Google Wave? That worked out great.
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kyz
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>Effect on me? Nil. I just use Jpeg.
This is where I suspect you don't actually write software.
The current example of this is where iPhone and Android developers are being sued (individually!) by Lodsys who should really be going to Apple or Google. The likelyhood is that both their patents will be invalidated.
The problem is simple: in the "copying ideas" realm (remember you can't get a patent *or* a copyright on an idea, only a realisation of an idea), copyright law requires you to show that someone actually copied your idea, so you can't easily shakedown random strangers. The first step in court is to show at least some evidence of copying. Patent law presumes that because you have a patent, it's up to the random stranger to show they didn't infringe it, or the patent is invalid. Patents empower trolling, copyrights don't.
>Again, why does it bother you
What bothers me is that anyone, not just large corporations, can invest in creating software, then someone can come along once it's built and claim to have a monopoly over some fragment of what you wrote, therefore they have leverage over you. It's what mobsters do. While this may happen among device patents, it happens rarely. Patent trolling is a relatively new phenomenon, and is coincident with the legitimisation of software patents in the USA.
Copyright is fair. You can't copy other people's work, but you can invest your own time to achieve the same ends. It seems to me that patents are designed for protecting things that need or foster large capital investment, so should be restricted to those areas. They shouldn't be handed out for software, where it's much easier to translate ideas into something tangible. The right level of protection is already available, that protection is copyright.
>They were, to the extent that they contained patentable material.
Perhaps you can explain your position.
To me, software of any kind is creative application of mathematics and is not patentable, and patents prior to the 1980s generally reflect that. You can't get a patent on the instructions controlling a device, or ideas embedded in those instructions, but you can get a patent on the device and its overall function.
The software innovations listed weren't patented, because they couldn't be, and they shouldn't have been as it would be akin to patenting aspects of mathematics or aesthetic works, and would have precluded the blooming of computers and software we see today.
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Counterman
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As a sign of progress in the programming world, witness that only _two_ of the fonts are small bitmapped nightmares in disguise!
It's amazing that someone doing what we do can be so utterly conservative on our own programming-social issues. Go learn vim, son, it builds character! Hey, I've got this lovely tiny bitmapped font for you!
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I_Am_Coder
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Of life.
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krishna
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I like bitmap fonts for code and terminals. The PCF versions of the OS/2 screen fonts[1] are what I use these days.
[1] http://www.karasik.eu.org/fonts/
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Koreija
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> which is basically what Koreija was giving him shit for
As stated below I criticized the error-prone implementation of already available tools. It doesn't scale, loses data, is slower and with a shell function/alias it isn't even shorter. If he really made this "for the educational value" he should accept the critics and look for better solutions.
Take the last change in argument handling. Now one can't use "-r" as a key anymore. Any difference to the previous version? No. boorm would have been a solution.
Before he implements an (again already existing) online key value store, he should get the basics right in the console version.
> I'm really curious about
Sorry, but that's only because of a lack of knowledge regarding the system tools on your part.
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krishna
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Previously I used this: http://antigrain.com/stuff/mcs_fon.zip
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Zarutian
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yebb the earth is flat if you normolize the spacetime curvature.
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saucykavan
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[Mono Dyslexic](http://www.pixelscript.net/monodyslexic/) - It was mentioned on Reddit last week along with its non-fixed width counterpart. I've been using it as my programming font and absolutely love it.
Before this, I was a 14pt Menlo/Bitstream Vera kind of guy.
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Zarutian
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down to where? The bottomless Abyss?
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Zarutian
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Are you tired of memes?
Does the one sounding like a telly announcement irk you the most?
Do not despair!
Buy Anti-Rickroll-goats.ce pedant today! It works equally well as Balance Bracelet!
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spidermonk
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Monaco.
http://www.gringod.com/2006/02/24/return-of-monacottf/
Also: dreamweaver? Really?
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vexxor
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Had to scroll down a lot to find this. I've used it for years now and although I did experiment with others like Proggy and Anonymous I always came back to Dina.
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androo87
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If you are happy soldering hardware, you will probably find you get better signal and flexibility with the raw data from an OpenEEG box than Emotiv or Neurosky.
http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/hw/
http://www.olimex.com/gadgets/index.html
You could also build unobtrusive electrodes so you can sleep comfortably while wearing and recording.
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henk53
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>First of all I didn't say C++ schools, I said C schools.
Yeah, sorry, typo.
>So yeah what language is taught in doesn't matter, but there is a correlation in the US. Better schools generally don't teach in java, whereas worse schools generally do.
I haven't seen a US school from the inside, so I guess I have to take your word for it. In general there's quite a bit of serious work being done in Java though, so in my book it shouldn't necessarily equate with a lower level of education.
We do have something that confusingly commonly translates to "high school" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Netherlands#Hbo) where they typically use either Java or PHP. These are definitely worse schools, up to the point that what students are being taught is sometimes plain wrong.
The universities however that use Java are simply okay here. They do in fact teach the pumping lemma, turing machines, computer architecture (including building e.g. an adder from gates, programming a CPU emulator, hand optimize output from a C compiler), operating systems (including building a device driver, terminal emulator, memory manager), compiler construction (including of course building a compiler), grid computing, AI (genetic algorithms, neural networks) and a slew of math courses (typically ~50% of the Bachelor phase).
Look up the curriculum of the VU University I mentioned, it contains all the basic stuff.
Of course, I haven't heard of any University here that uses a single language exclusively. The VU uses Java as the default language for courses, but if it's more common for a specific domain to use another language, this other language is used. So e.g. the introduction to programming, algorithms and datastructure courses may all use Java, but the OS course mandates that the device driver assignment has to be done in C.
Maybe it's just that the term "university" is not as protected in the US as it is over here? As mentioned, we definitely have these 'worse' schools, they just aren't called university.
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kristovaher
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Thank you for kind comments! I never thought about sharing it before. I was originally annoyed by many of the dark themes that were too colorful. I never needed this many colors, I needed better saturation on three-four colors and that's it. So that was the idea behind it.
Some things aren't exactly as I would want them to be due to Notepad++ styling limitations, but this theme supports all web programming languages as well as SQL files in as consistent way as currently possible on Notepad++.
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not programming
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androo87
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No - at a functional level, what signal is being used to detect REM? How do you know this signal reliably varies with REM?
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kristovaher
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Thank you for the compliment, I didn't think about sharing it until this thread popped up. Consolas font itself is not included in that *.rar file, so if some of you don't have the font, it will look a little different, but anyways, glad to be of help :)
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__j_random_hacker
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It would be enough for me if there was a way in Haskell to map over the elements of a *nested* tuple like `(42, ("a string", (123.45, ())))`, but the following attempt fails typechecking:
map_nested_tuple f () = ()
map_nested_tuple f (a, b) = (f a, map_nested_tuple f b)
You can do the equivalent in C++ using templates quite easily:
struct end_of_list {}; // Just a marker type
template <typename F, typename T, typename U>
void map_nested_pair(F f, pair<T, U> p) {
f.run(p.first);
map_nested_pair(f, p.second);
}
template <typename F>
void map_nested_pair(F f, end_of_list p) {}
struct print_anything {
template <typename T>
void run(T t) {
cout << t << '\n'; // Prints t and a newline
}
};
The following line:
map_nested_pair(print_anything(), make_pair(42, make_pair("A string", make_pair(123.45, end_of_list()))));
will now print
42
A string
123.45
I expect that machinery similar to the above is what underlies the [Boost.Tuple](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/libs/tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html) library. (Among many other things, that library adds some syntactic sugar to allow you to specify tuples in a "flat" rather than "nested" syntax, but I'm pretty sure this is just a nicety hacked in for tuples of small sizes, much as Haskell's `zip` family is limited to `zip7`.)
Of course, you can argue that C++ isn't typesafe, but the above code avoids any typecasts that would cause type information to be lost. The expression passed as argument 2 to `map_nested_pair` has type `pair<int, pair<string, pair<double, end_of_list> > >`.
EDIT: Gave the type of argument 2 to `map_nested_pair` explicitly, to dispel any fears that type info was getting lost :)
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Counterman
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> Terminus Font is a clean, fixed width bitmap font, designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with computers
... because as we all know, a 6x12 pixel bitmapped font is ideal for that?
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1317291278
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False
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c2ngsf6
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2ngsf6
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t1_c2neffp
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1427662303
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t5_2fwo
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> Dreamweaver
STOPPED READING RIGHT THERE
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c2ngssf
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t3_kuti3
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t3_kuti3
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t5_2fwo
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nicasucio
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You can't fathom? Let me help you. Company decides that they can make more profit by hiring an h1b candidate since they can pay them a lesser salary. They specifically advertise a job in a way that they won't be able to find a us citizen, and voila, bring in the foreigners.
Oh, and it helps when the likes of Bill Gates keep on bitching that there are no enough US qualified candidates to hire from.
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1317291482
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False
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c2ngst7
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2ngn0y
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1427662308
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t5_2fwo
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Code in Copperplate Gothic on a stone coloured background no one's gonna mess with engraved code.
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1317291709
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False
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c2ngt5m
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2ngbzl
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1427662312
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t5_2fwo
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True
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oSand
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My God, that's a good post; it says everything I know to be true about code maintenance. And more.
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1317291709
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False
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c2ngt5n
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t3_kursf
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t3_kursf
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1427662312
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t5_2fwo
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axilmar
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> As I can give evidence to my differing opinion
Are you suggesting D's way is clearer and simpler?
> but your non-real world example MyDialog
It's actually a real world example. That's how MFC is programmed, and although the API is horrible, the GUI is extremely lightweight and fast.
> is prone to slice its Button, which maybe you want, but probably not the one using your library.
When the possibility is near 0, 'is prone to' really means 'ain't gonna happen'.
> Which goes back to needing upfront knowledge of how the type is going to be used.
No, it does not. It is exactly the opposite: in C++, you don't code a type with upfront knowledge of how the type is going to be used, which is solely the responsibility of the end user.
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1317291727
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c2ngt6q
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t3_kljc0
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t5_2fwo
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True
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quzox
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These pun threads are driving me round the bend.
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1317291849
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False
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c2ngtdu
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t3_ktd67
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t1_c2n81um
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1427662315
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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quzox
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It's like a boredom tax.
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1317291961
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False
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c2ngtjt
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t3_ktd67
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Gotebe
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I don't get it. What's the problem with "collaborating on stuff without pushing to the master branch" with SVN? (BTW, by "master", you mean "trunk", as commonly called in svn, right?)
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1317292251
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False
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c2ngu19
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t3_kuit6
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t1_c2nelul
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1427662325
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t5_2fwo
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True
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OJF
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This is what I use. Also has a great license.
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False
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c2ngu9v
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nel70
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1427662327
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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creporiton
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meh.. I just use the default on eclipse
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1317292470
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False
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c2nguf9
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nguf9
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t3_kuti3
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1427662330
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Gotebe
| null |
WRT empty directories: if they are empty, why would they exist?
Perhaps someone is using them e.g. at deployment time, as a replacement for "create a deployment-specific temporary directory here"? That's not really job of the source control, methinks. Naughty, naughty...
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1317292475
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False
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0
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c2ngufs
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t3_kuit6
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t1_c2ngufs
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t3_kuit6
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1427662330
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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ochronus
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Well, Java EE is more like a framework/platform than a language. Ruby also has more sophisticated concurrency libs, like Eventmachine for example.
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1317292500
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False
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c2nguh3
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t3_kt292
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t1_c2nguh3
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t1_c2nailo
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1427662330
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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ochronus
| null |
But you're right: ruby is lacking badly in this field.
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0
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1317292539
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False
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0
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c2ngujj
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t3_kt292
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t1_c2ngujj
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t1_c2nailo
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1427662330
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t5_2fwo
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True
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king_of_the_universe
| null |
It looks great. I love evolutionary approaches. If you didn't just do it for the BoxCar-inspiration-fun but because you're actually into evolution etc., maybe you can draw some inspiration from [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/kf7gl/ethics_without_free_willno_free_will_no_problem/c2k9v98?context=3) (extremely long) text I wrote a few weeks ago, mainly the part that begins with "The biological machines built become more and more complex.".
...
EDIT: My first attempt to toy with the settings - and I find the way the graphs keep straight improving interesting. A worm with 3 segments. Only creature settings altered (are in screenshot), nothing else.
http://i.imgur.com/gtVy8.png
EDIT: Nature finds a way. 2 segment worm, average fitness 750.
http://i.imgur.com/i4J9Q.png
EDIT: Wow, this one was certainly a harder nut, but it works. Ring creature with 4 segments.
http://i.imgur.com/G30Zv.png
EDIT: This drunk guy needs some more time. (Star with 5 segments)
http://i.imgur.com/CdKOE.png / EDIT: Drunk guy is getting better http://i.imgur.com/wJmQC.png
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True
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c2nguq9
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t3_kucjn
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t1_c2nguq9
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t3_kucjn
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1427662334
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3
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t5_2fwo
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True
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michaelfeathers
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To me, 'maintenance' is an antiquated term. If your code is giving you value and you decide to not to give it further feature effort, it should be retired. Quickly.
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1317292725
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False
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c2nguuw
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t3_kursf
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t1_c2nguuw
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t3_kursf
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1427662334
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6
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t5_2fwo
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True
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axilmar
| null |
They all suck on Windows XP without ClearType, except Lucida Console.
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0
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1317292822
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False
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0
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c2ngv0m
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2ngv0m
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t3_kuti3
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1427662336
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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julesjacobs
| null |
Can you give a compelling example of this?
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1317292856
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False
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c2ngv34
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t3_kuhn3
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t1_c2ngv34
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t1_c2ne8tz
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1427662337
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9
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t5_2fwo
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True
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[deleted]
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[deleted]
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0
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1317292905
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False
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0
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c2ngv6i
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t3_ku203
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t1_c2ngv6i
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t1_c2ngims
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1427662340
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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I_Am_Coder
| null |
You wear a headband with a motion detector (halograph FM) that is sensitive enough to pick up your heartbeat. And can thus easily detect rapid eye movement.
It then plays a song.
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0
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1317293117
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False
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0
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c2ngvjz
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t3_ku203
| null |
t1_c2ngvjz
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t1_c2ngv6i
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1427662343
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Jigsus
| null |
>Oh, and H1B... so these are visa salaries... so I could be doing a hell of a lot better :'(
Explain? Visa salaries are lower?
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1317293120
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False
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c2ngvk8
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2ngvk8
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t1_c2nfjqh
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1427662345
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5
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t5_2fwo
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True
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[deleted]
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1317293122
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False
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c2ngvkb
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2ngvkb
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t3_kuti3
| null |
1427662345
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4
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t5_2fwo
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True
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PriviIzumo
| null |
fascinating analysis
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1317293212
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False
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c2ngvps
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2ngvps
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t3_kuye2
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1427662347
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t5_2fwo
| null | null | null |
True
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I_Am_Coder
| null |
The data is recorded 10 times a second by a Halograph Frequency Monitor; a headband with a motion detector that is sensitive enough to pick up the heartbeat. And can thus easily detect rapid eye movement (REM).
I have studied thousands of hours worth of recordings to know that it varies.
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c2ngvrc
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t3_ku203
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t1_c2ngvrc
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t1_c2ngs93
| null |
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Schoolings
| null |
To be honest you come off as a cultist in this post.
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1317293252
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False
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c2ngvs8
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t3_ktxk5
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t1_c2ngvs8
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t1_c2naflq
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1427662347
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Spire
| null |
You missed [Pragmata](http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm).
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False
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c2ngvug
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nfe5g
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1427662348
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t5_2fwo
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True
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donkey_lz
| null |
You mean the kind of people who would use Synaptic?
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1317293338
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False
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c2ngvx2
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t3_ku81g
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t1_c2ngvx2
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t1_c2nb012
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1427662348
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t5_2fwo
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True
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chrycheng
| null |
I wish his samples were more useful. I could've done with just the characters 1, i, l, O and 0. Unless he didn't consider in his choice how the font differentiates among these characters. I think this is at least half the criteria in choosing a good programming font.
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c2ngw96
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t3_kuti3
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t3_kuti3
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1427662354
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t5_2fwo
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True
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king_of_the_universe
| null |
It does show the butterflies and the textures in the worm! But it initially didn't. I think the initial setting was: "Render: Full" I switched it to wire - no change. To none - nothing was shown, of course. To full - it wanted to complete the generation first. After a while, to my surprise, I saw the butterflies.
I had seen the wire version all the time and thought it was "Full" because that's what the setting said.
So, there's the problem.
Opera 11.51.1087 WinXP
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1317293639
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False
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c2ngwgo
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t3_kucjn
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t1_c2ngwgo
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t1_c2nbm6c
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1427662356
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t5_2fwo
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maleadt
| null |
... query for the N nearest geometric objects (point, line, ...) to a given object? There are a ton of use cases for this, e.g. I had to use it for a public-transport application, looking for the closest stop based on a GPS fix.
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1317293690
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c2ngwk6
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t3_kuxxa
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t5_2fwo
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True
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ivosaurus
| null |
Don't really like those huge angle brackets. One which align with the lower case letters are just fine for me.
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1317293691
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False
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c2ngwkb
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2ngwkb
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t1_c2nfjnn
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1427662358
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Colonel-Rosa
| null |
Just to say I got my book, look forward to reading it eric
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1317293723
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False
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c2ngwmg
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t3_jjcwd
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t1_c2ngwmg
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t3_jjcwd
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1427662358
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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maxinvictus
| null |
They are brought in specifically because they usually are willing to do comparable work for less money.
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1317293845
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False
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c2ngwub
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t3_kuye2
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Ahh ok. The system that you have there is very complex but also sort of simple. In the US we have no such system. There is no standardization and no restriction on the naming of institutions and little standardization on what degrees can be offered. If I wanted to open a school tomorrow I could call it a university and offer a Masters of Science in Biology despite the fact that I do not have a biology degree. This would be perfectly legal, although I doubt that anyone would want to go to my school.
When I was referring to "C" schools I am talking about programs that are at the wo level, and when I was referring to "java" schools I was referring to programs at the hbo level. In the US there is absolutely no distinction between these types of schools. In fact programs of both sorts are mixed together within each school. Here in the US one school will offer a wo level degree in chemistry while offering an hbo level degree in physics. The only way to know what quality of education you will be getting is to study the course descriptions from their course catalog.
Again, I am not saying that schools that teach in Java have to be inherently bad, but in the US it is a strong signal that the person attended a school of hbo quality.
One of the interesting things about this is that it is often better to attend a school of hbo quality. Since there is no distinction between schools based on quality going to an easier school will often make your resume look better. Very few companies will do the research to determine the quality of your education, they are more likely to look at your GPA.
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1317293858
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c2ngwv3
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t3_kteac
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t1_c2ngs4f
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1427662360
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t5_2fwo
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Carighan
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Still using Dejavu Sans Mono here, haven't found anything looking remotely as clean while shoving as many lines into a single screen as it does.
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1317293890
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False
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c2ngwxe
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2ngwxe
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t1_c2nfe5g
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True
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king_of_the_universe
| null |
I don't see your name (even user name) or anything like that on the page. If I'm not overlooking something, you should definitely add it. People will link that page, and no one will know who made it.
And maybe link this thread on the page. Your personal forum, hehe.
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False
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c2ngx3u
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t3_kucjn
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t1_c2ne09h
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1427662364
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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barrkel
| null |
Or because they were the best candidate for the job. Mind your prejudices...
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1317294015
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False
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c2ngx69
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2ngx69
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t1_c2ngwub
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1427662364
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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StrawberryFrog
| null |
> Well that's just about useless.
Yep, and it's better than traditional software time estimates in that it's honest about that.
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1317294023
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c2ngx6t
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t3_ktxk5
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jasonthe
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Oooh I like. Switching from DejaVu Sans Mono :D
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1317294028
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False
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c2ngx73
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2nfjnn
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1427662366
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t5_2fwo
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True
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king_of_the_universe
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Yakety Sax[!](http://www.google.com/search?q=Yakety+Sax)
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1317294108
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False
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c2ngxbs
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t3_kucjn
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t5_2fwo
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True
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StrawberryFrog
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> Managers are sociopaths
I *think* I see your problem. Hint: it's not scrum.
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1317294108
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False
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c2ngxbt
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t3_ktxk5
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t1_c2n8nhv
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t5_2fwo
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True
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aidan_morgan
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Thanks for that man, when you update please make sure you let me know!
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False
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c2ngxjl
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t3_kucjn
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t1_c2ngxjl
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t1_c2nes2c
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1427662370
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Jigsus
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I'm pretty sure a lot of H1Bs are top experts in their fields.
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1317294227
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False
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c2ngxjt
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2ngxjt
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t1_c2ngwub
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1427662370
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7
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Carighan
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Way too fat bold-letters for my taste.
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1317294331
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False
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c2ngxqc
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2ngxqc
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t1_c2nfjnn
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2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Xarnon
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> A fad for *30 years* straight? Not very convincing.
Or it *is* very convincing :3
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1317294366
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False
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c2ngxsm
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t3_ktenx
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t1_c2ngxsm
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t1_c2nd721
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1427662374
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1
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Alexis_
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I was thinking this: "Why does he say it's written in Boo when all the code is Python?"
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1317294372
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False
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c2ngxt3
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t3_ku73e
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t1_c2ngxt3
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t1_c2nb85z
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1427662374
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4
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t5_2fwo
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True
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bitchessuck
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That's a funny remark nonetheless, since Droid Sans Mono has pretty bad hinting instructions, which is obvious in the screenshot.
Also, shame on you for using the horrible and outdated X font description syntax.
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1317294381
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True
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c2ngxtn
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t3_kuti3
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t1_c2neffp
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1427662374
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7
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t5_2fwo
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True
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Delheru
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Let me help *you*.
You run in to a brilliant young entrepreneur from Germany/India/whatever while at a conference. Turns out he's doing something absolutely brilliant and you - a programmer yourself, now running a product at Google - are stunned by how cool stuff this kid is doing. Now you REALLY, REALLY want him on your god damn team. H1B time it is.
I suspect that for most companies, particularly the high tech guys in the Bay Area, this is a **far** more common consideration than the price one.
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False
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c2ngxy5
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t3_kuye2
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t5_2fwo
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True
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akoprowski
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Sorry, it was the dot at the end that was wrongly interpreted as part of the link...
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1317294494
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False
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c2ngy0i
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t3_kteac
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t1_c2ncuho
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t5_2fwo
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luag
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There's an interesting app on android (and now iPhone too it seems) that tries to track your sleep cycle just by putting your phone on your bed while you sleep. It can also play an alarm when it detects that you've gone into REM cycle.
http://luciddreamingapp.com/
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False
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c2ngyas
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t3_ku203
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t1_c2ngyas
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t3_ku203
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t5_2fwo
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maxinvictus
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Of course, there are many who are truly more skilled than their local peers. But can it really be argued that there is a huge shortage of skilled labor in the US these days?
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1317294741
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False
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c2ngyg5
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t3_kuye2
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t5_2fwo
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seweso
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No, it should not hurt more or less. Pain is an evolutionary trait. It exists as an response to preventing wear and tear. What you should build is friction, break down. Pain is just a way to describe sensory input which should be avoided. But whether or not something is pain should evolve. If you just program it in, you are cheating.
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1317294788
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False
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c2ngyjh
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t3_kucjn
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t1_c2nawve
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t5_2fwo
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dedrit
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> Mind your prejudices...
So if you address the fact that yes, some companies do use H1B for cheaper labor...that makes you a racist?
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1317294823
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False
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c2ngylr
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2ngx69
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t5_2fwo
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dubbleenerd
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This. H1B candidates are required to be paid a salary commensurate with the recognized average for that class of positions, as salary information is required to be reported to the Department of Labor. Granted some smaller bodyshops might pull a fast one, but the overwhelming majority of applications are from larger companies that wouldn't want to invite lawsuits.
Salary information is also required to be publicly displayed for an H1B hire at the workplace, for a period of 10 days.
H1Bs are popular with technology companies and the like, because the cream of the crop among candidates are likely to be the best from over the world, not just the domestic applicants. Take a peek at the grad school demographics for any top university and you will know why.
Fear not, however. The number of grad school applicants from foreign countries is dwindling, now that their native economies are doing much better and can provide sustaining and challenging careers with pay comparable or exceeding US standards.
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1317295178
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c2ngzao
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t3_kuye2
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t1_c2ngxy5
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t5_2fwo
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At the basic level there's no evolution of the environment, there are only entropy/energy gradients. Like, there were and still are large scale chemical processes happening in the oceans, there's the sun, etc.
Have you noticed how when you dip your hand into the water and move it slowly, it just flows around your hand, but when you begin to move it faster, various vortexes immediately appear and greatly increase drag? I guess somewhere there's a succinct physical description of why stuff like this happens (as a non-fundamental, emergent physical law), intuitively it's because the amount of force you apply _allows_ for more complicated structures that can take and dissipate more of it, and since these structures can begin to appear as a result of a random fluctuation, they do appear and then stay there.
Stuff like that happens everywhere, rivers meander instead of going straight down to the ocean, etc. Life is fundamentally the same thing, there's a flow of energy from the sun to the interstellar space, it allows for the existence of plants, which utilize some of that flow like a watermill utilizes the flow of a river.
That was the "existence" part, the "selection" part comes naturally from the fact that all such flows are limited, there's only so much surface area for plants to occupy, so plants which, due to their properties, have higher chances of winning a spot under the sun, win spots under the sun.
Then of course most of the higher level creatures you see around are shaped primarily by environments that consist of other living things. But if you look deeper you'll always find the foundation: fundamental, non-living, non-evolving environments, such as temperature/mineral gradients near hydrothermal vents, energy gradient between the sun and the interstellar space, and so on.
Does this answer your question?
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c2ngzho
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t5_2fwo
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Timmmmbob
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After reading "The C++ Programming Language", I started using proportional fonts for programming. You're probably thinking "wtf? why?" but it actually works very well and is much more readable. Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.
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