ShardPhoenix

It's not like countries with universal health-care are so different in this respect. People are under a bit less stress but most still aim for normal "sheep"-like jobs and lives.

It seems completely insane to have a jury of random people decide these kind of technical questions.

I'd imagine it's a combination of: 1.) Hangover of attitudes from better economic times. 2.) Cultural pressure to be seen to "follow your dreams" rather than directly focus on money.

While mutual attraction is self-reinforcing, I wouldn't say that unrequited attraction is rare.

I think that comes across as a bit smug.

Backing up in the sense of maintaining a full copy of your harddisk seems increasingly unnecessary these days. Most of the stuff I would care about losing is effectively already backed up on Github, webmail, Facebook, Steam, etc.

Unfortunately this hasn't been updated in almost a year.

On the other hand, not acknowledging what everyone is saying can make you look out of touch.

It doesn't have to be perfect, just better than the alternative (choosing randomly or based on Amazon review scores).

The script is trivial! Just view it as a concatenation of strings whose elements are pulled from a discrete set of terms.

That's fine if you also realize don't (in general) have the right to not be offended.

I feel like the performance of these HTML5 games still isn't quite good enough for them to "take over" just yet.

Ablock Plus gets rid of them.

Despite this, a lot of plans (at least here in Australia) do offer unlimited text messaging.

If someone honestly disagrees with something that's strongly believed by the mainstream, they may well want to remain anonymous when expressing it.

It's not a proof, but you can figure it out by considering some simple cases such as 2/3 vs. 3/4.

The Reddit/HN style is better when there are small number of most interesting or most correct replies, forums are better when there are a large number of valuable contributions. They're also better for long-running events and the ongoing discussion of broad topics.

Basically, Reddit style is better for "New Star Trek Movie announced", forums are better for "Let's talk about Star Trek".

Don't label people "jealous" or some other negative label based on pure speculation.

Invokedynamic in Java 7 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292) seems to have fixed this: http://ruby-lang.org.ru/post/5533.html

If you had to pay up-front (even $10), they'd probably have gotten <1000 signups.

Dictionaries aren't necessarily a good reference for technical terms.

Part of the original complaint was the issues introduced by using a combination of Java and Scala rather than just one or the other (with Scala-only being impractical due to the need to use Java-based libraries).

Why are the needs of the "Scala community" to save face more important than the truth?

This attitude might be ok for managing the average office worker's machine but when it comes to jobs like programming that are not highly regimented, it's just not good enough. Get out of my way and let me do my job. I'm glad I'm at a company that lets us do whatever we want to our machines (we use a VM for the few things that require IE).

I found the Python more readable even though I have written programs in Clojure and never written programs in Python. In fact I'd be willing to bet that Python-like syntax would be found to be more readable than Lisp-like syntax for programmers with N years of experience in that language, if such a study could be conducted. (ie, I'd bet that an average programmer with 5 years of Python experience and nothing else can correctly read programs faster than an average programmer with 5 years of Clojure experience and nothing else (not that the latter exists)).

The new paper didn't say that the problem wasn't correct, just that their original solution (test) didn't work out. It's true that it seems to be hard to come up with a reliable test for this sort of thing, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible.

Good talk - reminds me of Yegge's recent rant about the Service Oriented Architecture, but coming from another angle (internal use vs. external).

I find the ability to run the videos at 1.2 or 1.5x helps a lot.

It's more simulation than game, but one of the most intricate and detailed simulations ever. Personally I lost interest once I realized there was no real goal or point to it, but a lot of people like the sandbox feel.

"Do you feel like you might be enjoying a privileged freedom that many can not hope to take advantage of?"

Do you feel that you might be someone who likes to ask leading questions?