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Zergy··on Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
Its a multi pitch route. There are multiple ledges that can be comfortably sat on. Assuming the injury isn't to catastrophic he could make it to one of those points and be rescued.

That being said anyone trying to claim the climb isn't "pure" enough it mental.

Zergy··on Government-grade spyware hits Mexican advocates of soda tax
> There are numerous studies that link artificial sugar to overeating even when you account for the self-selection bias. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert, so you should evaluate their quality for yourself but the story goes something like this.

Sources? This is something I spent a bit of time looking into and the consensus at the time was there was no strong consensus.

Zergy··on Julian Assange Confirms Internet Restored at Ecuadorian Embassy
I always found asking for sources on the internet kinda odd, you could have found the sources in the same number of characters as your reply.

Seems to mainly be a way to lazily dismiss people relying on their memory, this is a forum and expecting everyone to have a source handy for every belief and opinion they have is absurd.

If you actually care you're going to put your own research in anyways and not rely on the source provided by the OP.

Anyways I was curious and did the 5 mins of research for you.

> Selling Russia Uranium while accusing them of working for the other side.

Seems to be old news and not part of what was released by Wikileaks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-...

> Citibank supplying Obamas entire cabinet.

Evidence seems to be pretty damning. If you want to pick at the source all the pieces are out there for you to look at yourself.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-14/most-important-wiki...

Anyways I'm more concerned about the accuracy of the information than the motive for releasing it, and the accuracy doesn't seem to be in question even by the DNC.

> Wikileaks has clearly hooked its wagon to the anti-NATO, anti-EU, pro-Russia, nationalist movement that elected Donald Trump

I'm not sure they have. I think they are more on the fuck the HRC train, HRCs stance towards whistle blowers while breaking the same rules without repercussions to hide corruption might be what resulted in the unprecedented amount of information that was leaked. There are people who hate HRC.

Whether all this would have happened if the DNC presidential candidate had been someones else is debatable.

Or maybe Russia runs Wikileaks now. Sad that the most effective way Russia can manipulate our nation to provide transparency, the promise of which is the main reason I voted the way I did last election.

Zergy··on How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
Very true but I think SE does a poor job incentivizing upkeep. Its very little Karma compared to new contributions. Honestly the only thing I with they would change.
Zergy··on How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
Old boys club is a misleading way to describe the scenario.

There is content that doesn't belong and content that does, this is established by the company at a broad scale and customized for various boards by the community.

I haven't seen the case where content belongs but is denied because you're not well enough know or w/e. If by old boys club you mean long standing members are preventing new members from changing policy then yeah thats true.

Another thing you're failing to realize is that that plenty of people who do RTFM, become contributors, and stick around. More than enough to keep up with demand.

> that get the boot because they've been addressed(poorly) previously

This is a valid complaint. I believe SE needs the Karma system to do a better job at rewarding cleaning up existing questions.

> At what point do you start just running a Wiki of programming answers, and not a community of programmers.

Its more we want a community to create a q/a based wiki. There needs to be a question answering community (no need to focus on the asking one it will come) and strict question moderation helps attract and retain the answering community. Retraining and attracting 15+ year industry vets is much more vital to SE's health than retraining new users.

Zergy··on How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
I used to be very active on SO and I stopped because dealing with new people to the site is a waste of everyones time.

SO has the goal of being a Q to A catalog. You're not contributing unless you are asking a new, answerable question or providing and answer to a new or existing question.

There are tons of people asking questions that are already answered, tons of people asking questions that would take a book to answer, and tons of people asking questions that are subjective and time sensitive. All of this needs to be closed and removed.

The fact of the matter is that tons of questions have already been asked and answered. In fact unless its for a newer technology there are probably not that many left to ask. Because of this about 95% of all new content ought to be removed. In fact you will find a vastly different culture if you stick around the GO tag vs the Java tag.

But the issue is there is a never ending trickle of people who don't realize the above. They sign up and start asking answered or impossible to answer questions, trying to start discussions, or trying to make you debug their specific issue.

You either ignore them or try and help them understand the site by telling them to RTFM.

Zergy··on Assume only 10% of the current software will be relevant after 10 years
It got ported for Consoles/Mobile. Porting the PC version would cause every existing mod to stop working, which would be huge, I can't think of a single person I know who plays stock Minecraft.
Zergy··on Program your next server in Go
I've been running into this phenomenon a lot and its not isolated to java developers. We recently had a class on Clojure 101 and the main audience was Obj-C/Swift developers. A lot of the developers went into the class actively trying to prove Clojure was dumb and the way they were doing it was better.

I think any language one it reaches a critical mass attracts people who are not problem solvers but memorizers. There is a correlation between people who rely on copy pasting existing code and SO answers and people heavily invested in their language.

Point being most people who have trouble adopting other languages tend to be memorizers vs problem solvers and become insecure when working in a poorly defined environment. Pulling them into something new after others have solved the hard problems and created best practices tends to be easier and more productive for everybody.

Zergy··on Deoptimizing a C++ program
If there is an appropriate SE site moderators can already do this.If not users can do this by copying and pasting the question into the submission box for a more appropriate site.
Zergy··on Deoptimizing a C++ program
SO has very specific goals and being interesting or a forum for discussion is not one of them. While I do think they are occasionally to strict I don't think is is one such case, I would have voted to close.
Zergy··on Never trust the client
Arguably the client was trusted with information that was not needed.
Zergy··on Danger of Repeat Head Injuries: Brain's Inability to Tap Energy Source (2014)
I have no problems with the inhumane treatment animals in the name of keeping humans alive longer and in better health.
Zergy··on Ravi – Lua 5.3 with optional static typing
> yet a languages is usually definitely one or the other

Not necessarily true. C# has the dynamic keyword that bypasses the static typing and Java has the concept of Dynamic Proxies.

Zergy··on How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
Whats empirically false changes person to person and culture to culture as demonstrated by your arbitrary definition of racism. I do not define Racism as actions other find racist.
Zergy··on How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
Doesn't matter. A particular group doesn't get to define racism for the rest of the population.
Zergy··on Why Johnny can't program (2002)
> I think it's much simpler to learn 10 commands in the terminal and use text files than try to grasp what's going on in an IDE.

This is true IMO. However you don't need to understand what the IDE is doing to use it now do you? A new user needs to learn nothing more than how to use the project creation wizard, and hit the play/stop button button.

As someone who teaches high school children how to program I assure you from experience and an IDE is much, much simpler than diving into the terminal.

Zergy··on Ask HN: 50k round not taken seriously by angels?
I believe it was a poor attempt at sarcasm.
Zergy··on Programmer Interrupted (2013)
Because you're in an open office where you are in earshot of 20 or so people.
Zergy··on Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets
Successfully explaining things gets people to shut up. I've never been able to say 'no thanks, I'm good' without there being follow up questions.
Zergy··on Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets
> I think people would be greatly surprised to find out a calorie is not simply a calorie as is often suggested and that sugar has a lot more impact on obesity than fats.

I would be throughly shocked considering everything I have read is to the contrary. The much more likely issue is the soda drinker would feel compelled to eat/drink something sugary after a short period where as the person eating almonds would be satisfied. Interestingly you touch on this with your rat experiment and then somehow come to the conclusion "calorie is not a calorie".

In the end a calorie is a calorie in terms of the potential to expand your waistline, but a calorie is not a calorie in terms of putting the fork down and feeling satisfied. Maybe I misunderstood and that was your point.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/is-a-calorie-a-calorie.htm...

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/5/899S.full

Zergy··on SQLite Release 3.8.11.1
He never said it shouldn't, just that he would be interested in seeing the numbers. I would be too since they would be more relevant to my use case.
Zergy··on Ask HN: How do you stay in shape?
I work out for about 4.5 hours a week (3 ~1.5 hour sessions, 30m cardio and 1h lifting) and count calories. Fortunately I have a nice gym at my work and it allows me to leave after rush hour ends. Results in a net loss of 3 hours a week since my home commute at 6pm is 30mins vs the 10mins at 8 pm.

Personally I love it as a time to unwind. I spend so much time staring at a screen both for work and for fun (I typically spend my down time playing Counter Strike) that its nice to do something more primitive.

I also try to go hunting or multiple day hiking fairly regularly. I always feel more appreciative of what I have and my station in life after a few days sleeping on the ground in a sleeping bag.

Zergy··on C#, I still love you dearest
Regardless of which language is better the size of the C# talent pool over the F# one would be enough of a reason for project requiring a decently sized team.
Zergy··on C#, I still love you dearest
Adding a new tool to swiss army knife doesn't indicate the other tools are dysfunctional, it just means that additional functionality was needed.
Zergy··on Ask HN: Java 8 or Scala?
This doesn't really make sense to me. C# is oriented towards imperative programming while F# is oriented to functional programming. The style of programming that best solves the problem and fits your teams' expertise should dictate the choice.
Zergy··on Visual C++ Cross-Platform Mobile
I've started using AppCode for actually writing code and just using XCode for the interface builder. Trying to transition from IntelliJ to XCode was very painful.
Zergy··on When You Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
Because the calories lost via exercise are insignificant, compatible to skipping a snack unless its very intense.
Zergy··on Popular JavaScript Package Manager Npm Raises $8M, Launches Private Modules
Being controversial is not a big deal if it is optional. You simply can not do modern web development without JavaScript. There are tons of alternatives to Ruby.
Zergy··on “We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”
You can also use C++, Java, Kotlin, C#, or almost any popular language. Compiling to JS is not an innovation its a hack and a testament to how terrible the language and ecosystem is.
Zergy··on What It’s Like to Need Hardly Any Sleep
Seems like that would be explained from the caffeine withdrawal. Doesn't necessarily indicate she would need sleep more if she had less coffee.

Anyways there are many ways to ingest caffeine besides coffee.

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