lectrick
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ruby/rails coder (and recent dabbler in clojure, haskell and Elixir), gamer, philosopher, technologist, sailor, swimmer, biker, music lover, partier, hourglass-figure adorer, and fan of Bitcoin, Apple, Tesla, open-source, and startups. I lean liberal and libertarian, although I love debating anything controversial.
As of today (2/3/2016), this account is now 2000 days old with 1369 karma. I've decided to celebrate by announcing a switch to a (for better or worse) far-less-anonymous account, "pmarreck".
Evidence? Also false dichotomy. We do not know the percentage of successful marriages with undiscovered affairs.
Similar to Global Thermonuclear War in the movie WarGames, the only winning move may soon simply be not to play :O
While this sounds sexist, would any husband actually argue against that part? Let's be frank, here
That limits your choices quite a bit. For example there are a large number of attractive women with terrible incomes and/or no savings, for which "scoring a successful man" may be a "valid" mating strategy
I actually think this biases mate selection (not necessarily in a good way) toward people of similar or slightly greater/lesser income
"Throughout its history Norsk Data produced a long string of extremely innovative systems, with a disproportionately large number of world firsts." Still seems like something worth being proud of. It just got sideswiped…
Fascinating. I see it as yellow. This also hints at the "qualia" mystery...
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_convers... Page 3, point 4: "Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are…
Don't be jaded! Stay excited! You were way ahead of the curve! ;)
As someone who has only recently (finally) become disillusioned by OO (especially in larger codebases and/or on programming teams, which both seem to rapidly escalate tech debt and complexity thanks to things like…
> I also like the immutable variables aspect. Elixir has the same immutable variables. I don't know why this is such a misconception. Erlang conflates rebinding and reassignment, Elixir does not, and the tradeoffs seem…
I thought Erlang looked weirder than Elixir (to the extent that I was turned off until Elixir came along), but fortunately, both of our opinions are compatible as everything compiles down to BEAM and is interoperable :)…
"I couldn't be bothered to Google the problem, but based on my sample size of 1, I think your problem doesn't exist" Thanks for that useful comment, man.
This is a quite beautiful post about engineering in general, actually. You try to solve a practical problem as best as you can, and you get sort of an unintended-beneficial-consequences effect and end up creating…
I think physics and art are nearly the perfect potential sources of a good programmer
I could not get into Witcher 1 OR 2. Witcher 3 is as different from 1 and 2 as Assassins' Creed 2 was different from Assassins' Creed 1. I recommend it
I'm kinda glad I left frontend dev just as JQuery peaked lol
Zynga And I would personally argue for Microsoft's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish program
Might I recommend Witcher 3 (amazing!) and Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain, both of which I enjoyed (slightly) more than FO4 (sadly) and DA:I. They are both also more "mature" games (and TPP is set in 1980's…
/sarcasm
Homebrew... The only Homebrew I know about is http://brew.sh/ 1) There is almost definitely an emacs equivalent for iOS 2) Pycharm- Maybe Textastic (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textastic-code-editor-for/id...) or…
I am ONLY interested in this if it will be possible to code on it. I am fairly certain most of the HN community would agree that a device that "completes the circle" (allows you to create native apps on the device, for…
EDIT: I was wrong. I assumed Chrome iOS and Chrome Android used the same rendering engine. I'm rather shocked that they don't, actually.
What's the software you're referring to, Android fanboy?
Is anyone else a person who loves games but is disgusted by Clash of Clans (and anything else that uses any business model invented by Farmville)?