agrona
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Software Engineer at a Video Game Place
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Comment · 9 years ago
The author suggests one "symptom" of using git wrong is
>Have you ever did a code review, and gave feedback that was longer than doing the fix yourself, while you’re at it?
But this seems to neglect the utility of teaching people to do things correctly. Sure, I could always just fix junior programmers' mistakes, but it seems better to educate them in the first place.
Sending the fixes back down doesn't seem like it would have the same impact.
Comment · 9 years ago
The real trick is to know somebody who works on the product. Seems to be the only way I've ever seen any bug get reported and fixed.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is great. Although part of me has a desire for the person to be outed so Trump can lose yet another horrendously baseless first amendment lawsuit.
Hopefully a lot more visibly, this time.
Comment · 10 years ago
A mod of /r/sports (~6M users? is that right?) said
>Send me your automoderator rule once it's done, we'll add it our sub as well.
Seems likely to spread pretty quickly.
Comment · 10 years ago
GiveDirectly's previous work involves finding the poorest communities in the world and targeting the poorest members with direct cash transfers. I was turned on to them a few years ago by GiveWell (unrelated), which attempts to evaluate charities based on cost effectiveness and capacity for more funds.
In addition to the GiveWell reports, GiveDirectly also document and publish their work and research. It's exciting to see the impact that they are having (and how minimal the systemic abuse of the money is):
Comment · 10 years ago
The article claims that
>We have no control over our basal metabolic rate
and then links to a page[1] that explains
>Muscle cells require more energy to maintain than fat cells, so people with a higher muscle to fat ratio tend to have a higher BMR.
and
>Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue, so increasing your muscle mass will help you lose weight.
It doesn't seem to address this discrepancy, though (that by exercising to build muscle mass one can affect their BMR and thus the lion's share of the calories burned).
[1] http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/how-can-I-speed-...
Comment · 10 years ago
The mathematical properties of the distribution of the numbers on the sides are very pleasing.
They remind me of the (absolutely fascinating) "Go first" dice[1], any subset of which are guaranteed to produce a perfectly fair ranking.
Comment · 11 years ago
We'd like to! We're thinking of something this winter, but are taking a much-needed break for a few weeks.
Our first event was a lot of work and these are entirely labors of love--the ticket cost lets us basically break even.
Comment · 11 years ago
We just ran two events in Seattle.
The "MegaGame Society" is sort of the over-arching organizing group (they licensed Watch the Skies from the UK group, updated it significantly, and are recruiting more groups to run it locally).
They're definitely the folks to follow for information on games outside of the UK.
Comment · 11 years ago
Oh I see.
The confusion arises because the antecedent of "it" is unclear.
I read "it" as referring to "gay marriage" and not "the case against gay marriage". How confusing.
Comment · 11 years ago
I don't understand the headline. It seems to be saying "Top Law Firms Won't Support Gay Marriage", this is a mark against it.
However, the article seems to be saying the opposite: top law firms are all FOR it, and those opposed don't have top representation.
Comment · 11 years ago
There's a guide (in development) at eyesonthesky.com[1] aimed at newcomers, who may be using poor telescopes in poor atmospheric and lighting conditions. I've been following it quite successfully from my back yard in Seattle. It focuses on the brightest galaxies and nebulae, interesting clusters, and binary stars.
[1] http://eyesonthesky.com/StarCharts/FirstLightGuides.aspx
Comment · 11 years ago
I went into a Fedex/Kinko's in the US, to try to print something on A3.
They looked at me as if I had just asked them to sell me a unicorn. They then offered to custom cut a piece of paper for what I'd approximate as several tens of thousands of percent markup.
Comment · 12 years ago
Sorry to rain on your parade, but þ is a voiceless "th" sound (as in "thing"). Also, that's the part that means "muscle".
Comment · 12 years ago
The comment you're replying to is word-for-word copied from a highly upvoted comment on reddit yesterday (but is now deleted) by a user with a handle I won't repeat here. [1]
So what you're seeing is cross-pollination. I'm honestly surprised to not see this comment down-voted, as it's pretty impertinent to the conversation and is textbook ad hominem. ("Crazy lady says prisons are terrible: who cares she's crazy").
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/2r7y8h/when.... You can see it with something like http://uneddit.com/
edit: oh, I see my second paragraph basically did happen already in some flagkilled posts.