jharger

I used to do this at the beginning of a game as a kid, because the earthquakes were pretty harmless without buildings to knock down. You'd just load up on cash, then start building!

Not the poster you replied to, but I've been thinking of it lately in a different way. Functional tests show that a system works, but if a functional test fails, the unit test might show where/why.

Yes, you'll usually get a stack trace when a test fails, but you might still spend a lot of time tracing exactly where the logical problem actually was. If you have unit tests as well, you can see that unit X failed, which is part of function A. Therefore you can fix the problem quicker, at least for some set of cases.

It could be that this sort of thinking contributes to the massive number of JS frameworks out there. You think React is bloated, so you make a "React in 70 lines" ... realize there's some things you missed... fast forward to two years later and you've got another framework.

Speaking of Jazz Jackrabbit, I always enjoyed seeing the poster in Fortnite when I used to play it.

We used to do a "feely score" of 1-5. It sort of worked to gauge how the team felt (positive or negatively), but it eventually devolved into everyone arguing over whether 3 or 4 was the baseline for an unremarkable day.

I live in Albuquerque, and this sort of thing varies greatly around here. There are certainly places that are $35-50 for a hair cut and require appointments, but there are also barber shops and chains where you can walk in and get a haircut right away for $10-15.

Why not have optimized versions that use native instructions when available, and then fall back to the portable version when they are not?

Back when I worked there (mid-late 90's) the chick-n-strips were actually marinated in the same stuff as the Chargrilled chicken sandwich. Both items are no longer on the menu, and were vastly superior to their offerings today, IMHO.

Do you have an article or book you can link to on the subject? I'm very curious why there wasn't much demand for wheeled luggage until the 80's.

Is it because people flew less? Because more people checked luggage more often and carry-on was less common? Because airports were smaller?

I remember implementing this for a class years ago, and then the professor suggested doing the inverse to try to expand the image width. The idea was you would duplicate the lowest energy seam... but all that did was create a lot of repeats of the same seam.

I never did finish that weird idea, but I probably needed to try something like increasing the energy of the chosen seam (and its duplicate)... I may try that again, just because I'm curious what would happen.

I'm curious what causes that strange phenomenon. You had a 50-50 chance to get it right, but it's the wrong way almost every time.

Have you seen Wren?

https://github.com/wren-lang/wren

Except fixing the rebase issue isn't usually that difficult, if you know about reflog.

What about a chain of airships?

One supermarket I went to tried that... but the user experience is so awful that no one wants to do it, so the scanners just sit at the entrance, lonely and unused.

That's kind of the key, right? If you're buying one or two items, the self-checkout is great! If you're buying a week or two worth of supplies, it's terrible.

Here in the US, at least at the stores I shop at, each item requires that you scan it, wait for the machine to tell you to place the item in the bagging area, wait for it to register the weight, then you're allowed to move to the next item. If you accidentally wait too long, and the attendant just clears the wait state (which they do all to frequently just to get things to move along), then it won't let you put the item in the area, and instead you have to call the attendant over to clear the "unexpected item" state, which just makes things take so much longer.

Then there's the times where some older person tries it out, gets really confused, and the attendant is spending all of their time with them, and everyone else gets held up by the quirks of the system.

It counts to me :) That's one of the things I love about that game too, and it makes me want to do the same.

Wait, is this a thing? I've never seen Amazon auto-playing video.

I'm not debating that he said that, I'm just suggesting that it was a marketing ploy, either to buy the teams some time to iron out the details with the app store, or some clever product strategy to release the app store later (which was hugely popular when it did come out)

...but then I don't know, I wasn't there.

Did you mean to say "just under $1000/month"? It seems kind of strange to claim that you make under an amount, because technically $0/month is under $1000, and "actively losing money" also counts. Just curious.

I do not believe this to be true at all. The App Store opened in July 2008, just over a year after the initial iPhone was released. That means that likely had to at least be on the Apple product roadmap well before the iPhone was even released.

I agree so much with your assessment here. I just rented a 2018 Nissan Maxima, and I was really surprised how small the rear and rear side windows are. I felt like I could barely see anything when it came to changing lanes. I also nearly scraped the side into a family member's car, because the backup camera didn't show the other car at all, and I couldn't see around me enough to tell that I was inches away from it.

This sounds like a good basis for a sci-fi short story about a religion that centers around a device that continually plays the sounds of their gods. They have been maintaining it for millions of years, even though they can't understand what the message is anymore...

Is it not #14 on the 2017 list given there? (Was #4 on the 2016 list)

While not a source control system, the JetBrains IDEs have a very good merge tool that is filetype aware. For example, WebStorm/IntelliJ Ultimate, when merging JavaScript, often has a "magic wand" option that can detect when merge conflicts are actually resolvable if you parse both sides first, and merge the AST.

It doesn't always work quite right, but it's good enough that I use it quite often.

Ah gotcha. It's been 14 years since I rented, so I don't really remember any of the details of renters insurance. As a homeowner, I totally get that.

Doesn't renter's insurance only cover the stuff you have inside your residence, not the actual unit itself? Why would the landlord care if you had that coverage?

How is that related? You can easily be active on a GitHub account and still check your email infrequently.

So I'll throw in my two cents. I really liked Eclipse when writing Java programs for fun, and by myself. When Eclipse started to turn bad for me was using it in an environment wth a) other users and b) a build system outside of eclipse. Trying to use it with, say, Maven ended up with this strange combination of things that never quite worked right.

Either you would let Eclipse's black box maven plugin do the work (which half the time didn't seem to build for whatever reason) or run maven manually, which would build great, but then you'd always have to remember to refresh your Eclipse workspace in order to get the application to be picked up by your Tomcat config, etc. It was just cumbersome.

Philips does make Hue E12 bulbs in both white ambiance and color versions.