Viewing profile — Total_Meltdown

> They were, of course, uniformly non-white, non-Asian girls. > The poor students weren't poor students because they were female, or because they were non-white, but because they w…

The big problem though is that the pathological edge cases of our current system are much better than the extremely pathological normal cases of a system without checks on what peo…

Do you accept pull requests? From Chapter 3, Exhibit 6: { "title": "Hey Jude" //

There isn't a line. We're talking about the human brain, these things are fuzzy. Some things will work better than others, and it'll surely vary between people, and you'll have no …

I totally agree. In these two specific cases, R53 + ELB wasn't going to work for us though, because of reasons. (I don't think I can go into specifics, but they're actual reasons.)…

I have run into this at least twice this week alone with both Nginx and HAProxy pointing at Amazon Elastic Load Balancers. Amazon occasionally rotates out IPs for ELBs, so everythi…

I'm confused. What part of this is about bluffing or cheating?

Please don't be put off by the harsh tone of this essay. It's important information and based on this post and the resume linked in your HN profile ( http://resume.patrickcurl.com/…

It is open for debate. The question does not say cut "into thirds," it says "into three pieces." This - http://i.stack.imgur.com/kEjP0.png - is a perfectly reasonable answer which,…

#1 and #2 are in the order I noticed them, and #3 is so the whole post isn't just criticism. There's no deeper meaning than that.

1) How it looks on my monitor: http://i.imgur.com/iSjP8ae.png - might not want to repeat that title image like that. 2) I would really like to see if there are any mentors relevant…

I haven't used the official Twitter app in a long time, so my memory could be failing me, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing sponsored tweets even on the old version. I thought …

They seem OK with downloading to me... http://i.imgur.com/wVZCFLm.png Edit: And if it was a bug, they've taken their sweet time fixing it. I can still right click -> Save Image As.…

There's actually a name for the phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect I am 100% in support of such a plaque.

Oh, good point, I guess there's got to be some kind of semi-intelligent HTTP parsing going on in the background.

I wouldn't be so sure. They're barely even checking what browser you're running.

I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook. My group of friends and I continue to use it because there just isn't any better way for us to stay in touch at scale on a…

I've actually been looking for something like this (specifically the 2D game support in C++) for a long time. What other options are there?

Yes. And in fact, you're the first person in these comments to mention the subject at all.

Well when you think about it pragmatically, I don't have the time - and I'm sure you don't either - to look at every single intellectually stimulating title on the internet. And fr…

Or to put it in a more socioeconomic context, consider a low-wealth actor that might prefer to avoid toll roads, versus a high-wealth actor that would rather pay a little bit to sa…

I don't agree with your implication that finding math easy is somehow a prerequisite for high school programming classes. I found that most of my struggle in mathematics came from …