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GotAnyMegadeth

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GotAnyMegadeth··on Why I like Java
> But it is not a language I would choose for answering test questions, unless maybe the grade was proportional to the number of lines of code written

Related to this: At Uni we had a terrible lecturer for our first year C programming courses. We had a team project that none of understood. A few days before the submission, when we didn't have anything that would compile, someone got hold of the marking system. The marking was automatic, and up to 5 of the 25 marks were awarded for the code:comment ratio. We deleted the lines that were causing it to fail to compile, then copy n pasted the whole code below again, but as one giant multi-line comment, securing us a 1:1 code:comment ratio. We got 7/25, 5 of which was for "Legibility and good coding practices".

GotAnyMegadeth··on Satellite photos of possible crash site of MH370
Looks like the description for one of those Android apps that doesn't know Google punishes keyword lists
GotAnyMegadeth··on How to turn into a tree after you die
Then you could cremate the tree and use it's ashes to grow another
GotAnyMegadeth··on Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
Doesn't the NSA have all of the GPS tracking data for all of the smart phones on the plane?
GotAnyMegadeth··on Show HN: An app to tweet text as an image
Is text always guaranteed to be SFW?
GotAnyMegadeth··on Pronunciation errors that made the English language
I'd pronounce that Wooster
GotAnyMegadeth··on Pronunciation errors that made the English language
Tourists from the USA in the UK always sounds funny when pronouncing place names that have "ham" in them. The UK English way of saying these place names is Buckingum and Birmingum, not BuckingHam and BirmingHam.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Pronunciation errors that made the English language
Or wee cood just mayk Inglish spelin roolz mor sensibl. But ov cors wee wood aw af too agree too yooz th Ampsheer aksent, or I coodnt reed it.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary
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GotAnyMegadeth··on Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary
Switch to Rdio or whatever other competitor fills the void
GotAnyMegadeth··on Did an F-15 airplane successfully land with just one wing?
Care to elaborate?
GotAnyMegadeth··on Study: 11% of Americans Think HTML Is an STD
I'm more surprised about this:

> 23% thought an “MP3″ was a “Star Wars” robot. It is actually an audio file.

I'm sure most people don't know what an MP3 actually is, but I would have thought that they would know it's music related. I remember a teacher shouting "Is that an MP3 I see in your pocket?!" and having to answer yes rather than face the far worse consequences of correcting a teacher.

GotAnyMegadeth··on If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel
My friend pointed out:

"When pressing the right arrow key, the digits at the bottom are spinning really fast apart from the most significant numbers at the front and the 3rd digit from the right which, curiously, slowly counts backwards without missing any digit"

GotAnyMegadeth··on Putin's Crimea Grab Shows He Misunderstands 21st Century Power
> his decidedly strange public statement just hours ago

I'm interested, what was this statement? Thanks

GotAnyMegadeth··on Apple.com (2004)
Or the same need to make it a top priority
GotAnyMegadeth··on You think you know what teachers do. Right? Wrong.
At the other end of the spectrum, one of the teachers at my old school used to turn up at 8:30 and leave at 15:30. She used to put a video on, and then hand out worksheets to fill in whilst she marked the worksheets from the class before. Terrible teacher, luckily I only had her for a few weeks.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Dual-lens smartphone cameras are coming
Perhaps they have a stronger Monocular Depth Cues part of the brain to make up for it
GotAnyMegadeth··on Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?
Do you lose the karma points that you gained from that answer?
GotAnyMegadeth··on The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted
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Amazing

GotAnyMegadeth··on MtGox leaks its own acquisition?
Could mean Annual Compliance Questionnaire... http://www.acronymfinder.com/ACQ.html
GotAnyMegadeth··on I was partially deaf for the last couple of years
I am concerned that I am a hypochondriac, and I don't want to waste the (UK NHS) doctors valuable time. I usually end up waiting too long and going in with more serious symptoms than I if I had gone in earlier. Then again I often go in and get told to go away. What is it called when you worry that you are a hypochondriac?
GotAnyMegadeth··on Bitcoin security model: trust by computation
Difficult sentence, but I got there in the end :-)
GotAnyMegadeth··on Ask HN: Do you Consider Life to be Futile
If you are talking about Pizza, yes, If you are talking about headaches, no.
GotAnyMegadeth··on Putin on the Ritz
If you were ill and worried that a political rival might take the chance to over throw you, you could publish photos of you looking fine, doing dictator stuff, and they'd never know...
GotAnyMegadeth··on UK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal Under Terrorism Law
GCHQ. It was only a Google away...
GotAnyMegadeth··on Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
I don't know about Amazon, but Microsoft pays you in credit for Azure when they have outages
GotAnyMegadeth··on Ask HN: How to pronounce “doge”?
Agreed, but looking at the answers to the question here, the wrong answers are just as present
GotAnyMegadeth··on Ask HN: How to pronounce “doge”?
That is not the correct origin of Doge http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge

PS it's pronounced Dohj

GotAnyMegadeth··on This weird keyboard may be the biggest thing since your standing desk
It would be good if the 5tgb and 6yhn keys were repeated either side for us psuedo-touchtypers. (Hasn't Apple got a software patent for a similar thing?)

EDIT: also F5

GotAnyMegadeth··on Bitcoin hash-rate exceeds total computing power of all the world’s computers
Seeing as lots of that hashing power probably comes from ASICs and FPGAs, if anything it's more of a waste of Silicon that computing power, as without Bitcoin there probably isn't much use for all that hashing power...
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