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The point in the title is valid, but his answer to the original question seems misguided to me: in the time of the bible the only lineage that mattered is the paternal one. If your grandmother was King David's daughter that would not make you his descendant. Not in the eyes of your contemporaries.

He mentioned that someone picked 333,667 and notes that it's a Sexy Prime, but 333,667 is also a Unique Prime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_prime), which makes me think someone was either being cute, or they suspected that it was a trick question.

> the "unanswered" section is full of questions that have been answered, the asker just never bothered to click accept.

Answered questions appear in Unanswered only if no answer has been voted up. If you see a question with a good answer, just vote it up and clear the clutter for the next person looking at the Unanswered section.

what bothers me the most about these kind of articles is the underlying assumption that I can find a good criminal lawyer when the need arises.

I'm having enough trouble finding good engineers, and that is something that I am qualified to do, as well as able to spend several months on, under very little pressure.

I have very little experience with lawyers, but at least for corporate lawyers, my impression is that the average lawyer doesn't know everything about their field, just like the average programmer doesn't know everything about their field. I wonder how many of these pitfalls are something that an average lawyer wouldn't know to avoid.

First off, the issue is not how it would help them, it is how it would help you. And tzs explained how it would help you: it would keep the investigators from getting suspicious of you, and possibly making your life harder.

As an aside, it would also help the investigators, by not distracting them with irrelevant suspicious behavior.

I'd be interested in knowing what made them write that IntelliJ IDEA provides "decent solutions for bidirectional editing", considering that JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov has specifically said that they don't see the business case in supporting RTL editing:

http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEABKL-5572

I'm not an expert in Unix history, but I think that long before "patch" the tool, the output of diff was a script that you could use as a patch by piping it into ed.

Pervious discussion on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=107683

> There's a reason he has to emphasize legal, and that's because the obvious cash crop isn't. The market of capitalism has decided, and has found the best use of the land possible.

What makes the "obvious cash crop" so profitable is the fact that it's illegal, and therefore requires a high premium to cover the risk involved. There's nothing inherently super-profitable about growing pot.

Everybody here is having a great time beating this mostly-dead horse, but I know for a fact that I have more productive weeks and less productive weeks, and in those less productive weeks I usually write way less LOC.

What's more, if you just slightly adjust this metric to "patch size", as in count lines added as well as lines removed, you'll get a more accurate measure, and also make the linked story moot.

Measuring developer progress is incredibly hard, but we have to do it anyway, and "use your gut" cannot be the only advice on this. At the very least, comparing this metric for the same person over different periods of time can give you a clue as to how they're doing.