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by 13of40 8y ago
I was looking at numbers published by my state recently, and while suicide is the major cause of gun death (by a factor of about 5, IIRC) it was heavily skewed toward older (>50) rural males. What if those people are killing themselves f
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by 13of40 8y ago
Not by itself, but putting the pictures up in your restaurant might.
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by 13of40 8y ago
> some items slip through the cracks For reference, go to eBay and type in the word "flown".
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by 13of40 8y ago
Or get hounded by insider gold diggers if they find out you're wealthy.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Let's say the actual role involves, for example, writing a health and monitoring system for a Windows-based service, and you're hiring for a long term FTE position. Do you ask something Windows+C# specific and eliminate the very
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by 13of40 8y ago
Not to say asking puzzle coding questions is an ideal approach, but I think the motivation is somewhat opposite: If you base your hiring decision on how awesome the applicant tells you they are, a certain number of the people you say "
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by 13of40 8y ago
Earlier this year I spent some time implementing a BASIC (actually VBA) interpreter and to support error handling (e.g. ON ERROR GOTO foobar) I ended up translating all of the flow control statements into conditional GOTOs.
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by 13of40 8y ago
There was a time when I was hiring vendors for my team (at a big company) rather than FTEs and I had a bit of leeway to diverge from the company's interviewing guidance. What I would do was sit them in front of a computer with Visual
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by 13of40 8y ago
Hand-wringing and debating about how we should use the bug reporting system, triage, sprint planning, user stories, burn-down charts, etc. will keep the leads and PMs busy for decades on end, even if the tools never change.
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by 13of40 8y ago
>lock-in A company that spends millions of dollars employing technical writers to publicly document a format probably isn't conspiring to keep that format secret. Maybe the macaronis aren't the shape you wanted but you got the
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by 13of40 8y ago
Compare it to the straightforward days of yore, when my hard drive controller only had a Z80 and my printer an MC68000.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Something I've often dreamed about is an fpga board in pcie card form with a sane toolset along side it so I can treat it as software instead of getting advanced degrees in desktop cable management and I/O pin mapping. Does somet
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by 13of40 8y ago
Fair anecdote, but compare that to all of the untold millions of times someone's day has been derailed because they didn't push the shift key. It's a user interface, not an API.
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by 13of40 8y ago
An even earlier bug in Unix that considers "file.txt" and "FILE.TXT" two different files is still causing user anguish to this day. I mean, honestly, can any of you raise your hand and say that's made your life bet
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by 13of40 8y ago
One hundredth the size of a grain of salt vs. one tenth for fentanyl? Imagine if a piece of dust from that blew into your eye.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Also, when my phone is in my pocket I'm exposed to 50% of the radiation in one small spot vs. let's say 10% of the antenna's radiation spread across the whole body of the rat. Hopefully they tuned the power in their experime
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by 13of40 8y ago
You can actually skip HN and browse Wikipedia directly if that's your thing.
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by 13of40 8y ago
You should try some traditional, West coast, native American food. I'm talking some salmon-with-nothing-on-it, maybe some of that black moss (edit: wila) soup, some bitterroot. Try and find the salt, fat, and acid.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Is that for someone going through the user interface, or is it a fundamental feature of the database (or whatever)? In other words, is there no case where someone could log into a server and see some PII in a debugger or a direct query wit
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by 13of40 8y ago
I was surprised to see "baked" in 1975, but it turned out to be just a specific definition.
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by 13of40 8y ago
If you were an engineer working at Google on one of the services that handles, say, location data from phones, how difficult would it be for you to go into the environment and find a specific person's location history? Also, what logg
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by 13of40 8y ago
The runner-up is in Hawaii. The $1.5M winners are in California.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Nowadays a google query for "sounds guinea pigs do" gets 8.6 million hits, and they seem decently on target all the way through page 3.
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by 13of40 8y ago
"Copenhagen Suborbitals is the world’s only manned, amateur space program." The way this is phrased, it sounds like they've already achieved it, and I feel like that's a little bit intentional. They could have easily ca
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by 13of40 8y ago
If you think about it, Silicon Valley is what you get when you mix two parts new age culture with three parts IBM and let it ripen for a few decades.
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by 13of40 8y ago
They also seem to be taking some liberties when using the term "manned". But yeah, cool project.
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by 13of40 8y ago
This could be apocryphal (there was free beer at the company meeting), but I think I recall he (Gates) mentioned at the time that the existence of a solid chipset to support the 8088 was something that drove the ultimate decision.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Similar story with me. I got an Amiga 1000 and did a fair bit of assembly coding on it, then ended up writing some 16-bit x86 assembly for school later on. Being used to having sixteen 32-bit registers, then all the sudden having to use A
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by 13of40 8y ago
At one of the Microsoft company meetings in the middle to late 2000s (I recall it was at Safeco Field) he claimed that when IBM was developing the PC he tried to convince them to use an MC68000 instead of the 8088. He said going with the 8
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I do this. I also sometimes tell myself that if I can get these - let's call it 3 - things taken care of I can consider the day a success and leave early.

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