Agathos

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by Agathos 12y ago
> just get the hell out of their way. That is a skill.
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I always hit m.xkcd.com now, never the main site, even when I have a mouse. That hover text was always a pain.
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Please do not taunt the Rust fans.
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It works! (n=1) "I used to go to the gym and pretend in my head I had already died, and it was 100 years into the future, and I was dreaming of some guy who wrote a database. I didn't know how the story ended yet, I hadn't go
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by Agathos 12y ago
Somebody's been browsing Wikipedia while watching Marco Polo.
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I remember just about every PC Magazine columnist suddenly started writing about "push" around the same time.
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The exact wording was, "What <features> do you feel are under represented or often misunderstood?" I agree that Functor and Monad are hardly candidates to dominate that survey, the burrito notwithstanding.
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by Agathos 12y ago
"Draw me a house," with the gotcha if you don't ask questions, is described by Fred Moody in I Sing the Body Electronic. That's early 90s Microsoft.
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We used to call this a Socratic dialogue, but I'll update my vocabulary. Thanks for the notice.
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Conversely, even reasonably well educated people are sometimes surprised to learn where plant biomass comes from. Most of it is not sucked out of the ground; it's made from the same CO2 that we're exhaling.
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by Agathos 12y ago
Most coders just happen to like coding. Selling IT services to a government might involve a little coding, but it's mostly about mastering the procurement process. Where do you even start with that? I seem to recall we had a similar di
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by Agathos 12y ago
Boston Tech? Didn't it move to Cambridge and change its name?
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I bet the deck crews will love that.
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by Agathos 12y ago
Edison lost the War of the Currents, which is what he killed the elephant for. The whole episode was bizarre, and I'd file it under "unhinged" instead of "mean." Was he born like that, or did his early successes tur
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by Agathos 12y ago
The first rule of devops club is welcome to devops club. The second rule of devops club is welcome to devops club ! The third rule of devops club: someone yells stop, goes limp, tests don't pass: the deployment is over. Roll back to y
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by Agathos 12y ago
My school publishes a LaTeX template for theses. After I downloaded that, I spent very little time thinking about formatting. Unfortunately my advisor doesn't do LaTeX so it kind of sucked for collaboration.
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Of course some radars did physically move their dishes to stay locked on to a target. I'm in the middle of The Invention That Changed the World (spoiler alert: it was radar) and I was stunned to learn how well this worked with analog c
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by Agathos 12y ago
"...and Netflix sells off its vast supply of DVDs for drink coasters..." Can we get off this, at long last? CDs and DVDs are terrible coasters. They're too thin and not at all spongy or porous, so the condensation will creep
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by Agathos 12y ago
I was annoyed to see the same mistake in this article (and its headline) when it first went up. They've since corrected it, but you can see the note at the end. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/us/p
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Since turning 30, I've noticed my hangovers have started lasting all day. Who has time for that? I still drink fairly often, but rarely more than a drink or two a night.
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My impulsive response would be that no insurance company would be stupid enough to sign up for such a certain loss. But then again, AIG.
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by Agathos 12y ago
"People say techies are invading science fiction. They said the same about my immigrant girlfriend." Acronyms in headlines are so annoying.
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Any suggestion about medical technology startups on HN inevitably brings a rain of comments (often including one from me) about how the regulatory burden is too high, getting approval is a job for lawyers not coders, etc. Kudos to MedXT for
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by Agathos 12y ago
Without looking, I would have guessed Edward Teller, but the gender thing shoots that down.
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by Agathos 12y ago
Bank lending to small businesses is way down since the start of the recession, and if they were inclined to start again they could borrow at nearly zero percent anyway. Bank leadership has been saying they don't see good opportunities.
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by Agathos 12y ago
“Inbox is an email company. Google is an advertising company. This product is our focus, and will not be ‘discontinued’ unexpectedly.” Burn! Very amusing. But for all we know they will be acqui-hired, maybe even by Google, and then shifte
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by Agathos 12y ago
I definitely learned 1, 3, and 5 while in grad school and I'm a little surprised he didn't. On 1 especially, I will tell people about grad school, "Being smart can only get you IN. Persistence and hard work get you out."
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My TL;DR: a founder ran into some painful but survivable bumps along the road, plus one killer. The latter being there are people in the US government who would rather burn down the whole economy than share any of it with a dirty immigrant.
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Can't be bothered to read the article, indeed. When you read about those gaps, you might assume that they mostly have to do with ability. Rich kids do better on the SAT, so of course they do better in college. But ability turns out to
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There are plenty more government IT projects for them to save next. The scale of these failures is mind-boggling, and Healthcare.gov wasn't nearly the worst. Here's one I just read about yesterday, might be good for their next pro

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