AskewEgret

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by AskewEgret 8y ago
If I am understanding your problem correctly, I did that for a large American automotive electronics supplier back in the 1990s - though back then 30-40 megabytes of data was pretty big. We trained a bunch of American and Japanese engineer
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by AskewEgret 8y ago
> nokia, samsung and others were all on their way with competing products that would have filled the void had the iphone not been there We used smartphones in the labs at Motorola when I started working there in 2001. They ran Linux and
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by AskewEgret 8y ago
Of course. Get-Content puts every line of text into the pipeline as a .Net String object with a few additional attributes added on, including ReadCount which is the line number. For example: Get-Content -Path TEXT.TXT | %{"$($_.ReadC
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by AskewEgret 8y ago
And a really interesting life story. I like how she randomly ended up in the job: https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2012/feature/roc... > Four years into the job, Shotwell had lunch with a co-wo
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by AskewEgret 8y ago
You are correct, but the planned extension of the CTA Red Line includes a new station that is shared with the South Shore, creating a brand-new connection ability that never existed before. The planning for the new Union Station to McCormi
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
The problem Apple had with Motorola was that Motorola couldn't get the chip yields they needed at high clock rates. The problem Apple had with IBM was that IBM didn't care enough about power efficiency to make the chips viable in
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
> the English system encouraging divisibility by 2/3/4/6 I'm not sure that the Old English system used sixths much. Eighths for sure though. Fun fact: The NYSE and NASDAQ switched from fractional dollar quoting to d
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
I've found working with and improving legacy code to be some of the most compelling work I've done and I'm not alone in feeling this way. But it's nearly impossible to find that kind of job because employers tend to go o
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
You're going to find it very hard to have a gaming PC that is also stripped down to its bones. Windows 10 Pro N is a good starting point for a non-annoying Windows "Experience", but I'm fairly certain you can't game
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
I just clicked on the start menu, and halfway down the list of apps is "Suggested: Fitbit Coach. Up your fitness level". That's an advertisement. My computer has never had anything related to Fitbit on it. Ever.
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
Maybe the person was looking for a new job because the bosses forced them to use X in 2017.
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
> Bus lanes and stops are actually empty a lot of the time, they just need to be clear at the particular moment when the bus needs them. Yes, this is true. Here in Chicago, it is only illegal to block a bus stop if it is interfering wit
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
We used Coinbase purely for trading and received a 1099-K
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
Was it a 1099-K? [1] It reports gross payments, not profits. The IRS knows this; it's their form. [1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/understanding-your-1099-k
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
> The only reason that my old Core 2 Duo is "future proofed" is because useful improvements have slowed down dramatically in the last 10 years. I have four Core2Duo tower computers that I bought last year for $10 each. Three o
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
It's probably based on a conservative guess about your location: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-26/facebook-...
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
In less than 50 years, Chicago went from a town of fewer than 5000 to the second largest city in America, with well over 1 million residents, yet during that period: a) Skyscrapers didn't exist until the end of the period b) Mass trans
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
Unmentioned in the linked article is the fact that sitting for the Patent Bar exam with the USPTO does not require a law degree but instead it requires an engineering or hard science degree. If you like the idea of working with patents, tra
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
This cannot be emphasized enough. Accessing PACER from a courthouse is free. Accessing PACER for a case you are involved in is free. Getting judicial opinions from PACER is free. If you convince a judge that the cost of PACER is a burden
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
I understand the sentiment you're going for, but Gary has a commuter train that goes to downtown Chicago in less than an hour. With free (working) wifi. I've known some guys that have worked in high paying IT jobs in Chicago whi
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
This reminds me of how the family that owned the Hyatt hotels broke apart. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/05/andrews200305
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
The idea is not to have a 3 story house, but to have 3 housing units on that 5,000 sq ft lot - which is not even remotely Manhattanization of the neighborhood. However, unless this bill prevents or limits the applicability of minimum size
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
A 1-ounce gold coin issued by the US Mint is legal tender to the tune of $50. It says so right on the coin. If you want to pay your taxes using gold coins, go right ahead. They will gladly accept it.
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
I think that you are falling into a West-Coast trap that says Asian = Diverse. San Francisco is 42% White, 33% Asian, 15% Latino, 6% Black. Chicago is 30% White, 30% Black, 30% Latino, 7% Asian. This is a great article: https://f
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
I can remember reading Bertel Schmitt over at TTAC [1] years ago. You will find very few people in the world who can write well enough and have the level of car industry knowledge that he has. If I remember correctly, he started working a
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
Yes, I would expect that a drop in stolen base attempts would lead to a drop in errors by catchers. Looking at stats from 2000-2017, total errors underwent a steady drop from ~3400 in 2000 to ~2800 in 2017. On the other hand, it is not enti
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
Ceteris paribus, base stealing doesn't make sense. But baseball is a game played by humans and even if it weren't, there are a large number of variables that don't go into the simple analysis. For example: The members of the
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
If clean data and easy access is a priority and you are willing to pay money, the gold standard is CRSP [1]. Full disclosure - I work there. [1] http://www.crsp.com/
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
Nanoparticles. They irritate your lungs in ways that are very similar to asbestos irritation. And of course, it's your body's reaction to the irritation that kills you. Example: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs&#
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by AskewEgret 9y ago
When you are new, you should be given a lot of leeway to ask questions. So, perhaps you should set aside potential motives and use these rejections as opportunities to ask questions. Something along the lines of: "I've worked at

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