BrandonM

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by BrandonM 14y ago
Everyone is entitled to some basic level of human decency in their interactions with others; our society relies on this. And we are also entitled to draw attention, in any legal manner we choose, to a situation where we feel that we are n
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It's really easy when you are intelligent and your core competency is in high demand to view the entire world through rose colored lenses. You have so many choices of where to work that you are treated pretty good on the whole. A lot of peo
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I actually was able to write a macro in C that, along with a certain paradigm for defining collections, allows foreach loops that are just as nice as Python.
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The author left out my favorite: less. Pressing F at the end of a file is the same as tail -f, with the important difference that you can always press Ctrl-C and go back to standard less mode in case something interesting flies by.
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EasyESI ( http://easyesi.com ) - Berkeley, CA (SFBA) - full-time, US residents only EasyESI is 7-person, tech-led startup that helps lawyers sift through mountains of evidence in a case to find the smoking gun. This is a good business to be
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It looks like that comic is signed, "P. Steiner"?
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I felt the same way as the GP. It's not about better pleasing one person. It's about investing an extra minute or two yourself to save all of the readers a total amount of time that exceeds that. Writing unstructured text in a discussion
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I would agree with your comment except that seiji used the derogatory term, "brainwash," to refer to an activity that shawn-butler clearly chose to participate in. This frames the conversation in a very negative light (it was quite unnecess
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I just wrote an email to admissions@mit.edu indicating that I will dissuade my children from attending, and that I will bring up this matter repeatedly throughout my life to dissuade others as well. Being an "innocent bystander" is not true
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EasyESI ( http://easyesi.com ) - Berkeley, CA - full-time, H1B welcome We are a 6-person, tech-led startup that nearly hit breakeven last year and just closed a funding round. We are looking to fill 3 positions: Front-End/UI Engineer - Must
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Apple is one of the bigger patent trolls, as far as tech companies go, right now.
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Our apartment is awful for receiving packages... UPS and FedEx can't even get in the front gate. But I just get packages sent to work, so there's not a problem at all.
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I keep assuming that at some point you'll just shut it down, that your disappointment with it will reach the point that it doesn't really seem worth it anymore. The sad thing is that I (and perhaps a lot of the oldest members) just won't be
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These things don't magically appear as a result of obsession. The best things are crafted in a meticulous process by... people! Taking the time to appreciate the things you buy and get the very best gives the craftsman the (very human!) a
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> What we really need is a word that only refers to gambling in situations with an expected value less than or equal to zero. I believe we call that gambling.
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Ditto for Emken here in CA ( http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Elizabeth_Emken.htm ): Respects the sanctity of life and will fight to uphold it. (Mar 2010) Define marriage as between one man and one woman. (Jun 2012) US should be dr
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Columbus, OH, is another city that is surprisingly bicycle friendly. Allow riding on the road feels less safe than riding on the roads in SF (there just aren't enough cyclists on the roads for most drivers to be looking for them), there are
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From the end of the last post in the series ( http://winningraceconditions.blogspot.com/2012/09/rust-4-typ... ): let arc = RWARC(some_data); for num_cpus().times { let arc2 = clone(&arc); do task::spawn |move a
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You seem to not realize that $100/hr is hugely underselling yourself. I am working at a startup (vesting 1% equity in lieu of higher compensation). I work 47 weeks or less, probably for 30 hours per week or less (time actually spent worki
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The submission is mostly-useless blog spam around a cool tool: https://blog.wealthfront.com/startup-employee-equity-compens...
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I've been watching this company practically since its inception. They started out developing games intended to make exercise fun, but in the process they built an amazing platform for motion detection on the major mobile devices. This seems
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I completely agree with the Eternal September point, or maybe it's just a problem of non-makers tearing down others instead of doing something more worthwhile. I recently solved a tricky bug in some Java code that we eventually realized onl
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This makes for a pretty easy downvote: Edit: and you are too scared to offer a counterpoint, so you anonymously downvote instead :)
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Maybe you'll call me a pedant, but you should be aware that `find .` is not equivalent to `ls .* *`. The find command starts at the indicated directories (. in this case) and lists each file and directory within it, recursing into subdire
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That is a good point, but it is a much more degenerate case than the more common internal space.
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Note that xargs actually takes a whitespace -delimited list. This often leads to problems when a filename has a space in it. To fix it, you should either use: find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ... or: ... | xargs -d'\n' ...
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Why do that when a loop is clearer, safer, and shorter? find images -name '*.jpg' | while read jpg; do convert -geometry 200x "$jpg" "$(echo "$jpg" | sed 's/.jpg$/_thumb.jpg/')"; done This version works even when there are sp
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This sounds like a pretty good approach. Why must it be "in the future"? Why don't you work on it yourself? This is Hacker News, after all.
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It's pre-taxes. And an extended trip to Europe (8 cities, 2 countries, round-trip airfare from the US) just cost my girlfriend and me about $6000.
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But many agencies cannot simply send devices, often containing sensitive information, off to 3rd parties without a specific contract and vetted protocol governing the exchange. Part of the reason that a government agency has to handle dispo

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