BrandonY

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by BrandonY 10y ago
One more limitation: a Presidential pardon doesn't affect state laws. If, for instance, Snowden had committed some crime against the state that he was residing in, the President would not forgive it.
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by BrandonY 10y ago
The 1996 Atlanta Olympics deliberately built all the athlete housing right next to Georgia Tech's other dorms with exactly this this in mind. Then, in 2007, Georgia Tech had some great new dorms that they would've needed to build
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by BrandonY 10y ago
Can I ask what the Pub/sub features you miss are?
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by BrandonY 10y ago
My understanding is that, yes, this would be caught by pinning, which is why Chromium disables pinning for "private" root certificates, which is what it considers the ones that your employer has set up on your computer: http:&#x2
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by BrandonY 11y ago
I also really enjoy my Subaru EyeSight. I've only run into one terrible experience, and that is when I went into a automated car wash. As soon as the first big scrubby thing approached, the EyeSight flipped out and slammed on the brake
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by BrandonY 11y ago
I drive defensively and lived in Boston. I couldn't deal with the mindset of Boston drivers. I moved to Seattle. I am so much happier here. Sometimes drivers cause traffic jams because they spend too much time waving at each other to g
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by BrandonY 11y ago
Despite Snopes confirming this, I refuse to admit that it's true. Nethack wouldn't lie to me like that.
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by BrandonY 11y ago
This is not the case with Google Cloud Storage. I cannot speak to the other providers. Google Cloud Storage does not limit read or write throughput with the exception of our "Nearline" product (and even Nearline's limiting ca
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by BrandonY 11y ago
I love zero knowledge proofs. My professor in college explained the idea in what I thought was an especially clear way: Say that you and a friend are reading a Where's Waldo book, and you want to prove that you have found Waldo, but yo
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by BrandonY 11y ago
Gmail does not literally unsend SMTP messages. To give you time to undo, Gmail delays sending the message for a few seconds. So if you don't select "Undo" within the time limit, your message will be sent. How to use: https:
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by BrandonY 11y ago
It's certainly true that real websites use many different hostnames, but keep in mind that one of the reasons why (apart from ad networks and such) is to help pages load faster over HTTP/1.1. If that factor were removed, it'd
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by BrandonY 11y ago
A tangentially related story: Seattle's public school teachers are threatening to strike. One of their demands (in addition to pay and such) is that children get at least 30 minutes of recess per day for elementary school students.
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by BrandonY 11y ago
Googler here. Having just returned to the office from my second paternity leave (for which I was granted up to 12 paid weeks plus a small "baby bonding" bonus), I can say that my org, at the very least, has so far been extremely c
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by BrandonY 11y ago
"AAA" doesn't mean "very successful." It is a category for the games with the very highest development and advertising budgets. Minecraft was built and released with near-zero budget and is, therefore, not a AAA gam
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by BrandonY 11y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem so hard. Every cord must start at some point on the circle and end at some point on the circle. If P is the set of all points on the circle, then the set of all cords is the set o
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by BrandonY 11y ago
Would someone really put "once offered a job by Google, but declined" on their resume? Who am I kidding, of course SOMEONE would, but more than one or two people?
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by BrandonY 11y ago
I should apologize to Triplebyte in the name of those of us, including me, who immediately created fake profiles and took the test just to see if we would do well against this new rubric.
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by BrandonY 11y ago
That is exactly it! Thank you so much for finding that for me.
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by BrandonY 11y ago
I seem to recall a very old science fiction story about a future where nobody has to go to school. Instead, they play all day until they come of age, at which point a computer programs their mind with all of the expertise needed for whateve
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by BrandonY 12y ago
Reading the "How to Sell to Business" section convinced me as an engineer that I should not focus on Haskell. If Haskell programmers are a better deal for businesses because better programmers can be hired for less money, I should
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by BrandonY 12y ago
Google Cloud Storage Nearline offers the same durability as the Standard-priced storage offering. See the first paragraph of https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline-storage
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by BrandonY 12y ago
I have no expertise here, but here's my understanding: 1) Yes, especially if you've worked for some big name, non-government tech companies. 2) Absolutely not. The salary is MISERABLE compared to what you could get in the private
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by BrandonY 12y ago
Somewhere, Kozmo.com CEO Joseph Park is reminding someone that this is Jeff Bezos's second attempt at one hour delivery, and that he was already doing this for Bezos back in the 20th century.
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by BrandonY 12y ago
I don't necessarily agree that the "spirit of the law" is quite so nebulous. If a law is like a computer program, the "spirit of the law" is the program that you are trying to write, and the "letter of the law&
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by BrandonY 12y ago
So, if I'm understanding this right, this is a patent on an emulator having special behavior based on recognizing a specific ROM? Surely there must be several emulators that do just that already?
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by BrandonY 12y ago
It did. They dropped all evidence found during the search of the home, including the phone itself and a handgun found inside.
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by BrandonY 12y ago
This would be cool as a generic tool, like a 1:1 version of Meetup. Which I guess is what dating websites are, but explicitly focused on just talking one time with an interesting person about stuff they are really excited about over coffee
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by BrandonY 12y ago
That's an interesting idea. Image Fred Everyman. For some reason, the only car he can afford is a Bugatti Veyron, and he needs a car to get to work. How much does this cost Fred? A basic new Bugatti Veyron seems to cost about $1.55 mil
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by BrandonY 12y ago
> What is your Amazon.com password? If this were Reddit, this is the point where I would attach a hilarious GIF of some animal running away with the text "NOPE" all over it.
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by BrandonY 12y ago
That's not self-fulfilling. Add up all of the essentials without considering taxes. Figure out how much income it would take to pay for all of those things. Work out the amount of taxes that you would owe on that income. Add it to inco

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