Crito

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by Crito 12y ago
If you've got a rat infestation in your building, it won't take long to figure it out even if you never see them. They have a tendency to cause a lot of damage and leave their shit all over the place.
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by Crito 12y ago
I see only two of your comments in recent history are downvoted into the gray: This one is not civil, as it personally attacks another commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9169613 "That says a lot about you
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by Crito 12y ago
Several years ago while walking outdoors during the winter carrying my thinkpad in my hands, I slipped on a manhole cover that was covered in ice. The thinkpad fell about 4 to 5 feet straight onto the manhole cover, landing on it's co
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by Crito 12y ago
I am guessing the logic here is that everyone uses wireless mice, or that anyone with a laptop doesn't use an external mouse. I mean, I used a wired mouse, and I'm guessing you do as well, but it seems like wired mouse users are
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by Crito 12y ago
How many plaques and statues does Japan need to erect before you will be satisfied? I posit that even if they installed as many plaques and statues as Germany, you would still find another reason to criticize them.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Not sure why you're being downvoted" The "5 year old" comment probably has something to do with it. HN doesn't tend to downvote people into the gray just because they are saying something that other pe
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by Crito 12y ago
It occurs to me that by asserting that the American nuclear bombardment was not justifiable because the Japanese were not sufficiently terrified of it but were sufficiently terrified of a Russian invasion, we are saying something quite ex
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by Crito 12y ago
While there are a few groups that call themselves the KKK, as an actual national organization they were gutted by the FBI decades ago. Whenever any self-styled "KKK" group gets large enough, the FBI infiltrates and guts them as w
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by Crito 12y ago
Kind of reminds me how Boeing test pilots will often draw shapes on the map when they are flying around aircraft to get in test hours. Here is a 787 logo 'drawn' with a 787: http://flightaware.com/live/flight&
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by Crito 12y ago
Have you considered making this (providing the original link after changing it) a feature of HN itself? I like the transparency, but doing it manually every time seems like it could become a bit of a hassle for you.
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by Crito 12y ago
I am skeptical that it would be of any help, particularly since the calculator is only allowed to be out during the math sections, not during the language/written sections. With the 89's input history, you could effectively record
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by Crito 12y ago
Standardized test calculator rules in this country are not governed by reason. For instance, a TI-89 is allowed on the SATs, but a TI-92 is not. Basically the same calculator, except the TI-92 has a qwerty keyboard. How would a tiny littl
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by Crito 12y ago
It seems to me, that if there was a large amount of "junk DNA" in our chromosomes, it would be advantageous for much of it to be at the ends, preceding those telomeres. That way, when you start to run low on telomeres, you would
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by Crito 12y ago
The current state of things seems more like opening ASCII source code in a hex editor to me. We can sequence DNA, but that raw data isn't something that we can mentally digest very easily at all.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "[snip] than in the rest of the world." Considering the role of environment on intelligence, I would consider that to be extremely unlikely. If you restricted your statement to "other developed nations" , that m
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by Crito 12y ago
Those buses might get you to within a 20 minute walk of your destination, but depending on when you are departing , you might have to wait up to an hour to catch the bus in the first place. Seattle's public transit may be better than
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by Crito 12y ago
Compared to the power requirements of an RPi, the power for several spindle drives would be pretty significant.. except you have to figure they won't be spun up most of the time.
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by Crito 12y ago
When they were starting out with Falcon 1 launch attempts, they were using Kwajalein Atoll. They had tons of problems with corrosion from sea-water in the air though. I imagine that might be a concern in Hawaii as well, depending on which
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by Crito 12y ago
For anyone that isn't aware, this is actually what Elon Musk has stated in interviews in the past.
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by Crito 12y ago
I'd say that by virtue of using R, regardless of your major, you are a programmer.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "almost certainly" You might have a legitimate reason for putting 500MB artifacts into a git repo, but I reeeaaally doubt it. It is a poor craftsman who blames tools that he is intent on misusing.
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by Crito 12y ago
370GB is peanuts. Try keeping a centralized version control server up and operating when you have dozens of terabytes and thousands of developers. Better to abandon the ultimately doomed monolithic repo scheme and tool your build and deplo
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by Crito 12y ago
I'll second this. git-p4 kept me sane through several years of working in a very large perforce shop.
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by Crito 12y ago
Perforce sucks. From a UX perspective, it really is rotten. Furthermore, contrary to popular belief , it scales poorly. Perforce scales provided you can continue to throw money and hardware at the machine your repo is on. After a while,
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by Crito 12y ago
Because you are accustomed to centralized version control systems that do not punish you for doing something that dumb, and refuse to learn new tools when you are forced to use them. Anyone checking in 500MB artifacts into git is almost cer
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by Crito 12y ago
His link works for me right now, but it is these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Digital_Cinema_Camera_Compa... http://www.red.com They really should have seen it coming. Red is pretty well known,
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by Crito 12y ago
That c-section was simultaneously the best and worst part of the movie for me. The scene itself was great. Thematically and artistically, it was on-point. It felt like exactly the kind of scene that belongs in an Alien movie. What I ha
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by Crito 12y ago
Oh come on. Even Disney movies have corpses in them.
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by Crito 12y ago
Isn't that the point of a horror movie though? The audience is supposed to know that it isn't real, and are supposed to be scared of what it symbolizes. If kids aren't scared by Aliens , then the movie failed. Being scared
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by Crito 12y ago
Another possible explanation is the state of Yahoo in years preceding her. Basically a company that everyone was kind of surprised was still around. For as much as people dislike Microsoft or Facebook, I don't think many people think

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