IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
Compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. In the US, they would be breaking the law, and that's how these things get enforced.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
It is terrible that someone did this. Nobody should have to put up with that bullshit. I do not know anything about German law. But for reference, if this had happened in the US, I would recommend that you contact an employment law attorn
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The 2006 documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" is worth watching. The whole thing is on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9o1vUSLhOs In particular, it gives a glimpse of why Jones&#
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I spent some time checking into things, and here's what appears to be happening: 1. I do get an IPv6 address from Time-Warner... and it appears to be legit. (It's not the link-local address; it starts with 2605:e000, which is in
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Postings that use phrases like "ninja", "rockstar", "crush code", etc, tell me something very, very important about the company. Specifically, that I'd probably hate to work there.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
This seems like a good place to ask--I'm on Time Warner. I have an ipv6 address, and can get to ipv6.google.com, so it seems like everything is in place. But all my web browsing (chrome or ff, Windows 7) defaults to use ipv4 everywhe
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I've always been curious: in an enclosed stadium on the moon, would humans run the 100 yard dash faster or slower? I think the first reaction people have is "faster, since you weigh less". But I think the answer is slower, b
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The federal government spends mostly on SS, Medicare/Medicaid, and military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_F... Presumably if the fed wasn't paying for social security and medicar
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by IvyMike 12y ago
In #2, I'm curious why you didn't like sehe's answer?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
So which web browsers are not written in C++?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Slate has a far more negative view of the auction: > Jim Watson is one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. He is also a peevish bigot. History will remember him for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA, in 1953. Thi
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Still tweeting every month or so. https://twitter.com/steve_yegge
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Want to kill MD5? Provide public-domain easy-to-compile/use versions for all languages, and furthermore, get their google page ranks high. Do not underestimate laziness. If Joe Random can find a suitable MD5 algorithm in 10 seconds bu
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by IvyMike 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedic_device#Hyperbole.2C_or...
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by IvyMike 12y ago
In C/C++, unsigned ints can result in a few very subtle bugs--more details here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1555186/67591 TL;DR: Google's C++ coding standard says: "Document that a variable is non-n
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I'm imagining the computer consoles in Brazil. https://imgur.com/pFUTYH2
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Let's do the math. If I didn't screw it up (and I probably did), an 8k iphone 6 would be around 1600 dpi.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The industry wants to be able to sell you something "better" and 24/192 is clearly bigger and therefore better than 16/48. This is the same reason I'm convinced we're going to get 8k phone displays someday. If
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by IvyMike 12y ago
"There's a long line of tired and irritated people who have been up since 5am behind me... time to try out something new and possibly line-blocking."
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by IvyMike 12y ago
If you haven't, please read Asimov's short story "Nightfall". Your comment was made for it. http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.h...
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by IvyMike 12y ago
John Carmack has an ability to iterate and do throwaway experiments on complex code like almost no one else I can think of. I write complex code sometimes, but when I do I rarely want to just start over with a new approach again and again
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Though there was an initial review process for adding our extension to the Chrome Web Store, updates after that are approved immediately and rollout automatically to all of our users. This is wonderful, This is also why several 't
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I think the idea is that a message from aliens would need a carrier with sufficient complexity and durability. A replicating molecule like DNA or RNA might fit the bill, so they take a look.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Obligatory link to The Onion article "Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business": http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-ho... That's from 2007, making the contin
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I always wonder why the first browser to misidentify itself as something else wasn't sued. I mean, I sure couldn't slap a "Internet Explorer" or "Netscape Navigator" splash screen on my shareware, but that&#x27
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Drepper's caustic style aside, his point ultimately was that truncation is still a problem. Whether or not you think glibc should include strlcat, this is an important point to understand. More discussion here: http://stack
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I was the software guy, and I have to admit I weaseled out of taking a thermo class in college, so unfortunately I don't have an answer for you.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I used to work with water-cooled test equipment. One thing that surprised me was that the water was warm. The reason I was given was that had chilled water been used, you would have all sorts of issues with condensation. So instead of c
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I gotta be honest: I'd like to see what would happen if they tried this.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I think anyone who was on the supplier side of Intel's "Copy Exact" requirements would find this particularly ironic. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/quality/exact-copy.ht...

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