IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
We all know it was Tim Hortons.
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I used to work on a proprietary software package that used this approach. But the original authors of our software underestimated the craziness that customers would put into their "config" files. Once they had a programming langu
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by IvyMike 12y ago
If you have an android phone you may want to check out your location history: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0 Certainly far better than 100 meters in my case.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Take someone like my mom, born in the 50's: she was raised in a conservative household, and when authority figures told her "marijuana is bad", her instinct was to believe them. So she's been against it her whole life.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Why not aspire to levels of completeness and rigor comparable to civil engineering? Because it takes 11 years to upgrade one feature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_span_replacement_of_th... In all serious
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> imagine if you'd spent countless hours getting to the bottom of an obscure bug that turned out to be a completely bone-headed [...] problem outside your control I imagine everyone on HN has been in this situation many times durin
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Mormons do call themselves Christian. http://www.mormon.org/faq/mormon-christian Many mainstream Christian religions disagree, citing various conflicts with Christian doctrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by IvyMike 12y ago
When do you use the word 'accident'?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Better yet: change the text to "you think you're clever, don't you" and then blur the image. It's a little easter egg for the people with an unblur plugin.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/guinea_ebola_epidemic > An outbreak of Ebola struck Guinea causing at least 187 infections and 117 deaths. Aid organisations are taking emergency measures to contain the spread
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> If you have user ID or password problems, use the following address (place in the “To” field) to send an e-mail requesting assistance: websec.adminp@cs.oag.state.tx.us This poor guy.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
http://digitalsundial.com/ I won one. It is a very weird object.
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I seem to remember that the original satellites (which were the first highly accurate clocks in orbit) had a hedge--if the effects of general relativity turned out to not be correct the system could drop that part of the correction. But I&
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by IvyMike 12y ago
"The research isn't conclusive." "studies involving people have produced “limited and inconsistent evidence” when it comes to the ties between acrylamide and cancer" "Binaglia says that, for now, it’s not possi
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I dunno about "cars they would never use", but I wonder if anyone who has a driveway/garage for their car has started parking on the street. "I get to work at six and the street is empty, so I park there. When it'
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Now you have three problems.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
(This is getting a bit pedantic but this is HN so we like to be accurate. And I learned the word on HN so might as well pass it on.) Several of the other answers have mentioned "triangulation" but that's not quite right--that
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Another quote echoing the exact same sentiment: "One in a million is next Tuesday" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2004/03/30/104...
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I was unaware that drepper had left redhat (and glibc). He's now at Goldman Sachs. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrichdrepper
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Then when you find new friends, you can play a game... and you will need new friends again.
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What's really amazing is how lackluster the whole campaign is. IE is a touted as a "new browser", but here are the features they are especially proud of: 1) Full Screen Browsing. 2) Multitasking, which apparently means
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> we could find new and better things for those people to do I do not think this is universally true.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
As far as I can tell, California & Democrat = live in San Francisco. If I say "non-urban" it puts me... outside of San Francisco.
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I wonder if he picked Robocop city on purpose.
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Philip K. Howard has a new book out: The Rule of Nobody. (Note: I haven't read it, I've just seen a few interviews and considered buying the book.) The premise is that the fact that laws are constantly added but almost never remo
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> claims the ozone hole was not due to CFCs Was there any even halfway plausible evidence for this in 2001? The only things I can find on this are in 2007, there was some indication that the Cl2O2 photolysis rate was much lower than expe
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> Carbon Dioxide content is very small, invisible on a bar chart. Anyone raising the point that "CO2 is only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere" immediately makes me suspicious. The implication, I guess, is that because it is a
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I have a similar skepticism of modernist cooking. I have very egalitarian ideas about good food--it should be for everyone. This has probably never been true, but the fact that people are trying to make new foods that are even harder for
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I guess I'm the only one so far who kinda agrees with the author. One thing not explicitly spelled out in the article: you should avoid doing coding that is not actually solving anyone's problem. I've seen a lot of engineers,
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Hm: is "non-European" the word you wanted? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm really not sure. Even quickly skimming http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/pdfs/cenpop2010/COP2010_...

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