IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037
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by IvyMike 12y ago
If you cannot measure a 'crash rate' you're doing something wrong. Because if nothing else, there is a low but present base rate of crashes caused by overclocked CPUs, bad memory, and flaky motherboards. http://bl
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Laptops often have a good view of the room. Cell phones often have a good view of the inside of a pocket. Nitpicker's corner: Your usage patterns may differ.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Fun fact: This is easy to remember if you know that the kilometer was originally defined so that the distance from the equator to the poles was 10000 kilometers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Meridional_definition
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Everything seems ok for me. What is going wrong?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
To elaborate, the ArchiveTeam distributes a very simple-to-use virtual machine image that you can run. When you do so, your machine will help download and collect from disappearing websites. I don't think they've got scripts for
817.
by IvyMike 12y ago
I've made this point before, but... having done a ton of interviews for senior and principal software engineers, the candidate mix is already incredibly non-diverse by the time it gets to me. I mean, maybe my management and hr is fille
818.
by IvyMike 12y ago
Just download the Google Steering Wheel app.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Depends on the person.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
It kind of works that way from the other side too. Any group has a set of "norms" that, if you deviate from them, it's hard to belong to the group. Go to a heavy metal concert wearing a pink shirt, or a linux conference wear
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Would you downvote someone who said "racism is a common sentiment"? If you said that and were subsequently downvoted, would you still maintain that a lot of people feel that way? That's what I mean.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I mentioned it because I think there a lot of people who might agree with the statement but are self-aware enough to realize they shouldn't say it out loud.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
"I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink" is a politically incorrect but still pretty common sentiment. Edit: I think I'm getting some "shoot the messenger" downvotes. Whether or not you agree with the sta
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by IvyMike 12y ago
How do you respond to Krugman's next sentence? > It’s just not plausible that this increase in the concentration of income from capital doesn’t reflect a more or less comparable increase in the concentration of capital itself. Also,
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Jessamyn, who has worked in some capacity on the site for almost 10 years and was instrumental in shaping the voice of Ask MetaFilter, is taking a voluntary layoff. Holy crap. I think this is a giant mistake; IMO she's the heart
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I don't get the downvotes. Repurposing something for another useful purpose is exactly what hacking is all about.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Six years ago, I spent an hour learning to drive manual transmission in my friends car. I did not get very good in that hour. Then I went and bought a manual transmission car of my own. The drive back home from the dealer was one hell of
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by IvyMike 12y ago
It's been 15 years since this article was originally written, which doesn't seem like a long time. But China's GDP was $1T in 1999, and was $9T in 2013. I confess near-absolute ignorance but the job prospects for advanced de
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by IvyMike 12y ago
If anything, the trends outlined in this article have continued in the last 15 years, so it's truer now that it was then. The disparity between PhDs vs. faculty positions is illustrated in this graph: http://www.nature.com&
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> But there are a lot of people using Windows XP prior to Service Pack 3, and they will have problems. I think a lot of times people on HN and related sites are a little callous to the needs of users stuck on old platforms. But in this
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Like craftsmen in the past, every line is bespoke, every function something toiled over. [...] None of them worried about how to build the screws that hold it together. Many years ago I wrote a video game in x86 assembly. (It was a s
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by IvyMike 12y ago
So I am just a guy on the internet, not an expert, but did you look into using "Amara"? It's not completely clear to me but it seems like it might be possible to get volunteers to do the transcription. They also claim to of
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by IvyMike 12y ago
To those saying that the $200-$800 shouldn't be a factor: Some time in 2004, I went to a pre-release screening of a movie in Hollywood. The director was there, and afterwards he did a Q&A. Someone asked "Is there anything yo
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I suspect with enough data you could do a bayesian analysis and pick out the troublesome people who screw up the boarding process for everyone. ("We notice that whenever Jane P. Slowpoke is on a flight, it correlates to it leaving 3
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Doesn't this quote from the article address that? Or was it a late add? "Truth be told, it's a multiplication because many compilers transform all divisions by a constant into multiplications; see e.g. http://goo.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Of course you could already do this to a human car. In which case you'd call a human cop. And thus the answer becomes obvious. Robocar is DoS'd? Call Robocop.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
"I'm working from home tomorrow. Might as well make $20 sometime in the morning."
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by IvyMike 13y ago
In an alternate universe where Linus Torvalds did not exist, I think one of the other free Unix clones would have gained more traction and filled that niche in the ecosystem. It would be interesting to peek into the universe where FreeBSD
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> I don't know what I'm doing with my life [ ... ] I'm a senior in high school Spoiler alert: you will find this hilarious in a year or two.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
In Greg Egan's story Crystal Nights, one of the characters became rich by making a site called "FoodExcuses.com", where you input what you eat and it gathers all of the scientific literature justifying it as a healthy diet. I

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