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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> a new generation of people For example, the generation that remembered the Great Depression and its aftermath did not fully pass from power till around 1990, for instance the elder President Bush. After that the risks did not seem so g
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Seems like a good reason to go to Target instead.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Can endorse. Amusing in a grim way - he had a trading firm, two offices. His own in Orange County California. East Coast office went rogue, was raided by Feds. Thorpe shut down his side right afterward. He published some of his trading met
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
The term is used in the United States and elsewhere.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
And this is why most corporate communication is so bland and stereotyped.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Top districts in Bay Area (Palo Alto, Saratoga, Cupertino in Silicon Valley, e.g.) pay senior teachers in that range. With a pension, lots of vacation.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Similar to personalizing all General Relativity advances and issues as being about "Einstein". Nobody does that for Quantum Mechanics.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
A lot of "tech" companies aren't. One reason, to avoid the scrutiny describing their actual business would expose them to more scrutiny, e.g., Uber is transportation company, not a software company. Once the BBC described Goo
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
For the bimetallic - Oz of course is an abbreviation for ounce which was how the precious metals were priced.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Outlook doesn't run on *nix systems.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Canada doesn't have a universal ID. Companies have to figure out a way to keep track of employees without using the Social number, for example.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Old timers told me when Social Security was first started, the American people were promised that the number would never ever be used for anything but Social Security. It's interesting, in Canada and probably other countries, the corre
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Better yet, punch cards.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
There are the shortcuts that people in a neighborhood use. This is OK if 10 people a day use it. If 5,000 try, not so good. I believe that's one of the complaints about the Waze app. Also there are neighborhood surface streets and th
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> vast amounts of memory for each tab What underlies this? I am astounded to see 1GB of memory returned when I close a couple of tabs. Chrome and Firefox both seem like this.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Now called Outlook, so you don't even have to worry about the slightly dubious @hotmail.com address.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Not sure on this, but it is said the Fermat's Last Theorme proof involved most every area of modern mathematics. Andrew Wiles was so productive he dribbled out older results to hide the fact he was 100% on the Fermat problem for years.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> It’s effectively for free, except for Also except for the risk that financial problems will force a cardholder into accruing interest, and often that interest will get a lot worse if payments are missed a 5% card changes into a 22% car
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Not the floating point, but saw his code for other parts of the 6502 Apple products, he really was a genius. The code is both very clever AND quite understandable. My understanding is his circuit design was similar. One thing, use a part
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Remember the analysis of Losers/Clueless/Sociopaths in corporate life. The Losers are low level people who know they have lost the battle to be a big shot. Clueless are the strivers, the first level or two of management, who think
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> not building a prototype Old saying, "Fastest way to build a six inch reflector telescope is to build a four inch telescope first." That is, learn in the simplest possible context. Like companies that won't build an MVP
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came to minD not came to mine
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
"The dimmest ink is superior to the brightest memory" - so said Benjamin Franklin or maybe someone else.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> a casual non-work related conversation Programmer 1: Whoa, that two hour Pomodoro was quite something. Programmer 2: We got a ton done, though. Programmer 1: Yeah! I hope they have the lasagna again at lunch. Project Manager: Hi, are
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> NEVER accept management from someone who cannot do your job. Advice to college students and recent grads: Q: Help, I just discovered I hate programming and aren't any good at it. What do I do? A: Go in to project management. So p
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Saw a project where the PM would come around like clockwork twice a day. This was not a sprint project, it was a two year long push for a new product. What happened that every four hours a status update was needed? People laughed behind h
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Also, sensors was the first thing that came to mine. Also some sensors read very fast, like in Linux "sensors -f" returns the CPU temperatures.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
You can only go so far without doing/understanding the mathematics. It is possible to learn the math through self study.
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Bite with red ring surrounding bite site? Get treatment at once.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
The only way to run out of PIDs is not wait() properly, leading to zombie processes, or else some CGI processes time out and don't exit, so never reaped by a wait().

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