JakeStone

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by JakeStone 6y ago
Ah, Fry's... Back in 2000ish, went to the Phoenix store to get parts to repair a friend's PC that had blown up. I think it was around 2010, me and Grandpa went to the one in the Dallas area to build a PC "old school" bec
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by JakeStone 6y ago
Well, enjoy the next seven months until reality gets rewritten, I guess. /s
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by JakeStone 6y ago
In general observation, the kids are going to like what they're going to like. While nature has its role, and both of our kids are skilled in math, and comfortable with the geek nature of puzzling over that which is unknown and becomin
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by JakeStone 6y ago
They'll still keep popping up. There's profits to be made from "boot camps". A company I worked for a couple years ago partnered up with a UK firm that's doing something similar, so it's spreading.
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by JakeStone 6y ago
Hexagons. There's a library available at https://github.com/uber/h3 that lets you partition the earth into hexagons (minus the required 12 pentagons) at various resolutions. It's spiffy. I had the hardest (
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by JakeStone 6y ago
I think I love you. Don't worry, there's a shot for that.
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by JakeStone 6y ago
My badness made me laugh. I like certain show tunes when I program. Don't judge me, the web site already did. But because I read a news story about The Chicks rebranding and got curious about their new album, it got added to my gesta
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by JakeStone 6y ago
I learned about 1/7 back in my youth, and it's just been one of those things that I enjoyed knowing as I went on in life. Imagine my amusement when I ran across a Project Euler problem where those digits were the answer. I recall
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by JakeStone 6y ago
The snarky question I have is, how many of them will become confused with dates?
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by JakeStone 6y ago
Hm. I did my first Hacktoberfest last year, and it was fun. I only remember 2 of them. One was something like build the worst implementation possible of aspects of the .Net framework, but while a joke project, it's been around for a f
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by JakeStone 6y ago
That was amusing. I sort of look like I should be an extra in "Braveheart"
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by JakeStone 6y ago
Sometime over a year ago, I finally got tired of medium's shenanigans, so I threw together a Q&D TemperMonkey script to just remove the temptation. It's nothing complex, just looks for links to medium.com and removes them from
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by JakeStone 6y ago
I haven't used pov-ray in about 5 years, though I used to use it heavily, and at least back then, it didn't allow the export of the objects you render in a 3d format. It's a ray tracer designed to create scenes via objects m
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by JakeStone 6y ago
I was today days old when I learned about 'git reflog'. I may have to play with that sometime soon.
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by JakeStone 6y ago
Gotta admit, I started chuckling at “We use [the fast Fourier transform] in a much more violent way..." I've known some math geeks in my day, and this sounded like them.
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by JakeStone 6y ago
Counterpoint: I used to be a contractor and took C2H positions to see if I wanted to work with these people long term. Most of the time, I was happy to see the door when the contract ended, though all of them offered a conversion. There wa
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by JakeStone 6y ago
Use <magic material> to build a wall around the city? Have the people who maintained each individual building form a team that can keep an eye on sections in shifts? If we have enough magic material, build a double wall system for b
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by JakeStone 6y ago
"To grok is to drink."
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by JakeStone 7y ago
A few years ago, I contacted a buddy of mine at Tesla to see if they were hiring. That led to a call from their HR/recruiter and a nice chat. I remember being interested enough to continue the process until we reached the end. It sou
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by JakeStone 7y ago
Something similar from 4+ years ago, but in C# https://gist.github.com/RichardVasquez/6780214
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by JakeStone 7y ago
There was nothing wrong with your name until you were about 12 years old?
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by JakeStone 7y ago
A little known secret is that the Lunarians had him assassinated due to his declaration of war against the Moon. Elon Musk better watch out for the Martians now that he's threatened to nuke them. :)
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by JakeStone 7y ago
> Even though the constitution still describes > the value of a dollar as a specific weight of > gold, like most other things in that document > it is ignored. Citation needed. Article 1, Section 10 is the only pla
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by JakeStone 7y ago
There are areas in Texas with moderately tech savvy industries where $50k can cover basic needs for a family of four with good housing (3BR/2BA with reasonable dimensions for all rooms and yard), savings, and an occasional splurge on e
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by JakeStone 7y ago
Can I throw in a snark? If you buy some number of books because your coworker told you to, then actually spend some time reading them?
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by JakeStone 7y ago
I took one of those this weekend for a dev position, along with what felt like an old MENSA test. Answered honestly, but still haven't heard back from them. After reading this, I suspect I probably won't hear from them in the fut
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by JakeStone 7y ago
Exit interviews can lead to you being marked as "Do not rehire" depending on the degree of your candor. It's obviously your call, but for the most part, I've just been as vanilla as possible when leaving, maybe remarking
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by JakeStone 7y ago
[TL;DR] It's not the destination, it's the journey. Archimedes didn't reach the destination of integral calculus, but he at least started the journey, and I appreciate it. [/TL;DR] I think it's a se
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by JakeStone 7y ago
Thank you! It's nice to be recognized properly.
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by JakeStone 7y ago
You just sadly reminded me of when I was an undergrad taking a grad class on "History of Mathematics". Two undergrads taking the class because it just sounded neat, and the professor made things interesting. 10 graduate students

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