JimmyL

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by JimmyL 17y ago
Exactly - I think this is what they were going for. Another posting asked for a definition of a specific term from Star Trek, which you could find by putting the term into Google and reading any one of the first 20 results. For the record,
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by JimmyL 17y ago
From observation, this is often done in job postings for startups - several that I've encountered will contain an innocuous line something like "include an Italian sonnet in your cover letter to guarantee that your application will be forwa
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by JimmyL 17y ago
A unified transportation system - encompassing everything (including but not limited to walking, rental bikes/cars, car pooling, trains, planes). One machine that I tell my starting and ending points (down to the house number), and will mak
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Practice. Do some learning, and then practice again. You're already at a disadvantage since you're not seven years old (five to seven is the best age to learn a language, according to linguists), so you're gonna need to make up some ground.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Power adapters for electronics - no reason they shouldn't be a hell of a lot more standardized than they are (I don't mean just for mobile phones, which is underway - I mean for everything).
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by JimmyL 17y ago
>> industrial parser that can parse Java source code (like anything that the jvm can run) Do you mean a parser for Java source code or bytecode? I would guess the former, but the reference to "anything that the jvm can run" suggests
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Aside from a few idiomatic expressions, on is generally used in everyday French as the third way suggested - as a casual replacement for nous (we). As for bringing it into English, would you propose to use the English or French pronunci
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I don't read it that way. I think it's part of the character in the ads - for lack of a better word, he's too cool to always drink beer, and to always drink one particular brand. Doing so wouldn't be very...interesting of him. Similar to
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by JimmyL 17y ago
It's somewhat unfortunate that the beer is so terrible - like I'd forgotten how much I don't like Dos Equis until I ordered one (as a result of the ad).
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Many large corporations block those as well. Partially it's to prevent goofing off, but I suspect (especially in the White House) the main reason is documentation. Pretty much all communications coming in and out of the WH have to be monito
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Harbour pilot. Failing that, some form of mechanic.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Got an email? I've got a few questions about FreshBooks...
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by JimmyL 17y ago
How? McCourt was teaching a class on Creative Writing - this wasn't in a science or math class. He took what he was supposed to be teaching (how to write stories), and found a theme to write about that his students found interesting. Those
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by JimmyL 17y ago
You can - by simply using the normal, mailing list-supplied link to unsubscribe.
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It's not so much a matter of "illegal" as "unwise" (and hence prevented by lawyers). Securities law is large, well-established, and quite complex. Especially in the early stages of a merger, there are very clear legal restrictions on what y
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Saw it mentioned offhand in an article about "Hackers", which of course made me come and take a look
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by JimmyL 17y ago
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte... Specifically: A REST API should not be dependent on any single communication protocol, though its successful mapping to a given protocol may be dependent on the availability
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by JimmyL 17y ago
>> You have an “API/Key/Token” in a header or a url. This - specifically, how to do user authentication/access control in a RESTful manner - has always puzzled me. The author suggests HTTP Digest authentication, but that seems to fl
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I would guess - and I'm not a psychologist - that their training has a lot to do with it. A large part of the boot camp experience is about breaking down how new recruits think, and reforming that process into one that goes well with the mi
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by JimmyL 17y ago
blasdel's link above has Zed Shaw taking claim for it - You know what’s great about the Internet? When you see something like this obviously astroturfed bullshit ad from Microsoft you can easily parody the hell out of it. So I did and I’m
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Not when they're outside in the exercise yard.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Interesting...I think you may be right. I originally though this - http://www.engineyard.com/private-cloud - was a cloud environment a la EC2 based on the title (which would work with my theory), but reading more about it makes it seem
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Something like throughput in trials on some standardized machine could be an interesting criteria - it would test both your hashing algorithm and your permutations. Having said that, I'm betting that the EY people chose this particular pr
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by JimmyL 17y ago
What would you suggest they do? Your follow-on indicates that you think ties should be adjudicated on the basis of the "best" algorithm, but how do you objectively define that?
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>> The "like" feature is plain terrible, the smiley face is distracting me from the content of the feed because it's on top and bright yellow. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. About four months ago traded out my no
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by JimmyL 17y ago
news.ycombinator.com/classic only counts votes from users more than a year old
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>> we filled our red plastic cups to the brim with Bud or Miller Lite or Icehouse... I would say that if that's the caliber of beer you're drinking - which makes up a significant portion of most people's college beer - then screw th
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I agree. Most people don't know how LCDs work, don't know what dithering is, and wouldn't know what 6bit or 8bit meant if their life depended on it. To these - the majority - of people, "millions of colors" is "millions of colors", and any
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Sure, but show me where Apple defines "Pro" as "Pro for a graphic artist"?
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by JimmyL 17y ago
There are 8bit portable displays, you know, and Apple should be a company that uses them, especially when they are generally known for great quality products, but instead, they went with the cheaper option, a lower bit display. Translatio

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