JonathanMerklin

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by JonathanMerklin 7y ago
Some previous discussions on the same topic ([1], [2]): [1]: (2019) Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for harassing employees https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20399062 [2]: (2019) A Decade Ago, Suicides R
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French Executives Convicted in Suicides of 35 Workers(nytimes.com)
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by JonathanMerklin 7y ago
Great thread. 2019 was the first time in about 7-8 years I made reading for pleasure a tertiary priority ((school+career)work/sleep/exercise+socializing+(NEW!)reading) and I got through about 20 books of varying length and difficu
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by JonathanMerklin 7y ago
:help license I think in earlier vim versions, you could see a message if you opened vim without a file (vim -u NONE # to prevent .vimrc from doing whatever shenanigans you've set up)
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by JonathanMerklin 7y ago
I am of the opinion that Pascal's wager is mostly wrong because it's a false dilemma. For each diety/religion R that you're considering, simply construct a diety that will punish you for believing in R and reward you oth
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by JonathanMerklin 7y ago
JV == Joint Venture (I had to look this up so I figured I'd comment to note it for anyone else who might, since the term isn't used in full anywhere in the article or parent comment chain - barring future edits.)
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by JonathanMerklin 7y ago
Aside: can you (or someone) elaborate on or describe "DOM randomization" as it pertains to tracking? Googling that phrase seems to only take me in the direction of Javascript Math.random() documentation and other generic informati
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
My first 18 months in the Bay Area were in a $1600 spare room with no cooking allowed. My mental and physical health both tanked. Things are better now, but when the time comes to leave my current job, I want out. The cons severely outweigh
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Currently I'm not near my computer to verify myself (I am on my phone, before bed), but can you get into walled-but-indexed LinkedIn/Pinterest content with "Googlebot" UA spoofing? I'd want to assume that their syst
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Until you get hit with the classic <noscript> Javascript must be enabled to use this website. Please enable Javascript and reload the page. </noscript>
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
I collected the 1996 Netrunner CCG for years; last year I found someone who was more or less selling off their complete collection (I didn't have any of the 2.0 cards or the majority of the 2.2 cards, and was also missing a handful of
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
There was a blog post shared a while ago on HN where the author ranted that it was his least favorite interview question because the solution (fast/slow pointers) was - if I recall correctly - literally somebody's PhD thesis. Ther
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Hm, perhaps your state school is "less unrespected" than mine, but my CS program had a very real funnel from "couldn't hack it in Programming 1" to "couldn't hack it in Calculus 2" to "couldn&#x2
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
> There will be so many students that will struggle to learn python-specific topics that are irrelevant to learning the act of coding Correct me if I'm wrong - I just went to an unrespected state school - but I would think that the
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Source on that 5% figure? Can't find it with a couple of quick searches.
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Isn't this bit: const mid = Math.floor((right + left) / 2); susceptible to overflow? EDIT: Hm, perhaps not (in JS). Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER is much greater than I expected.
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
~/.bash_profile is the macOS equivalent of a .bashrc It's also possible that the author is source-ing it (spelled that way intentionally :\) ) from another file in their .bash_profile Note also that the author of the comment above
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Hypothetical: what if I feel like my addiction is literally just browsing the internet? I certainly have valid use cases to open up Google Chrome but I've noticed that I - er... hypothetically someone I know exhibits classic signs of a
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Anecdotal, but Agatha Christie popped up in the required reading more than a few times for me from grades 6 through 10 (ages 12 though 16). I went to an average public school in the Midwestern U.S. Wodehouse is new to me; I appreciate the r
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
That was a good explanation. Thank you!
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Apologies for my ignorance, but I'd like to ask if you (or anyone) could elaborate on that "adding up the op-code and memory access times to design their algorithm" bit. I understand what op-codes are, what memory access time
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by JonathanMerklin 8y ago
Curious, where are you pulling that "80% chance of divorce" statistic from?