RickHull

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by RickHull 16y ago
One major area Google competes with Facebook is for talent.
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Looks like you triggered an HTML bug in Arc/HN. The reply link is italicized (along with your entire post).
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> Git was a rewrite of BitKeeper. Um, not exactly in the same sense as the article. I would say that Git was inspired by BitKeeper.
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Don't forget the tangentially-related-through-twitter https://github.com/lg/murder
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> You can't take the outward symbols of that culture and pin them on a company which doesn't approach employee trust and management in the same way. My first reaction is that you are very much correct. In fact, it's clear that the ar
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by RickHull 16y ago
In this case, DHH seems to have provided the appropriate hedge: > You might be thinking, "This is crazy -- it would never work at my company." And you may be right. But I think there’s a greater chance that it would work. If you’re app
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Comstock is a recurring name throughout Stephenson's works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle in particular comes to mind.
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So the OO.o binaries -- http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#tested-full -- include unit tests?
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> In 25 words or less, what's a "social class"? Your social class is defined by the people you associate with, typically in terms of wealth and culture. Some people do not have a well-defined social class. Others may associate only w
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by RickHull 16y ago
> buyers are told to install a hardware driver and software program on their Windows PC (both are safe and virus free, trust us!). After that, users are instructed to enter the password "0000" when prompted, but this seller doesn’t inc
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> it's not only unreasonable to regulate what things I put in my body, but also, by making them illegal, you cause all kinds of other associated crime and violence. The world would be a better place overall if drugs were legal. I beli
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> In general, because the regulatory functions are aware of information asymmetries that could lead to large numbers of people transferring a significant amount of wealth to smaller number of other people. I doubt this is the actual p
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> "Regulators can't regulate assault away." I have no beef with enforcing laws to prevent a priori harmful actions. By this I mean: actions in which we don't need to wait 10 years to decide who the victim is. A more apt analogy wou
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The subversion is not this latest bit of news, in which GS is submitting to the will of U.S. regulators by not offering their service domestically. The subversion was their prior stance of keeping the fund under the artificial limit of 100
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> find a regulated niche, weasel around it to provide clients ... Regulators can't regulate the demand away. They can only push it underground, beyond the light of day. Whether this is a desirable social outcome or not I leave as an
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> A better way to go would be to use moving averages, but that's too complicated to explain to reporters. Yes, MA is the first thing that came to mind when reading your big paragraph. It would be a real shame if journalistic incompet
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> If there are n people in the market moving money around in a closed system then the combined wealth of those n people is constant. > Admittedly this relies on money not being created or destroyed, which may cause the model to b
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by RickHull 16y ago
Urgh, headline sucks! Does the study really find that being poor causes a limiting of mental ability? Or does being poor correlate with a limiting of mental ability? My take is that bad nurturing causes the decline in mental ability,
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by RickHull 16y ago
Also, as China is surely the least transparent nation among world powers, I think it is unreasonable to expect foreigners outside the curtain to have an understanding of what really goes on behind the curtain. The lack of transparency fuel
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by RickHull 16y ago
From Toucan's link, above: http://www.history.uk.com/history/a-dyeing-art-jess-dyde/ [ctrl-f the piss] > Urine from London was shipped up the coast to Yorkshire, where there was a big dyeing industry, and this is the origin of the ph
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by RickHull 16y ago
> That they were selling MBS tranches to clients, then simultaneously taking out options that would pay GS money when those exact same tranches failed, really tells you all you need to know. No, it doesn't. This not necessarily scumm
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Yes, this would suffice. But I think it points out that a duplicate password is just a proxy for a weak password: strong passwords tend to be locally unique. If you are going to have a strength requirement, then run your strength validatio
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by RickHull 16y ago
> What if sites blocked passwords that have been used more than twice already? "I'm sorry, another user on this system is already using the password you have submitted. Please choose a different one." That's not the sort of information
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by RickHull 16y ago
You might take a look at http://mirah.org , which is Charles Nutter's (creator of JRuby) forging of Ruby-like syntax with static typing that compiles to Java bytecode.
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> So far my attempts to make Linux do AD-authentication has all been failed and miserable with immense amounts of work compared to just "join domain. done." in Windows. Have a look at likewise-open. It's pretty much that easy to join a
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> The maginot line failed because they ... didn't continue it along the border with their friend (belgium) - so the enemy simply drove around it. Wikipedia says this is a myth: > It is a myth however that the Maginot Line ended at t
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by RickHull 16y ago
"Danny you"... heh, priceless! Mango would be a good nickname for Django + MongoDB
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> This is not politically correct to say, but given the gap between white and black scores, I wonder how the US would do if you ranked it based only on white scores. Questions of political correctness aside, this seems like some fuzzy t
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> He gives little reason why the features says get broken are more important than the other things. He just states it. I'm having trouble parsing the above, so I may be responding inappropriately, but it seems to me the OP is saying: He
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> Climbing Mt. Everest has nothing to do with exploration At an organizational level, you are correct. There are very few places left unexplored by the human race on this planet. However, on an individual level, if you have never been

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