SnacksOnAPlane

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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
You should come back sometime! The Beltline has really reinvigorated a lot of intown areas. Midtown is booming, as is the Old Fourth Ward and lots of other intown neighborhoods. But I do get your point about "odd" lifestyles. W
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I had an interviewer tell me that I was wrong that DNS ran over UDP. Not sure if the interviewer was trying to run some psychological test or if he was just wrong.
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Why is Atlanta not attractive to tech workers? Georgia Tech has a phenomenal CS program, and we've got a pretty large and diverse startup population. I'm not sure if what you're saying isn't true, or if I'm just bi
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I felt bad about my nervousness in interview situations too, so I started taking improv classes. Now interviews don't give me any performance anxiety at all; once you've performed in front of a large audience with no idea what yo
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I don't even understand how people can have this argument. I mean, how many people have actually invested enough time into both vi and emacs to meaningfully compare them? I doubt there are that many. Really, either one is a fine cho
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I think I get what you're saying with "maximum entropy", but it's the wrong term for what you're trying to express. Really unreadable, terse code is highly entropic, but it's not good code. If you use descrip
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Data-driven decisions will get you into local maxima, but you'll get stuck there when there's a good chance that a more radical change would help much, much more.
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Just have Rails dump the query and stick "EXPLAIN" before it.
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I honestly don't think I've ever seen a valid use case for Mongo. If you're going to query your data, you have to know what fields you're looking for, right? So why not create a schema that has those fields?
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Does it show variation between instances of the same letter? Or is it basically like making a font of your own handwriting, where every E looks like every other E?
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I don't understand why it isn't GET /getOrder?customerID=33245&orderID=8769 I mean, if you're going to go with this style, might as well go all-in on it, right?
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
You can likely just get the raw data from your drives without actually keeping anything executable. Text files and images are fine, but I'm sure there are some formats that you'd have to be extra-careful about.
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Actually I've found that reading certain books and watching certain movies makes me very introspective, and I can diagnose a lot of my own problems by journaling.
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I've been on Vyvanse for years and it hasn't stopped working. If I don't take it, I'll feel tired by around 8 PM. If I do, I can stay up for much longer (although it doesn't seem to really hamper my ability to fal
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
The really interesting thing about this story, to me, is that many of the animals don't actually want to do the drugs unless they're put in situations that stress them out. However, many humans seem to want to do drugs all the tim
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
The cost of producing the DVD is close to nothing. It's not like stealing a physically hard-to-produce object. You're paying for the IP. DVDs don't operate in a scarcity model. Stealing a DVD really is almost equivalent to
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
It's absolutely similar. It's getting something without paying for it. The "deprived of property" thing is kind of a red herring anyway, since the cost to make an additional DVD is close to nothing, and stores routinel
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
But grand juries almost always indict if the prosecutor wants them to. Look up the statistics.
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
> The question of whether downloading actually harms industry or not had not been answered. This is kind of ridiculous. I think we all know that it hurts the industry. Only in your third scenario does downloading actually help the cont
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Measuring how much good we've done by how much GDP has increased is so incredibly flawed. Most days I feel like I'd rather be living in a small village, hunting and growing my own food and not participating in any kind of a globa
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Just because conditions are substantially better for certain people doesn't mean they're acceptable. I mean, take a country that hasn't been "globalized" yet, and people still live in small fishing villages, basical
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I absolutely did not regret backing it. Although admittedly I'll watch pretty much anything Kristen Bell is in.
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I think the key takeaway from this is that you need to focus on learning one thing at a time. If you want to learn how to program, don't distract yourself by trying to learn some complex text editor at the same time. Use whatever pla
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I don't know if this is possible, but if a music player could integrate Amazon Music, Spotify, internet radio, and local music, I'd be in love.
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I don't think people are saying that smartphones or Uber or even Reddit aren't terrific innovations. They are. They're complaining about stuff like this: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/10/and-th
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Honestly, I think Taylor Swift was really smart to pull her music from Spotify. She made her music basically a "must-have" for a lot of people, and she forced them to pay the full price for the album. She's going to make a
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Have you considered doing some freemium model? So maybe the base code is open source, but the modules for decoding some protocols cost money?
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
Yeah, I'm saying that people who say "life is fair" usually haven't had horrible problems like birth defects or having their house burn down. It's also a way for people who have had incredibly good luck to rational
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
I think you misread the comment. Agriculture is not a "bullshit job" (well, except in the literal manure = fertilizer sense) because it produces something people actually need. Something like, say, social marketing (my job) is a
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by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago
He also had depression, which is an even better explanation.

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