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by T-hawk 15y ago
> isn't it unfair to take a new job and get away for 6 months for parenting purpose? There's a number of answers to that: 1) Biology is unfair. Birthing a child obviously takes much more effort and time from the mother than the father.
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by T-hawk 15y ago
One of the best places to live in New York is New Jersey. Large areas of Hoboken and Jersey City are just as easy for a Manhattan commute via the PATH subway or bus or even a ferry. Rent goes roughly 25% cheaper for similar digs, everythi
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by T-hawk 15y ago
PAY /orders/42 That's the most natural mapping, the verb PAY on the object of order 42. Maybe HTTP needs arbitrary verbs instead of a limited predefined set? We'd have to get firewalls and proxies and such out of the habit of processing a
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Right. The fallacy of Malthusianism is that all those extra people turn out to have a knack for producing the stuff they need. Of course there's an ultimate limit, of the total insolation energy to Earth or maybe a Dyson sphere, but there
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by T-hawk 15y ago
They are. The debuggers and finishers are the ones making $100k for day-to-day Java maintenance at the big banks and insurers and retailers and such. For every starter who's succeeded in their own business or risen to a $200k director job
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by T-hawk 15y ago
That is normal for all sorts of financial organizations, to not put the name on an office building. If they do, they get customers wandering into the lobby thinking it's a retail branch looking for services. Bigger problem for banks, but
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Indeed it does, there's a distance from beyond which light and information can never reach us. That's the notion of "observable universe". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
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by T-hawk 15y ago
You do make good points, but I'll counter that the US is the place for startups because that's where the customers are . The countries you list do not have 200 million internet-connected individuals with first-world levels of wealth. Wes
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by T-hawk 15y ago
These "experiences" like flying like Peter Pan absolutely exist now, things like bungee jumping or hang gliding or ziplines. Most tourist areas and theme parks have lots of upcharge attractions of this sort. The scarcity of their limited
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Apollo 13 holds the record for farthest distance from Earth, because in its aborted mission, it swung farther around the moon at higher altitude rather than dropping into lunar orbit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#Mission_notes
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> It has always amazed me that so many people treat their static content as something that needs to involve a database. It's not static. Maybe the text is, but the entire HTML document is plenty dynamic. You always have your list of r
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by T-hawk 15y ago
"Rich Dad" does seriously advocate real estate, not to the exclusion of those other options but certainly above them. Real estate stands out mostly because of the leverage that a mortgage can provide: you can control the income and appreci
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Yep. The way to get a programming job done well and cheaply is to learn and do the coding yourself. That will not be fast.
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Yes, abstractions lead to highly leveraged multipliers of effort, and to bigger results. For everyone like me whose golden age was DOS VGA programming, there was a Commodore 64 alumnus lamenting that it's no fun to have a flat high-color b
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by T-hawk 15y ago
I'm going to cast a dissenting vote from the other comments here and say yes. The golden age of my personal programming experiences was around 1993, during high school. After outgrowing GW-Basic, I was hacking around in x86 assembly langua
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Legend has it that Casual Friday in that golden age of IBM meant that you could work that day with your suit jacket unbuttoned . Since we're all tossing out our favorite lines, I'll nominate the Prolog entry. I know nothing about Prolog b
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> The best change I made to my sleeping patterns is getting rid of an alarm clock. Get as much sleep as you need and then just wake up. I highly second that sentiment. I haven't used an alarm clock for workdays for years. (I will for
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> Why aren't Mexicans considered Americans, yet Germans are considered Europeans? I think you know this, but that's just a quirk of the language, that there's no euphonious way to say "United Statesan" since "States" isn't really a prop
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by T-hawk 15y ago
It's not really valid to treat this as a sequence, since most side lengths don't form what we think of as a Sudoku puzzle. The side length of a true Sudoku must be a perfect square in order to create the interior boxes that are (geometrica
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Not exactly. A rectangular world that wraps around on both axes is indeed a torus, and appears in many video games, but not Zelda. Hyrule in each of the first four Zelda games in 2D is a flat rectangular world with impassable edges. (Per
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by T-hawk 15y ago
That "we" means industry in general, not Fog Creek.
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> If you can reproduce the plaintext in any way you're guilty of storing plaintext passwords. Although I get your point, this statement is a bit too broad. What about brute force? Get enough parallel hardware running fast enough and
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by T-hawk 15y ago
There's plenty of ways to infer location information from a single picture focusing on a baby. The hospital could be identified from something as small as one piece of paper in the background with letterhead or another identifier. Or the
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Opera has had this feature forever, since around 2001. Long enough ago that it shipped with search keys for Altavista and Lycos along with Google. The feature was a primary reason I started using Opera in the first place. Originally you h
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by T-hawk 15y ago
The answer to that sort of situation is to do some work awesome and splashy enough to get the attention of [VP three layers up the chain]. Of course, if you're capable and driven enough to do that, you may as well do it for your own company
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by T-hawk 15y ago
That's probably pretty well accounted for in Lego Group's design and marketing philosophy. They have a vested interest in getting bricks "locked up" in creations that are too cool to take apart. Once you've done that, how do you build som
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by T-hawk 15y ago
The key point there is "spherically symmetric". The Sun isn't. It bulges around its equator thanks to rotation, as does everything. That does have effects on planetary motion; an object in an inclined orbit spends a bit more time a bit f
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Profit was the motive for funding Columbus to cross the Atlantic, by finding a faster or easier trading route to the Oriental sources of spices and silk. Profit was still the motive for later explorers of the Americas, in mining or stealin
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by T-hawk 15y ago
And the flip side: As a developer, you want to work for a company whose people are smart and connected and passionate enough to attract talent through personal connections. You may not want to work for a company that has to resort to hirin
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by T-hawk 15y ago
I voted yes although it's not strictly true since I don't use an adblocker per se. I browse mostly in Opera, with plugins and images turned off. I have toolbar buttons to turn them on in one click when needed, but on 90% of sites that wor

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