Virax

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by Virax 16y ago
Hallelujah
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by Virax 17y ago
Holy shit his wife is hot.
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by Virax 17y ago
I interviewed for a QA position at (Deleted to protect the guilty) where I had to answer a bunch of brain teasers like this. I always prepare thoroughly and even enjoy solving these sorts of puzzles, so I knew most of the standard ones by h
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by Virax 17y ago
Upvoted for vocab :)
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by Virax 17y ago
Holy cow - when you read this article right after this one: http://reason.com/archives/2006/03/01/why-poor-countries-are... it really blows your mind. I think the nay-sayers are missing the point of this article - it doesn't matter if you
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by Virax 17y ago
Oh man, I smell meme potential :D DOUG: When is Joe's flight due it? YOU: Why do you ask? DOUG: Oh... umm... there's a seminar at 3:30 PM I thought he would be interested in. YOU: What seminar? DOUG: The underlying physics of the violin. YO
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by Virax 17y ago
I don't really understand why this is news-worthy - he took a risk and lost. The safer path would have been to keep working as a chef and then mix-in the career change, perhaps by starting a cooking-related website, blog, Facebook app, what
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by Virax 17y ago
Reminded me of this: http://www.manishchawley.com/calvin-hobbes/ch890804.gif
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by Virax 17y ago
Question popped into my head: why is Colin Winter wasting his time with idle chit-chat like this? Is he bored of Unladen Swallow already?
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by Virax 17y ago
The article is interesting, but the conclusion that all antidepressants on the market are flawed is not correct, mostly because different antidepressants target different systems in different ways. I took Celexa for over a year, it worked
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by Virax 17y ago
This is very naive. The investor / con artist can report any attractive numbers they feel like - who is going to keep them honest? I strongly suspect that investors who change to be pitched are in fact scam artists who do just enough invest
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by Virax 17y ago
Protip: on a game day, Berkeley traffic grinds to a standstill. This is due to the fact that in Berkeley, some things (well, most things) are backwards, so traffic engineers figure out new and creative ways to impede the flow of traffic r
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by Virax 17y ago
"So, I rigged up a Python script to play AOL instant messenger sounds randomly every 5 to 10 seconds, turned up my speakers, pointed them at the wall, and went on vacation for a week." ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME? You write a blog post on hiri
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by Virax 17y ago
Jamie Zawinski is not "hard at work building the future". According to his own website, he is managing the DNA lounge, and the last thing of any substance he worked on was a program to delete silence from mp3 streams (see http://www.dnalou
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by Virax 17y ago
OK let me tell you something. You have no idea why your startup failed. It has relatively little to do with the things you listed. Your startup failed because you named it "trogger". The name of a product, technology, website, whatever is c
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by Virax 17y ago
Oh I'm sorry, I work at a social networking entertainment start-up. You're absolutely right, I should be changing the world. I'll get started on that right away. Letsee, I'm going to need some granola, Beatles tunes, a hipster haircut, and
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by Virax 17y ago
Reminds me of something my uncle told me: "The rich are different from you and me: they have money...and you don't!" Seriously though - you can never have too much money, but this doesn't change the fact that it is way better to have, say $
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by Virax 17y ago
No, it isn't. The well-tempered clavier is good coding music. Chopin is good coding music.
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by Virax 17y ago
Depression is very much a malfunction. When I was depressed, I wasn't functioning, and now that I take drugs every day to control it (over-the-counter drugs, btw), I function quite well. What is true is that being just shy of depression i
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by Virax 17y ago
I must vent: my opinion of Knuth went down a few notches after reading this.
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by Virax 17y ago
I was expecting something useful - like legal documents, lots of howtos. For example: basic Linux networking including setting up services, basic security; legal documents, basic negotiating, basic people networking, PR strategies, etc... T
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by Virax 17y ago
Let me rebut: the problem is not with existence of rewards, the problem is the size of the rewards. Employees who are merely praised for their good work are demotivated because they realize that praise is all they will likely receive in
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by Virax 17y ago
Changing the world. I can make money in far less risky ways, and I can pursue my passions in my free time. I am actually somewhat surprised that you managed to fit the word "lifestyle" and "running your own successful company" into the same
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by Virax 17y ago
Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. At my company, we don't try to turn database rows into objects. Here is how it works: * we use Python+MySQL * each table has an associated class, a CRUD-API if you will * a cursor o
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by Virax 17y ago
> They sender has come up with a name, but doesn’t have the focus or confidence to put up a website. The say that focus is in they eye of they beholder
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by Virax 17y ago
I have a full time job as a web developer, do not make open source contributions, do not have a girlfriend or a social life, and do have a healthy amount of free time. I spend much of my free time reading technical articles and textbooks in
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by Virax 17y ago
The AEI article is stunningly bad - reminds me of intelligent design arguments. Take this: "To get more economic growth by having more start-ups, new companies would need to be more productive than existing companies." This is like suggesti
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by Virax 17y ago
I can't buy into a language that uses colon for assignment.
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by Virax 17y ago
cough---LTCM---cough
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by Virax 17y ago
Is it me, or does this look like an obvious ploy to get attention? It seems pretty well-timed too, to conincide with the 1 year anniversary of the attacks. I'm suggesting that he hired the botnet to attack his own site.

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