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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
Another nonsensical conversion? MMCF to MMBtu or, worse, 10^3m^3 to MMBtu.
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
Ok, perhaps my usage of the word "doom" was a tad strong. I should have said that it will relegate desktop Linux to a tiny (miniscule) percentage of the mainstream. And that's a shame, because of the wealth of great, free tools (whether it'
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
This, IMHO, is the problem right here in a nutshell. Maybe it's a config problem. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's sunspots. Who cares? It doesn't JUST WORK and that - more than anything else - is what will doom Desktop Linux. I run Ubuntu on wha
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
I live and work in TLV and would be interested.
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
Actually, I disagree with this in practice. I do agree that you should be able to say how you feel, but "You fucking changed my CSS" is an overreaction. I work on a project with 4 or 5 other people. Sometimes they change something and it br
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
I'd like to echo this. I know it's off-topic, but we've tried "graduated extinction with parental presence" (i.e. I sit in the room next to my son's crib after I put him down but do not pick him up) and it really DOES work if you've got the
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
Yes, you can have an impact - a very large impact on a very large number of people with just a pencil and paper. Martin Luther did it. Of course, that's taking things to an extreme, but you get my point. And sure, it took him longer than a
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
I'm actually kind of tired of hearing, "there's no other field that lets you create something from nothing" vis a vis programming. Look: I LOVE coding. I LOVE programming. I think it's fun and challenging, etc. etc. But it's not the only cr
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
Been 7 years, been burned out for nearly 6. ;) And I've been here since I've graduated university in 2005. And to answer the next question: it's a bank. Every time I've contemplated leaving, there was some major life-changing event that pre
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
THANK you. I was thinking the exact same thing. This is seen all over the kernel, and I found it to be a very readable, simple solution, and a very good use of goto.
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
This bothers me. I consider myself very passionate about programming - I think most people who know me would consider me to be a hacker. That said, I work for a company that does not allow its code to be open-sourced. The job is demanding a
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
Someone - a very wise, very successful someone - once provided a pretty good definition of a bubble. A bubble is when the fundamentals are right, but the timing is wrong. For example, let's consider the most recent housing bubble. The housi
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by VolatileVoid 14y ago
I love how people jump on the anti-GS train because it's the hip, popular thing to do. No doubt, GS has done things wrong. But: 1) They were not the SOLE underwriter of GroupOn, nor were they the largest (that was Morgan Stanley). 2)
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by VolatileVoid 15y ago
The reason, generally, you are charged more for heavier luggage has got nothing to do with jet fuel consumption and everything to do with higher baggage handling fees. Since handlers don't actually have to carry obese people (that's a job f
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by VolatileVoid 15y ago
value != revenue (Not justifying the status quo -- just pointing out that a valuation does not imply liquid capital)
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by VolatileVoid 15y ago
I've been questioned pretty strongly the few times I flew to YYC (Calgary) from the US. All times it was for business, and I was pushed quite hard to admit that my work could have been done remotely from the US. Granted, I am a developer, b
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by VolatileVoid 15y ago
I was wondering if anyone knew of a place where I could learn about this stuff in general. I know nothing about unigrams, bigrams, trigrams, tf-idf, Bayesian filtering, etc. Maths - while not awful - is not my strongest point, but I think I
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by VolatileVoid 15y ago
I seriously dislike vitriol like this in general. It makes it sound like Apple was entirely benevolent in wanting to wrest control from the carriers but Apple, like any other corporation, wants to make money. There is no altruism in busines
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by VolatileVoid 15y ago
This is the problem. This debate, right here. This is what I think the - albeit impolite - heavy-handed replies from Shuttleworth are trying to avoid. There's no one right way, and governing by pure democracy simply won't work, because ever
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by VolatileVoid 15y ago
I felt exactly this way as well. For a long time. Even while my wife was pregnant, I couldn't imagine having a child, taking care of a spitty, whiny, crying mass of flesh - that will eventually give me attitude shortly after it starts talki
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
The mere fact that you took the time to compile this lengthy response and have received meaningful responses is evidence enough that HN has not "jumped the shark." It is a people problem, but I feel the biggest problem is that people are p
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
Try the new Battery Park City NYPL. Spacious, quiet, and while not awe-inspiring outside or in, it's certainly not dreary.
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
Don't confuse "amazing code" with "snazzy technology" (although we do some pretty snazzy stuff). Also not sure about other places, but Excel usage is frowned upon here, at least on the trading desks that I support.
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
Definitely not. :) I'm just saying that - to me - a job is just a means to some end. That end (for me) is providing for my family adequately. That I happen to enjoy what I do is an extra bonus. I'm just saying not to lose sight of why we do
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
Really? Quality, not quantity. An hour with my wife is more meaningful to me than half my day at work. No job will make up for that, unless I'm changing the world. So yes. It's just a job. Your (not you specifically, but anyone) startup i
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
Everyone wants to "beat the market." For every dollar McDonalds gets, Burger King is not. For every dollar Microsoft gets, Apple is not. There are no group hugs unless you work for a non-profit (and even then, for every dollar your non-pr
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
So. This is funny. I actually work at Goldman, work in the system he talks about, and have been doing so for 5 years. You can get numbed by the experience of working here, but you don't have to be. I've become friendly with some of the best
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
This is interesting. I wonder if you could use the a similar algorithm for mapping sentences. That is, construct a ternary DAG and keep inserting words (rather than letters) into the trie.
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by VolatileVoid 16y ago
Excuse me. I work as a programmer for a large investment bank, have dignity, and am respected by my users (commodities trading, sales and operations). I am also respected. However, I also took the time to learn my users' business and produc
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by VolatileVoid 17y ago
Do not confuse "induction cooking" with "cooking by induction." The latter often goes something like, "well, you cooked dinner last night..."

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