aaronem

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by aaronem 12y ago
Good to know; I haven't been able to find a lot of detail on the subject of how D-Wave uses Lisp, so I was just repeating what I've heard, which I concede I probably shouldn't have done. (And I'm a Lisp hacker myself, so
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by aaronem 12y ago
I can only assume that, while you do actually have some appreciation of concepts like separation of concerns and network-based computing, you're ignoring them completely for the purpose of advancing an argument which, to those of us wi
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by aaronem 12y ago
Looks that way. They even wrote their machine's OS in Lisp, or so I hear, which probably doesn't bear directly on the question at hand but is certainly suggestive as anything.
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by aaronem 12y ago
A point well made, and one which I hadn't fully considered.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I appreciate the suggestion, and it's certainly well warranted; I find in my writing that eloquence is optional, but windiness is quite mandatory. :) I'll see if I can restrain my tl;dr instincts long enough to come up with a suit
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by aaronem 12y ago
If it's politically inadvisable to work your ass off, for example because it makes your less dedicated peers look bad, then this can be good advice. Given my druthers, though, I'll do the best work my talent and skill make possibl
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, were there one, I wouldn't use it, because (I think as most genuine professionals, especially in this industry) I already have a solid workflow in place for capturing and organizing notes on arbitrary subjects at need.
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by aaronem 12y ago
This is exactly the same attitude toward office politics I held, back before my naïveté on the subject cost me a job I'd have liked to keep. The short version: You will almost certainly find yourself confronted with the need to partici
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by aaronem 12y ago
Seconded, especially your points 1 and 3; by failing through momentary carelessness to take account of point 3 during my first couple of months in my previous engagement, I inadvertently contravened point 1, and in so doing essentially talk
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by aaronem 12y ago
A day or two, really? That seems like an awfully long time requirement for what should be a simple change.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Angular gets an "ugh!" but ExtJS doesn't?
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by aaronem 12y ago
Strongly seconded. There is no substitute for diving in and getting to grips with new tools. Nothing even comes close.
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by aaronem 12y ago
What a nifty idea, and surprisingly fun!
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by aaronem 12y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say that such a person needs to be protected from himself. But, as with any other bizarre fetish revolving around self-harm, the proper place to indulge it is at home.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> What cements the case as being meaningless in my mind is the fact that they were not ordered to strengthen their cups or to brew at a lower temperature. And if such sanctions had been within the ambit of the jury empaneled, in a civil
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by aaronem 12y ago
Is it remarkable because of how rare it is for admittedly insufficient disposable coffee cups to negligently discharge their contents all over their users, or because of how rare it is that such discharge results in life-threatening injurie
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by aaronem 12y ago
Have you ever had McDonalds coffee? It's not as though we're talking about the stuff you get after it's been through a civet cat's digestive system, where it's scarce and expensive and you really want to extract it
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by aaronem 12y ago
I've argued the substance of the issue elsewhere in this thread, and don't feel a need to restate points which you so evidently have no interest in considering. From a purely pragmatic stance, though, may I suggest you hang your a
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, you know, you can get away with poor trigger discipline for years on end without hurting anyone, and then one particularly careless day you negligently discharge your firearm into someone's head. In what way does the former make
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by aaronem 12y ago
Your opinion isn't unreasonable per se, but the jury which evaluated the merits of Liebeck's claims disagreed, and it's as simple as that; the opinion which matters, from a legal perspective, is that of the jury which conside
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by aaronem 12y ago
I don't know. The OP's proposal is rather less modest.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> I couldn't write enough content to get it off the ground. Poke around w3schools. That should give you more than enough initial grist for your mill.
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by aaronem 12y ago
A pun that bad deserves a Haydn.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Works nicely for me in Firefox 24 ESR.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Sure am glad I run NoScript.
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by aaronem 12y ago
For maximum fun potential, add an eject option but no parachute or other PPE of any sort.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that something similar had turned up in one of the several even cheesier Final Destination sequels.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Exhale and count to 60, and your brain keeps running off the oxygen still in your bloodstream. Evacuate your brain of blood, and it can't do that; as deaths go, this one would probably be faster than a neck tourniquet, but slower than
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by aaronem 12y ago
What would you say to a surprise .50 BMG in the back of the head from a few hundred yards away? It'd leave a bit more corpse, granted, but there wouldn't be much left of your head, which should satisfy the basic requirement, and i
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by aaronem 12y ago
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