aaronkaplan

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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
What do you mean about consulting being good for recruiting? Surely you don't poach employees from your clients?
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
Really good. But I need an "open jaws" option, i.e. fly from A to B and then C to A. Usually (at least on the routes I use) this gets priced at 1/2 the price of a round trip A-B plus 1/2 the price of a round trip A-C. Buying two one-way tic
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
Your previous comments provided an interesting (if unnecessarily polemical) counterpoint, but you've lost me with this one. Exploring the potential ramifications of a policy change is the very reason for discussing it, and the point of an a
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
Has anyone read Piaw's book (linked to in the last sentence of the blog post)? Do you recommend it?
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
When you were growing up, the previous generation of German businessmen gave up some of their profits to pay for your education and health care, and to ensure that you grew up in a relatively safe and pleasant environment. They did this wi
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
Right now all I see is two URLs unrelated to the topic and a couple of people using columns A and B to chat. Vandalism, or a google docs issue? Update: now the whole spreadsheet is completely blank.
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
"Quarter note," "eighth note" etc. are the standard terms in US English. What you call a quaver, we call an eighth note, regardless of time signature. (4/4 time means there are 4 quarter notes in a measure; 3/4 means there are 3 quarter n
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
It was a joke, jeez. It's kind of funny that of all the post-CVS version control systems, the one that calls itself "subversion" is the one that hews the closest to the traditional paradigm.
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
I spent quite some time working on the "palindromic pangram" problem. I believe I solved it, but my program took several days to finish, so there's probably an optimization I'm still missing. If my program is correct, the shortest palindr
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
I think you mean beneficiary, not benefactor.
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
His review of the Talking Heads CD set is dated July 27, 2001, but mentions "Sept 11." Conspiracy theorists take note.
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
Huh. I think this is the first time I've considered the possibility that there are people who actually like those notification icons. I always figured they were just the product of egotistical developers who each think their own application
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
When you merge in Mercurial it's able to trace through the revision history of a file in the source and target branches, find the common revision, then separately apply the diffs from the source and target branches... Originally subversio
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
Wait, what's the difference between "bespoke" and "made-to-measure?" For me they're synonymous.
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
it angers me our society makes it fashionable for women to hurt themselves with really painfully uncomfortable shoes. Me too. Unfortunately, I also tend to like how women look in high heels. I have a lot of cognitive dissonance about fas
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
A local repository doesn't address the problems I mentioned above, it addresses a separate problem, namely the nondeterminism that comes from relying on external repositories that might not always be available. As for the <dependencyMa
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
I think you're right that in principle one can make a maven build deterministic, but in practice I have yet to see it done. Of course, that could just be a statement about the crowd I hang out with, but I think there are more fundamental p
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
Thanks for that link, I searched for something like that a while back and didn't find it. But I worry about cloud-to-cloud backup services like this. If a major email provider goes down, all of its users will be trying to retrieve their ba
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
They should have charged your Mom for the local call and charged you for the leg between Maine and LA. That is how it works. In the US local calls are free, and his mom pays all $0 of it.
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
In principle, I agree that sometimes sacrificing rigor for clarity is justified. But in the case of the Theory of Patches, not a lot of people have managed to understand it in detail. (I say this based on about a year of lurking on the darc
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by aaronkaplan 17y ago
You need a link to go to a site after reading about it! In the listings there's a "go to site" link for each site, but if I click on "Read more" to see the full review, there's no link from there to the reviewed site (or at least I haven't