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by an_d_rew 7y ago
What a well written article! Thanks for taking the time to post it!
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Months? Bah. Try years .
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
OMG Thank you! I’ve only read the first quarter, but excellent job... the extreme clarity is hugely awesome! “What goes in it” and “what does not go in it” thank you thank you thank you thank you!
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Amen. My experience, exactly.
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
As a Canadian – born citizen who just recently became a US permanent resident I would caution you on how “easy“ the Canada to US Route appears to be but may not actually be. My permanent residency was super straightforward. My PhD is from a
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Nice. Reminds me of discussing music piracy with my musician friends, all of whom fervently wanted to be sufficiently popular to actually HAVE people pirate their stuff! (Not the piracy part, the "you really want people to listen to yo
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
> The land of the free, where the government decides what adults can with their own bodies. I have found that such black-and-white sentiments are common here in the US, and surprisingly missing a lot of very importance nuance. So... you
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
> What we call “DevOps” is really a delicate balance of giving the dev teams enough rope to hang themselves while child-proofing the gallows. Oh, dear, @wayoutthere, my dev team is about to hate you because I'm going to use that q
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Both excellent points. Maybe the better question is: how do you prevent your lowest-bidder corporate antivirus marks from marking git-bash as malware, stopping all work for the team for two days? Developers don’t need admin access, they nee
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Congressional inquiry sent - thank you!
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Hi, Peter - thank you for doing this! I'm one of the lucky ones - my I-485 was approved for LPR on the last week of July (EB2, RoW). I've got the I-797 to prove it! :-) The funny thing is that I'm STILL waiting for the actual
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
And I will add my thanks, too... your comment, @mikekchar, is much appreciated!
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Being a life-sciences refugee myself, I read this essay and noted that my intellectual response to it was very discordant with my emotional response to it. Intellectually, I think the author did a very good job and although like any scienti
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
> If you say that you are researching more than once, you are told "if you are facing difficulties, maybe xyz can have a look at it". This. A thousand times, this.
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
> the Rust program you wrote does not run on your hardware. It runs on the Rust abstract machine Excellent point, and very well made… Thank you for writing this! There is a constant back-and-forth here on Hacker News about whether or not
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
There have been a lot of comments here but I want to leave one specifically to the person or team who designed the Pi’s circuitry: Thank you for working on such an important project and thank you for all the things that you got right. I’m s
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Well, perhaps a deep exploration of the pros and cons are warranted, but... FB has been caught willfully and negligently lying multiple times. (And yes, I'm aware that many banks have done the same.) Nonetheless, why would I choose to
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Thank you for that comment, @cmiles, I couldn't agree more! I think that it's important to remember that there are both direct and indirect costs to "not changing something that's working". If you don't keep ab
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Nice work - thank you!
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
I often have the problem that I want exactly X and thousands of Internet know-it-alls tell me that I want Y. Sometimes they are right. Often they are wrong. Stop making assumptions, people!
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
This makes me sad and angry at the same time. My introduction to MIDI was as a cheap-ass soldering-iron wielding 13 year old hooking together components for my Commodore VIC-20. I credit that work for my subsequent career as a scientist, pr
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Ha. Every week WebEx cannot remember my audio settings or the Dell laptop mic/headphone drivers just ... don’t work. Don’t blame the people when all you give them are shite tools.
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by an_d_rew 8y ago
Plus, they are reporting on, like, you know... the President of the United States. Those kind of shenanigans are kind-of a big deal, by definition.
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by an_d_rew 8y ago
> People in this thread are repeating the myth that exercise is a treatment for depression, when all the evidence we have shows that it probably isn't. Thank you for clearly stating this. Depression is not "Gee, I've been
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by an_d_rew 8y ago
Maybe related: “Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields disrupt magnetic alignment of ruminants” ( https://www.pnas.org/content/106/14/5708 ) from PNAS in 2009.
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by an_d_rew 8y ago
Thank you for posting this! Like many enterprises, we are a Java shop, and some of our more… How shall I say it? Traditional developers and managers think that there is no real benefit in to higher cost to even think upgrading decade old JV
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by an_d_rew 8y ago
Yep, both GitHub and the internal corporate (private) BitBucket server. Why? I just like that little bit of extra “yes, this was me” onion layer of security.
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by an_d_rew 8y ago
Your point is well taken, and what I suspect is the issue is something that I learned quite a while ago: people just cannot value what they get for free. That’s not a statement of moral or ethical anything, just a impartial statement of a b
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by an_d_rew 8y ago
For me, it is because if I ever wanted to embrace and extend Java, even for a personal project, I would feel that I was putting myself into a state of legal jeopardy. You can argue all you want how I would be or I wouldn’t be, or that I wou
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by an_d_rew 8y ago
I disagree. Correct, THEN simple, then fast. Why? Aside from the excellent reasons given by others below, remember that even conceptually simple systems can and often have surprisingly complex behaviours. The emergent complexity of interact

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