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by andrewem 14y ago
Having lived in Texas for 12 years I totally agree that this case isn't unique, in that Texas regularly appoints public defenders who are unqualified for the job or so overworked they can't possibly provide an adequate defense (1). And cour
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by andrewem 14y ago
This was more or less Thoreau's argument in his essay Civil Disobedience (1). He concluded that the US was acting immorally in its war in Mexico and therefore he didn't pay his poll tax. They locked him up overnight, and then his aunt paid
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by andrewem 14y ago
The excellent book "Dreaming in Code" (1) follows a software project that takes way longer than expected, keeps changing goals, and is generally a mess. The author says "If the subject of software’s flaws is discussed for more than a few mi
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by andrewem 15y ago
I'd also say that the expected cost of recruiting a new programmer to replace him - assuming they want to do so - is likely to be significantly more expensive in both money and elapsed time than negotiating the contract addendum. Of course,
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by andrewem 15y ago
I'd love to hear more about your criteria and metrics and how you operationalize them, especially for less-tangible things like good coworkers.
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by andrewem 15y ago
Very cool! Are you involved with that site? I see it's got a map showing bike share docks in London (by default, with a bunch of other cities available), with a circle for each docks whose size is proportional to the size of the dock, and a
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by andrewem 15y ago
Hubway has a real-time feed of bike availability [1]. I built a little web site that shows the bike stations and T stations on a map [2], along with real-time data for both bike and T stations. Bike stations with available bikes are shown i
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by andrewem 15y ago
A few weeks ago I went to a talk by Nicole Freedman, the head of the Boston Bikes program, on the state of biking in Boston as of the end of 2011. She talked about the enormous changes Boston has been making, like going from 180 feet (!) of
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by andrewem 15y ago
I used Ceridian for COBRA services after I left a previous employer. (For non-Americans, COBRA is where you get to keep your employer-provided health insurance for a limited time if you pay the full cost of it, and yes it's a hassle.) I not
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by andrewem 15y ago
I was once the tech lead of a 4-person team of programmers. One person quit to go be a middle school math teacher, a second to move to another city, a third to move back to his home state, and then I quit to move into a different area of wo
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Privacy software, criminal use(boston.com)
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by andrewem 15y ago
Slate appears to have a similar partnership, with the first such post appearing earlier today: http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora.html
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by andrewem 15y ago
As to #2, I think georgemcbay is talking about where the contents of a short function can be copied into the place where it's called (as with the 'inline' keyword in C or C++), thus avoiding the overhead of a function call [1], whereas it s
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by andrewem 15y ago
It's unclear how big a deal this outage was, as I can never make heads or tails of what's really behind an article in the The Register. That said, I run an app on Heroku and noticed that outage - Pingdom sent me a bunch of emails, which I s
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by andrewem 15y ago
On the plus side, the current slowness enabled me to see some interesting Cloudfront response headers. I see "X-Cache:Hit from cloudfront", "X-Cache:Miss from cloudfront", and "X-Cache:Error from cloudfront" in responses from various tile f
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by andrewem 15y ago
That anti-intellectualism seemed to be more or less the theme of "Barton Fink", a Coen Brothers movie where John Turturro is a socially conscious Broadway playwright who gets lured out to Hollywood where he agonizes over writing a script fo
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by andrewem 15y ago
Microsoft Research was founded in 1991, 16 years after Microsoft itself was founded in 1975 (1, 2). Y Combinator was founded in 2005, 30 years after Microsoft. So I'd be surprised if with a 30 year head start Microsoft didn't have more long
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by andrewem 15y ago
I recently went to the Boston Public Library to get a specific book that was supposed to be on the shelf. I couldn't find it so a librarian put in a request to have it found and held for me. She noticed that it had been checked out 6 times
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by andrewem 15y ago
Agreed. I recently went to the Boston Public Library to get a specific book that was supposed to be on the shelf. I couldn't find it so a librarian put in a request to have it found and held for me. She noticed that it had been checked out
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by andrewem 15y ago
McKinsey is certainly one of the best-known management consulting firms. As such there's plenty, positive and negative, that's been said about them (1). To cite but the best-known instance of the negative, there's their heavy involvement wi
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by andrewem 15y ago
I had never heard multiculturalism mentioned in reference to Thiel (I'm no expert on him), but apparently he co-wrote a book called "The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford". Looks like there were 19
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by andrewem 15y ago
I'm missing two upper teeth [0], which resulted in my having enough room in my mouth for my upper wisdom teeth to fit comfortably. It's evidently of genetic origin in my case, as I have relatives who are missing the same teeth, which I thin
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by andrewem 15y ago
Based on reading (the beginning of) the decision, that appears to be incorrect. From the first paragraph of the decision: "The warrant authorized installation in the District of Columbia and within 10 days, but agents installed the device
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by andrewem 15y ago
On the topic of residuals and the intentions of studios ("Their intention is to keep money on the table of all those creative people. To keep paying residuals to actors who might not find work for years at a time."): First, in 2007 the CEO
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by andrewem 15y ago
I'd been considering using it through Heroku to be able to find nearby bus/train stops in a public transit mobile web app. I see that SpacialDB is in private beta as a Heroku addon ( http://addons.heroku.com/spacialdb ) - does anyone have S
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by andrewem 15y ago
Looking at the linked Hacker News Circle on Google+, the first person listed in the circle is "Paul Graham", who's pretty clearly not pg. The linked Paul Graham says "wow. so many people have me in their circles", and another user suggests
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by andrewem 15y ago
I read that link, which is apparently by the creator of Review19, on how similar it is to Trello. One thing from that list really surprised me: "Review19′s target audience — web, creative and software teams — are often distributed around th
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by andrewem 15y ago
All fair points. I had one friend who interviewed with about 13 different people at Google before getting an offer, which was totally absurd, and a lot of their friends got a negative impression based on that (soon after they set a cap of a
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I used to work at Google. When I interviewed I was rusty on algorithms, so I studied up on them, even delaying my on-site interview to have more time to get ready. Sure enough they asked algorithms questions and I did better on them thanks
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by andrewem 15y ago
That phrasing isn't very precise, but I presume they mean to use setTimeout and pass a timeout of 0 [0]. That link has some discussion of this use and suggests using window.postMessage instead, at least on "modern browsers", for a suitable

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