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by awkward 12y ago
Yes, because frequencies that don't fit together precisely produce 'beats', where the wavelengths align, and sound quieter when they don't. You're adding two waves, so an in tune one looks regular: http:/&#x2F
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by awkward 12y ago
As a cyclist who does my own maintenance as a hobby, I am pretty willing to pay retail-type prices on exotic hardware that requires less effort on my part and is more reliable on the road. Not the biggest market, sure, but it's a marke
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by awkward 13y ago
I disagree entirely! Otherwise sheltered teens likely have at least enough family resources and support that a couple hours of supervised contact isn't going to turn them into rampaging criminals, and dealing with people who aren'
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by awkward 13y ago
Cynically, it's a partner at a VC firm saying that AI is a space to watch. Less cynically, after about 40 years of AI winter, any possible sighting of a sprout is news.
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by awkward 13y ago
Maybe he's saying that migrating to the less safe, more performant functions can ... wait.
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by awkward 13y ago
So you accept that a simulation is a valid experiment, but feel that refusing to tell science press that natural phenomena fit the exact parameters of the simulation is pseudo science?
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by awkward 13y ago
I can't wait for Cool Runnings 2: wow very sponsored.
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by awkward 13y ago
Not only that, but he's been consistently pro globalization for his entire public career - even his work that lead to a nobel prize was along this issue.
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by awkward 13y ago
I don't know what kind of masochist would use find as an example of how the command line works.
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by awkward 13y ago
North Dakota has less than a quarter the population of Nevada. The real numbers of jobs available there aren't going to employ a significant percentage of Nevadans.
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by awkward 13y ago
You seem like you've learned the right lessons, but more often I've found that learning just enough to be dangerous makes managers worse at this. Take the example in the article, where the developer who made a well factored applic
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by awkward 13y ago
Is "inefficiencies in government regulation" code for taxes?
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by awkward 13y ago
Interesting that an article that deals this directly with class is running in the Weekly Standard. Outside a couple swipes at green building codes and a pass at hypocracy vis a vis apartments, this is almost something I could see running in
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by awkward 13y ago
The issue is that the C in CI is a convenient fiction. Someone on your team is always going to be changing the code, which means that they will have it, at some point, in a state that fails validation. Requiring that they get it to a point
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by awkward 13y ago
The Buffet-drives-a-Buick school of being rich enough to not care about the social signifiers is, as mentioned in the article, a fully legit way to be filthy rich. Done right, it's a good way to fake being old money.
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by awkward 13y ago
Paying a couple extra bucks for antibiotic free meat helps.
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by awkward 13y ago
Seriously? Do you think a few ninja bros cranking out vbscript in Dreamweaver for 80 hours a week are going to set the world on fire? Whatever contrarian political angle you want to take on this, the primary use is for programmers to avoid
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by awkward 13y ago
As a former actionscript programmer, this makes me cringe a little. My assumption is that actionscript is a new COBOL - tons of businesses rely on it, but now that it's looking like a dead end, the only way to fill those positions is t
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by awkward 13y ago
On the other hand, is there any reason to prevent them? If anything, this is driving developers hard to get onto the new version, or at least compatible with it. Apple doesn't seem to have any incentive to prevent these reviews, and th
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by awkward 13y ago
We had a large codebase already, written with just script tags in mind, and we were being murdered by blocking loads of the javascript. I looked into refactoring to use something like require or labjs that loads without blocking, but would
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by awkward 13y ago
It's interesting that you see module systems and optimizing compilers as two parts of a whole. My impression of the two systems has always been that they're at best complimentary, with some impedances between the two. For example,
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by awkward 13y ago
Schmoozing with the people on the front lines creates a pretty big change in how projects are communicated. Among other things, it means that issues with that manager's jobs get taken directly to him, rather than ran up past another la
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by awkward 13y ago
You burn the bridge because you want a moat between yourself and these people. Having humility when your job is in demand is good, but most of the practices indicated in the article indicate recruiters that are either unhelpful or actively
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by awkward 13y ago
At the very least, asking people to generate app ideas as spec work (with a submission fee!) is worth it for the irony value.
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by awkward 13y ago
Yup. For this example in particular, 15 seconds is barely enough to read through the first paragraph, nevermind decide if I want to finish the article. The writer would be better off treating the bounce rate as an indicator of users who are
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by awkward 13y ago
There are a lot of activities that are illegal but not criminal. Parking infractions, failing to properly permit construction, or smoking marijuana in a state where it is decriminalized (but not legalized) will result in a fine or other cor
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by awkward 13y ago
Thank you for that.
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by awkward 13y ago
I imagine a large difference is the number of patients with health insurance - if Arkansas has significantly more uninsured, then they need to recoup costs on them. If California has enough insured patients, then their "cost" is a figure th
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by awkward 13y ago
Remember when he unabashedly ran positive press for Path while they were getting reamed for rummaging through people's contact data without asking? And didn't announce that he had significantly invested in them? Maybe he could do that for o
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by awkward 13y ago
This post really supports the theory that doxing is a form of violence. That definitely explains the guy's creeped out feeling in the interview, and the fact that the hiring entity tried to blackmail him as well. That's assuming that employ

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