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by bcook 10y ago
I would say he did not create the conditions of the resulting situation, but he did absolutely create the situation. He had the most control. He could have left earlier.
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by bcook 10y ago
Regarding countersteering & bicycles (and motorcycles), I better understood the phenomenon by picturing a bar shoved horizontally through a basketball. You can steer by either turning the basketball (horizontal plane) or leaning the bas
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by bcook 10y ago
Is your "vim" actually "gvim"? On ArchLinux I get the following: ldd /usr/bin/vim linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdcebf9000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1a49617
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by bcook 10y ago
Commenter therein did not specify the locale of the entry-level software engineer. Busking is much, much more reliant on locale than programming.
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by bcook 10y ago
My father always referred to TV remotes as "ker-chunkers" because of his experience with an early TV remote that would make a noise like a tuning fork when pressed then the TV knob would make an audible "ker-chunk" as th
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by bcook 10y ago
The Asus version of the 2.6.22.19 Linux kernel has many, many backports, so a simple vuln search for vanilla Linux 2.6.22.19 will not yield pertinent results.
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by bcook 10y ago
Is that a legitimate concern? During war-time, I would assume the body's of your enemy would be plentiful. I always assumed the "no man left behind" spoke more about the excessive abilities of the group. (We are so powerful t
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by bcook 10y ago
Thanks for sharing that, in all it's gritty detail.
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by bcook 10y ago
We all cry at a funeral... that is not what the family or loved ones remember. They remember the speakers, the speeches that offer something useful to explain the occasion. No disrespect to the parent poster (or author) but... acknowledging
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by bcook 10y ago
The one that proves my point... :) Honestly, if you are implying that math is a philosophy that is just as fallible as human emotion I am very interested, although very, very skeptical. PS - Please do not ruin math. It serves as my only fou
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by bcook 10y ago
The article show-cased common social problems and then shared ways of mitigating, even understanding, the "jerks". We could all be more kind. Your post seemed to be focused on the details of those you dislike . That's it. No
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by bcook 10y ago
>I think it's pretty obvious I'm speaking from personal experience, and I'm not sure it matters to me what you choose to do with that information Everything is obvious to the person who has nothing to learn.
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by bcook 10y ago
Are you speaking from personal (statistically insignificant) experience or do you have some quantifiable evidence to share? Your HN-karma & real-world accomplishments aside, do you honestly think you can psychologically categorize a gro
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by bcook 10y ago
The math equation?
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by bcook 10y ago
My post was not comparing good or evil. I was saying that simply because you feel something does not make it so. 1 + 1 = 2, regardless of how I feel about the numbers or operators.
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by bcook 10y ago
If it does not feel wrong, it must be right? We should strive for a logical explanation that transcends emotional response.
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by bcook 10y ago
Do academics have time to read every paper?
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by bcook 10y ago
Are your counter-claims not hyperbolic ("liberate people from bondage")? Regardless of the extreme pros or cons, Bitcoin is revolutionary. PS - Your middle paragraph is painfully hard to read (is it one, huge sentence?). This ma
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by bcook 10y ago
Following the rules of safe sex is much easier than exercising & eating right.
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by bcook 10y ago
World of Tanks is exponentially less reliant on latency than an FPS, right? Honestly, I immediately smell naivete BS when someone says "the solution is simple"...
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by bcook 10y ago
Anyone who disagrees with your "The author is stupid" statement is either ignorant (of the article) or "not very smart"? That logic forces you to ignore all disagreeing arguments without consideration...
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by bcook 10y ago
You started your post with a veiled ad hominem attack, which instantly sets an illogical, angry tone... :( Yeah, I have no social skills, so what? I may also have a below average mind, so what? I did not call the author "socially inept
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by bcook 10y ago
I guess my confusion stems from the article's lack of a conclusion. Yes, _blank_ is sub-optimal, but how did you overcome the obstacle?
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by bcook 10y ago
Zero(?), but I have also never had a "great" job that I had to fight for. Regardless, I think everyone knows through experience that an employee's technical skills are practically useless if said worker is socially inept.
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by bcook 10y ago
Additionally, a good programmer (or worker in general) should be good at much more than programming; like being able to collaborate & socialize with other team members & management without immediately resorting to "Fuck you, I
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by bcook 10y ago
Yeah, I agree. I think I made a mistake. I edited my post. I am not sure what my original post was referring to... embarassing. :)
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by bcook 10y ago
You seem to be well aware of this aspect of the job market; do you have blog or something with more in-depth musings on this topic? If not, then can you share some tips on how to concisely include a job applicant's open-source contribu
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by bcook 10y ago
(Edit: I replied to the wrong poster or some similar mistake.) Disregard How can you argue against the author's immeasureable words/phrases like "very high", "low", "laziness", or "idleness&quo
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by bcook 10y ago
If you removed "The author is stupid." from your post, I (and other "adults", assumedly) would be much more receptive to the rest of your post. (If you remove that line, I'll delete this post.)
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by bcook 10y ago
I dunno if it's rediculous... anyone who struggles to improve theirself should be applauded. Some of us are innately more immoral/moral.

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