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by bmer 10y ago
Actually, businesses fired a lot of people after the government made it easier to fire people, especially for "out-source-able" positions. Hmm, seems that your intuition is generally wrong.
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by bmer 10y ago
Does it void your warranty though?
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by bmer 10y ago
Was speaking with a French professor, visiting us at the university for a couple of weeks. He was telling us about how the French public view Hollande's "liberalism" (in France, a "liberal" government prefers lax ru
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by bmer 10y ago
But is the Xperia's battery accessible so that I can replace it? P.S. Is it just me, or did the article have a really strong "hidden ad" vibe to it?
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by bmer 10y ago
I think your naivete is as beautiful as the freshest spring rose. I wonder what this move has to do with what phone manufacturers are doing in general: hiding away components like the battery that were once open to the consumer, making it d
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by bmer 10y ago
I would still highly recommend the StackExchange network in general. A lot of the sites on the network are programming related, and if your question fits in on StackOverflow, its possible it might fit in on one of the related network sites-
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by bmer 10y ago
I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder about 5 years ago. Today I only have an anxiety thing. The thing that helped? DBT: dialectical behavioural therapy. So, I am extremely disappointed that it
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by bmer 10y ago
Yes indeed, we really are so modern, if we are going by how many more things have become wobbly. We have one-upped the enlightenment geezers: we no longer have a fixed notion of time (relativity).
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by bmer 10y ago
That's a really good point---Cython doesn't have the same issues, it's basically Pythran except it compiles to C. Yeah, no clue.
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by bmer 10y ago
This is really cool! You have coded up some timesteppers in Simit already; any plans to release them as a standard package which would be officially optimized, or do you mostly expect users to just roll their own as needed?
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by bmer 10y ago
What does PSD stand for?
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by bmer 10y ago
I use Python for my research work...and this has never been a problem for me, I suppose because I use Python 2.7, and I guess I am "part of the problem"?
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by bmer 10y ago
I use numba quite a bit, and with every new version, the developers have notes like: PR #1970: Optimize the power operator with a static exponent. PR #1961: Support printing constant strings. PR #1927: Support np.linalg.lstsq. My point bein
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by bmer 10y ago
That's actually...a really good point. It might be that my "it's not novel" feeling is actually "it's too novel (to be comfortable)". Realizing this, it kind of makes me want to rebel against the whole &
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by bmer 10y ago
> I just think Le Guin works are still worth reading in themselves without having to justify why they are better/more novel/more correct etc than any other particular work. Makes sense to me.
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by bmer 10y ago
I didn't want to put up those titles as "amazing", only as "pretty darn good (with the caveats: to me, for now, until something else blows it out of the water)". I won't be writing articles extolling their virt
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by bmer 10y ago
Okay, let me pull out some post-2005 fiction that does the same thing: James S. A. Corey writes beautiful socio-political commentary in The Expanse series. Max Brooks' World War Z was biting in its own special way, more (admittedly pos
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by bmer 10y ago
For someone who was/is excited by reading the Orsinia tales: can you share why , besides just telling me repeatedly that you were excited by it? I am someone who has been often disappointed by vaunted authors of the past (Vonnegut, Cl
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by bmer 10y ago
I was about to to make a pretty sarcastic comment on this thread, about how you probably only want to call "The French Number" if you are a white christian/atheist. As a non-white individual whose general group is a target of
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Ask HN: Is it wise to seek a UI-building collaborator for a math editor project?
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by bmer 10y ago
Just like Google, Apple, IBM, etc. etc. etc. I'll join in on the Microsoft bashing club when every other major corporation gets bashed the same way by devs. The day that will happen is when socialism makes more sense to people than cap
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by bmer 10y ago
I did some programming for a civil engineering firm, where long, descriptive variable names were also important for making code easier to read and understand. In this case, it was necessary because the code would have to be reviewed by othe
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by bmer 10y ago
Even if, or especially if?
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by bmer 10y ago
Nope. Switching fields from something that had a stable pay (civil engineering) to something where I am likely to be homeless (math, especially since I am not a genius), was one of the many nails in the coffin our relationship.
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by bmer 10y ago
hi, thanks! I am not sure why I would be interesting though? Could you share some of your motivation for wanting to talk?
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by bmer 10y ago
What's so terrible about Microsoft having complete access to all data on my computer? I am pretty sure that's a massive exaggeration (could you back up that claim?), but for the moment I'll assume it isn't. So what? Why
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by bmer 10y ago
I feel like this is kind of...overblown? Maybe I am wrong, but in any case, here's the general gist of what GameDVR is: http://support.xbox.com/en-CA/xbox-on-windows/social/record-... It basically enabl
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by bmer 10y ago
It's difficult for me to put a finger on it, and that's exactly why I stoop to using words that signify subjective feelings like "cliche" or worse yet, "passe". The long story would be that it doesn't actu
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by bmer 10y ago
Relevant: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160607-new-boson-claim-face... Basically, take this claim with a huge dose of salt. For general physics related news, you can't go wrong with Peter Woit's blog, and the o
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by bmer 10y ago
This is so cliche, and so utterly passe. I wasn't a K-12 student all that long ago, and if I saw this, I would view it as another thinly veiled attempt at the teacher trying to feel good about how good a teacher they are, while being u

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