bmm6o

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by bmm6o 10y ago
Weather is really important. For all the traffic it has, the freeways in LA are generally not that bad. 300 days of sunshine and no freezing temps helps a lot.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
The plot point in question was that they were encoding the phone number when leaving it as a callback number. Pulse dialing wouldn't have come into it.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Amen. I was just thinking the other day about how I used to really like C++ but how glad I was to not have to use it anymore. I haven't worried about "the most vexing parse" for years! There was this last week, and yes it&
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by bmm6o 10y ago
It's true that the franchise model is in practice an impediment to unionization. But this argument represents a huge shifting of the goalposts from your original incorrect claim that they are contractors and not employees.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
This is wildly inaccurate. It seems like you've taken the arguments against e.g. Uber assumed that they apply to McDonald's. The employees not being McDonald's employees is a consequence of the franchise model, not some nef
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by bmm6o 10y ago
"States rights" is definitely a Republican slogan, but in truth it's applied very selectively. Witness attempts at the federal level to ban abortion and gay marriage.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Next time you write a line of code, you have to delete two others.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Ugh, yes. To be fair, running a meeting well is an acquired skill. It's just that it's never taught and nobody realizes that they run shitty, inefficient meetings.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
This is like pulling teeth. If you don't want to defend the proposal you probably shouldn't have brought it up in the first place.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
This seems ridiculous, but I'll bite. What is the societal benefit to allowing management to discriminate in their handling of white-collar workers?
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by bmm6o 10y ago
That's the same thing that struck me. I think you end up in that position when you don't want to hire community administrators, you'd rather deputize your users. But until you build them the tools they need to do their jobs
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by bmm6o 10y ago
> Mercury's wobble was eventually explained by the theory of general relativity So, explaining the observations only took an entire new branch of physics? Only in hindsight is "maybe we don't understand how things move
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Is having the ball stolen during your pass attempt fun?
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by bmm6o 10y ago
> The alternative interpretation And that's even accepting the interpretation of this as old vs. young, which I would need more than 1 data point for.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
> Long story short: quality is always important. as the median age of user rises, quality requirements increase dramatically. The alternative interpretation is that younger users will put up with lower quality even when it is not ratio
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Building rail lines is a "subsidy for the poor", but building highways is "investing in infrastructure". We Americans are crazy.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Stating that it's what will always be done really dodges the question of it's what should be done.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
People have come to associate things like the kick of shifting gears or the sound of the engine revving very closely with acceleration. So much so that if they are missing, they infer that the car is less powerful. Accelerating with a CVT
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by bmm6o 10y ago
I assume they called the HR contact. That's how it's generally done for background checks, etc.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
It is a little interesting that it takes so few changes to the source to rewrite the recursive call as a loop. But really the only advantage it has over C (syntactically, anyway) is that it doesn't require a return at the end. By whi
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by bmm6o 10y ago
There are plenty of oddities in that syntax. I can get behind pseudo-code, but this seems to not be a solution to the problem.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Correct but not relevant. No formal verification technique takes advantage of the fact that the computer has "only" 8 GB or RAM and 1 TB of disk space as its tape (~ 2^2^43 states).
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by bmm6o 10y ago
> It gives people who don't discriminate a chance to step in and gain market share. The next step is that the discriminating companies are out-competed and go out of business, leaving only non-discriminating companies. Conclusion
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by bmm6o 10y ago
According to the report on NPR, they are inmates would have served more time than they would if they were convicted today (due to changes in sentencing guidelines or criminal classifications). It seems to me like we should default to rel
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Slippery slope arguments are too easy to make. Let's start with being considerate towards veterans with PTSD and see how that goes.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
There's a difference between exposure therapy (conducted with a trained therapist or just in a deliberate self-directed way), and having a panic attack in the middle of your day because of an unexpected stimulus.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
If they really respected him they wouldn't treat people like him like second-class citizens.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Performance and data size are much better with protobufs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549128/fast-and-compact-o... . Built-in serializers are only workable when both ends are on the same platform (i.e. .Net
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by bmm6o 10y ago
They do the same thing with Obama's first name. Along the spectrum of preserving the original pronunciation, they seem to be firmly at one end.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
There was an interesting piece on the local public radio station a few months back about the pronunciation (in the US) of "pecan". One of the things they talked about is that in English, words with 2 syllables generally have an e

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