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by caw 12y ago
I don't smoke, but one thing I noticed from being around people who smoke and have tried to quit is it doesn't work to hang out with smokers. I've seen 2 people take it back up after quitting, and another who has been trying
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by caw 12y ago
Actual chip design needs FPGAs for hardware emulation prior to fabrication. Yes you'll change the logic out on a weekly, daily, or even hourly basis.
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by caw 12y ago
I used to sysadmin for a place doing high performance computing. They were working on a different problem domain than neurology, but still required loads of computational power. The tech they used: * GPGPU programming (CUDA, etc) * Fortran
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by caw 12y ago
There are legitimate reasons to purchase a new car, but it really comes down to doing the numbers for yourself. I bought a new car right after college. My intent was to do the "responsible" thing and buy a lease return or some sli
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by caw 12y ago
I think she's on the homepage of Noom ( http://www.noom.com/index.php ). Different angle then WellnessFX but same outfit and hair.
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by caw 12y ago
The standalone URL for the Amazon movie catalog is amazon.com/vod (for video on demand I suppose). That's both prime and non-prime shows. The UI is a bit weaker now on the website than it used to be. Before it would gray out the e
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by caw 12y ago
OP might need to interview a few professionals, because I talked with a retirement advisor (free via work) shortly after college and they basically told me "You're young, you could lose all your money tomorrow and it won't ma
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by caw 12y ago
Cloud is definitely better if you need to scale out, but if you need either raw performance, have requirements for particular hardware (e.g. Backblaze with their custom disk shelves, certain hardware appliances, tape backup requirements), o
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by caw 12y ago
I can't see a type of datacenter it doesn't apply to. You pay for transit, power draw, and to a lesser extent rack units. If you get a rack or a half rack with your expected power draw and want to spill past that they'll be c
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by caw 12y ago
I use beaver, which is a python variant of the logstash agent
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by caw 12y ago
Any reason for the Delaware LLC vs a (your resident state) LLC? I thought Delaware was really only requested for S and C corp structures accepting outside investment.
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by caw 12y ago
I have the Herman Miller Embody http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor... At my last job I used the Stealcase Leap (v1) http://www.steelcase.com/en/products/category
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by caw 12y ago
One job I had went to hot desking for a campus of over 1000 people. The oversubscription ratio was 1.25 people to 1 station, with the assumption that every 5th person would be not in a desk for some reason (travel, vacation, sick, in meetin
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by caw 12y ago
You can also get * on traceroutes (step 3-8) because the devices don't respond to ICMP. Network admins like to disable ICMP on their switches and routers so you can't trace the network topology. Your only definite packet loss is o
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by caw 12y ago
Our IRC chat (flowdock) has a section which is basically water cooler discussion and copious amounts of gifs. Normal work takes place in other channels. Other than that... rdio subscription Local meetups "bring my dog to work" sel
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by caw 12y ago
You can use hop to similar end, and it's got support for shortest unique name and tab completion. https://github.com/Cue/hop
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by caw 12y ago
What I think the 6 month rule is: After 6 months, your employer can more accurate judge your work and it isn't necessary to wait until the "annual" review. It's an opportunity to adjust salary upwards because you'v
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by caw 12y ago
very.photos is $24.99. Seems doge related and I'm surprised if someone doesn't take it soon.
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by caw 12y ago
You can still sign up for Quora accounts without a social network OAuth. I just did. It asked for my email, firstname, and lastname. When you post questions or answer, you can also click the "anonymous" checkbox to remove your nam
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by caw 12y ago
You're probably looking at a Supermicro system if you DIY. Otherwise you could try the business line workstations from the normal OEMS. http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/superworkstation.cfm Warning thou
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by caw 12y ago
And maybe they will, because the genius won't value themselves properly (on the flip side, I'm sure there's a ton of people with inflated expectations), but eventually they're going to figure it out and they'll leav
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by caw 12y ago
I thought R was for statistics and not for mass balance equations. Graphing does seem plausible, that's sometimes what she does at the end. EDIT: Even if she got it installed she'd have to the whole team to install it as well beca
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by caw 12y ago
My girlfriend uses a spreadsheet for her engineering work. She constantly complains about Excel running out of memory and crashing, and her work won't authorize the 64 bit version. Basically she's importing time series data from s
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by caw 12y ago
Make a new account (all those "throwaway201404.." accounts you might see), and then submit with that
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by caw 12y ago
There was a service a while back called "Please Return Me" or somesuch. I found their Facebook page but it looks like it's dead. Anyhow they had tamper-resistant labels with a serial number that you could put on devices. That
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Ask HN: Anyone interested in DevOps?
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by caw 12y ago
Do they do that on larger jets? I thought valet check was only for smaller regional planes (2-2 and 1-2 configurations) where overhead bins don't even fit rollaboards.
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by caw 12y ago
Probably around 1-2 man-hours directly. The first bit was myself and my coworker running around trying to figure out what this was and how big of a deal after seeing the post on HN. I manually patched a few non-essential systems to make sur
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by caw 12y ago
You can't do subdomain.localhost:port, so the idea is to create a DNS server that will resolve .dev as a TLD to 127.0.0.1
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by caw 13y ago
>"Your coworkers spent a total of 36.4 hours reading your message. It cost the company $1458 in employee time. " This in itself could be a nice plugin for your mail. You need 3 values to be able to calculate it: * Number of emp

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