cgore

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by cgore 12y ago
In general, freedom of speech is one of the places where conservatives tend to do a lot better than liberals. You are making a really good example of that.
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by cgore 12y ago
I don't see me ever wanting to buy Google Glass, but this is really cool.
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by cgore 12y ago
Bach was deeply religious, and not just because of some lap-dog sense of "that's who's paying the bills." He signed most of his works as "SDG", short for "Soli Deo Gloria", which roughly translates a
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by cgore 12y ago
I'm in a similar situation. My new job is an all-mac shop, which is funny because we are mostly writing software for Linux boxes out in the Internet. I didn't mind though, because they bought me about $5,200 worth of mac equipme
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by cgore 12y ago
And that has got to be the most irritating thing about Google these days, they mangle the URLs in their search results to the point where I can't get a clean URL sometimes, at least not without some real work. http://www.goo
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by cgore 12y ago
The seven-day week, yes, the rest of it is Roman in origin: the solar nature, the months, their names, their order, etc. One of the weird ones is our (English) weekday names: Sunday, Monday, etc. Those are apparently from German, but after
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by cgore 12y ago
Our current calendar has absolutely nothing to do with Judaism, it is the calendar of Rome with some very minor tweaks. http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm
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by cgore 13y ago
We went to the moon in the 60's. Then in the 70's they started pushing metric. Never been back. Coincidence? :)
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by cgore 13y ago
Grey's Law: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/08/21/magic-stupidity-mal...
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by cgore 13y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
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by cgore 13y ago
Where did you get the idea that software developers are the very definition of moral paragons?
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by cgore 13y ago
That's a better way to see it. It's hard to see good management and its effects, but good management really does make a major difference. But it is so hard to see, that people sometimes don't even realize they need it. But
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by cgore 13y ago
I suspect a lot of the original bitcoin folks, typically being some variant of libertarian or anarchist, couldn't care less what some random unelected multinational organization says.
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by cgore 13y ago
Less Buddhist-specific: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/meditation-does-it-...
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by cgore 13y ago
I learned my lesson a long time ago, back when WordStar died. I never moved to WordPerfect, and I never moved to Microsoft Word. I do anything I really care about in LaTeX or HTML these days. I can still get to my WordStar documents thou
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by cgore 13y ago
I used to think managers were worthless ... And then I had a bad one, and figured out the hard way how much bullshit a good manager insulates his developers from.
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by cgore 13y ago
To the best of my knowledge you can make GPL clojure code, and include clojure.jar too. http://osdir.com/ml/clojure/2010-03/msg01337.html
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by cgore 13y ago
Nationwide data if you are interested. http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...
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by cgore 13y ago
Has anybody used these? A 1,000-year DVD/Blu-Ray sounds good. I would use it if it is actually reliable. (Actually just want decades, but centuries is better.)
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by cgore 13y ago
Right. The whole SpaceX/Armadillo Aerospace/etc. situation that is developing now is almost definitionally Libertarian.
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by cgore 13y ago
The "science-hating religious person" is just a straw man for Dawkins and the like. Most religious people have no problem with science, and see no contradiction between the two. Many of them even are engineers, scientists, and d
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by cgore 13y ago
I think a lot of people seem to be confusing Libertarianism with Anarchism. Libertarians typically do see roles for SOME government, and those roles are typically the military, judges, roads, police, and the like. Not other things though,
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by cgore 13y ago
$90k is an "average" developer in the US (not the Valley, the US: you can easily make that here in St Louis where I am.) A multiplier of 1.5 - 2.0 is common when you bill out, to account for offices, chairs, electricity, health in
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by cgore 13y ago
I don't think most people really care for snuff films either.
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by cgore 13y ago
I appreciate the coding standard at a previous employer ( http://www.astronautics.com/ ) a little bit more now, that INSISTED that braces always happen, even for one line conditionals like these. It was kind of irritating at
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by cgore 13y ago
Emacs Magit Mode: [F2] g l l http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit
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by cgore 13y ago
By "real", I mean native and multi-core. Does that exist now? I think it exists in JRuby, but in MRI?
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by cgore 13y ago
Real threads ... and ... that's probably it.
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by cgore 13y ago
Whoever wrote this is probably going to be quite despondent and inconsolable whenever someone they actually care about dies.
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by cgore 13y ago
I did a similar thing too. I wrote a lot of bad adventure fiction in Runic around that same age, around 10-12. I still have most of it.

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