ci5er

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by ci5er 8y ago
I use gcc on Open Solaris, so, yes. I'm not an ass to the maintainers, God save their souls.
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by ci5er 8y ago
In a previous life I threw some tarballs w/ a buildable OpenGL clone and separately a buildable Renderman "clone" onto an FTP server and published the location. Some people downloaded it, built it and used it. Even added to i
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by ci5er 8y ago
I don't know that I agree with all of their architectural choices, but this company has developed a first-crack at that very thing: https://www.snapshotdna.com/
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by ci5er 8y ago
Thanks!
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by ci5er 8y ago
Interesting. If I had to work with a pair or a team, as an introvert, I would find myself subtly withdrawing from active participation. I like live-coding, and I like active-listening (the latter is absorbing, hoping to understand and the f
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by ci5er 8y ago
I use IntelliJ for certain tasks because I don't know Java as well as I should. It certainly makes me more effective as a guy who doesn't know Java very well! I traditionally used vi for C coding (mostly for embedded systems in pa
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by ci5er 8y ago
> they don't actively engage with the material. Write notes, or code up short examples, or draw pictures, Do you lecture? I'm an intense scribbler of notes during lectures, but I don't (wouldn't) code up examples duri
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by ci5er 8y ago
Re: Part I - Yes. Getting a payment agreement works. This is nicer when you aren't caught by surprise. Re: Part II - "Home" for many is not the US. That's just citizenship. Trying to island hop across the South China sea
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by ci5er 8y ago
I agree it sounds weird. And if you stay in one country - having a local boutique with US tax experience makes more sense. If you bounce around, it's nice to have someone with presence in all the places you might end up traversing. Als
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by ci5er 8y ago
I don't know much about these phases, because I have tried to respond as soon as requested (although there have been some scares because of lost letters). I do know of a several people (4 to be precise, in the last several months) that
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by ci5er 8y ago
Of the two or three dozen Americans I have met working overseas for an extended period over the last 25-or-so years, I don't think I know of one that hasn't had it happen at least once... Most end up hiring KPMG (or some such firm
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by ci5er 8y ago
About $120K~$150K depending on the host country and their particular income tax scheme. Which is not a crap salary, but it's certainly not over the moon Fortune 500 executive comp either. ($50K is about 1/3 of $150K, which is abou
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by ci5er 8y ago
If you live and work overseas, the IRS commonly miscalculates money owed. This can leave one stranded through no fault of their own and/or seriously interrupt a career. This law doesn't only sweep up tax evaders...
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by ci5er 8y ago
This does not redeem him in my eyes (I don't actually like the guy), but here is a live by the sword, die by the sword example: - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/how-the-...
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by ci5er 8y ago
Hyperbole. Also in Austin Texas, "Save Our Salamander" (SOS) is a real (major) thing.
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by ci5er 8y ago
Generally, I like his evidence-based protocols over the predecessor, but #2 (in your list) is troubling (as implemented. Hes's a corruptocrat and must go ... but I actually like the (general) balance (Cost-Benefit) of most (most! not a
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by ci5er 8y ago
HN, collectively, has it's own opinions. I was curious (and asking) about that. I certainly know what the MSM thinks - but they are a bunch of hacks that have to churn out 3 articles/day (god save them), and have no time to develo
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by ci5er 8y ago
Fair enough.
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by ci5er 8y ago
I don't disagree. As an economics-ish guy, I tend to look at Cost-Benefit. Spending one billion dollars to comply with a reg (silly extreme example) for a dollar worth of saved salamander, doesn't make sense to me. But I don'
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by ci5er 8y ago
I'm not arguing admin - which was clearly problematic. (I would get fired, for sure, for doing what he has done there) I'm curious about what policy moves he made that made people angry. Maybe everyone is OK with his policy move?
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by ci5er 8y ago
Fair enough. I do not like corruption in government officials, regardless of any particular policy positions. EDIT: I am still curious as to the actions he took, as an officer that people here might disagree with...
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by ci5er 8y ago
> And that's ignoring the fact that he seemed to fail at the main tenets of his job. Really? How? The personal habits were egregious, but as to his administrative choices, do you simply disagree with his policy choices? Or did he do
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by ci5er 8y ago
If so, it needs to do a better job. (Or maybe it's the way that people use #Slack. Which isn't strictly Slack's fault, but still, ...) I sort of miss when we would have internal WG-specific mailing lists, which were archived,
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by ci5er 8y ago
Paul Allen sued me (us) to claw interval.net back in early 1995...
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by ci5er 8y ago
I think you could do online+fax-followup from sometime around 93 or 94, but until then: mail. Even then online was dodgy (unreliable) at best. Easier to call ISI and see how they wanted it this year... EDIT: I operated a regional thing off
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by ci5er 8y ago
I believe that GP is referring to the idea that objects are moving at a constant velocity in space-time. In that model, things that are moving rapidly (from our perspective) in the 3-space of, ummm, space, are moving slowly along the time a
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by ci5er 8y ago
I don't know anything about H1Bs, but I've worked with a number of foreign (non-US) multi-nationals, and their executives that are sent on a tour to run their US subs are indeed called (by USians and by the home office) "expa
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by ci5er 8y ago
I miss it.
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by ci5er 8y ago
Not to push, (but I'm gonna push...) That's a lot of declarative statements! And yet I am left uninformed as to whether you are saying that Free-Will (the 'non-problem') exists? Or not? Or that the question itself is mea
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by ci5er 8y ago
Most constituent lard is made from a pig. And pigs (while quite social) take pretty good care of themselves even if simply/only fed and watered. Depending on your environment, that might well be done by letting the pig go wander about

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