cimmanom

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by cimmanom 8y ago
Although my high school calculus classes didn't use this particular textbook, they introduced concepts in a very similar order and manner. I always wished college calculus had been so well explained.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
How much of this is simply attributable to parents who love to read inculcating their kids with a love of reading -- as opposed to the presence of the books themselves?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
This - a bit like discussing before vs after you’re married whether you both want kids - is the sort of thing it’s best to ensure you’re aligned on before throwing your lot in with a co-founder. Given that it’s a little late for that, your
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Check out Phabricator, which is open source and easy to set up. It’s got a pretty robust issue database and can be set up with kanban boards.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Jira has a field for time spent on a ticket, and can produce reports about it pretty quickly. There are also plugins available to let developers use various timers with it, or even integrate with timesheet tools like Harvest. I’ve worked in
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Are you asking how they cache pages when logged in users have per-user data? You can use edge-side includes, or use a separate AJAX request to retrieve the user-specific data.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
We would usually prorate (maybe not for raises but definitely for bonuses).
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I’ve worked with distributed, entirely remote, and partly remote teams. My takeaway is that there are some people who just communicate much more effectively in person. And no, videoconferencing doesn’t help.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Thank you for explaining this - I learned something today!
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It's going to be different for everyone, probably. For me, it was always stuff around networking, systems administration, DB administration, and compiling/linking. A tiny example might be something that uses a symlink or, worse,
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by cimmanom 8y ago
4:3 monitors in general
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Full keyboard flip phones. That old Env3 might be the handiest phone I ever owned.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
But then you can’t use caps lock for control...
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The assumptions that documentation makes about what you already know. Sometimes these are such tacit assumptions that they don’t even give you anything to start googling about. Other times they’re assumptions that you’re already skilled in
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Arbitrage and short term bets such as high frequency trading and day trading. The most old fashioned ways for banks to make money on reserves, though, is to lend it - especially moderate-interest loans such as business loans and mortgages.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
We do, for the most part, in our most densely populated areas. It’s just not cost effective elsewhere even taking into account disaster risks and rebuilding costs. However, there are probably some areas - especially small towns and the dens
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Indeed it is. And yet I wouldn't describe it as remotely feminized, only slightly less hostile to women than, say, Slashdot. IMO, that says more about tech forums and the tech community than it does about HN.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
This. And if she declines, you respect that and treat her professionally, without retaliating.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
My understanding is that this doesn't require conditioning -- the brightness of screens, their changing contents, and the dopamine hits one gets from interacting with them makes them grab and hold attention regardless of previous expos
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Do not click this link. There’s a rather evil browser-hijacking ad on the page.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Life is a system that decreases entropy locally. Fire increases entropy locally.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
A photon needs to actually hit the sensor in order to be recorded, so if we're considering the photon to be a particle (rather than a wave) it would have to be in the same position in order to be in two frames at all.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Should the entire contract then become void when one subclause becomes unenforceable? If not, how is this different from the case where a previously unenforceable clause becomes enforceable?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
What about the case where the contract is enforceable at the time of signing but the law changes after it's been signed?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
There are email providers other than gmail. In many of these systems, the “+” character indicates a truly distinct email rather than an alias.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
This. As a woman it sometimes makes me want to ragequit not just HN but the industry as a whole. And then people wonder why women don’t want to go into tech and make even more assumptions about our not being interested. Nope, it’s just that
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by cimmanom 8y ago
In an apartment that gets bright indirect light all day long, my pothos grows dense only if either it’s tucked in a corner far from the windows or I keep the shades closed. In direct sunlight it’ll even start growing leaves with larger whit
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Pothos technically doesn’t even have to be planted. You can leave the cuttings in a vase of water for years and they’ll be perfectly happy. And I’ve seen a planted one bounce back after a month without water (though they thrive best being w
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I use PayPal when buying from small unsophisticated-looking mom and pop ecommerce sites that I don’t trust to have integrated credit card payments in a reasonably secure manner.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
An active commute. Walking, running, cycling. At least 20 minutes. Let your mind wander. Do not check or answer work communications during your commute. If you can get away with it, don’t check/answer them once your commute is over eit

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