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by cjarrett 8y ago
If you managed to read the Recognitions, J.R. will be a piece of cake and will reward you very well.
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by cjarrett 8y ago
[Some other random american novels I find excellent/significant] Crossing to Safety - William Gaddis Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem Latro in the Mist - Gene Wolfe Arcadia (Play) - Tom Stoppard The Last Picture Show & Texasville - L
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by cjarrett 8y ago
In particular this set of points hits J.R.'s relevance to modern america ( https://biblioklept.org/2012/01/23/i-riff-on-william-gaddiss... ): 3. What is J R about? Money. Capitalism. Art. Education. Desper
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by cjarrett 8y ago
I try to specialize in American authors--but If you want a random selection of my favorites to recommend in order to understand this modern era of America, I present these three: J.R. - William Gaddis (1975) (A very nice blog post on it her
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by cjarrett 8y ago
Not sure, but here's some data from Matt Miller at MSFT: Fellow data nerds: here's a snapshot of the vulnerability root cause trends for Microsoft Remote Code Execution (RCE) CVEs, 2006 through 2017. A few callouts: heap corruptio
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by cjarrett 8y ago
Thanks for these. I had never heard on Antrim before, and will be looking up some of his works as a result.
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by cjarrett 8y ago
I switched to buying Vinyl at Shows, and Bandcamp CD releases directly from non mainstream artists. I always thought services like What.CD were actually good for the industry--as it was essentially an on-ramp onto trying new genres and arti
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by cjarrett 8y ago
>If a developer is career driven (and many if not most are) they have to work on "high impact" things to get a good performance review. Since Google tries to be very objective, you have to measure your impact with data and sad
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by cjarrett 8y ago
I took a course on Rhetoric and Public Policy at CMU. The topic that year was Nuclear Energy, and we had a fantastic mix of engineers, nuclear scientist PhD candidates, and humanities students. This was during the actual Fukushima crisis,
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by cjarrett 8y ago
His 'Encounters with the Archdruid' was on the reading list on my Environmental Literature course. Funny enough, I had already read it a few years prior after grabbing it off of my father's bookshelf. If you are in any way i
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by cjarrett 8y ago
--no. That's not how this works.
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by cjarrett 8y ago
ding.
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by cjarrett 8y ago
I actually love mine on my Razer Blade. Admittedly, I don't use it too much, but I find myself on occasion wanting to touch my MBP.
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by cjarrett 8y ago
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest as well: In the novel's world, each year is subsidized by a specific corporate sponsor for tax revenue. The years of Subsidized Time are: Year of the Whopper Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad Ye
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by cjarrett 8y ago
Seattle will get you SAD during winter. The summers are great, but winters for the past few years have been unrelentingly overcast. I was also heavily warned to buy those bulbs to put in the office by a coworker who suffered from it.
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by cjarrett 8y ago
Cheers, now I have some reading tomorrow on the plane ride to Montreal!
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by cjarrett 8y ago
Show Stopper! is a great read. My copy is always lent around the office, especially to interns: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416925.Show_Stopper_
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by cjarrett 8y ago
To give an older, 30 year long rejoinder by a famous, well regarded major American author: the question to ask is, is it OK to be a luddite? https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18&#x2F
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by cjarrett 8y ago
One could also derive interesting parallels to modern times with his 'Confidence-Man' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confidence-Man
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by cjarrett 8y ago
That is what happened to me. The entire top case had to be replaced. Luckily under warranty, however.
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by cjarrett 8y ago
I had a key stick within two weeks. They had to completely replace the keyboard, it took over a week (IIRC). Fairly silly for a single key to cause such a massive repair.
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by cjarrett 8y ago
I worked in the industry for three summers, and they were interchangeable there. Additionally, they could be 'tur-bans' or 'tur-bines' as well.
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by cjarrett 9y ago
I know, I worked on the project that enabled it. This was more to the latter part of the comment, that games will not be designed around that modality and would always be altered accordingly. Not necessarily a downside for everyone (and m
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by cjarrett 9y ago
Mouse / Keyboard input. Though, that is opening up more and more nowadays.....
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by cjarrett 9y ago
That was a succinctly put clarification of some thoughts I've been trying to coherently put together for quite some time! Thanks for this.
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by cjarrett 9y ago
Been at this stage for a year or so. Finally been trying to change it since January. Been difficult, but happy to have loving, familial support.
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by cjarrett 9y ago
Agreed. Softie > 5 years, dramatically different culture amongst the three teams I've been in.
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by cjarrett 9y ago
Same. 22 hours of social activity would leave me paralyzed.
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by cjarrett 9y ago
Seems bizarre to only think taxes go into the Military Industrial Complex. I mean, sure they take their cut--but I'd like to think that our taxes go towards maintaining our civil society as well! Edit: Seems very much cutting off you
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by cjarrett 10y ago
For Fukuyama, you might be pleased to read some of his more recent stuff from foreign affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2016-0... https://www.foreignaffairs.com/article

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