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by cpfohl 11y ago
Huh, that's odd. I haven't had any of those issues. In fact, apart from a few difficulties with NPM (which were NPM issues, not Windows issues), I've never had any issues with Windows 10. I admit to missing SSH, and a nice te
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by cpfohl 11y ago
I can't even say how happy it made me that Clippy made it into a CLI program. Is that a common joke I've just missed elsewhere?
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by cpfohl 11y ago
I live (and grew up in) in Central New York (as in: middle of Upstate New York). We've had "coydogs" as long as I remember. I sort of assumed it was a myth, in fact I remember being told it was a myth and that they were just
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by cpfohl 11y ago
You'll notice they explicitly don't cover regulations (like the one they were writing), probably because of the amount of legal precedent for nitpicking the exact phraseology of a given law or regulation...
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by cpfohl 11y ago
College kids will also typically spend a grand total of 12 hours in class in college (assuming 4 classes, each of which has three hours of in-class time). Expecting a college student to then put in another 12-20 hours of personal work makes
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by cpfohl 11y ago
The report also doesn't state how it's detecting human DNA. I was under the impression that tests like these are reasonably unreliable, especially when dealing with big mixes of genetic materials...I can't say this with any a
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Yes, this is tongue in cheek. I never liked the domestic terminology, though. Craft beers are domestic. They're also owned by people in their country of origin. The joke about bud is that it's primarily owned by foreign corporatio
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Let's use the right terms: Domestics are brewed here, meaning must craft beers available in your country of origin are domestic. Technically Anheuser is a Belgian company... So I'd say bud is an import...
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Install a exception reporting tool and get a stack trace for it. My favorite (disclaimer, I now work for them) is Rollbar.
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Batten disease. I don't mind the question, it's been 6 years now, but thanks to my "defenders" ;) Also, my family doesn't suffer from it. It is autosomal recessive, so only the unfortunate 1/4 have any symptoms
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by cpfohl 11y ago
I don't think the genetic manipulation in the near future is going to be powerful enough to create the situation you describe. If only because of the legal structure we've set up around it, but also because right now out capacitie
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Yes. But again, abortion and eugenic murder are orthogonal issues to genetic manipulation. Plenty of good has come out of my brothers disease. My parents started an amazing non profit to serve parents of kids with special needs or terminal
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Hey there. My comment came off emotional; I'm not sorry for that, but I think my stance came across weakly. I'm not saying there aren't very real issues that need to be addressed with manipulating human genetics. I've se
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by cpfohl 11y ago
I never read to the end of the article, because as soon as the 'critics warn about designer babies' line came up I stopped reading. It's a long , long way between "preventing disease by manipulating someone's gen
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by cpfohl 11y ago
If you wind up voice chatting about it, stick it in your text chat with a full summary. You can't CTRL-F a conversation. One of the keys to success as a remote worker is being able to figure out as much as possible w/out requiring
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Great point. I group VTI, VTSAX, and VTSMX all together in my head; with Vanguard the differences between Vanguard branded ETFs and MFs aren't really that noticeable if you're just buying and holding. Thanks for clarifying my sugg
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Vanguard's VTSAX is an ETF that buys the whole Stock market (more or less, at least a representative portion). By definition that includes smaller high risk companies.
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Using logs as a debugging tool is only step one. The second step is using a good tool that helps you make sense of those logs, and includes good debugging information with the logs. A tool like Rollbar (disclaimer: I almost work for Rollbar
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by cpfohl 11y ago
That was my reaction too. I'm a computer science graduate who's constantly wishing he'd taken more mathematics courses so I could read and implement more ML algorithms...
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Although it is a resume, it's also in a different medium than the resume 'rules' apply to. So I'd argue it's ok to break some of the typical rules.
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Call me crazy, but if you don't have a working computer anywhere where you can use one for free is a pretty good place to work on a task that requires the use of a computer.
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Doesn't Republic Wireless have prior art here?
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by cpfohl 11y ago
You are absolutely correct. Perhaps fun is the wrong word. It is however, a royal pain to use the first, and way less so to use the second...That's something I feel I could probably defend in an objective sense.
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by cpfohl 11y ago
Except out and ref parameters are exactly zero fun to use. Wheras returning two values is a lot of fun, esp. with pattern matching.
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by cpfohl 11y ago
What a fantastic writer. Hilarious technical articles are rare.
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by cpfohl 12y ago
Don't feed the trolls.
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by cpfohl 12y ago
For what it's worth I'm comfortable with the idea that you may want to switch jobs; there are an awful lot of fantastic software jobs out there. If you do decide to switch I'd make sure you're willing to stick it out a
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by cpfohl 12y ago
1. Act they way your Grandpa would have: with deference to their knowledge and a healthy dose of confidence (you did get hired by these people). There's a pecking order, and that's OK, but don't let the socially deficient d
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by cpfohl 12y ago
That's a lawsuit waiting to happen right there...
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by cpfohl 12y ago
All I hear is "Harry Potter's Godfather"....

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