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by crucini 13y ago
How do you protect the compartment containing the electronics, battery and motor? Is there some mechanical interlock so the lock must be unlocked before opening this compartment?
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by crucini 13y ago
> If a large enough group of people start raising awareness and refusing to release their work for peanuts we'll see a shift in the market price towards more realistic numbers. This is always the dream of the producer whose output i
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by crucini 13y ago
There must be a name for this syndrome - tendency of US-based developers to over-exoticize foreign places, taking at face value all official units of measure, languages, etc.
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by crucini 13y ago
I believe they already do something like this. In some declassified documents, each sentence or paragraph is labelled with its classification level. I think this makes it easier for the FOIA processors to redact. This pertains to word docu
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by crucini 13y ago
Nietzsche says something similiar: From http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4363/4363-h/4363-h.htm Quoting at length because it's hard to extract the pith: In our youthful years we still venerate and despise
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by crucini 13y ago
I'm skeptical about the ban on insider trading in general. Now this author wants to extend it to a new sphere. Basically, an oil company, which knows a lot about the oil market, shouldn't be allowed to speculate in oil. Isn'
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by crucini 13y ago
Agreed. The folks who sell corn flakes could refer to either a) Grocery and general merchandise stores or b) Consumer packaged goods companies.
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by crucini 13y ago
Almost every employer I've had has emphasized the extreme hours before making an offer. It has never turned out to be a problem. Only once did I object, and I didn't get the offer that time. I think they say this stuff because it
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by crucini 13y ago
But what do you think causes burnout? Doing 10 years of work in 3 years? To me, that's energizing. What causes burnout for me is doing the same thing too many times. Also, doing too little work over too much time with too many chefs
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by crucini 13y ago
> All the nesting and redundancy come from Java itself Hmm. How about: public String GET_hello(Request req) { return "Hello World"; } The framework would use reflection to build the routing map.
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by crucini 13y ago
I'm deeply interested in the NSA stories, although I'm becoming fatigued by the continuous stream. Mostly I want to see meaty technical discussion of these stories, not political opinions. That fact that someone likes/dislik
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by crucini 13y ago
The compiler-hack need not affect all crypto software; in fact it might be tailored for only one popular package, such as OpenSSL. So your ROT13 program would not be affected.
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by crucini 13y ago
Hardware engineers busted their butts to give us decent contrast in our displays. Then some trend-addled idiot throws it away with his "tasteful", "artistic" color scheme.
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by crucini 13y ago
> ... freedom to maintain your vision unbeholden to shareholders and 3rd parties. Aye, there's the rub. Many of us want that freedom, but it's rare. Powerful people are generally quite beholden to third parties. The president
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by crucini 13y ago
Really? You have trouble with code like this? RegistrarInstallationsChoicesSubclass registrarInstallationsChoicesSubclass = millisDOMX509Grow.getRegistrarInstallationsChoicesSubclass(); KeyedGSSPolygons keyedGSSPolygons = new Key
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by crucini 13y ago
> Then programmers who relied on such odd results wind up writing horrific code like your second example What's horrific about that? Would it be better if we had: #define to_bool(_X) !!(_X) ... bool a = to_bool(someIn
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by crucini 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're arrangement was, but when I was contracting through an agency, HR was not involved. And contract expirations were a constant worry. It can take months to get the ball rolling for a contract renewal.
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by crucini 13y ago
Great book, but it will make you a bit paranoid about what you say/do at work. It did help me understand what HR is really doing.
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by crucini 13y ago
Now that I've read some more, I'm curious. Are you referring to the MMPI or something similar? Or to Unicru and Kenexa? Unicru seems to ask much more prosaic questions than MMPI. And yes, when I speak of gaming, I am assuming pr
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by crucini 13y ago
I think with more perspective, there is nothing maddening about it. It's like a pool filter. Any one particle of feces can float around the pool forever, but in aggregate the feces level is reduced.
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by crucini 13y ago
Yes, that one surprised me. I would think the personality type they want is never maddened.
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by crucini 13y ago
I've done that too, in the same situation. But I think it may backfire. Some investors may be nostalgic for their days in a startup. Others are still looking for that "startup edge" which differentiates from stagnant corpor
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by crucini 13y ago
I appreciate your input, especially as counterweight to those who underestimate the sophistication of these tests. However I question your absolute statement. What man can create, man can circumvent. (How's that for an absolute state
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by crucini 13y ago
Here are some: http://www.physicschick.com/pole/2012xxxx/psych.txt By googling those, you can go deeper into the rabbit hole.
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by crucini 13y ago
So fascinating that I wrote a program in MS Basic (on CP/M) to emulate that.
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by crucini 13y ago
I don't know much personally about airbnb. I wonder how many bad incidents airbnb has facilitated? Searching for "airbnb robberies" seems to point to only one incident (San Francisco) where the victim blogged about it. But generally we sho
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by crucini 15y ago
Thanks for sharing that! Check this out: 1 1457 2 2820 3 4577 4 3309 5 1115 6 186 7 19 This table breaks down the paid app developers by total gross. The left column is number of di
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by crucini 15y ago
The site doesn't seem like bad design to me, just low-key design. It's obviously aimed at a technical audience. It also communicates "low overhead". I found it pretty appealing. What really makes the site feel credible is the candid ment
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by crucini 15y ago
Would you really group Python in with Java? I find it reasonably compact. True, there is an unfortunate tendency to drag java-style thinking into Python. I write python with vim; so do most of my co-workers. (But then I also write Java wi
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Ask HN: Which technology will me reach independence?
7 points by crucini 15y ago|7 comments

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