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by cwilkes 7y ago
I’m wondering how he got that deal past IT. Perhaps he claimed that he was licensing the code to them so that they couldn’t see it? I’m not familiar with how to deploy Excel macros, could this code be checked into a source repo and then so
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by cwilkes 7y ago
“Or I would have been if routing was working correctly” There’s a silver lining to everything.
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by cwilkes 7y ago
What’s the rationale for keeping it? English should try to be at least a little bit easier parse for a newbie.
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by cwilkes 7y ago
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/06/05/tucker-carlson... Tucker Carlson: God bless you, and that's exactly what it is. Esperanto died, but the metric system continues, this weird, utopian, in
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by cwilkes 7y ago
What can’t be done without a database and a rest api? That comment can be applied to anything.
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by cwilkes 7y ago
If they just charged a flat rate then no low end phones would use their tech as it would eat more heavily into their profit.
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by cwilkes 7y ago
I didn’t know what the chicken tax was. Here’s a write up on it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-strange-... In short: the EU wanted to stop a flood of US chickens in the 60s so they imposed a
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by cwilkes 7y ago
Would an internal PSU somehow be smaller than an external one?
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by cwilkes 7y ago
One man’s horror is another man’s only way to get anything done. I used to be violently anti spreadsheet but have come around to being amazed what people can do with a very limited subset of tools. So instead of looking down upon them (not
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by cwilkes 7y ago
“Surely this is the average, but not the mean?” I think you mean (hah!) “median” at the end as average is the mean.
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by cwilkes 7y ago
I can see it applying to UI when there’s two screens that display parts of the same information but are different due to caching. That’s maddening to an end user and then they don’t know what one to trust. Sometimes the first one is corre
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by cwilkes 8y ago
I’m in that camp where I hear the “in X units of measure turn right” and get confused as I can’t really relate to that when driving vs walking or reading a map — which is the entire reason I’m using voice prompts with the app. Part of the r
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by cwilkes 8y ago
Well if you have two sensors you never know which one is right.
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by cwilkes 8y ago
Then have a semver for the two different parts. Ie “version 3.3.1 of Awesome Server supporting the 2.x api as well as 3.1.x”
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by cwilkes 8y ago
If caffeine is making you jittery then why drink it?
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by cwilkes 8y ago
I think you just described all of John Updike’s novels. Maybe it seemed normal to you as you’ve gone through it but what about the person that hasn’t? They are probably experiencing the same fears and self doubt that the author was. I’m
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by cwilkes 8y ago
I’ve heard that as well but our outdoor cat that came with the house killed a grand total of two birds in 12 years. She did get a number of mice during that time and nicely left their stomachs as presents on my doorstep. I now watch where I
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by cwilkes 8y ago
Good luck with that: https://abovethelaw.com/2019/03/current-stanford-students-fi... > You can’t really argue that your degree is not worth what you “thought” it would be, because the “worth” of a degree isn’t
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by cwilkes 8y ago
By 5 years behind do you mean HBOs interface is like Netflix of 5 years ago? If so that isn’t going to take 5 years to catch up. I’m not sure what’s so bad about it. Then again I knew exactly what I wanted to watch.
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by cwilkes 8y ago
What I don’t get about the rowing angle is that she would be found out within a few minutes of being on the crew. Also I imagine that there aren’t many spots available so that if the fake rower decides not to show up the real rowers will l
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by cwilkes 8y ago
Also this points to no new projects coming out of Activision. What employee in their right mind would want to take a chance on a new thing at a company that throws away fellow employees like that?
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by cwilkes 8y ago
That’s an interesting point. Just as there are financial auditors for investors do cyber insurance companies actually do any auditing of their clients? It would be in both of their best interests to do so. Mondelez would see that they need
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by cwilkes 8y ago
> encouraging to use SSL_NO_VERIFY flag because passing CA path is too difficult. And if they did spend extra time on that people would complain they are trying to teach two technologies at once. Also that’s something everyone unless it
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by cwilkes 8y ago
I’ll take a charitable approach to this and say that the authors probably realize that people want to make something visual with this skill. The author only knows a handful of the multiple dozens of ways to do that and so the tutorial has t
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by cwilkes 8y ago
To fingerprint you via what you cremations you have installed to track your browsing habits.
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by cwilkes 8y ago
Those $14k socks could be a money laundering operation as well. Happens on AirBnB, course it might be easier on there as who knows what the real price us of a one if a kind house vs a pair of socks.
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by cwilkes 8y ago
I can’t upvote you enough. The retort to this is usually along the lines of “we are moving fast and need people to write 100% correct code”. Perhaps that’s the case, but the solution is to put guidelines down (api review, unit testing, etc)
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by cwilkes 8y ago
Huh that’s an interesting way of thinking about the Turing Test. State something that is categorically wrong according to a dictionary lookup (“cold start problem” means X in machine learning and ML only) and see if the respondent can be ma
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by cwilkes 8y ago
I worked at a startup that dealt with these scanners (sending patient info to them so nothing very sexy) that had a lot of input from radiologists. They also had the same belief as this — there’s always something wrong in the body so if th
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by cwilkes 8y ago
Isn’t that addressed in the article that multi microphone works when there is physical distance between the mics — on a phone that’s around 4 inches. What is that on a watch? An inch? Maybe one can be put on the band. Also on a phone the

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