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by dandrews 12y ago
"I have no desire to do a Mars landing on our own," Bolden said (two years ago). http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012... I've more faith in Musk than in Bolden. &q
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by dandrews 12y ago
Also see johncompanies.com - stable systems, excellent and fast technical support.
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by dandrews 12y ago
That ricer link was hilarious, thanks. Somehow I've missed it all these years. I keep using Gentoo mostly out of inertia; I understand it, and don't have to mess with it much. My systems remain current, and I don't break th
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by dandrews 12y ago
Surfer Dude and his E8 Theory of Everything ... 'todalay boogus' arguments which amazes auntie, mommie and magazine editors but a real physicist would instantly dismiss. I suppose you're referring to Lisi? Neither he nor E
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by dandrews 12y ago
Sourced here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/08/Java9-FirstFeatures
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by dandrews 12y ago
Can't tell you how it feels, but I've been on the paying end. My outside (and completely unpaid ) interest is community theatre, where I do some light design and administrative stuff. We're pretty much all-volunteer, but w
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by dandrews 12y ago
Reconsider your perception of "bald white men"; there are more than a few here on HN, who tolerate you tattooed spiked kids pretty well. (Obligatory: Oh yeah, and get off my lawn.)
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by dandrews 12y ago
Much as I loathe self-proclaimed "best practice", I find this style guide agreeable. I'll quibble with the author's superfluous use of comp/partial as a documentation aid, and the picayune advice to use single-sent
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by dandrews 12y ago
I'm not a pro, and wouldn't see myself becoming bored as a straight performer, unlike the talented people at Orpheus. I'm not qualified to conduct, nosiree. But OCC has 27 headstrong and capable individuals who all chafe a b
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by dandrews 12y ago
Didn't know about the OCC, thanks for the link. I'm not surprised by the result. Judging solely from my choral background, of course conductors are needed. We're trained from day one to follow maestro's direction, bu
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by dandrews 12y ago
Flagged for your editorializing title (original youtube title: "NICTA: High Assurance Demo"). If you watched the video, you'll have noticed that they explicitly said that compromised applications ought not be able to cross th
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by dandrews 12y ago
This is truly refreshing style. Unlike the missives and pronouncements from Mount Olympus that consumers are used to getting from corporations, Brad Wardell's company apparently treats their customers more like... well, partners. It&#
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by dandrews 12y ago
I'd make your same observation. Like the parent, I'm proud of my imperative code and never used to consider memory management a particularly onerous task. I was brought up on it y'know, just a part of writing good code. But
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by dandrews 12y ago
"Originally published on Space.com" http://www.space.com/26438-isee3-spacecraft-engines-fired.ht...
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by dandrews 12y ago
Originally published here: https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858
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by dandrews 12y ago
Flagged, scusa. (I'm a satisfied PCC customer. Excellent machines, careful assembly, responsive personal support. But your post is simply not HN-worthy.)
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by dandrews 12y ago
See narrowrail's comment about equity vs debt. If you take money from family, you should make the risks clear and allow them to decide: equity or debt? I sympathize with OP's desire to satisfy unsecured debts to the family, but I
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by dandrews 12y ago
https://mayday.us/
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by dandrews 12y ago
Natural disasters, yes. Many of us in hurricane-prone areas stock up on batteries, LP gas, water, easy food before the season starts. One or two-week power outages are no fun. A friend of mine in SoCal keeps earthquake supplies in multipl
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by dandrews 12y ago
I learned FOCAL on a PDP-8/L, the first computer I'd ever seen that didn't fill a basement. Fun little language, where arrays were undeclared and sparse. I think every array element you wrote to probably created a symbol ta
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by dandrews 12y ago
None of the above. After studying McCracken's Fortran book, and Weiss's Lisp 1.5 Primer, I was finally introduced to a real computer: a Honeywell H-200 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_200 where I c
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by dandrews 12y ago
Originally published in: http://mosaicscience.com/story/arrested-development
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by dandrews 12y ago
Coding? There's nothing like being in the zone, nothing at all. Long periods of intricate code-weaving, punctuated by the thrill of neurons locking into place when you solve a problem. But then you get noticed, acquire new responsibi
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by dandrews 12y ago
Also see Sluggy Freelance, running for six or seven years now. Long convoluted story arcs punctuated with frequent gags, and a cast of characters I've grown to love. I keep wondering/worrying when Pete Abrams is going to burn ou
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by dandrews 12y ago
Hope you have some compelling evidence at hand when you sue an entity that has a complete record of the incident. In any case, I expect the incipient googlecars will have capacitive sensors on the steering wheel, requiring that your finge
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by dandrews 12y ago
You're being snooped already. Chances are your automotive systems are keeping logs, and your cell phone regularly broadcasts your location. That cat long ago left the bag.
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by dandrews 12y ago
In re: Jim Jones. That isn't cute.
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by dandrews 12y ago
I don't understand your question. My point was that sentence guidelines should generally be data-driven, the dependent variable being the crime rate for a specific offense. I did not mention edge cases, judicial discretion, capital of
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by dandrews 12y ago
> "sentences should be appropriate to the seriousness of what was done" Sentences should be high enough to deter crime, and no higher. If one month of prison time doesn't reduce your petty theft rate significantly, then
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by dandrews 12y ago
Do not forget college. Your high school experience was all mind-numbingly homogeneous, everybody took the same classes, followed the same curriculum, had to pass the same standardized tests. Go to college and sample a variety of discipli

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