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by danielvf 9y ago
The numbers are so tiny that comparisons are pretty much irrelevant. Since 1996 there have been just 8 mass k-12 shootings (incidents involving 4 or more school deaths, excluding the assailant), in a nation of 330 million people. That'
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by danielvf 9y ago
> "Adam Smith...idealized independent people, usually farmers. Entrepreneurs, maybe 10 person tin factories" Actually, Adam Smith constantly used independent farmers as examples of inefficiency, and the second paragraph the fi
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by danielvf 9y ago
Is that 50k after car depreciation, gas, and maintenance?
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by danielvf 9y ago
Well, there's the day I knew I was a real programmer. In a 24 period, I saved a customer's hundred thousand dollar sale by redoing a hand written assembly function synchronized between three cores. I ended up with something singl
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by danielvf 9y ago
I've been programming now for 19 years. The most important thing I've learned is to really, really, really understand the business and problem I'm solving before starting. I've taken a three processor core, hand tuned as
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by danielvf 9y ago
I at least, think I'm being consistent in both comments. :) Both times I've said people never get work from the people that they help - only from coworkers. Fifty percent of my income for many years came from engineers and coworke
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by danielvf 9y ago
For example, LA county alone has approximately twice as many people as the entire country of Norway.
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by danielvf 9y ago
Yes, I wouldn't expect giving away your services to people/companies to get you work. That's not so much working side by side with a person for a prolonged period of time, as it is working in a dysfunctional, under appreciate
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by danielvf 9y ago
Hey, _I_ know you on HN. I've upvoted a ton of your comments. We've also commented quite a few times on each other's comments when we disagree with each other. :) As baseline, I've been commenting on HN for four and half
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by danielvf 9y ago
The police are really, really not that stupid. And remember, this guy is a lawyer, who spent his fighting tenant battles, has stabbed people, and shortly after this, murdered someone. If you live, his words alone as a lawyer and a practiced
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by danielvf 9y ago
The author of ZeroMQ wrote a book on recognizing people like this, and more importantly how to get yourself out of prison they’ve put you in. The action plans have helped me. The lucky ones in the NYmag article here did many of the things
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by danielvf 9y ago
Or just a better antenna. :)
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X-ray Flare from Galactic Center Detected by Swift(astronomerstelegram.org)
2 points by danielvf 9y ago|0 comments
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by danielvf 9y ago
Give them to friends and kids, see them smile.
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by danielvf 9y ago
Thanks! This looks like exactly what I was looking for.
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by danielvf 9y ago
I love the decisions and actions features. I was wishing for those today in our project chat setup!
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Occasional annoying ads, but 25 of his photos, many of which I recognise: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/remembering-iconic-pho...
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by danielvf 9y ago
I'll definitely post it to GitHub, and I'll do a Show HN after I've used it in class.
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by danielvf 9y ago
Oh, that's cool - it's just some javascript that's essentially clicking execute on the selected cells. That makes sense, and hacked up version of this could work fine! Thanks!
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Yeah, output right in the notebook is important. I'm wanting them to be able to do something like this in a cell: for ship in myShip.radarScan(): if ship.is_enemy: display([ship.type, ship.range, ship.bearing]
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by danielvf 9y ago
Nope! Thanks for the catch!
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by danielvf 9y ago
I'll be teaching a group of nine and ten years olds to code. I'm planning on using Jupyter. What I'd really like to do is make a multiplayer naval game, with each player controlling their ship from their own notebook. Players
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by danielvf 9y ago
> "If the environment variable $GOROOT is unset, the go tool previously used the default GOROOT set during toolchain compilation. Now, before falling back to that default, the go tool attempts to deduce GOROOT from its own executabl
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by danielvf 9y ago
OpenType is technically Turing Complete, however the usual way is to just cycle through letter form variations.
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One interesting bit of context that the article didn't mention is that the population of towns/cities/urban areas in Oklahoma grew on average 11.29% in just five years. The state has been seeing both a large move from country
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by danielvf 9y ago
That's common confusion. If you work at Wal-Mart, know the financials of store sales before it is released, and trade off that, you can go to jail. But you don't work at Wal-Mart, buy satellite imagery and count cars in the parkin
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by danielvf 9y ago
I laughed, I cried. This was epic.
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Brand recommendations? The last three half hight hiking shoes I’ve bought have fallen apart in months...
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Falcon Heavy Delays as a Burndown Chart(upload.wikimedia.org)
12 points by danielvf 9y ago|6 comments
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by danielvf 9y ago
Germanic and Celtic tribes often took the whole family with them when raiding or fighting. Quoting wikipedia "Armies also often consisted of more than 50 percent noncombatants." This could result in worse defeats - the fighting me

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