dschobel

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by dschobel 17y ago
Last time I went to Schwa (over a year and a half ago) the wait was over 2 months. It did help build the anticipation though!
872.
by dschobel 17y ago
+1 for Schwa. If you're a food geek, it's heaven. Good luck getting a reservation though.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think the peculiar bit is that he is conscientiously avoiding fiction rather than the practical fact of the matter that this is not an uncommon phenomenon as you rightly point out. Maybe it's something about the online medium which is con
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by dschobel 17y ago
I don't read fiction. I find it a waste of time. There are so many amazing things that are real; I don't need to spend any time on a made-up story. Pretty strange comment to come from a creative type, no?
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by dschobel 17y ago
This is the truth. I've had candidates walk out of interviews when they learn that they'd be asked to write pseudo code showing some basic algorithmic competence. It was bizarre.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Why would you feel more insulted writing out a bit of pseudo code than answering a technical question?
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think calling something a disease, or as with obesity in america, an epidemic, serves to alarm people and local governments and does a lot more good than harm. Also, I don't know what root cause you're looking for beyond correcting the im
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by dschobel 17y ago
Why do you say it's a joke of a platform?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Well, the one thing the offerpal ceo said which made sense was that user experience is a top priority for facebook. After all, this is what let it blow MySpace out of the water. It doesn't mean her company isn't treading on the edge of the
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by dschobel 17y ago
Yeah but the guy said explicitly that he was comparing the two providers. It's like me walking into a Ford dealership and saying that I'm trying to decide between a Taurus and a Chevy Malibu. Direct comparisons would be reasonable and helpf
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by dschobel 17y ago
You're always free to take your ball and go home though: http://www.dataliberation.org/
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by dschobel 17y ago
is it really newsworthy when benchmarks reiterate the status quo?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Matt Cutts debunked it the first time this site made the rounds: Matt Cutts 23 days ago Sorry, but this is a fake version of Chrome OS: http://bit.ly/K97Ew I know folks are eager for Chrome OS, but this isn't it.
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by dschobel 17y ago
to quote you: because the TSA people live in an entirely different universe than you do okay, so they left their universe and entered ours.
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by dschobel 17y ago
We're discussing the fact that the TSA left the safety of their lair to try to debunk an online comic by a well-known figure in techy circles. This is a remarkable event. Hence, we are remarking.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Making it electronic completely defuses the embarrassment aspect of it though. I believe you would be hard-pressed to rouse a lot of righteous indignation over magnetometers.
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by dschobel 17y ago
And load balancing matters: Google runs something like 5000 threads on systems with 16-32 cores. Even in the most IO-bound of domains or in the case where 4.9k are sleeping, does it really make sense to ever have that many threads/core?
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by dschobel 17y ago
23 could be a bona fide mid-life crisis in the 17th century :)
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by dschobel 17y ago
To quote the famous (unfortunately hoax) Vonnegut speech: Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the mos
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by dschobel 17y ago
The conflation of doing well in school and brilliance is amusing. Don't most people figure out the distinction in HS?
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Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier(theurbanophile.blogspot.com)
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by dschobel 17y ago
I'm surprised this comes from the NYT and not something like the Daily Post. It seems like totally unconstructive fear-mongering to me. "Health Officials may have to ration critical resources in case of catastrophe, here are some horrible
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by dschobel 17y ago
It does make sense. It is simply odd the baggage which seems to come with the Harvard name, something which you acquire at 18 and yet seems to follow you and define you more than any other institution I can think of.
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by dschobel 17y ago
this is supposed to be a fantastic first programming book: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Introduction-Comput... and this looks promising (and the author posts here on HN) and should fit your "laidback" requirement: http://www.
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by dschobel 17y ago
But there's a high correlation between companies which trust their programmers to use the right tool for the job and companies which "get it" ( it being how to develop and maintain technology). Will that eliminate 99/100 companies? Probabl
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by dschobel 17y ago
My more cynical Harvard friends say that you can always spot the Harvard alumni because they learn that the polite thing to say is "I went to school in Boston".
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by dschobel 17y ago
Kind of off-topic, but I'm pretty surprised clojure doesn't do TCO. Is that a JVM limitation?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Seems like a Herculean task for one person. I wonder if the author considered making it a wiki and enlisting the clojure community's help?
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by dschobel 17y ago
I believe OP was speaking about the filesystem specifically.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I don't know of a single language feature which python has innovated. Python is just a beautiful synthesis of idioms and features which had previously only existed in more esoteric languages.

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