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by earl 16y ago
The people of nebraska are do-gooders, used in an apparently pejorative sense, because they want to help get children out of situations where the children aren't wanted? What?
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by earl 16y ago
"Fuck you I got mine"
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by earl 16y ago
Ouch. That's a pretty damning list Matt compiled.
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by earl 16y ago
Hmm. Could you offer a more concrete description of what you're looking for along with time commitments?
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by earl 16y ago
Not to be flip, but what do I get out of it? In my experience, something like this can easily consume 15-20 hours per week. The last time I did something like this I got tuition reimbursement for TAing. Helping other people learn is fun,
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by earl 16y ago
Mozy is a piece of shit. I'm forced to run it on my laptop by corporate policy. My very favorite bit is how it pegs my hard disk for fifteen fucking minutes to backup a single 0 byte file. What those retards are doing in the meantime,
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by earl 16y ago
> The most open device is going to win this race [...] The above is very far from clear at this point. In case you didn't notice it, the App Store just hit 10 billion downloads [1]. I'd say that's a pretty relevant bit of history.
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by earl 16y ago
Since I can no longer edit this post, please see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2199496
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by earl 16y ago
I just reread your original post [1]. I'd like to apologize -- I just skimmed your article and those by Burnette [2] and ars [3]. I came away with a very wrong impression. The relevant quote is "I have discovered additional material that
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by earl 16y ago
Isn't this the liar that had to walk java source code showing up in android claims way back just last month? edit: to be clear: not grellas, for whom I have the highest respect, but the fosspatents dude
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by earl 16y ago
Community rating
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by earl 16y ago
It's not that good. Just for starters, coverage stops at the edge of the city. Break your leg skiing in Tahoe and you're out of luck.
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by earl 16y ago
Seriously? Have you lived in the US for the last 10 years or seen a Republican recently? rst, if anything, understated how Republicans would attack such a program.
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by earl 16y ago
Sadly, no. See, eg, [1] for a chart of teacher salaries vs inflation over time. Quoting the article: "[...] we also find dramatic erosion in relative teacher earnings since 1960." See also figure C, "Real weekly wage trends for teachers a
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by earl 16y ago
Profile doesn't pay the rent. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/4/29/
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by earl 16y ago
How is Ariana going to justify not paying almost all contributors now? Amazing that she built this on the backs of authors, most of whom got paid nothing . Am I alone in finding this exploitative?
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by earl 16y ago
It's a dick size contest. This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
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by earl 16y ago
Quantcast uses it pretty extensively.
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by earl 16y ago
$800? And if you read the subtext of the picture carefully, it says, "To activate WiFi functionality on this device, a minimum of 1 month data subscription is required." My god, is it rude to just point and laugh?
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by earl 16y ago
Here's the real reason: this dev is an jerk who thinks postgres users get too much sleep. My experience on 8.4, within the last 3 years: a query that is run hundreds of times per second with an average run time in milliseconds and a max que
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by earl 16y ago
Just make sure you've never left a job in under 10 years, even if you got an enormous raise or your boss was an ass or you got a much better situation out of it. In fact, you should be willing to tolerate a shit situation and lower pay for
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by earl 16y ago
I thought it went without saying that the relevant coefficient should be taken from a unit normal vector or some other indication of relative magnitude should be given.
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by earl 16y ago
Expensive information? Please. I'm not asking for all weights, I'm asking for 1/1000 weights. If it's tiny, then sharing it should be inconsequential. And no bullshit about competitors or spammers please -- it's not as if anyone is unaw
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by earl 16y ago
"- How different would their results be if they didn't use clicks from google's search as a signal?" That's the important one. These Bing people are happy to run their mouths about 1k signals blah blah blah. Who gives a fuck? What is the
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by earl 16y ago
Responding to merely two points, one hopes Daniel isn't as stupid as his writing. "This is the company that indexes blogs, newspapers, and both digital and physical books, and then makes all this information available without consent in th
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by earl 16y ago
Actually, unless I'm mistaken, parsing the URL may well yield good search terms, but the query string is much less likely. Look at eg HN -- you'd parse out id = some long number. I may be wrong, but I don't recall many sites that would ha
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by earl 16y ago
The balls on MS people are fucking amazing: "Harry Shum, VP of search development at Bing, responded by admitting that Google had uncovered a new form of search fraud, and said he wished Google had spoken to Microsoft about it before taking
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by earl 16y ago
Creating a bullshit opt-out -- that they know damn well virtually no one will ever read -- and then having IE send apparently the entirety of a user's browse behavior to MS is sketchy as all hell. One more reason never to use an MS product
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by earl 16y ago
To warn everyone: Mozy is a piece of shit. The software was written by retards and will happily steal all the I/O on my laptop for up to 15 minutes in order to backup a 1kb file. It runs on my laptop only because work mandates we back u
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by earl 16y ago
Not to mention apparently being complete dicks to Kohsuke Kawaguchi; who not only founded the project, was the primary contributor while at Sun, and remains the primary contributor since leaving; but also has a rep for being a very nice per

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