earl

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571.
by earl 16y ago
The Moscow subway is cheap and as of ~ 2005, utterly reliable -- far more reliable than NYC subways. In SF, muni is a bad joke, and bart breaks every other month.
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by earl 16y ago
Highly educated populace. Good mathematicians and engineers. Generally nice people. Rich cultural history. A pride in their culture and in being Russian that Americans don't, in my experience, have (disregarding our jingoistic biblethum
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by earl 16y ago
And then the police will take you down to the station and you'll fall down a flight of stairs until you kindly give up your password. There are no technological solutions to a lack of civil rights.
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by earl 16y ago
While I lived there, the police did something similar -- seized computers, copied confidential emails, returned the computers half a year later -- to a support group for women raped by the police. I'd laugh at the irony if it weren't so aw
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by earl 16y ago
Refusing to host a website is a form of violence? What?
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by earl 16y ago
Because the redneck trash doing this would throw a temper tantrum if someone did it to a bible. It should be permitted, but come on -- we're adults here. This is nothing more than a giant, "Fuck you" to muslims. For the record, I don't fi
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by earl 16y ago
Writing distributed code. Once your data is too large and your logic too distributed to run or debug locally, you are forced to become a much more careful programmer. I have to carefully read the code and think about what is going on, whe
578.
by earl 16y ago
Except I keep meeting female engineers (including several coworkers) who are all foreign -- chinese, indian, british, E European. So it's not unreasonable to infer that culture - specifically American domestic culture - is a big piece of t
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by earl 16y ago
I haven't heard anything like that, and I work in a company with female developers. Further, I have no doubt that it wouldn't be tolerated by any of my friends at the company, and would be a firing offense. No company name because some c
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by earl 16y ago
It's worth remembering that pocket size is probably not an issue for roughly 1/2 the population that carries a purse as part of their daily routine.
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by earl 16y ago
For a corporation with money to invest, housing isn't such a bad thing. There's a reason Metlife build stuytown.
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by earl 16y ago
Seriously? I really don't understand how someone can be an adult and not understand the CIA is reckless. One can just start with the Bay of Pigs, or Allende, or hell, all of South America for the last 40 years. Or Iraq's WMD. Or black p
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by earl 16y ago
Interesting collection. Unfortunately, as per my experience, these aren't that useful -- they pretty much come down to understanding how hadoop works, making sure mappers and reducers have reasonable work and jobs are balanced, etc. Essen
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by earl 16y ago
If only they would build a plugin that worked. I don't even care between eclipse, intellij, or netbeans -- just one that works . As it is, I can't sell scala when their plugin regularly hard locks eclipse for multiple minutes at a time
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by earl 16y ago
What a shock. Authoritarian glibertarians love them some authoritarian assholes. It of course helps that reason is white and male so they're rarely on the shit end of the nightclub.
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by earl 16y ago
It is not true that changes in inequality stem from globalization. Changes in inequality stem from political decisions about the allocation of income increases.
587.
by earl 16y ago
Maybe because people like you run around butthurt and drag your bullshit into unrelated areas on HN? You'll also note that while Zed stands up for himself, I don't see him posting links to his site on HN. Protip: grow up and stay the hell
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by earl 16y ago
How is this different from the self managed approach taken by eg clickable, or the more full service places like Yodle / ReachLocal / Efficient Frontier / CityVoice / et al? Edit -- after watching their video, their in-browser funnel visual
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by earl 16y ago
Zed, you forgot kidney stones. One of the consequences of too much caffeine is it's easy to be dehydrated, which puts you at risk of kidney stones. Which essentially means you get the dubious pleasure of pissing razor sharp calcium rocks
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by earl 16y ago
I seem to remember Visual Studio having a better C++ compiler than gcc for quite a while -- at least through the whole egcs fork. Some of the templating stuff didn't work in VS6, but I think that was pretty universally true for all compile
591.
by earl 16y ago
Yes, this. Note that this is a pretty big price and hassle savings over renting your own server.
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by earl 16y ago
I disagree. MS is obviously way behind; nobody who doesn't work for them is unaware of that. The thing MS needs right now is to convince devs to target their platform, and one way to do that would be to demonstrate that they understand th
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by earl 16y ago
Please. Calling soldiers shooting children murderers doesn't mean I like the Taliban, it means I don't want our soldiers murdering children. Really, this isn't complicated. The Taliban might have been evil, but it doesn't mean that the re
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by earl 16y ago
Wow. I'm pro gay marriage -- my best friend was one of the couples unmarried by the CA supreme court -- but I'm not sure if this is progress or not. Honestly, I'd really like this not to end up like abortion, still fighting the misogynist
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by earl 16y ago
sweet christ. that reads like fucking trendy hadoop word soup spat out to get suckers to hire this firm for $500 an hour. Also, how does he think that installing this crap is ever going to be like installing excel, until you're installing
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by earl 16y ago
You know, I generally am sympathetic to the article's point, but today? There are perfectly workable computers available for under $400. Compilers, both on the MS and linux side, are free. Internet connections at public libraries are fre
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by earl 16y ago
Personally, I don't have a ton of code that isn't owned by someone -- either my current employer or a former employer (I delete all code from jobs I quit, but do have code left from consulting gigs). I obviously will not share any of the a
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by earl 16y ago
I've gotten scala to work on the simulator and on a nexus one. It was an enormously painful process, with many sets of contradictory and outdated walkthroughs on the net and clearly very little people actually getting this to work.
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by earl 16y ago
The computer history museum is worth visiting. They have an actual implementation of Babbage's Difference Engine No 2. It's a mechanical calculator that calculates up to 7th degree polynomials to 17 (IIRC) degrees of accuracy. Babbage di
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by earl 16y ago
You know, in any of these cases that I presume you're discussing (the helicopter murdering civilians, etc), the US government is fully capable of releasing more videos or documents, if there were any, that would show this information in a d

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