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by earl 17y ago
A recruiter from Ning contacted me on either Tuesday or Wednesday. Although obviously my situation doesn't compare to yours, it sure is nice of the company to keep trying to hire when the upper echelons knew damn well they were going to la
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by earl 17y ago
I must say, just like his scummy partner Danny and his "we're disappointed in your, well, factual account of us dicking you" nonsense, I do really like Boris' little legal threats: "I read another round of comments that said that we should
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by earl 17y ago
Actually, I don't think that's true -- most, if not all, studies are performed on untrained subjects. It is not at all established that methods that work for the first 6 months work the same at 5+ years.
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by earl 17y ago
No such thing is established at all. In particular, high rep only workouts can easily lead to muscle loss. The premier power methods seem to be a blend as discovered by the soviets if I remember correctly; see eg West Side Barbell and rem
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by earl 17y ago
Well, I always did feel like I was getting fucked by C++.
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by earl 17y ago
This is a blog by a parent raising a he has identified as a psychopath. The description of his son's behaviors is both interesting and chilling. http://raising-a-psychopath.blogspot.com/
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by earl 17y ago
Well, he also apparently had a severe hormonal problem related to his cancer. Who knows what that might do to someone's personality -- I saw an article that quoted a doctor speculating it might explain his crankiness.
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by earl 17y ago
Just like sexy people don't have to say they're sexy, great places to live don't have to send their PR people out to badger/bribe magazines into putting them into silly lists.
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by earl 17y ago
And your hill to die on is that someone might guess a movie someone in your household rented. Okay then.
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by earl 17y ago
Please. You directly enabled the lawsuit. At least have the integrity to acknowledge your part -- your pretense "Oh wow, a lawsuit just happened! But I had nothing to do with it!" -- is pretty stupid. I'll bet money the most likely resul
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by earl 17y ago
And if pigs were ducks would they quack? In other words, your question is moronic since netflix didn't attach cc or ssn info. Also, you're a retard for comparing movie predictions, and the possibility of matching a person to their movie vi
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by earl 17y ago
Well, I can say this: congrats on getting one of the best industrial data sets locked up. I hope you're proud of the work you did. As for the possibility of netflix running a contest like this in an online fashion, well, maybe, but the ben
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by earl 17y ago
Yes... but come on. Examining a long term trend of transferring the costs of education from the public to the individuals being education and saying this is (solely, or even primarily) due to the ability of people to take out loans is sill
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by earl 17y ago
Right. Because who should get an education but the rich?
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by earl 17y ago
Sadly... no. Do you know that student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy until very recently? They were! See http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/DCS/loan.cancellation.disch... And there was no wave of bankruptcy before this law; the ban
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by earl 17y ago
No, Google clearly demonstrated that they are evil. For whatever reason -- it doesn't matter in the slightest -- they decided not to very carefully think through what type of formerly private embedded information they had garnered through g
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by earl 17y ago
Hatred is a natural outcome of working with inferior tools.
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by earl 17y ago
Oh hey, I didn't realize the blogger is you -- you should put a link on your profile or make it obvious. But cheers for treating people with respect. I wish more people ran their lives that way.
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by earl 17y ago
Let us not forget their inability to write a flash plugin that doesn't freeze / stutter while playing video in current firefox and safari on a new macbook pro with tons of available ram and cpu. Their ceo is a liar -- if he actually used a
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by earl 17y ago
yes http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1104550 quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/info/job-listing feel free to either contact me or submit job via web form
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by earl 17y ago
Quantcast We're a rapidly growing, venture funded company. We have a bunch of interesting problems -- from pixel servers that see a pretty decent percentage of the internet's net web traffic, to scaling our large hadoop cluster, to real tim
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by earl 17y ago
Also, if you want to actually understand what happened in the housing market, go read calculated risk calculatedrisk.blogspot.com esp anything by Tanta
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by earl 17y ago
Wow, your post demonstrates incompetence. #1 -- median home prices have shot up. That includes homes without {stainless steel appliances, marble counters, and whatever else it is you think people shouldn't be consuming} #2 -- people didn't
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by earl 17y ago
Sadly, no. The first point: this is a necessary input to many manufacturing processes on which the US relies. At this point, China has pricing and volume control over these resources. This is, and should be, a matter of some concern. Seco
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by earl 17y ago
Yes. Who would possibly think of a bookshelf as a metaphor for your collection of books.
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by earl 17y ago
So buy one anyway. Use it for a month. Worst case is you sell it on craigslist for $50 less than you paid and your expenses are the $50 discount and $30 for the unlimited, no contract, data fee.
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by earl 17y ago
It's a shitty way to go. A guy just froze to death at Targhee. http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182614 Remember -- treat the outdoors with respect. Don't go out of bounds without a partner and know where you are on th
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by earl 17y ago
2nd ave subway is a response to pop growth in the Bronx. If I remember my numbers correctly, the green line carries 1/3 of the daily subway users. When I rode the red lines, I worried about getting a seat. When I rode the green lines from
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by earl 17y ago
I used to think similarly, but I've been mostly unable to find any real advantages to fluency in difficult foreign languages. NB: I don't want to work for the government or doing outsourcing, the two obvious places to use foreign language
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by earl 17y ago
There is some empirical evidence in a book called Peopleware. http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S... I would paste some quotes but I lost my copy.

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