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by ekr 10y ago
I wonder how common these one-on-one are? Apart from bi-yearly reviews, I've never heard of something like this, although the environment I currently work in is particularly toxic in this respect.
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by ekr 10y ago
any idea why "-28.092472,-52.419667" would not work? does it need special formatting, or is my firefox incompatible? EDIT: thanks, the adblocker was the issue.
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by ekr 10y ago
I'm curious, can't you just cross the border over to Germany, and enjoy smaller prices?
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by ekr 10y ago
On windows nt, ntdll gets loaded in all processes, it's hardcoded in the kernel ( http://gate.upm.ro/os/LABs/Windows_OS_Internals_Curriculum_R... ). That's where the loader resides, so you can't go wi
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by ekr 10y ago
This is the commit in question: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/c29071587c64efb... for those interested.
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by ekr 10y ago
One place where the MSDN docs is way ahead of the manpages is the documentation of function paramters. For instance, here's the ouput of man 2 write . ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count); DESCRIPTION write()
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by ekr 10y ago
Never underestimate the edit-compile-test loop. It has an huge impact on productivity.
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by ekr 10y ago
I reckon rationality/rational thinking, decision theory, bayesianism, being aware of cognitive biases inherent in the human brain, in a word lesswrongiansm.
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by ekr 10y ago
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business . A vital step in becoming a more (instrumentally) rational person is to track and calibrate your beliefs. This book teaches you of how to do that.
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by ekr 10y ago
I've recently ran into debian code search again, https://codesearch.debian.net/ . Built on top of Russ Cox's Code search ( https://github.com/google/codesearch ), and quite well documented. Can&
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by ekr 10y ago
The kernel is written entirely in C. See various WRK releases you can find online.
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by ekr 10y ago
Does it count as a rejection if they don't even call you back for an interview/ i.e. all you get back is an automated reply?
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by ekr 10y ago
Obligatory link to ERE Journals : http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewforum.php?f=9&si... You can read tens of life stories centered around early retirement/ financial independence there.
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by ekr 10y ago
Yes, but it may destabilize the economy. The price may go up by such a degree that a significant percentage of the population can no longer afford food, which may lead to social unrest. I'm not sure if your attitude, that supply and de
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by ekr 10y ago
I'm using a 2009-era laptop as a server (ssh, http, irc-bouncer). Having tested the power consumption, (with the screen off), it sits at 6.5 W in idle, according to powertop, so it's very convenient. (I'm quite surprised by t
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by ekr 10y ago
I can't recommend CIS 194 ( http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/ ) enough. After a first weak attempt at learning haskell, following this course did it for me, and I've managed to write some significant haskell p
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by ekr 10y ago
My bet is on AWS, but I'm also rather curious about this.
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by ekr 10y ago
And I had been planning to reverse engineer it for some time, but never got around to doing it. Hats off to Inigo and others.
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by ekr 10y ago
In my corner of the world (Eastern Europe), I pay less than 2 Euros a month for an unlimited bandwidth 4G connection (with telephony included). 4G only works in big cities ATM, but it falls back to 3g everywhere else.
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by ekr 10y ago
For someone not really familiar with the FB API, is it possible to get a list of all people in a certain city, or are data mining techniques necessary?
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by ekr 10y ago
One of the way to achieve encapsulation in C, is to have a certain definition of a structure in the implementation file, that you use internally, and a different (usually smaller, sometimes no structure at all, just a handle), exposed to th
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by ekr 10y ago
How about Far Manager?
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by ekr 10y ago
I like to think of myself as belonging to the tidy category, I value craftmanship, beautiful elegant code, what Torvalds would call good taste. I respect coding conventions. But sometimes, the manager comes in and says that the deadline was
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by ekr 10y ago
the option is there on my L520 as well.
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by ekr 10y ago
I'm still in college, and and an Eastern European country (where the average wage is around 550$). And I still make > 20k USD per year. So yeah, you are underpaid.
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by ekr 10y ago
I've only ever been using Google Maps for the sattelite imagery, street view, and routin. For those things, Google Maps is still great. OpenStreetMap is what I use for orienting, find cycling paths, trails etc. So I'm not too both
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by ekr 10y ago
Core M is in a different price bracket, it certainly can't compete price-wise with cheap ARM counterparts.
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by ekr 10y ago
Whether it is minuscule or meaningless is isomorphically equivalent to the question of whether reproduction itself is meaningless. I'd say the meaning in this case is in the eye of the beholder. The physical reality is one and only.
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by ekr 11y ago
It's not the first time I'm mentioning this around here, but the WRK 1.2 is quite easy to find online. Surely, there are some license issues with that, but with a simple google query you run into something like this : http:/
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by ekr 11y ago
I think the most significant are the SAL version 2 annotations. This is a nice introduction : https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15122-f10/lectures/25-sal... . Basically, there's an additional step a

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