ethbro

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by ethbro 7y ago
Waffle House managers, in my experience, are heavily sourced internally. (Or at least used to be) This ensures you have a pipeline of new managers when someone moves on, as well as benefiting from far more experience than hiring externally.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The Title of Nobility / Emoluments Clause [1] and the natural born (and age) qualifier are fairly specific as to what the framers thought were overly corrupting influences for the office of president. They notably did not include &quot
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by ethbro 7y ago
It seemed like you were characterizing alternative approaches in a way in which you could more easily refute their concerns. I'd be pleased as punch if we moved to a post-resource economy, but I also think it's going to be the har
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's a straw man to cast all concerns about economy sustainability as "exploit natural resources as quickly as we can." There are serious , life-threatening concerns about reorienting the world to a lower-growth, lower-carbo
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by ethbro 7y ago
And what effect does that have on energy prices?
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by ethbro 7y ago
> have "safety of environment" as a clear and unambiguous incentive That's non-trivial to do in practice. It's already incentivized, via inspections and fines. What you're presumably talking about is prioritiz
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think this is underappreciated. High-quality crypto libraries / systems lead to broader implementation, which makes it harder for elements in mostly-free societies to pressure implementers. It's one thing for the NSA to quietly
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by ethbro 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondestructive_testing
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by ethbro 7y ago
You're missing my point. How much would the Japanese have cared about what Rome thought? Vs now.
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by ethbro 7y ago
No harm intended to the GP's feelings, but glad someone got a chuckle. I feel really bad for the poor (insert variety of) biologists on here.
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by ethbro 7y ago
At least at my org it's awful because dev teams wrote / spec'd their own UX for "their forms." Which, as you might imagine, resulted in a huge number of multiple choice, similarly-named properties, with all options
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by ethbro 7y ago
The Carthaginian Empire expanded over ~400 years, and never penetrated far from coasts (per design, but also illustrating the limitations of transportation at that time). The Roman Republic / Empire expanded over ~600 years. We may hav
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by ethbro 7y ago
Syria to Tunisia is ~2,300 km. For reference, that's about the same distance from NY, NY to Houston, TX. And that's the long axis of the Mediterranean Sea. IMHO, that's very different than how we talk about international co
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by ethbro 7y ago
The difference between physical engineering and computing is that their world is unknown, while ours is known. Both of these subject to individual exceptions, but broadly true. You can't request a steel or wood beam and then say "
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by ethbro 7y ago
In those times, the ability to project power (in a modern military sense) was virtually non-existent. Aircraft hadn't been invented yet. Naval transport was subject to the vagaries of the wind and slow. Land transport was a matter of m
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by ethbro 7y ago
Ah. In that case, the existence of books (even popular ones) and ACM conferences isn't strong support that most devs are well-versed in computing history, to me. In the same way that the medical field has similar historical output, but
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by ethbro 7y ago
It also likely traces back to support. In that Microsoft has it, Google doesn't, and Apple... magic? But if you're going to run a competent support org, you need to have high-quality, easily-accessible documentation. Because you&#
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by ethbro 7y ago
We're discussing apples and oranges. You're saying computer science history objectively exists. I'm lamenting a lack of knowledge of it.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Under. They're obviously buying it just to harvest the biometric data to build a more accurate synthetic human, which can then click on ads to generate more revenue.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Popular with the folks around the office? I don't work in SV, but I like to think I work in a fairly high-skill coding environment. And I regularly have to elaborate on historical references or suggestions.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Believe Natales is speaking more to average everydev's state, than the existence of documented history. If history exists, but nobody reads it, then are we not still lost?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Absolutely agreed. It's a shame we talk past each other, when so many answers were already discovered and documented in the past. I try and keep the following in mind (even when my ego fights it). (A) I am very unlikely to be the smart
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by ethbro 7y ago
Out of all the shows in this vein that I've seen, Person of Interest was the only one that managed to maintain its pacing. The key seems to be recognizing the season-long and multi-season arcs, making them both satisfying, but neve
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by ethbro 7y ago
Prepare to be disappointed at a season ending cliffhanger... all over again.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Why don't they just call it a save disk then? Are they printing in rubber or something? /i
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by ethbro 7y ago
Slight amendment. The heyday of wardriving (IMHO) was before the industry got its shit together with WPA. Because before WPA, there was WEP. Which it turns out had multiple vulnerabilities, given enough traffic. https://www.dummi
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by ethbro 7y ago
- An ML algorithm from the future traveled back in time, writing specific SuperGLUE examples to poison AI research, thereby preventing the emergence of a competitive AI which would also master the secrets of closed timelike curves
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by ethbro 7y ago
The counterargument is that regulation around collecting and permitting access to data simply widens the moat for incumbents. Facebook and Google can implement a 500-page law. A startup cannot. So I think it's important to keep "H
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by ethbro 7y ago
I don't have the technical specifics in working memory, but would the privacy-preserving Apple geolocation system work here? E.g. You could export edges of the graph as well, but in encrypted form. Only when the owner joins and supplie
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by ethbro 7y ago
See reply to your other comment. Tl;dr - different target user & no corporate sponsor seriously incentivized to improve legacy compatibility Would love to get the Selenium viewpoint though! Have always been curious, and I'm not as

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