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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
Weird. I'm a 6 foot tall male, and I also get asked for directions a lot. The most recent absurdity was in Paris Now, I have spent a total of maybe two weeks in Paris in twenty years, I can get by in french, but it must sound like na
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
The article claims that the animals were not exposed to selection based on their domesticity, but it includes this line "These animals are regularly provided with food and water, and investigated by the researchers." It strikes me
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
I wonder if it wasn't the miner at all. Maybe the guy had an (illegal) cellphone jammer as well, and somehow managed to convince the feds that it was his antminer causing the trouble.
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
Sasa Juric, and the folks at pusher wrote a couple of blog posts on this: http://theerlangelist.com/article/reducing_maximum_latency
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
Yes, effectively.
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
It means it "looks bad".
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
I'm a hiring manager, and I've been dying for someone to ask me a question like that. I'm proud of the mentoring I've done, and I have a whole bunch of folks I'd love to have candidates talk to to see how I am to w
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
My first task in the industry, in the early 90's, involved writing to excel files. At the time I worked at microsoft, so you'd have thought they'd have given me the super secret documentation to the excel format. Instead, t
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
"Hugh looked at me with an almost earnest stare. “What would happen if we mixed Irish whiskey and cream?” he said. “That might be interesting.” He sat back and waited for a response. “Let’s try it,” I replied. Where Hugh was more likel
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
I was in lower manhattan during the huge northeast blackout 14(?) years ago. I can confidently report that turning off all the traffic lights in the city did not lead to improved traffic flow.
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
I rarely take antibiotics (can think of once in the last 25 years), and it's at least partly because I always push back. I do this partly because I know they're overprescribed, and partly because in my youth I had a bad reaction
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
And this is easily testable. We just house a population of animals who sleep in a hermetically sealed environment that provides all that they need, but is never in darkness. After a couple of hundred million years we open the door and see
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
I'd be interested to know how their prescreening works. Sometimes those things are timed, and I can imagine a really short timeframe, say 30 minutes or so, might make the specific editor more relevant. For example, I absolutely hate
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
They take five days to clear, however.
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
Once upon a time, a friend of mine needed to repay me for a loan of about $1000. Since we both banked at HSBC, we figured walking into the bank together might be a simple way to do that. Nope. I had opened my hsbc account online, he had
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
Well said. I share your suspicions about 40 turning out to be the magic number. I also notice that these articles never seem to allow for differences between people, which flies in the face of my 25 years of experience. I've always
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
That sounds about right. I've spent more time than I care to admit trying to decode baseball signs. To me it has always looked like signs from the dugout are far more complex, but catchers' signs not so much.
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
Yeah, back when Mo was pitching, this app would be pretty pointless.
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
Some batters do, yes. That's less to do with stealing signs though, and more to do with the strategic effect the runner has on the infield (and centerfield, actually). If the bases are empty, the whole defense can focus on getting th
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
A couple of things about sign stealing, from someone who is not an expert, but has watched a great deal of baseball: 1) The signs are usually not complex, you can easily read them yourself when you see them on TV. One finger might mean a f
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
The catcher throws the sign after the batter has taken his stance. No more looking at the dugout.
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by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
I imagine it might be quite dangerous to transfer people from one ship to the other in heavy seas, and in the article they were talking about seas of 30 feet.
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by fcbrooklyn 10y ago
When I read the title, my first thought was "Indians wake up and drink a pint of beer?"
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by fcbrooklyn 10y ago
I think it depends on you, to some extent, so without knowing you it's harder to say. The big question is "why?". 1) Are you learning to program because you have something specific you're dying to build? Depending on w
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by fcbrooklyn 11y ago
I'm the author. I actually think it may be awhile before we actually start to see jobs posted, unfortunately. I think the pattern is largely: 1) Let's try it out internally 2) Hey, this is cool. Let's go to the meetup. 3)
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by fcbrooklyn 11y ago
"better chance to stand out to the teacher" On reflection, this might make me stop and think about it. It's supposedly anonymous, but it can't be anonymous to the professor, can it, or how would the points be awarded?
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by fcbrooklyn 11y ago
Exactly. Curve or no curve it doesn't matter.
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by fcbrooklyn 11y ago
Doesn't matter if there's a curve. Your grades are still only meaningful compared to your classmates. (ok, assuming you're not in danger of actually failing the class)
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by fcbrooklyn 11y ago
Yes, it's true that it sort of benefits everyone in the class vs people who did not take the class, but some classes are easy A's and some aren't, and everyone knows that. If the class becomes a slightly easier A because we
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by fcbrooklyn 11y ago
Actually, I think in this case the only rational choice is to ask for the 6 points. One of two things will happen: 1) Less than 10% will follow suit, in which case you'll get a 6 point boost, and you'll have secured an advantage

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