francoisdevlin

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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
I drive electric you insensitive clod!
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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
The article makes the joke in a caption
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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
I think the fine doctors over at penny arcade documented this earlier.... https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
Okay, citations for both sides should sort this out...
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by francoisdevlin 6y ago
I was in architecture for years, and I would help anyone who came to me on one condition. They would need to go back to their desk, and write up a 3 paragraph description of their problem, what they tried, and where they were stuck. It has
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by francoisdevlin 6y ago
A tangent - I love using minio in dev & test for their s3 simulators. Being able to throw away a bucket and start from scratch, and having everything self contained in my docker-compose command is a real blessing. Has anyone ever used m
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by francoisdevlin 7y ago
Classic write up on this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2011/01/the-5-bes...
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by francoisdevlin 7y ago
It sounds like your tastes are an outlier, and didn't present a good ROI
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by francoisdevlin 7y ago
You just made the author's point about respect...
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by francoisdevlin 7y ago
This seems fraught with first amendment issues. Could a lawyer explain how this could pass & hold up in court?
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by francoisdevlin 8y ago
Am I the only one that expected an article about Pixar?
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by francoisdevlin 8y ago
It's a cool toy, and obviously I'll be the manliest developer on my team if I had this... But what does it actually do? If I need that much compute for a problem, doesn't renting the capacity on AWS make 100x more sense? The
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by francoisdevlin 8y ago
It trains the parents
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by francoisdevlin 8y ago
Find harder and harder problems, and keep doing that until the problems are tougher than you. Failing is okay. It'll give you some perspective, and you'll meet some people at least as smart as you on the way. Then wait until you h
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by francoisdevlin 10y ago
sqlite. It's truly magnificent https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
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by francoisdevlin 10y ago
Will there be a man made ravine breaking it into northern & souther halves, though?
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by francoisdevlin 10y ago
What are you concerns? What should engineers in this space be considering?
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by francoisdevlin 10y ago
The fact that the presenter is a beautiful, well dressed woman speaking at a commercial venue certainly helped this get popular. TED is here to make a buck...
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by francoisdevlin 10y ago
Says the emacs user.
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by francoisdevlin 10y ago
Am the only one who is baffled by their explanation of correlation? FTFA: "correlation in educational attainment between a parent and a child is generally around .4 to .6. This basically means that, if my parent has one more year of s
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by francoisdevlin 10y ago
tl;dr?
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by francoisdevlin 11y ago
Until you handle the first level concerns, you don't get to the second...
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by francoisdevlin 11y ago
This list is incomplete. I own some VSTAX (Vanguard, .04%) and FUSEX (Fidelity, .04%) etfs, neither are on this list. I've seen even lower mentioned at Vanguard (The "institution" version of VSTAX, .02%)
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by francoisdevlin 11y ago
Am I the only one that's tired of this bills showing up every 3-6 months? What will it take to stop this type of BS for good... or is that an impossible dream?
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by francoisdevlin 11y ago
Except... 1. No one dies if they don't get See's Candies 2. There are other chocolates out there
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by francoisdevlin 11y ago
Perhaps the people who care too much aren't that smart in this case. See the Napoleon anecdote: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/12/27/dumb-and-gets-thing...
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by francoisdevlin 11y ago
Thus proving the point about market cap...
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by francoisdevlin 11y ago
Is this for real? Can anyone else corroborate this?
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by francoisdevlin 12y ago
I find the sub threads the correct things in a helpful (kind tone, provide citations), however
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by francoisdevlin 12y ago
People don't understand the value of their time, news at 11.

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