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by ganley 16y ago
Hope that didn't come across too critically; I'm just always curious. My commute is about 35 minutes each way, which is about the limit of what I can stand. On a more on-topic note, I've looked hard and found little as far as good tech-lear
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by ganley 16y ago
This is going to seem like both a troll and off-topic - sorry about that - but I've never understood, why do people tolerate a commute like that? Especially a driving commute (as opposed to public transport, where at least you could read or
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Ask HN: Who's going to Maker Faire?
2 points by ganley 16y ago|0 comments
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by ganley 16y ago
Note also that there's a small cost to filing a small-claims case in VA - I believe it's the cost of getting the warrant served. Last I checked, it was in the neighborhood of $80. Sadly, @bonsaitree is probably right: even if you win, this
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by ganley 16y ago
This is the part I've never understood. I can see why they don't want to make it half the price (though this works just fine for discount airlines), but MORE? WTF?
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by ganley 16y ago
This isn't all that uncommon. The same was true of both my wife and of me; we both have Fall birthdays, and started kindergarten before we turned 5. I turned 18 several months into my freshman year of college. FWIW, I don't recommend this,
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by ganley 16y ago
Similarly, since I've been running Chromium without a flash plugin, I've found that I seldom miss it ... except for the occasional video.
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by ganley 16y ago
... and just for the record, as someone pointed out up top, either of your figures are still expensive relative to most metro areas.
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by ganley 16y ago
It's due to zombie apocalypse. Duh.
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by ganley 16y ago
Actual question, not a jab: How long would it take to commute to midtown Manhattan from there?
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by ganley 16y ago
I applied a month ago, never heard anything other than the autoreply confirmation. Just tried again yesterday.
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by ganley 16y ago
Great. One of the few places in the country that's even less affordable than the Bay Area. Startups looking for a home: Take a look at D.C. IMO the talent base is every bit as rich as NYC's, and people can actually afford to live here.
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by ganley 16y ago
I've long lamented how none of these are anywhere near as beautiful as a decent printed map. Some of the OSM projects (e.g. toposm) are better, but still not as good as (say) Rand-McNally or ADC. On my hope-to-do list is to write a renderer
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by ganley 16y ago
Almost exactly 20 years ago, I started my grad-school research on this very topic: auto-parallelizing Haskell. Shortly, though, my advisor left and I had to choose a new advisor and a new research topic. It's been surreal to see Haskell sud
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by ganley 16y ago
I read somewhere (IMDB, probably) that the original Back to the Future script had the car running on Coke. Life imitates art...
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by ganley 17y ago
FWIW, compared to similar seminars I thought the price of Tufte's was very reasonable - IIRC, shy of $400, and includes $160 worth of books. I also thought the class was quite good, BTW.
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by ganley 17y ago
In my experience this is a pretty typical expectation at a startup. Good for these people for being so honest about it.
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by ganley 17y ago
A long while back William Gibson quit blogging, saying (IIRC) that having an easy outlet for his little thoughts was keeping him from incubating them into big thoughts. Perhaps this is something similar. FWIW, Gibson eventually started agai
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by ganley 17y ago
Just wow. I must have been good and/or lucky at choosing where I work and with whom, because in my 15-year career I've never encountered this kind of stupidity. I've certainly never encountered the likes of Baltar.
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by ganley 17y ago
We're hiring Python programmers. Or rather, we're hiring strong programmers, and we use Python. http://www.woti.com/ ... DC area, no telecommuting, must be a clearable US citizen.
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by ganley 17y ago
I try (with high, though not 100%, success) not to touch computers outside of work.
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by ganley 17y ago
I've wondered, ever since I was a kid and remote controls first became prevalent, why TVs and such aren't voice controlled. Of course, I'm not a channel surfer; with a voice system, my wife would talk herself hoarse and still not be able to
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by ganley 17y ago
There's no such thing as 'intuitive.' An intuitive design just means that it fits the user's mental model well, which is just a broader way of saying 'familiar.'
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by ganley 17y ago
A better carrier.
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by ganley 17y ago
It doesn't really sound like this is what you're looking for, but Google has a really nice branch in Sydney. Sadly, immigration issues kept me from joining them, but I think (?) that a New Zealander wouldn't have that problem.
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by ganley 17y ago
Wow, that's gorgeous. Something I'd been thinking of working on was a tool to produce really beautiful printed maps from the OSM data. The existing OSM renderers are screen-oriented and fairly utilitarian, and their output isn't nearly as p
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Ask HN: Elements of hacker cultural literacy
4 points by ganley 17y ago|0 comments
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by ganley 17y ago
13, including the 6 (such as this one) that I just opened from HN.
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by ganley 17y ago
Many people have worked off far larger debts on far smaller salaries, many of them working far more difficult jobs than being a college professor. Not to mention those to whom these kinds of educational opportunities were never even a possi
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by ganley 17y ago
I'm not sure minimizing the score (at least, until you get to 0) is interesting, but anyway, I wrote a simple hill-climbing-with-random-perturbation routine and let it run over and over for the last couple of days. So far my best has a scor

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