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Sabotaged by Polish orthography(blog.plover.com)
123 points by gbacon 9y ago|132 comments
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by gbacon 9y ago
Risk tolerance is funny in that it’s not always uniform. The region where I live is heavy in the defense industry. There are lots and lots of veterans here. Federal Acquisition Regulations give preference to veteran-owned small businesses a
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by gbacon 9y ago
The proponents are the ones who will not mind their own business. Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Strawmen!
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by gbacon 9y ago
This was the insight behind the founding of GEICO, originally the Government Employees Insurance Company. The Goodwins recognized that government employees are more risk averse than the average bear. By writing policies to civil servants on
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by gbacon 9y ago
You can’t change just one thing. VA For Everyone will increase arguments of “Well I’m on the hook for your healthcare, so I should have a say in whether or not you …”
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by gbacon 9y ago
I am an employer. Sharpen your pencil and work it out from the other side. You’d probably be a generous boss. See what you can do. There lies enlightenment.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Is this the only place in town that needs rocks toted?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Do you assume that the person will be in the $2 job forever? Social Security is a transfer from current workers to retirees. Does that meet your definition of public assistance?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Why is this post flagged?
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by gbacon 9y ago
> Ads will continue to appear inside the free version of Gmail, as promoted messages. But instead of scanning a user’s email, the ads will now be targeted with other personal information Google already pulls from sources such as search
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by gbacon 9y ago
On June 28, 2009, the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party at the University of Cambridge, complete with balloons, hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne. Everyone was invited but no one showed up. Hawking had expected as m
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by gbacon 9y ago
The author draws an interesting analogy to the way C tutorials tend to delay discussion of pointers, which he deems a mistake. > Push conflicts in Git, like pointers in C, are not minor or peripheral; they are an intrinsic and central is
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Prepare new Git users right away to deal with push conflicts(blog.plover.com)
2 points by gbacon 9y ago|1 comments
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by gbacon 9y ago
Unfair [not to mentioned tired, boring, unimaginative, and overused] stereotypes are awesome! https://perldoc.perl.org/perlstyle.html > Just because you CAN do something a particular way doesn’t mean that you SHOULD do i
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by gbacon 10y ago
The events aren’t independent: in the scenario, the fuzz started with the employer who directly or indirectly suggested talking to the employee.
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by gbacon 10y ago
The simple solution of making cancellation history public would seem to go a long way, but there may be privacy implications.
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by gbacon 10y ago
But the siren song of the from-scratch rewrite is so difficult to resist.
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by gbacon 10y ago
You’re thinking of Maybe[1]: data Maybe a = Just a | Nothing deriving (Eq, Ord) Yes, it is a monad[2]. return :: a -> Maybe a return x = Just x (>>=) :: Maybe a -> (a -> Maybe b) -> Maybe b (>&
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by gbacon 10y ago
A nice tip from Scott Chacon by way of Conrad Parker[0] is to create `git lol` and `git lola` aliases to display a color-coded view of history layout in the console. Summary: add the following to your `~/.gitconfig`. [alias]
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by gbacon 10y ago
Pick a state whose laws, people, and culture you view as being backward, ignorant, or otherwise undesirable. Let’s oversimplify and call it a bad state. The bad state also has some influence over the federal government, exercise of its powe
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by gbacon 10y ago
Sounds like she may have cosigned on the debt. The reason lenders ask for cosigners is because the would-be debtor is a poor credit risk. They want someone to go after in the likely event that the person stops servicing the debt. Never, nev
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by gbacon 10y ago
Nearly everywhere else in the world, slavery ended peacefully. A deeper understanding would have stopped the sad loss of more than 600 thousand lives, nearly half the death toll of all U.S. conflicts.
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by gbacon 11y ago
The home on the web for eXtensible Flight System (XFS) is http://www.xfs.aero/ A big concern being worked now is how to build a community around XFS. Mark believes license terms are make-or-break for this. See “Licensing Di
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Mark Spencer pulled off Asterisk; now sets sights on avionics hardware/software(youtube.com)
1 points by gbacon 11y ago|1 comments