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901.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Well, now that it's vegan... (Though that goes to the age-old question of whether human is vegan or not :) )
902.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Hopefully this isn't followed by yet another "hey, six+ more weeks for your order placed in June" email like the last couple of announcements were. It all sounds wonderful, but I'd like the chance to actually try it.
903.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Network and get more connected friends? I don't mean to be flip, but job hunting/career building is one of the cases where the company you keep is paramount.
904.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Re: the original convo, they're stuck on the fact that arithmetic mean isn't terribly valid on a skewed distribution (and response/completion distributions are generally positive-skewed because of the firm/hard lower bou
905.
by geoelectric 12y ago
This was my take as well. As many good points as there are in the article (and there are many), the whole thing is "No True Scotsman" itself. Any attempt to fuse aspects of other languages or paradigms with OOP in order to mitigat
906.
by geoelectric 12y ago
As a software automation engineer, I've made this argument in the past with regards to UI/systems test code bases. Heavy modularization makes a ton of sense with utility code made to create and tear down fixtures, as well as with
907.
by geoelectric 12y ago
I have no insight on internal culture, but Apple does have formal QA teams. I'd be surprised if they weren't testing. People underestimate how hard it can be to catch problems that only manifest on a particular network setup, etc.
908.
by geoelectric 12y ago
One of the articles I read said it could be configured. Hopefully you can just turn it off.
909.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Sounds like my upgrade path. I went launch Kindle (for $400!) to Kindle 3 (before it was renamed to Kindle Keyboard) and then to the Paperwhite. For me, the reasons went: "new," "screen contrast + first-party lighted case,&qu
910.
by geoelectric 12y ago
I don't think this is known, but I'll be surprised if it has more capability in that regard than the PW. I can't see the PW light at minimum in a room with any lighting, though, and can't read the PW without lighting.
911.
by geoelectric 12y ago
I have a Paperwhite. It's not that bad--still less effort than turning a real page, and the screen doesn't show fingerprints much. Still, this will be better.
912.
by geoelectric 12y ago
...which is a really big deal, in a rent control area like SF or NY where breaking lease terms is one of the few ways to get forced out of your current per-month rent.
913.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Though obviously it's not the reason it was adopted, it is kind of neat that using a dead language for scientific terms disambiguates them cleanly for the purposes of searching. Any live language would have accidental matches (even quo
914.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Unless you fly or are muting HVAC or server room sounds, I haven't found that noise-cancelling headphones are superior to isolating (close-backed circumaurals or in-ear monitors). NC doesn't work well for voices, and the extra exp
915.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Yes, the ear pads are a big improvement on the V6s/7506s for sure.
916.
by geoelectric 12y ago
While well-written, his conclusions on a number of headphones (particularly the extreme love for the AKG K551s) seem a little idiosyncratic. It's worth cross-referencing any of his suggestions with head-fi or other review sources.
917.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Halperin's The First Immortal is damned near a written infomercial for Alcor, but is still a pretty interesting book in its own right in terms of exploring various cryonics scenarios. Edit: looks like it's available freely online:
918.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Shamelessly bikeshedding, since I can't use the app until you have an OS X version, but would be nice if it could query my router via SNMP to get whole-network usage. That's what I currently do via NetUse, but this looks quite a b
919.
by geoelectric 12y ago
CA's at-will is a little more complex than that, due to the implied good faith covenant. One (not primary, but fairly clear) source: http://www.cslaw.com/our-practice/san-francisco/employment-c... Googling &q
920.
by geoelectric 12y ago
As far as culture goes, I'd like to see mass archiving. I'm unclear whether what the Library of Congress does suffices, at least for the US, but a copy of everything should exist somewhere . As far as personal access goes, I hear
921.
by geoelectric 12y ago
I'll answer since they didn't. Kindle Select is direct publishing only, so they don't have another publisher. They get paid based on number of their reads (that's anyone who reads >10% of their book) as a proportion o
922.
by geoelectric 12y ago
$400 or so was about one month's budget for me for media, though that included games and my $100/mo cable bill. I'm way ahead with KU (was using Oyster), Netflix/Hulu, and Rdio. If someone comes out with a decent all-you
923.
by geoelectric 12y ago
Where did you see that? The KLL page is still up and accepting Prime memberships, and the Kindle Select (author program behind KU and KLL) terms are clear that authors can opt their books into or out of either or both. Edit: I do notice tha
924.
by geoelectric 12y ago
You're overlooking the followup where they restored access the next day, with a clarification that account closure isn't supposed to cut off access to your already-purchased content. http://www.dailydot.com/news&#x
925.
by geoelectric 14y ago
Oops, so they are! So yeah, at-will all the way then.
926.
by geoelectric 14y ago
Well, no, we say server, because server is gender-neutral. Compare steward/stewardess with flight attendant. And some servers will get mighty angry if you call them a waitress. I don't necessarily think that response is justified when no of
927.
by geoelectric 14y ago
California is at-will, but with a good-faith rider. Arbitrarily or maliciously firing someone would probably be grounds for a dispute. I don't think that dispute would be successful in this case, where some demonstrably poor judgment with p