georgn

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by georgn 4y ago
No disagreement with your post in particular. Just pointing out that the C-suite is also a kind of centralized power. Unsure why these kinds of stories always devolve into some kind of ism-vs-ism in the comment section because it almost alw
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by georgn 6y ago
Yes. As a long time Emacs user I do that routinely on _every_ machine I use. For those that don't know, there are a handful of control key sequences that perform basic cursor movements that are the same in Emacs, bash, zsh, and every t
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by georgn 6y ago
Lol, you don't need a mega gravity well to achieve spaghettification.
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by georgn 7y ago
Perhaps you want nothing to do with a recruiter that cannot see the value here.
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by georgn 8y ago
By all means, read up on bass traps... but be aware that posts about bass traps imply a fundamental misunderstanding of what they do (perhaps I'm misreading). The problem: a speaker in a room produces sound, that sound is reflects by t
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by georgn 8y ago
Not unique. One could convincingly argue that this effect exists in many fields. Art (ie art history major vs artist). Music (ie violin player vs film score composer). Restaurant reviewing (ie critic vs chef). I'm sure there are many m
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by georgn 8y ago
Related from a few years back: https://medium.com/cuepoint/how-to-make-streaming-royalties-...
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by georgn 8y ago
As someone who used to work on BitKeeper, I'm tickled to see a more popular SCM's test suite as a kind of de facto filesystem benchmark -- confirming what we had been observing ourselves forever.