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by gertef 12y ago
The BOFH sabotaged his systems before departing? Didn't build a backup plan? And they hired him back?
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by gertef 12y ago
"salary" != "total compensation"
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by gertef 12y ago
TfA is pretty much a gimmick to pad resumes of business/law school applicants. Schools do not enjoy the TfA newbie teachers coming in, acting like they are saving the shool, and then disappearing after a couple of years. TfA it serves
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by gertef 13y ago
North and South are in the same dimension.
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by gertef 13y ago
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 "Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong" It's not nice to shine the spotlight on someone to subject them to ridicule. This paper should be reviewe
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by gertef 13y ago
Interesting. The "Extended Goldberg polyhedra" paper doesn't make explicit whether they are talking about planar ("proper") polyhedra, but maybe they are...? Is the "Extended Goldberg polyhedra" prior pu
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by gertef 13y ago
This is the very model of a modern formal reference The rule should be respected but with only its due deference The use for truth or 'verity' is evident and venerable We very much avoid the use of very much in general.
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by gertef 13y ago
s/very/insanely/ Other acceptable alternatives: s/very/fantastically/ s/very/heart-breakingly/ s/very/awesomely/ s/very/literally/
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by gertef 13y ago
1. On my computer, the pointer arrow is asymmetric, and the left side of the arrow-head is vertical. 2. Forget pre-computers... If you draw an imaginary line from my mouse/hand to the cursor, it is approximately parallel/overlap
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by gertef 13y ago
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them-the-code (from Everybody loves Eric Raymond)
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by gertef 13y ago
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/quotes?item=qt0365374 Archie Gates: You're scared, right? Conrad Vig: Maybe. Archie Gates: The way it works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless o
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by gertef 13y ago
OK but the photograph was taken from another plane, which had no other reason to be in the air.
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by gertef 13y ago
No, it's not. You are describing BIRGing, or somethings. #12 refers to supporting the team, including making noise in the stadium to affect the outcome of plays.
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by gertef 13y ago
USNWR gives points for constructing new buildings, so universities construct new buildings instead of teaching students.
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by gertef 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7136797 (0 comments)
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by gertef 13y ago
Any realtor who knows a good investment becomes an investor, not a realtor.
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by gertef 13y ago
This is a nice example of what's wrong with elitism in higher-education, mis-applying metrics to "rank" students.
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by gertef 13y ago
> At UCSF, he's generally considered a bit of a quack You have also stated that every epidemiology researcher is a quack, save ~5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7002375
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by gertef 13y ago
What is your assessment of the reputability of those journals where Lustig has published?
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by gertef 13y ago
Hint: The world makes more sense when you stop trying to force it into a "left vs right" model.
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by gertef 13y ago
In true "lean marketing" style, then generate bodies for headlines that get clicks.
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by gertef 13y ago
Upworthy seems to have started a noxious trend -- it's supposedly a successful marketing technique, and has hence been copied. The headline style itself has a bit of a longer history, but Upworthy was the first to combine it with aggre
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by gertef 13y ago
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/State_Monad
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by gertef 13y ago
Project Lombok for Go would be relative easy, and so nice.
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by gertef 13y ago
Checked exceptions are harder to ignore :-) result, _ = someFunc()
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by gertef 13y ago
I'm sort of hoping someone forks Go to provide at least a few single-depth generics like Optional/Maybe, to match Map and Slice.
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by gertef 13y ago
"type" is a magic word in Go, and in that example. It's highly idiomatic -- it's inconsistent with the rest of the language (Using "type" instead of an actual type), but it makes sense once you memorize the idi
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by gertef 13y ago
This is one of the bizarre comforts I feel when I acknowledge that I will never be a math super-genius... the fact that there is a high correlation between math super-genius and "overflowing" to insanity. Godel, Nash...
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by gertef 13y ago
Sorry, you're right. HTML is text .
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by gertef 13y ago
So, opt-in is the "default opt-in" for MailChimp users...

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