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by gnosis 15y ago
"it feels as though the battle has been 'won' now. Everybody uses Linux and open source; it is accepted in industry alongside commercial software" Linux is definitely a mainstream OS on the server side. It still has a long way to go to m
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by gnosis 15y ago
There's also this guy, who painted every day for nine years, and went from a completely unskilled beginner to a master artist: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3031684
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by gnosis 15y ago
Seinfeld is also simply not funny. Not on his show, not ever. So it's not surprising his movie was also total shit.
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by gnosis 15y ago
Gah! You have to log in to use it. Worse, it the login has to be Facebook, Yahoo, or OpenID. No fucking way am I going to sign up for any of that shit, or let them track me as I visit sites I'm interested in. No thanks!
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by gnosis 15y ago
The movie Blade Runner was based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep , written by Philip K Dick in 1968. The movie The Terminator was at probably partially inspired by the short story Second Variety , written by Philip K D
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What is randomness? Nobody knows..(johndcook.com)
38 points by gnosis 15y ago|38 comments
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by gnosis 15y ago
It's a real pity most (all?) services like this require the user to tell the service what their interests are. This kind of relationship, where the user trades information about him- or herself for service is sadly all too common on today's
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by gnosis 15y ago
Sensible people get paid for playing. That is The Art of Life. -- Alan Watts
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by gnosis 15y ago
Why can't the mess be cleaned up the next day? And, honestly, just how often does do people in your team drop the ball right before leaving for the day? Every day? Every other day? Every week even? If someone's dropping the ball so frequ
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by gnosis 15y ago
"You need a communion of individuals to create a semi-fraternal organization that looks like a union on the outside but inside is a diverse collective of brilliant minds." It's very sad that decades of right-wing propaganda has made "unio
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by gnosis 15y ago
"Do something you love is referring to creative passions. Find something creative you love to do and make it your profession." There's nothing like being forced to do something for a living to turn what you love in to a chore. I used to l
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by gnosis 15y ago
"It's just 8 hours a day. 5 days a week. Roughly 25% of your life." That's only if you're lucky. At least in America, 10 or more hours a day is quite common. In the tech field, some weekend work is also not unheard of. In some companie
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Why both chroot and SELinux?(blog.siphos.be)
2 points by gnosis 15y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 15y ago
I've read that the average pay raise from the company you're already working for is about 10%. While the average increase in salary when you start a new job is about 20%. I think the differences are usually even more dramatic near the begin
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by gnosis 15y ago
"The authorities will simply obtain details from credit card companies and other financial institutions to get lists of all of Calyx's customers." Not if they accept bitcoin, or some other anonymous currency.
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Programming with serial ports in linux(invalidmagic.wordpress.com)
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by gnosis 15y ago
While this article does a nice job of pointing out various advantage of tmux over screen, screen is not without its own advantages over tmux. For example, screen has zmodem and lua scripting built-in. Screen can ask for a password when som
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by gnosis 15y ago
"but there’s no real difference between advertising for a Ninja and throwing half your resumés away because you don’t like unlucky people" This assumes getting hired by you was a lucky event in their life. In fact, it could very well be
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by gnosis 15y ago
Is attaining "maturity" what life is all about? Is the life of a "mature" individual necessarily more worth, fulfilling, happy, or "successful" than that of an "immature" individual?
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by gnosis 15y ago
"Here's a shorter answer to "how to get rich" - be a successful entrepreneur." Even shorter answer: win the lottery. Don't know which is more likely.
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by gnosis 15y ago
"everything I've heard indicates a single owner LLC is rarely enough protection in court" What about a single-owner C-corp?
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If Python Had Lambdas...(symbo1ics.com)
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by gnosis 15y ago
Sure. It all comes down to having a job you don't want to do, for one reason or another, but are nevertheless doing. The more you don't want to do that job, the less you want to be there, and the longer you stay anyway, the more burnt out
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by gnosis 15y ago
"Specifics aside, knowing that Google is far superior in their results makes it real difficult to use another search engine" Except that Google is far from delivering superior results. In fact, many of their results are full of spam link
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by gnosis 15y ago
It's about more than just feeling appreciated and feeling like you've done a good job. I had both, and yet I still burnt out. What was lacking was fulfillment -- the sense that the work you do is meaningful for you. Ideally, your job should
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by gnosis 15y ago
If you call being sick of meetings and having to come in at specific times "burnout", you have a very mild case of it. Burnout started for me when I noticed that my interests weren't aligned with my company's interests.. or with any compa
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by gnosis 15y ago
You don't have to sob to be burnt out. You just have to be sick of it all.. and not care. It really doesn't matter how good the company is, or how well they treat you. When you're burnt out you just don't want to deal with any of it anymor
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by gnosis 15y ago
The (La)TeX ecosystem is still evolving. For instance, see: LuaTeX - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuaTeX ConTeXt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt LaTeX3 - http://www.latex-project.org/latex3.html
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by gnosis 15y ago
The lack of microtype support in XeTeX is a deal breaker. That's the main reason why I continue to use pdflatex.
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Cuckoo Hashing for Undergraduates [pdf](it-c.dk)
1 points by gnosis 15y ago|0 comments

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