gordaco

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by gordaco 9y ago
Horchata varies by region. The one I'm familiar with, from Spain, is based on tigernuts. It's a very traditional summer drink and frankly you won't find a different kind of horchata in Spain, unless you search for it in ethni
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by gordaco 9y ago
After I install a program in my PC, the first thing I do is to disable all the sounds... and after I install an app in my phone, the first thing I do is to disable all the notifications.
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by gordaco 9y ago
I have always been a big proponent of these, but I was literally running out of social life because people just plain refused using other means of communication. I didn't have a cell phone until the summer of 2011, and I only bought it
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by gordaco 9y ago
Of course... but for many people, in Project Euler the goal is not just to get a solution, it's to create a beautiful and/or efficient solution. This is why reading the comments and finding other people's solutions after solv
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by gordaco 9y ago
This would have been very useful solving Project Euler's problem 93: https://projecteuler.net/problem=93 .
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by gordaco 9y ago
So much emphasis on millenials not buying things and so little emphasis on millenials being paid fairly so that they can buy things. People are being denied the possibility of having money. Therefore a lot of luxuries (or perceived luxuries
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by gordaco 9y ago
The main externality is driving the price up and shrinking the pool of homes for actual residents who need to rent a place to live. This is already happening in some parts of the world. For example, people from Barcelona are starting to pro
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by gordaco 9y ago
Fiduciary duty, in the sense you are using it, is a myth (most likely created to justify shameful but profitable actions from corporations). A few sources: https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia...
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by gordaco 9y ago
TLDR: lichens are not a symbiosis between a fungus and an alga; they are a symbioses between two fungi and an alga. It's a very nice article that explains how this was discovered. If you like biology, read the article; you'll li
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by gordaco 9y ago
And in Spanish, "Matemáticas". EDIT: also probably in a lot of European languages as well. I wonder to which extent this may be just a result of cultural exchange.
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by gordaco 9y ago
I was in the same position a few months ago, and there was no printed version. My solution: pay for the damn book, use the required Adobe product to be able to unlock it, use a tool to create a DRM-free pdf (IIRC it was Calibre), and finall
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by gordaco 9y ago
That might be true at the start of the project. But to be honest, having worked quite a few years with strong type systems, weak type systems and dynamic type systems, I've found that not having a strong type system is precisely what
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by gordaco 10y ago
I agree completely with you. Framing the harassment as "trolling" has been a propagandistic victory for the harassers. Actual trolling is way less worrying. I don't like it and I certainly wouldn't partake in it, but you
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by gordaco 10y ago
It's funny when you think about it. Many of these guidelines are there to prevent the program from being detected; in other words, it's to give the impression that it's not there. You would think that good software which perf
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by gordaco 10y ago
I once pushed so that I could have a reasonable schedule, and I got fired pretty quickly. They literally told me that I was good at my tasks, but I wasn't putting enough time. As far as I know, their schedules were basically illegal in
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by gordaco 10y ago
Not really. I think most of the jobs are being lost because of the improvements in productivity. We need less people to do the same job, because we have a lot of machines and automation. So, even if there is more work to do (because there a
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by gordaco 10y ago
There is a huge difference between not having passion and not wanting to overspend it. I once believed the usual propaganda about "passion" and "work hard, play hard". But I was so miserable at my job that I actually wan
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by gordaco 10y ago
It's not that they are bad languages, it's that they are the ones that everyone knows, so I don't believe that there are open positions on those languages that nobody wants, unless the money is obscenely low (which it often i
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by gordaco 10y ago
What you describe is sadly very common (and I've seen it happen first hand in a few places, including Tuenti by the way[1]). However, if you look you can find places where it doesn't work that way. I've found that the closest
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by gordaco 10y ago
Another spaniard here, and I can confirm that it absolutely is a problem of not wanting to pay appropriate wages. First, most software companies only offer crappy jobs that don't require specific skills. Most of the job postings are
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by gordaco 10y ago
That's funny, I've had youtube on for all the morning and didn't notice anything. Hooray for one hour long compilation videos (and caches).
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by gordaco 11y ago
So do I! Which is relevant to this article, because sometimes I don't stop at thinking, and try to find out. And I've found that quite a few studies linking alcohol with good health ultimately come from interested sources, while s
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by gordaco 11y ago
A lot of this also applies to big corps, and most of it is not even a problem IMHO. In fact some of those, especially point 15, are reasons why I would want to work in a big, stablished company rather than in a startup. The bit about integr
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by gordaco 12y ago
Anti-depressants didn't ever do anything for me, either. Although I suspect that the only anxiety attack I've ever had could very well have been caused by them. In his awesome book Bad Pharma, Ben Goldacre also hints that the link
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by gordaco 12y ago
I worked on a local social network for a while and it also worked like this, even more blatantly (we had a built-in function that made us see the profile of an user exactly the way they saw it, to check bug reports and such). There were som
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by gordaco 12y ago
There is a huge difference between a code review and the specific search for the cause of a known, defined bug. Should we rephrase Linus' law as "given enough eyeballs, all bugs' causes are shallow"? But maybe that'
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by gordaco 12y ago
I don't think it's a strawman, although I agree that perfect HE don't really exist. It's more like a model, one of the many "spherical cows" in economy (that nevertheless are presented often as undeniable truth
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by gordaco 12y ago
My biggest gripe about the concept of Homo Economicus is the huge ideological component that often gets ignored. The article mentions it, but doesn't focus on it. An ideal HE behaves rationally, yes, but that doesn't tell the whol
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by gordaco 12y ago
To add something: I think that it makes a lot of sense for an infected organisation to ask for confidentiality about something like this; any public communication in the opposite sense would be an immediate signal for the attackers to relea
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by gordaco 12y ago
For something more or less related, check out the calculation of the date of Easter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus . Some versions, like Gauss' algorithm, also relied heavily on moduli.

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