greggyb

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by greggyb 9y ago
Yes, it's much better to prevent any employment opportunity for that person. Situation A: I can choose between no employment (bad), and exploitative employment (slightly less bad). Situation B: With the benevolent intention of a mini
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by greggyb 9y ago
Those monopolies have been explicitly granted by municipalities for decades.
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by greggyb 9y ago
I dunno, sounds almost like competition when you put it that way.
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by greggyb 9y ago
But it's also more easily traceable to you. With a service aggregating these, we see many users from NBox. Perhaps this is not a concern for your use case, but it seems a tradeoff worth considering.
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by greggyb 9y ago
No. Dates are dates. Everyone can agree when a specific day exists. It's all about grouping. Dates have attributes that group them together. "Month" is an attribute that you're familiar with. "Fiscal Period" ca
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by greggyb 9y ago
I never see discussion of fiscal calendars in these sorts of threads and articles. Whenever I read these, all I see is something that would fall apart as soon as approximately half of my clients look at it. We have found that it is more ann
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by greggyb 9y ago
So split your stream: 1. Data matching expectations (you do have a definition of correct, right?) 2. Log for manual review -> manual inserts or correction and placed into queue for (1) Monitor (2). When inserts start trendi
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by greggyb 10y ago
Those who fought against having strong encryption classified as a munition for purposes of export were on the wrong side of the issue. They didn't realize that one day they would need the second amendment to protect their right to such
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by greggyb 10y ago
.13mg of plastic per day per _____? How many bacteria, or what weight or volume of bacteria? .13mg of plastic per day per bacterium would be incredible; per kg of bacteria would be not so amazing.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Propagation of a species.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Private != for-profit. Perhaps you realize this, but it does not seem clear in your post.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Why does the threshold have to be "profound" for word choice and phrasing decisions? There is a non-trivial difference in connotation between the two sentences. In vernacular conversation "wallflower" can be used as a te
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Ask HN: Being a technical reviewer?
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by greggyb 10y ago
My Cousin Vinny. My sister and my brother-in-law are both lawyers. They love this movie. Their professors all love this movie. And from earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13885659
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by greggyb 10y ago
I have a hunch you upgrade at least once every six months or so, often to music (; My point was that your wording made it should much more like a hardware upgrade, which is on a slower cycle for sure. And I think you'd probably good. I
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by greggyb 10y ago
Taking depreciation into account is a red herring unless the car is only used for Uber driving. There is significant utility in owning a car. So much so, in fact, that many people are willing to take on the entire cost of ownership without
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by greggyb 10y ago
> What would really happen is that people who normally get tips would just lose income. Their pay will probably go up, but not enough to cover it. Waitresses make much more than regular unskilled labors. This is very true. My sister and
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by greggyb 10y ago
Using 'computer' is a bit disingenuous there. Upgrading a computer sounds like you're buying a new laptop or replacing hardware to deal with a software protocol change.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Nevermind, I neglected to take into account the length of that pointer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13870098
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by greggyb 10y ago
If computation is instantaneous, then you could recurse down to a single pointer, which points to a pair of pointers, which each point to another pair, and so on until you have an arbitrary amount of your data. Since computation is instanta
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by greggyb 10y ago
I think the experimentation helps identify the piece of code to stare at. Some people are just choosing staring at an earlier point than you are. As with anything, I think you can swing too far. I had one junior developer under me who would
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by greggyb 10y ago
Question I've found myself running into with org-mode. How do you use it to collaborate and share notes with others? I work in a Windows shop (Microsoft data platform partner), and most of my coworkers don't even know what emacs i
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by greggyb 10y ago
The answer to any sales calls that won't stop (I found this out by happenstance): "We're a consultancy selling services for these tools/products." or "We're a competitor, and I registered for your free tri
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by greggyb 10y ago
The VM hosting arena is exactly where cloud providers play. A high core count, energy efficient CPU with IO out the wazoo? I'm happy I bought AMD stock over the summer (:
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by greggyb 10y ago
Or AMD, which supports ECC across all (most?) CPU lines historically. Again, the argument is about limitations of Intel consumer lines.
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by greggyb 10y ago
I really prefer the VSCode approach here of editing the config file in a split window with one pane of all options with their default settings and a description of what they do, and a config file which can override those defaults.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Windows is a legitimate cash cow, but because of server installs. Office makes a lot of money; SQL Server and other datacenter products make much more.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Pythons 4, 5, 6..., N will feasibly exist in the future. Why should Python 2 forever retain the executable name 'python'?
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by greggyb 10y ago
Why our governments are the jerks who steal money from the less intelligent members of our society is beyond me. That there are lotteries in every state is no justification. Lotteries are themselves a scam and should not be protected agains
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by greggyb 10y ago
Please read the parent to my comment, and particularly the last sentence of that. Context is important.

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