grmarcil

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by grmarcil 12y ago
A log scale plot shows fluctuations of equal percentage with equal visual size, so it is particularly useful in the case of bitcoin, where you may be interested in comparing price swings at $100 levels and $1 levels. Eg. A log scale plot sh
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Agreed, even though the url indicates that it is an "about" page, it is somewhat difficult to understand that from the page itself. Especially given that there is no traditional navigation to speak of.
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by grmarcil 12y ago
I just compared Inconsolata and Consolas side by side and couldn't believe how similar they actually are. Whenever I just swap between the two, it's hard to compare, since Consolas seems to run about a point bigger looking than In
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Nothing like pricing your product in a global variable... <script>POSTCARD_PRICE = 149</script>
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Couldn't help but smile at this. This is kind of the quant finance equivalent of pointing out that the Navy SEALs are taking applications.
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Markdown-ified version: http://www.notehub.org/kywfm Editing password is hackernews if anyone wants to tune up the markdown.
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by grmarcil 12y ago
On http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html , from the console var jq = document.createElement('script'); jq.src = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/j
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by grmarcil 12y ago
If you don't have a credit card in your name yet, get one. Since you are still a student, you're probably eligible for a student credit card, which most of the major card issuers offer and (I think) is generally easier to get with
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Handing over social media and web browsing history for KTN... sarcasm? If not, I'm curious to see a source - never heard anything about that sort of screening and a quick google didn't pull anything either.
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by grmarcil 12y ago
The article's comparison of work vs college vacation/attendance policies is flawed from the start. The overlooked difference is that in college, you are paying the school. Of course they don't care if you come to class. The f
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by grmarcil 12y ago
To fill in your ellipsis: "However, while there may have been no legal wrongdoing, the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment. In light of these findings, Tom has submitted his resignation, which the company
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by grmarcil 12y ago
It seems you could become a member for 35 Swiss Francs (~40 USD) per year. http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/en/association/membership.ht...
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by grmarcil 12y ago
I complained to them a while ago about the fact that they limit passwords to 8 characters. Must have been two years ago and I got a very generic "sorry, we know this could be better and our engineers are working on it. In the mean time
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Are you suggesting that putting content behind a registration wall is somehow unethical?
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Fair point, but don't feel too bad for him: http://www.forbes.com/profile/jerry-yang/
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by grmarcil 13y ago
Is it impossible for an issue to be both political and human rights related? Did the political nature of the civil rights movement of the 1960s somehow make it less of a human rights issue?
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by grmarcil 13y ago
I think it is far from apparent that these agreements suppressed developer salaries at these companies, much less across the industry as a whole. We're talking about recruiting agreements, not direct compensation collusion. I agree tha
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by grmarcil 13y ago
In general, at the associate level, no. Partner level positions have varying compensation agreements, so hard to generalize there, but associates generally receive most of their compensation in salary. This is as opposed to finance, where e
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by grmarcil 13y ago
To the contrary, check out all the non-Fluke multimeters with gray bodies and yellow surrounds: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=yellow+multimeter
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by grmarcil 13y ago
Also, can you expand on what you are digging at with your "kinda ad hominem-y" line? The technology arm of Obama's campaign was generally viewed in a very positive light, as far as I remember. And not the same thing as the br
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by grmarcil 13y ago
I think your read on this is a little strong. The point is that a power structure is going to emerge in an organization eventually, and a formal, out-in-the open power structure is less likely to be abused than the sort of off-the-record de
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by grmarcil 13y ago
Yep. My team follows a similar workflow with Github - every feature, bugfix, etc is developed on a branch off of master, then merged back into master via pull request when it is ready for deploying. It's a nice workflow, changes are ve
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by grmarcil 13y ago
Where exactly are developers reporting six-figure signing bonuses? Google, Amazon, FB, etc I assume? Also, making $150k with a $150k signing bonus is not anywhere close to 'making $300k'. What do you earn in year 2? $150k (plus wh
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by grmarcil 13y ago
One of the classic effects of LSD (happens to many but by no means all users) is a sensation of ego death - ie, your sense of identity and who you are in the world is either eliminated or greatly changed. This, as you might imagine, is an e
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by grmarcil 13y ago
Very low cost automatic transmissions are terrible - the gap between gear shifts goes on for ages. The Vauxhall Corsa is an example of this; for the American market check out a Smart Car. Is this really a good argument against automatics th
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by grmarcil 13y ago
I'm a die-hard manual fan, so you have my sympathy here. That said, I think current automatic technology is at the point where it can handle your go-to example with no problem. Yes the responsiveness of your base-level Toyota/Hond
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by grmarcil 13y ago
Where in the world does that apply? NYC has some of the most tenant-friendly rent control laws I know of, and most rent-controlled units are fairly close to market rate, and the legends you hear about exist but are so rare they might as wel
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by grmarcil 13y ago
I agree in part, but I think you're overlooking a big tradeoff here. Printing with plastic filaments gives you a fairly weak piece, but leaves open the door for a lot of post-printing finishes (surface smoothing, using the piece as a p
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by grmarcil 13y ago
Yeah, man pages could go a long way in terms of providing some common use examples and more legible syntax to help out inexperienced users. I like what "bro" pages are doing here in that regard, but the name is unfortunate enough
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by grmarcil 13y ago
Imagine you're the CEO of a business that is bleeding cash left, right, and center, and someone comes to you with a plan that will reduce your revenue 20% while reducing your costs 50%. You don't think you'd consider that pla

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