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by hackula1 13y ago
Agreed.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Zip codes make my life hell on a daily basis. The problem is essentially that the USPS does not design topological zipcode polygons. All they do is maintain a set of centroids, plus an assignment to a set of lines representing street segmen
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by hackula1 13y ago
Spolsky did write for years about how he only hired devs who (very rough paraphrasing from memory): - were geniuses - top of class - CS only - Ivy League - could recall the ins and outs of pointer arithmetic - Solve binary-recursive-whatcha
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by hackula1 13y ago
Submitting an issue is often much more appreciated as a project maintainer than a big code dump pull request.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Would you pay differently for a lottery ticket that had a payout of 1MM if you had the chances of A) 1/2 B) 1/5 C) 1/50 D) 1/5000? The potential payout is unchanged, but the value of the ticket changes as it gets more li
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by hackula1 13y ago
I would imagine that paying back their loans will be worth quite a bit in PR.
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by hackula1 13y ago
I hate to be the "revenues-dont-matter" guy, but stock prices could be based on the fact that they demonstrated that they are 4.6x more likely to succeed based on their performance this year. If stocks only followed revenues, trad
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by hackula1 13y ago
When the message is basically "the government is collecting your emails" I am skeptical that the public would get that much more mad at a technical distinction like this. If there has not been an actionable backlash yet, what real
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by hackula1 13y ago
This seems like a bit of a puritanical viewpoint. Taking a nap for an hour can be more productive than raking leaves, if rest is what you need most.
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by hackula1 13y ago
> I'm not sure if this was the intention of your comment Definitely not my intention, although I did not specify. An expectation of anything over a 40 hr/wk average is completely unreasonable IMHO. I only meant to say that some
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by hackula1 13y ago
None of those would bankrupt me, without everybody getting bankrupt. An emergency fund and a modest lifestyle + a decent tech income = lots of security. I also avoid "straight tech" jobs, where there is no strong vertical experien
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by hackula1 13y ago
Da Vinci most certainly worked 80 hour weeks, and I am sure he loved every minute of it. Why? Because he got paid to think up cool shit day in and day out. I have worked jobs that were so mind numbingly boring that I could barely muster 30
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by hackula1 13y ago
90% of people do not want better quality internet? I think even in our technophobic culture, people want to be able to watch videos of cats with greater speed and reliability.
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by hackula1 13y ago
I find this similar to the endless push to buy gold from people who are supposed to be the exemplars of common sense economics.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Also, we will lie about what we are actually doing. I can understand taking some drastic measures to prevent epic disaster, however, I see no good reason to cover up what is actually going on; threats and countermeasures. By lying, they are
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by hackula1 13y ago
Cost is relative to the maturity of the business. They may not have had the funds or time to do things the right way the first time, and if they had tried, they might not have ever made it into near-unlimited-budget-land.
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by hackula1 13y ago
His options are certainly more limited now (considering most employers could not keep him safe). That being said, I imagine his existing options would be readily available and would all pay millions.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Agreed. Skills would be irrelevant. A brain dump alone would be worth hundreds of millions. That is the scariest thing about all of this. Every time I hear someone bash on Snowden about how he was a dropout, etc, etc I just think "ok,
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by hackula1 13y ago
"... it's worse than that. They used git. They can git your kids, git your job, git your family; all with one command. They can even clone you. These hackers will be pulling and pushing this country apart!"
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by hackula1 13y ago
RMail (short for ReaganMail). The optics of hacking it would be similar to burning a pile of bibles in the Reagan Library.
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by hackula1 13y ago
While this another angle, I was referring to the fact that many people will see these engineers as immoral and spineless. I know that I would not hire the person who drew that smiley face or any of their accomplices.
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by hackula1 13y ago
I imagine anyone with a line on their resume that says "NSA - Software Developer - 2009:Present" is going to have a hard time finding a new job at many companies (although certainly not all).
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by hackula1 13y ago
To say that the right want equal opportunity is dead wrong. Anyone who wants to do away with estate tax clearly has no care for equal opportunity. As I have said before, I would be a libertarian 100% if we could have a 100% estate tax and d
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by hackula1 13y ago
I write open source libraries primarily. A nicely formatted readme on github tends to be best, since most people will be there anyway. Fancy websites tend to drive me crazy for code libraries, since they tend to distract people from the thi
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by hackula1 13y ago
Not exactly trivial, but text can be extracted from a pdf.
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by hackula1 13y ago
It isn't, which explains wikipedia.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Before too long you'll hit some pretty terrible times in American democracy. McCarthyism, internment camps, slavery, trail of tears, witch burnings, and on and on all the way back to the beginning.
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by hackula1 13y ago
> Please don't put words in my mouth Putting words in your mouth is typically claiming you said X. I am suggesting that you instead, SHOULD have said Y. > I don't know why you think that a medical term is a "pseudo-scie
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by hackula1 13y ago
I use adblock, but I try to disable it on sites that A) have solid content that keeps me coming back. B) Do not have ads that open new windows or popups when I do disable adblock. I actually appreciate ads when they particularly useful and
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by hackula1 13y ago
I tried the patch before using e-cigs to quit. The patch stopped the cravings for me even better than the e-cigs, but gave me horrifying dreams every night, and I would wake up every morning thinking for the first few minutes that they had

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