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by herdrick 8y ago
I did the very same thing, and asked about it on SO too! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54658932/grep-v-f-of-emp...
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by herdrick 8y ago
> But Japan's real estate boom in the 90s was truly unbelievable You mean the 80s. The 90s saw a real estate price collapse in Japan.
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by herdrick 8y ago
csvkit includes csvsql, which does this. I’ve used it and liked it. https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.3/tutorial/3_power_tool...
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by herdrick 8y ago
What industry is he talking about?
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by herdrick 8y ago
> 3 Surely you can't be saying that public schools are a reason to stay in the Bay Area?
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by herdrick 9y ago
"Keep up" is a really contemptuous thing to say. Could you edit to remove it please?
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by herdrick 9y ago
(2011)
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by herdrick 9y ago
Cool pics are what killed the intellectual quality of Reddit. Let's not upvote this.
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by herdrick 9y ago
Just in case you don't know about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=humanrebar
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by herdrick 9y ago
at 4Million a pop the MQ-1 Predator's are cheap Less than the pilot alone: https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-train-a-fight...
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by herdrick 10y ago
Really great comment, except for the tone of the first sentence. Please be civil.
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by herdrick 10y ago
Agriculture.
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by herdrick 10y ago
The scare quotes are pretty condescending. How about removing them?
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by herdrick 10y ago
San Francisco real estate famously did not crash in in 2001 nor in 2009. Prices remained steady and started increasing rapidly again within a year or two.
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by herdrick 10y ago
dozzie, could you remove the "Uhm, no." from that? It only adds snark to an otherwise good comment.
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by herdrick 10y ago
Cows can graze and put on weight on land that practically nothing other than deer can survive on. Think of the sagebrush semi-arid land of the American Great Basin (ex. northern Nevada, eastern Oregon). Chickens and goats can't.
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by herdrick 10y ago
Yes, I think something like this is the future of programming. It goes even further than what you're suggesting. The codebase will no longer need to be unambiguous, among other things.
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by herdrick 11y ago
Brzezinski was right. Statesmanship is about tradeoffs and prioritiztion. This was a great bargain.
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by herdrick 11y ago
Ha! I used to work in field geophysics too. Same thing - got to know lots of interesting places.
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by herdrick 11y ago
And switching is a pain in the ass. Dropbox looks very strong.
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by herdrick 11y ago
"There is a massive disconnect in late-stage preferred stock, because if you’re using it to synthesize debt it doesn’t matter what the price is." Actually, price is crucial with this weird 'debt' since you're bettin
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by herdrick 11y ago
> Boyd thought that even the F-16 was overweight and over-sized ... compared to what it could have been, and would have been, had he somehow completely gotten his way, sure. It was a disappointment to him, but it's still pretty good
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by herdrick 11y ago
I like my tech and math with history. Knowing where the ideas came from and what previous, wrong ideas they had to beat out is valuable in understanding them. (Plus it reminds you that maybe your new ideas could be the next thing.) But the
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by herdrick 11y ago
This appears to be housing value, not property value. So this is leaving off commercial property, which is probably usually proportionate to housing value, and agriculture land, which isn't.
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by herdrick 11y ago
> I'm 50 alone, scared, and close to being homeless. Would you like to elaborate?
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by herdrick 11y ago
In the first video he adjusted the valves with the valve cover off and the engine running ... did this madman simulate movement of the valves, cam, pistons, etc? To do it at the granularity needed to make that valve adjustment an organicall
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by herdrick 11y ago
Great idea! That was my first programming environment, in fact. Hooked me good!
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by herdrick 12y ago
Sort of OT: is the movie, "The Big Blue" semi-realistic? Or is 'only' beautiful?
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by herdrick 12y ago
I think it compiled to MzScheme first.
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by herdrick 12y ago
Good question, but that's the culture that's she's talking about having created. Although no one else has such good radar, everyone is at least paying attention to these matters.

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