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by hguant 11y ago
Oh! I know about this one! So the reason why this doesn't happen the way it should - analysts being completely divorced from the "skin in the game" folks - is because there's a ton of money involved and the buy side peop
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by hguant 11y ago
Nonsense. Absolute rubbish. Being broken is a feature? Changing /usr/local instead of being sane? Leaving old versions of packages lying about instead of cleaning them up? Breaking when the Apple devs wonder if it would be fun to
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by hguant 11y ago
This is somewhat untruthful. If apt fails, it tends to leave detailed error reports, and does its best to leave things in a sane state. However, if you're using apt, you're doing it wrong - aptitude is where it's at. Home bre
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by hguant 11y ago
I recommend System76. Good laptops, clear website, and you know exactly what you're getting with the OS. https://system76.com/laptops
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by hguant 11y ago
Blackberry's collapsing business model.
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by hguant 11y ago
American hookup culture != American dating culture
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by hguant 11y ago
The interesting thing about the yakuza is that, in Japan, they're not actually illegal. The activities they partake in are, but actually being a yakuza member isn't a crime.
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by hguant 11y ago
YMMV, but I've found StackOverflow helps immensely by keeping you out of the weeds and focused on the task at hand. Yes it works best for simple problems - that's the point. I'm not paid to solve simple problems. SO keeps me
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by hguant 11y ago
Hell, even if you provide certain services for free you can be held to certain legal obligations.
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by hguant 11y ago
Always nice to know that certain elements of the human condition are universally true - was just talking the other day about graft, etc in Boston as compared to DC. Now we can include France in the discussion.
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by hguant 11y ago
Got a few years to go before that happens - seems it won't be available in Japan as a luxury product until 2020 at the least.
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by hguant 11y ago
Sounds like an offshoot of Murphy's Law.
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by hguant 11y ago
Not to mention severely limiting freedom of the individual. Look at the Eich's ousting - donate to the wrong party, support an "objectionable" point of view, and you stand to lose everything. Maybe CEO's should expect th
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by hguant 11y ago
You don't fix inequality over there by adding "balancing" inequality over here.
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by hguant 11y ago
An article from the psychedelic frontier talking about a paper published in low impact journal (Impact Factor of slightly more than three) does not seem like an unbiased source. To be fair, I'm hardly an unbiased source, as a good frie
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by hguant 11y ago
I think a large part of this is that cloud hosting has allowed us to abstract those problems - reliability, disaster recovery, geographical distribution - away, and we don't really think of computers as computers anymore. It's a s
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by hguant 11y ago
I would amend that to "commercial grade 3D printers are terrible and awful". There are some monsters out there that can pump out amazing stuff quickly, but they come with a hefty price tag. And some use lasers, so that's supe
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by hguant 11y ago
> Something to be said for Usonian Yeah, that it's an ugly, ungainly bastardizaton of language. American as referring to someone from the US has been correct English usage since before the United States was a nation state.
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by hguant 11y ago
Law - what is put together by Congress and signed by the President. This can involve tasking Federal agencies to do a specific task, referred to as a mandate. Regulation - How the Agency turns its mandate, which is often broadly stated and
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by hguant 11y ago
I think a core problem that the author identifies is that it's very easy to find markers of programming ability, and those are the things we've optimized for, while its much more difficult and time consuming to determine if some o
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by hguant 11y ago
If I'm doing something with threading I sketch out a framework for how things should work before writing any code. Just pseudo-code though.
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by hguant 11y ago
To be fair, dreams change. Sounds like the author's initial "oh shit I get to work on <big title>" morphed into "I want ownership of my work." They could also have meant game design/architecture was the d
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by hguant 11y ago
I think this is an instance where the truth is somewhere in the muddle. I'm sure there are engineers who care very much about securing cellular devices and making the attack surface as small as possible, probably working for Apple, Goo
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by hguant 11y ago
I experienced this in my Bot Scout troop of all places - people, kids especially, need room to fail. Having a structured environment, having every day planned out with something new and enriching is great and all - but it doesn't give
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by hguant 11y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I need to get in the habit of either using "they", or being more strict about checking before I use pronouns.
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by hguant 11y ago
She uses the VA as an example of an approachable "underclass" problem...but in order to work with the government, you have to be on their procurement cycle, which is (perhaps by design) anathema to all but the large contractors wh
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by hguant 11y ago
I think the existence of the Gates Foudation and the success it has had is sufficient rubutal of your argument.
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by hguant 11y ago
The paper is excellent and genius, the article is pure NYT political fluff.
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by hguant 11y ago
I nearly failed out of high school and college because I spent my time on things I found more interesting that classes - computers and journalism for the most part. The skills I learned outside of my studies have been more useful by far tha
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by hguant 11y ago
The polio virus comes to mind.

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