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by howeyc 12y ago
You're special. Just like the rest of us. The 1% club can't be inclusive, that's just how it works.
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by howeyc 12y ago
That has not been the case everywhere I have worked. Also not anywhere I have been as an outside contractor. Perhaps it's the industry. Anyway, all I've seen is a bunch of "Cover Your Ass" and reluctance to make decision
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by howeyc 12y ago
Right, this is what I was missing in my thought process. Thanks.
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by howeyc 12y ago
Yes, but to be a new implementation shouldn't I be able to install it without already needing Common Lisp? For instance, I can install SBCL without already having another Common Lisp implementation right?
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by howeyc 12y ago
I don't understand. This looks like an implementation of lisp functions on top of an already existing Common Lisp implementation.
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by howeyc 12y ago
Do 9-5 jobs with paid lunch exist? Everything I've seen is either 8-5 or 9-6 or some variation of that. Heck, where I am now is 9 hour days plus they encourage you to take lunch, 7-5. Half-day Friday though.
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by howeyc 12y ago
As a Canadian working in the US, I have a pipe dream. All Burger Kings turn in to Tim Horton's. Would be awesome.
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by howeyc 12y ago
Why FreeBSD - 18:30 Why no ZFS - 21:30
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by howeyc 12y ago
Actually it turns out they don't really have a need for most of the features of ZFS. So they don't use it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4
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by howeyc 12y ago
please forgive my ignorance, but aren't you basically describing a "mark and sweep"[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_sweep#Moving_vs._non-...
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by howeyc 12y ago
> In terms of investing (buying Tesla stock), is Tesla's probable-seeming big success with their next two cars already built in to the price? Definitely. > In other words, how overvalued is Tesla stock? For those following Discou
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by howeyc 12y ago
I admit I just skimmed the article, but I don't see a requirement that the project you choose to talk about be a solo effort. I think the point of the question is to find people who are passionate about their profession (in this case p
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by howeyc 12y ago
I've been poking around the site and there was a mention of running in the browser. I have been unable to find any examples. Does anyone see any? I'm thinking of something modifying form text boxes or something simple like that.
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by howeyc 12y ago
Maybe I don't understand, but why even have messages retained on the server at all? Couldn't the local app keep them stored on the phone? Also, does anyone know if they're encrypted at all. In this day and age isn't that
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by howeyc 12y ago
This was something I really loved during my time in Common Lisp. This was a gem that I was hoping would make it into Clojure, but I think around version 1.3 they decided to abandon the idea and add a library to "make anything throwable
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by howeyc 12y ago
Right, they are using "their power to influence the development of the open web" by supporting DRM. What's the point in having this power if you immediately cave?
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by howeyc 13y ago
Person rents out apartment to an individual who ended up lying to him. Is furious at AirBNB service for some reason. Does this logic work with other middleman services as well? Some examples: * Buy high priced item from (high ranked, but do
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by howeyc 13y ago
Who decides what is "anything of note" or who is considered "highly influential"
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by howeyc 13y ago
"Mr. Babage if I were to feed wrong inputs to that calculation machine will it still produce correct outputs?"
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by howeyc 13y ago
> We can only evaluate the price based on the business they have, not imaginary alternate revenue streams. I would really like to agree, but given recent valuations that doesn't seem to be the case does it?
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by howeyc 13y ago
That was a lot of rambling and tangents that don't relate to what I assume was the central point: If we keep automating and laying off people, eventually there wont be enough people with money (jobs to get money) in order to purchase g
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by howeyc 13y ago
This answers my question, thank you. I had never thought of the company itself creating more shares, this is what I was missing in my thought process.
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by howeyc 13y ago
Probably off-topic, but something I've never understood reading these things: How does this funding actually work? From what little I know (the stock market) you'd sell an equity stake in your company for a certain amount and you
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by howeyc 13y ago
Yes. The growth of cloud (storing all your important shit on hard drives owned and operated by someone else) has been increasing these past few years. I thought the world had gone batshit insane even before the NSA leaks, but it appears I w
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by howeyc 13y ago
I don't understand, does everyone in the organization have full commit privileges to all repositories?
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by howeyc 13y ago
I think the real story here is the European sense of community. Let's face it, this project is not really a necessity (and it provides light to a very small section of the square) but the town decided to pool their money together and d
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by howeyc 13y ago
I'm not sure if this qualifies, but you can develop Go programs for yourself on Android by targeting arm (CGO_ENABLED=0 GOARCH=arm) and running the binary in "Terminal IDE" ( https://play.google.com/store/
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by howeyc 13y ago
I think what GP is getting at that if you call a function with one return value, you can ignore it by not assigning anything to the result of the function. http://play.golang.org/p/9J46QRHul1 They presumably would like
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by howeyc 13y ago
Interesting. Browsing the code it looks like they are using closures[1] in a way I haven't seen other Go code use them. Similar to the "using" keyword in .NET or the "with-" macros (with-open-file) in Common Lisp. [
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by howeyc 13y ago
I remember travelling to countries where tipping is a no-no, what a breath of fresh air. Tipping is so arbitrary. The line for who "can be tipped" is different for everyone: waiters, cabbies, hair dressers, hotel maids... you get

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