icambron

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by icambron 14y ago
That is a good way to remember it, and also a feature of ln I didn't know. Thanks
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by icambron 14y ago
I suspect ln is at the top of the man list because no one can ever remember what order the arguments go in.
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by icambron 14y ago
I don't have a strong opinion on whether you should build it or not (I have a Mac but won't use it, which has almost nothing to do with whether it's a good idea or not), but here's some other admittedly unsolicited advice (and of course I r
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by icambron 14y ago
Well, the car might not let him do that. It's less clear why he can't just throw the car into neutral and let it coast to a stop. I guess that would mess the engine up pretty good (edit: I'm not actually sure that's true), but it still seem
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by icambron 14y ago
Not endorsing the guy's ideas (at all), and obviously Hendrix College doesn't particularly owe him anything, but I thought this was interesting: > Hendrix does not provide a venue for individuals to promote personal projects. I don't se
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by icambron 14y ago
Not only that, but the general touchiness about drones is misplaced anyway. The problem with drone strikes isn't the drones per se, it's being aggressive about killing people and the collateral damage that causes. It doesn't really matter w
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by icambron 14y ago
Yeah, that's a big question for me too. To speculate a little bit, the recent Slate profile of Swartz paints him as impatient and mercurial, getting tired of projects quickly and moving on, especially when he finds some aspect of it painful
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by icambron 14y ago
I think you put the argument better than Byrne did, but I have several problems with it. First, in terms of sneaking around, remember that Swartz's goal wasn't to ensure that his children and grandchildren could enter MIT server closets and
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by icambron 14y ago
This article makes little sense to me. Really, civil rights activists shouldn't have fought going to jail over having sat at the front of the bus ? Letting the government run them over was the right thing to do? No, the answer is to fight
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by icambron 14y ago
It would seem to greatly lower the cost of building a Skype-killer, though, and that's a pretty big deal.
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by icambron 14y ago
My only reservation on that line of argument is that, apparently, it "caused quite a stir at the time". But yes, the selection bias here is real enough.
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by icambron 14y ago
I readily grant that there's a huge amount of selection bias to this, but from this remove, it's difficult not to read this as, "pirate all the software you please, we'll still end up as billionaires."
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by icambron 14y ago
The trend. The point is that energy densities are improving steadily, contrary to the article.
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by icambron 14y ago
I would go so far as to say that time zones are rarely presentation-level issues. Want to have a meeting every Tuesday at 2:00 New York time? Better make sure you know the New York part or daylight savings will break it. Want to wake up eve
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by icambron 14y ago
A promise of a pardon would have done just as well, especially for federal prosecutors. The DOJ isn't going to make a big case out something their boss has promised to throw out. That said, the president being superinvolved in an ongoing ca
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by icambron 14y ago
Of course they have that discretion -- prosecutors decline cases or seek reduced sentences all the time. Given the overbearing nature of our legal system, it would be impractical to do otherwise. This was just pointlessly maximalist DOJ beh
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by icambron 14y ago
This served as my annual reminder that Google Translate really is very good.
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by icambron 14y ago
I couldn't disagree with this more. When people do something you find shady, you should complain! Loudly! This "keep your head down and don't stir up trouble" attitude is a huge part of why so many things never get fixed. And pointing out t
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by icambron 14y ago
All the more reason to build the business around bras instead of panties.
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by icambron 14y ago
I don't think the pose-topless-for-a-scanner thing is ridiculous at all. You could even imagine the device being video-based, something you run on your laptop (which obviously doesn't actually upload or even record pictures of you). If you
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by icambron 14y ago
But it sounds like you agree that it's a real problem to be solved, right? That True & Co aren't very good at it means that more companies should be jumping in with novel solutions, getting funding, and trying to make it work. In other
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by icambron 14y ago
I know you don't mean to draw a parallel, but I'm nevertheless going to point out that the illustration isn't very...illustrative. AIG was in a situation where the expectation was for it to go out of business because of its own (possibly il
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by icambron 14y ago
Generally they have a contract that says something along the lines of "if your initial contact with a candidate is through me, then you'll have to pay if you hire them". I think the caginess part is just an extra precaution.
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by icambron 14y ago
Mostly the latter (the quick cut). They're basically like realtors in that sense. I've worked with a few recruiters on both sides of the fence (hiring and behing hired). They're are a few really good ones out there and a shitload of noise.
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by icambron 14y ago
> 10% lower than legal minimal wage and 20% lower that is common in your profession, and openly says this is because of your gender and race That completely breaks the comparison you're trying to draw. Paying someone less than minimum w
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by icambron 14y ago
> Some ex-Goldman Sachs people brokered a deal that made Goldman whole at the cost we-the-people and with bad terms to A.I.G. That misses the point, I think. It's perfectly fair for you as a taxpayer to complain that it's a sweetheart
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by icambron 14y ago
The fundamental issue here is that it's hard to store electricity, so that demand has to be met in realtime. This kind of problem should fade away as cheap grid-scale batteries become available in the next decade.
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by icambron 14y ago
I, for one, appreciated the clarification.
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by icambron 14y ago
Ah thanks. That wasn't on my path for some reason.
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by icambron 14y ago
Noob question (I barely ever use Python stuff), but after I install this with pip, how do I actually run it? I'd have expected a hashbanged script on my path but bash can't seem to find one...

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