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by injb 6y ago
Besides the fact already mentioned that there's 2 completely different sizes of tablespoon, TV/internet chefs generally lie about the quantities and times of everything. How many times have you heard them say things like "coo
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by injb 6y ago
Your MCS-48 stuff is really cool. I don't have anything to add to the division topic, but I'v been working on a reverse-engineering project on an MCS-48 based engine management computer from the Porsche 944 Turbo ( https:/&#x
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by injb 6y ago
I tried a couple of 944s. I got "macan" and "718" respectively. Even the classifier hates the 4 cylinder Porsches!
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by injb 6y ago
The biography is quite a tome. If anyone wants a taste of what it's like without committing to 1000+ pages, you should read the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland first. Johnson and Boswell toured Scotland together and then eac
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by injb 6y ago
"Heads up jack"...as if he doesn't know? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl1_LMcEszU
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by injb 6y ago
He's a great teacher of calculus. Here on HN he's often cited as a resource for learning linear algebra, but actually his lesser known book on calculus is an excellent way to teach yourself from almost nothing.
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by injb 6y ago
There was a standard set of synonyms that everyone was using at the time (around 12 years ago) that came in the form of a Lucene index. I'm not sure if it's still around or where you'd find it. IIRC the stemming was done by a
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by injb 6y ago
>To query the index, we are going to apply the same tokenizer and filters we used for indexing From developing a Lucene-based search engine years ago, I learned a very useful trick for things like stemming and synonyms: don't use
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by injb 6y ago
>They should stop calling them unions and just call them "brotherhoods", which is more accurate. Like "International Brotherhood of Teamsters", or "International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers", or "
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by injb 6y ago
No, what you're describing is a conditional green card and that's only in certain exceptional circumstances, namely: * a marriage-based gc where the marriage is less than 2 years old * an investment-based gc In general, permanent
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by injb 6y ago
Where you're from generally makes no difference to getting a green card, unless you're trying to get it through the green card lottery, in which case certain countries are disqualified. But if you're doing it through employme
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by injb 6y ago
Why would you waste years there if you didn't like it? The only way you'll know is if you try it. I came to the US years ago from the EU in a similar way, and have been here ever since. The biggest downside is that if you do like
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by injb 6y ago
>Which is strange because Harvard is NOT completely online for first-year, only partially online. AFAIK, there's a certain minimum proportion of classes that have to be in-person to meet the visa requirements.
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by injb 6y ago
>Oxfam, the global development charity, said it was “truly shocking” that Bezos had managed to make so much money during the coronavirus crisis, which has forced hundreds of millions of people around the world to rely on food banks and g
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by injb 6y ago
I've never understood this. If everyone is doing unproductive "busy work" (digging up money) instead of making useful goods and services, then how could the money be worth anything?
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by injb 6y ago
It'll probably be upgraded later when they finish their investigation. The priority now is keeping him in custody, and for that they may have to present evidence to a judge. So they're going with what they know they can prove righ
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by injb 6y ago
Well how would that have helped the perpetrator? He'd be the first person the police would look at. In most cases, retaliating for this kind of thing is not the rational thing to do. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but i
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by injb 6y ago
> I hope we still live in a world where "have fallback measures in case other people are going to murder you" doesn't need to be at the top of our contingency planning. Obviously it was here, and that's tragic, but I
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by injb 6y ago
> Saleh showed compassion and that may have been a reason why he ended up dying in the end. Yes, that's exactly what happened. Lesson: report the crime to the police first. If you want to show compassion and keep the law out of your
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by injb 6y ago
So if Assets - Liabilities = Shareholders Equity Then Liabilities & Equity = Assets So why are there separate totals (showing the same amount) for "Assets" and "Liabilities & Equity", if they are by definition th
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by injb 6y ago
Arch. Because: * it's the best documented (by far) * it's extremely no-nonsense * it's a rolling release * it requires you to learn more and take responsibility for difficult decisions (like which network manager to use etc.)
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by injb 6y ago
Ultimately if you standardize something, people will gamify it. The point of employers finding novel ways to evaluate candidates is to win that game and beat the average. Good for them! It can't/shouldn't be otherwise (imo).
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by injb 6y ago
But it's self-evident that it's acceptable to the workers: they're doing it. As the article explains, some workers left for better opportunities - so clearly it wasn't acceptable to them.
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by injb 6y ago
Acceptable to whom?
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by injb 6y ago
I'm not sure what the actual story is here. The important bit seems to be: "“The one third is fictitious,” Andela CEO Jeremy Johnson told Big Technology in a candid interview last week. Some developers make less than a third of wh
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by injb 6y ago
That would probably break the rules. With the password solution, they're not telling you anything you didn't already know.
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by injb 7y ago
Witnesses often won't talk to them if the camera is on.
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by injb 7y ago
I don't completely agree with most developers on this question. I can't respond properly now but i recently wrote a lengthly comment[1] on a blog post that was posted here on HN on this topic. I'd suggest reading that and the
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by injb 7y ago
Well my first response to this is that I understand "monopoly" to mean a single supplier. That is not the same thing as having a massive share of the market just because a huge majority of people prefer your product to the competi
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by injb 7y ago
Silly to do it? Yes. Silly to think that a government would do it with money they took from other people, and can take again, at will, no matter how badly they misadventure?

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