jackmaney

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by jackmaney 10y ago
Please tell me where you work. I don't ever want to be on the same team as you.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Pandoc is fantastic! Just a few days ago, I used it in a makefile to keep markdown, HTML, and PDF versions of my resume in sync.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Nice site, but it hijacked my back button. There's no excuse for that.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
What contract?? You can't find a single example of any such contract that I've ever signed.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Then let them fear. Loyalty between employer and employee (in either direction) died out many, many years ago.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Can anyone name a company that, in 2016, is known for keeping a significant number of their employees for their entire career?
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by jackmaney 10y ago
> If the work is good and the company is good, why leave? Possible reasons, off the top of my head: 1. Being approached by a recruiter or hiring manager and end up being given an offer you can't refuse (eg much more money, dream job
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Dementia is the single thing I fear the most. Without my intelligence, I have literally no marketable skills (my body became unfit for heavy manual labor years ago). I also watched my grandmother go through dementia in the last months befor
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by jackmaney 10y ago
> You'd Be Happier If You Ate Less Yes, and the poor would be wealthier if they had more money. What is garbage like this article doing on HN?
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Yeah, I'm actually pretty damn disappointed that NPR would print such garbage. They used to be more respectable than that. Now, they'll apparently publish any idiotic claim, whether or not it has any evidence whatsoever to back it
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by jackmaney 10y ago
It's a shame that this site still has the annoying pop-overs asking for my email address, along with at least one bouncing and annoying "Click on me!" button.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
> If someone isn't in front of you banging on their keyboard you have no assurance that they're actually doing work. If someone is in front of you banging on their keyboard, you need not have any assurance that they're d
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by jackmaney 10y ago
PC growth also slowed because, in general, hardware upgrades aren't needed as frequently as they used to.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Post-device era? I'm still waiting for that alleged "Post-PC era" to arrive. I'm not holding my breath.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Agreed. I spent several seconds wondering if there was either a subdivision of Microsoft or yet another overvalued start-up with the name of Street. I guess in the latter case, the name would be Streetly or Streetr or something equally dumb
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Denoting {a + b sqrt(-5) for a, b integers} by Z[sqrt(-5)], it's worth pointing out that you can actually use the norm to get a bit of the FTA--namely that every nonzero nonunit factors into irreducibles. By x being "irreducible&q
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by jackmaney 10y ago
There's a difference between equal and equitable.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
That's why we need fines that are based upon a percentage of revenue or profit within, say, the past year. A fine of, eg, 15% yearly revenue over FY2015 would make any company sit up and pay attention.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Why not? There's plenty of turnover in tech jobs, and talented developers mostly find themselves in a seller's job market.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
I had the same impression. I then imagined some marketing douchebag trying to sell the C-level suits on the idea of a "Three Inch Punch of Productivity".
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by jackmaney 10y ago
An interesting idea, but it would be difficult at best to prevent false positives on sites with dynamic elements.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
No business has a fundamental right to exist. So, if one of your workers leaves, starts his/her own company, and puts you out of business, then tough. Your business has no right of any kind to exist. Period. Isn't that how the &qu
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by jackmaney 10y ago
I closed the tab as soon as the audio started playing automatically. If I want to watch a video or listen to an audio clip, I will indicate that by pressing a play button. Until then, please stop shoving your unwanted sounds into my ear h
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by jackmaney 10y ago
There's a pretty good handle on it, in the form of the ideal class group[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_class_group
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Z[sqrt(-3)] does not have unique factorization. However, Z[w] does, where w = (-1 + sqrt(-3))/2 denotes a primitive third root of unity. In particular, 2 * 2 = (-1 + sqrt(-3)) * (-1 - sqrt(-3)) gives two irreducible factorizat
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by jackmaney 10y ago
> InMobi was subject to a $4 million civil penalty, which was lowered to $950,000 "based on the company's financial condition," the FTC said in a statement issued Wednesday, without elaborating. Why should the penalty be r
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by jackmaney 10y ago
A nice discussion, but a bit of a nitpick: in Z[sqrt(-5)], 2, 3, 1+sqrt(-5), and 1-sqrt(-5) are actually irreducible, not prime. In an integral domain D, a nonzero element x is called irreducible if x is not a unit and whenever x = ab (for
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by jackmaney 10y ago
I've worked on a few projects where I've needed to know pairwise distances among a set of addresses.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
About three years ago, I was at a place that used Qlikview, and it was the worst software I've ever used in my life. It's technically able to handle larger datasets than Excel, but it's much slower than Excel at any kind of a
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by jackmaney 10y ago
Just once, I'd love to see one of these tech companies call these ridiculous bluffs. "Fine. You want to try and force us to carry local French TV, and fully pay for the production of said local TV programs? We will be cutting off

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