jbarham

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by jbarham 11y ago
> Would you rather be a bit cold or working like a dog for some US company where your healthcare could vanish overnight because your boss was in a bad mood? Neither. That's why I moved from California to Australia five years ago. Do
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by jbarham 11y ago
> Montreal? Calgary? Edmonton? Halifax? St. John's? Winter.
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by jbarham 11y ago
https://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team tells me "nothing" about the demographics of Khan Academy employees? > We do not require that anybody stays at our hackathon until 11:45, but we do require that p
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by jbarham 11y ago
Actually what your so-called "Healthy Hackatons" demonstrates to me is that not a lot of Khan Academy employees are married with kids. I know my wife would be annoyed if I was goofing off at the office until midnight for a week le
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by jbarham 11y ago
Depends on how you feel about working for the government.
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> My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies. The best way to preserve photos is to print them. Prints can last decades if not centuries with no need to actively maintain them other than th
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by jbarham 11y ago
Man this is annoying. I've used Picasa desktop for probably 10 years now. It's not perfect but for keeping my family photos organized and doing quick edits before printing them or uploading them to our family blog it's great.
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by jbarham 11y ago
I lived in Vancouver from 2000 - 2005. Left when I got married and worked as a software engineer in southern California until the end of 2010. Got fed up waiting for the green card so moved to Australia (my wife is an Aussie) and currently
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by jbarham 11y ago
That's a very cynical perspective. Life isn't about money, and in my experience being a parent brings with it many enjoyable moments that could not be bought for all the money in the world. I live in Australia where the financial
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by jbarham 11y ago
They already have this in Australia (minus the app). They're called "toy libraries" and are great.
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> If that was it, why are these terrorists not attacking Armenia? Or Zambia? Or Mexico? Or pretty much anywhere in Central and South America? These countries have negligible numbers of Muslims. There have been multiple Islamic terrorist
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by jbarham 11y ago
The only thing that Instapainting and similar businesses demonstrates is that bad photos don't make good paintings, especially when they're paint-by-numbers copies of bad photos. IMHO most of Instapainting's customers would b
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by jbarham 11y ago
BIND 9 may not venerable but it's still vulnerable: https://kb.isc.org/category/74/0/10/Software-Products/BIND9/...
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by jbarham 11y ago
Given the widely documented increases in the cost of a US college education at rates far greater than inflation, it's easy to dispute your claim that getting educated has never been easier. Paying off historically unprecedented student
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by jbarham 11y ago
> I thought the resurrection of christ was the whole point of anything describable as Christianity? Yes: "But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the
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by jbarham 11y ago
Most production COBOL programs run on IBM compatible mainframes so you'd also need to get a handle on developing in MVS aka "z/OS" and how to hack JCL config scripts--the horror! That's difficult to do without getti
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by jbarham 11y ago
I've been reading Russ' emails for 15+ years since he was a Bell Labs wunderkind hacking on Plan 9. On the Plan 9 mailing list he was one of the most prolific and consistently helpful posters, so I think it's unfortunate that
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by jbarham 11y ago
Looks like this is the video referred to: http://pyvideo.org/video/3432/python-concurrency-from-the-gr...
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by jbarham 11y ago
Hmm, it seems to me that "advanced financial instruments" that helped mask persistent corruption and tax evasion are a big reason why Greece is currently in a no-win financial deadlock. And it's a bit rich to talk about the &
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GopherChina Trip Report(blog.golang.org)
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by jbarham 12y ago
Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One covers the same ground but is much funnier. Especially amusing is Waugh's invention of the "Happier Hunting Ground annual postcard service" for dearly departed pets that predicts features d
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by jbarham 12y ago
> Any plan that can unite that many wildly disparate organizations behind it is likely to be a very good plan. The war in Syria is also uniting "many wildly disparate organizations"... The simple fact that the very voters who
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by jbarham 12y ago
Apologies, I see from e.g. http://ocparks.com/parks/ted/amenities that you are correct. I see though, that at least in OC, you still have to provide charcoal briquettes for your BBQs, whereas the Aussies just push
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by jbarham 12y ago
As a Canadian who relocated to Australia four years ago via California, it's refreshing to live in a society where the default expectation is that adults will behave as such. Consider: * it's perfectly legal in Australia for adult
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by jbarham 12y ago
> ...the market determines the interest rate it will buy bonds at. No, most newly issued government debt in the US, EU and Japan is now bought by their respective central banks at below fair market interest rates. Consider that some Euro
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by jbarham 12y ago
> ...the Fed would still be able to sell debt below 5% interest The Fed doesn't sell debt, the Treasury does. The Fed buys Treasury debt at below market interest rates with its magical money printing machine, and that is the probl
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> And the "wet coast" is really a myth. Nice try but Vancouver really is wet and miserable most days in winter. I know because I lived there for 5 years. Sure winter is more bearable than Halifax or St John's but that&#x27
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by jbarham 12y ago
US subprime mortgage defaults were just the trigger for the 2008 global financial crisis. Most subsequent mortgage defaults in the US (and Ireland, Portugal, Spain etc.) were for prime mortgages. My guess is that the Saudi oil price war, Ch
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by jbarham 12y ago
I quite like my new Lenovo M73 "Tiny" desktop [1]. It's fast and silent and really is tiny. But as far as adware/malware is concerned, that's a non-issue for me as the first thing I did when I got the machine was to
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by jbarham 12y ago
Naturally DJB recognized and fixed the security problems of NTP, way back in 1998: http://cr.yp.to/clockspeed.html Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...

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