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by jdowner 9y ago
I have had the same experience. The environment was toxic, I was actively interviewing, and the company knew I was not happy. I was preparing the give my resignation the next day, as it turned out, but they pulled the trigger first. Regardl
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by jdowner 9y ago
Mathematics and puzzles/games. Take sudoku for example. It helps you to practice deductive reasoning. But the important step (I think) is when you start trying to solve harder problems and turn to math to formalize the collection of te
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by jdowner 9y ago
I have used and like Dell XPS, ThinkPads, and System76.
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by jdowner 9y ago
Maybe it is a stupid name, but the prefix 'crypto' and its usage are not the exclusive domain of cryptographers. Perhaps thinking of crypto-currencies as mimics of real currencies is appropriate ;)
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by jdowner 9y ago
I try (and struggle) to be calmer/kinder. There are a lot of good suggestions here, and I have tried most of them. They work but I have found it hard to stick with them. One idea you may want to consider is to do something pro-active t
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by jdowner 9y ago
Just wanted to say that I think this is a interesting idea, and that labs often have 'signing parties' where they do the counter signing.
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by jdowner 9y ago
Then make sure to tell her that she's making a difference. My kids LOVE her robots, and it makes the idea of making and playing with robots a whole lot of fun.
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by jdowner 9y ago
Why do you believe that? It has a section on shell completion for different shells so I don't think that is the intention, https://github.com/jarun/nnn#shell-completion
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by jdowner 9y ago
Agreed. I am using opera at the moment with javascript turned off by default. But there are some sites I want to use that are simply non-functional without javascript enabled. I add those sites to a list of exceptions. However, as a result
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by jdowner 9y ago
Agreed. This is tragic. These are the kinds of problems that I would have expected a military organization to have a pragmatic and robust solution to. I doubt you can rely upon a solid wifi connection in a field situation, so I bet they hav
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by jdowner 9y ago
Sure. https://gist.github.com/25facbfd1aa3816457ba9c5d2040cd3c
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by jdowner 9y ago
I find it astonishing how much of my laptops resources are occupied by a web browser. But I came to believe that it was not necessarily a problem with the web browsers per se but that each website would have a variety of javascript constant
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by jdowner 9y ago
If it is reasonable for you to continue with postgraduate studies, I would recommend that you do that. The more math you can do or know the better. And it is going to be harder to gain those skills once you leave university. You haven'
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by jdowner 9y ago
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago,
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Meshkit(opengarden.com)
112 points by jdowner 9y ago|33 comments
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by jdowner 9y ago
To provide an answer to my own question: I have found that a combination of pythons 'readability-lxml' package and 'lnyx' works pretty well. For example, python -m readability.readability -u file:///foo.ht
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Ask HN: How to archive online articles
7 points by jdowner 9y ago|5 comments
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by jdowner 9y ago
If you're not hiring, this probably isn't the right place to advertise.
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by jdowner 9y ago
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes (contract) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: python, C/C++, git Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadowner/ Email: echo 0:6a6f736875612e646f776e
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by jdowner 9y ago
Sorry, it's unclear to me, is this a paid position?
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by jdowner 10y ago
I guess the first reason is that I was providing an answer to question about why would you want to use a container. My answer comes from personal experience in New Hampshire. I mention New Hampshire specifically because I do not know how ge
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by jdowner 10y ago
Right, the governing body can make an exception for a particular private road. And in that case, you would be able to apply for a building permit. There are also provisions for exceptions in RSA 674:41 that would cause excessive hardship or
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by jdowner 10y ago
One reason why you may want a container is because it is a movable structure. That means that you do not need a building permit. Acquiring a building permit requires at least a class 5 road. This is the case for New Hampshire. I don't
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by jdowner 10y ago
I wrote a little tool for working with github gists from the command line, https://github.com/jdowner/gist . I was pretty happy with how it turned out, and pleased that a few people have found it useful :)
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by jdowner 10y ago
It also sounds like it was written by someone who was not actually there. Most of the content in the article is old news and there are no real personal insights that ring true. E.g. the notion that the team was ok with changing the name fro
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Ask HN: How do you evaluate a recruiter?
2 points by jdowner 10y ago|1 comments
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by jdowner 11y ago
One direction I would like to see more focus on is AI providing a useful explanation of the decisions that are taken. AlphaGo made quite a few non-conventional moves. They turned out to be good moves. What I would find really interesting is
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by jdowner 11y ago
I could have written exactly the same comment.
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by jdowner 11y ago
This was my effort (in python) to solve this problem https://github.com/jdowner/cdhistory
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by jdowner 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Dzd9iaXX4

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