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by jff 13y ago
"The Postal Service is unable to assure that a Business Reply Mail piece will only be used in a manner and for the purpose intended by the distributor; this is a risk assumed by the distributor. If the piece receives postal handling,
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by jff 13y ago
I look at the Nexus 4 as Google's way of saying, "We're sick of your shit, Motorola, Samsung, et al. Your OS 'customizations' make Android look bad, and your phones are too expensive. Fuck you, here's how it sh
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by jff 13y ago
Well, as court witnesses often show, you start telling a story and you fill in deep details. Sometimes from memory, sometimes from thin air.
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by jff 13y ago
Police handguns aren't very expensive. The Glock 17, a very popular model, is about $600 and I wouldn't be surprised if police departments get discounts.
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by jff 13y ago
What's that? The NYPD doesn't want cameras? That sounds like the most ringing endorsement for the idea I've ever heard. Might also shame them into working on their shooting a bit... http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by jff 13y ago
Well sure, smaller places might not even be able to muster enough people to do that many interviews. It ends up taking about as long as a Google interview, but it's not just debugging assembly on a whiteboard. We tour you around the si
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by jff 13y ago
It's for research, specifically at an FFRDC. I don't believe there's any sort of "establish your technical skills" portion. My hiring process was a bit unique because I had already worked as an intern for 3 years, b
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by jff 13y ago
Where I work, an interview is a full day thing. I'm pretty happy with how it works: After going through an initial resume screening and phone call, you show up on-site in the morning. You then give a presentation about some recent work
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by jff 13y ago
Come now, we don't talk about the Apple machines in almost every American elementary school from kindergarten on. Surely these children won't be trained into using Apple systems; the real imprinting will occur 10 years later when
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by jff 13y ago
These days you can't hardly swing a "Coexist" bumper sticker without hitting someone claiming that X, Y, and/or Z are inalienable human rights.
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by jff 13y ago
So, did you not sign the NDA where you agree not to discuss the content of the interviews, or are you just throwing caution to the wind here?
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by jff 13y ago
Everybody talks about using C++ for efficiency, but the way most people end up writing C++? Not very efficient.
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by jff 13y ago
Wow, you're the fucking puppet master, I tip my fedora.
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by jff 13y ago
According to Wikipedia, the surface of Titan is around -180 degrees C. Do you expect a life form to exist in that environment but ALSO be able to flourish in the human body, a creature of a sort never seen on Titan, 200 degrees warmer and f
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by jff 13y ago
So instead of a 5 MB Go binary ("5 MB? Ye gods! Unacceptable!"), you get a 200 MB Python distribution, because you need the correct Python version plus all the correct libraries.
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by jff 13y ago
It's damn cool in any case, looking forward to future articles!
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by jff 13y ago
A Lisp machine is designed at the hardware level for running Lisp well. This is a neat project to implement a bare-metal Lisp environment on top of Apple //e hardware.
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by jff 13y ago
When people start reflecting on how it's so amazing that 8th graders were once expected to describe the Battle of Quebec, I think about this: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education The math questions? I
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by jff 13y ago
"A Facebook", "An Instagram", "We all had Instagrams", am I the only person who finds this incredibly annoying? "Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Inter
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by jff 13y ago
> What performance may we expect? It'll feel very snappy until you try to actually do a lot of computation, especially I/O. This is the curse of Plan 9. > Is there Linux emulation lib? Not for ARM. > Or at least pack
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by jff 13y ago
Is there a secret handshake too?
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'Amazing' tops annual vote for words that should be banned(theguardian.com)
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by jff 13y ago
Everyone should learn how to change the oil in their car, though.
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by jff 13y ago
I've used a real green-on-black VT-220 and it nearly blinded me when I looked away after a few hours. Everything looked purple.
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by jff 13y ago
Aren't tar and carbon monoxide (CO especially) kind of explicitly what you get from burning plant matter?
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by jff 13y ago
It puts a bit more work on you, since you have to track the dependencies, but it'll pay off the first time somebody decides to check in a radical API overhaul; you'll be able to update your code on your own schedule, not in a pani
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by jff 13y ago
When you 'go get github.com/spf13/hugo', it checks out a copy into $GOPATH/src/github.com/spf13/hugo. It then fetches all the external dependencies listed in hugo's source and fetches them, so yo
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by jff 13y ago
I took a quick look at your main.go file and have a suggestion. I strongly recommend against using external dependencies (e.g. bitbucket.org/howeyc/fsnotify) for something important. It's fine for development, but if "ho
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by jff 13y ago
Yeah, I don't understand why they make such a big deal out of being sourced from Italy. Olives grown elsewhere should make fine oil, and you could probably use the honest advertisement of non-Italian origin as a gauge for the honesty o
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by jff 13y ago
LinkedIn emails me weekly with a list of jobs I'd theoretically be interested in--almost all internships, because I have in the past done internships. Apparently they haven't figured out that I don't want to go from Senior Me

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