jimmyvalmer

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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I'm far more sympathetic to the greens... but my personal views don't matter much. I don't mind the first part of the sentence; that's just editorial. The second part is weak-sauce backpedalling. The repetitive moral
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
> I'd like some advice on how to cope with this Lay low and pray no one escalates the matter into a frivolous lawsuit, although the incoming driver is clearly at fault. Continue waving people in when slow traffic conditions warrant
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Not the same. If she were a few seconds behind, she'd prepare for the incoming car who now has right-of-way. The problem is OP performed an unexpected action which created an anxious moment for the incoming car who drove in hastefully
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Thanks, that's great to read. Why an overdose should make his passing "not great" is unclear.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I can tell you're not a chess or baduk player.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Here's one, possibly very weird, man's perspective: there's truly no worse feeling than snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. To save a woman that torture, I might resign sooner than later. I don't mind inflicting t
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Given the zero-sum nature of secondary markets, that's tautological and rather uncharitable to the trading profession. Arbitrageurs do serve a real, and given their compensation, quite valuable function of accelerating price convergen
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Notices a kindred spirit You get it. I get it. Unfortunately every intro class inculcates generous commenting, a "best practice" further promoted by corporate proceduralists and mediocre programmers who inexorably become manag
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I'm an anti-intellectual ball buster, so I'm triggered by the "ELI5" conceit preceding a verbose summarization of the linear programming problem. A better follow-up to the ELI5 condescension would be, "I exploit di
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Problem: I'm a dipole preferring this orientation. Article's solution: Don't be a dipole. I believe Ben Affleck of all people nailed it on his recent Howard Stern appearance. The cure for addiction is suffering .
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
My foot still smarts to this day. I miss the days office workers could keep a whiskey cabinet and work things out hermano to hermano. Peace brutha.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
As an alum of the little red schoolhouse, I have to assume you were a special admit since the CS program there, while not as prestigious as MIT's, was still world-class. And even if you're inexplicably sandbagging about your raw
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
My first few dev jobs involved 100% pair programming. Seems like there should be an OSHA statute prohibiting that kind of inhumanity. People expect me to be somewhat senior After five years? I've had pairs of underwear twice that
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Only developers insist on FOSS, and we are the worst kind of customers as we find paying for anything a personal affront. You either need to partner up or become a sales guy who understands "normies" at Fortune 500 type companies.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
You ask "How effective?" The answer is "not very." Do this right. Close the source and maintain some semblance of leverage.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities... -- Samir Nagheenanajar
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
The kind that cuts your paycheck.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Why can't these articles get to the point sooner . The act of writing is more for the writer than his audience. That's why we post to monster threads like this one with the full knowledge that our scintillating nugget of wisdom
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that wi
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
This hit piece is typical of finance-bro screeds (and really, all economic editorials) where up can be down and left can be right depending on what you're promoting.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
"negative short" = "short short" = "long". Something tells me that derivation is flawed.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
You build a next generation fighter jet, but the human pilots want you to make room in the cockpit for a cupholder. You'd be hostile too.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I'll do it. $50/hr, maybe 10-15 hours. My email is in my profile for the next 12 hours.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
By choosing Discord, you also lock out users with accessibility needs And by choosing Sourcehut, you deprive yourself of anything resembling usability.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
nnhackernews in emacs. I see a side of HN the typical front-pager doesn't see, and the RSSer wishes he could see more efficiently,
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
// NOTE: At least in Firefox 2, if the user drags outside of the browser window, // mouse-move (and even mouse-down) events will not be received until // the user drags back inside the window. A workar
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
The number of hours you extend your life by running is the number of hours you spent running. Apply a similar analysis here.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Work smart, not hard. If you knew how dumb I am, you'd realize it's not up to me.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Quite the contary; that's the only thing they can do by themselves.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Freedom is a principle. Using it to legislate consumer law is an argument, a bad one.

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