jmcguckin

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   by jmcguckin 14y ago

   This article is old. The supreme court bas since ruled in Heller that the 2nd Amendment does in fact confer a right to own firearms.
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   by jmcguckin 14y ago

   Tax avoidance is not tax evasion. One has no legal or moral obligation to pay more than the minimum tax that is due. Google spent probably 10mm putting this tax strategy in place. Among the necessary steps they would have taken would be to
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   by jmcguckin 14y ago

   Constant starting and stopping would be a performance and efficiency issue. A better way would be to have local trains that ran on parallel tracks and sync'd speed with the main train and passengers and cargo would be xfered to the local t
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   by jmcguckin 14y ago

   Jason's numbers are incorrect. Brady (the most anti-gun lobby) states that firearms related homocides are 12,778 for the year they have statistics for.
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   by jmcguckin 14y ago

   I visited an office today where they had a continuous strip of whiteboard on all walls. It was actually painted on the wall.
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   by jmcguckin 15y ago

   Happened ca. 1991
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   by jmcguckin 15y ago

   There was also a commercial version, Unipress EMACS.
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   by jmcguckin 15y ago

   So? Most IT staff (certainly programmers, etc) are classified as EXEMPT and don't qualify for overtime anyway.
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   by jmcguckin 15y ago

   Wait. Don't make my mistake. It really needs 3 or 4 patch releases to fix stability and performance issues.
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    by jmcguckin 15y ago

    Yes, but the default timeout is too low. I can rarely get three or four pages deep into HN before the timeout. It seems like this changed recently.
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    by jmcguckin 16y ago

    Technically, it's illegal in most states to represent one's self as an 'engineer' unless you hold an RPE license.
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    by jmcguckin 16y ago

    K&R is a incredible book that every programmer should own. I honestly don't see why you would need any other book for C.
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    by jmcguckin 16y ago

    i use an ipad.
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    by jmcguckin 16y ago

    Yes, this blog entry is old (ca. '07), but the reasoning is pretty lame. In particular, the paragraph where he uses a LISP syntax tree as the runtime representation is a hoot. I'd suggest he sit down with a copy of LISP IN SMALL PIECES to s
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    by jmcguckin 17y ago

    Also, Fiber High on Commercial Ave in Palo Alto. www.fiberhigh.com
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    by jmcguckin 17y ago

    Can you test for browser type and make the upvote glyph larger if the browser is on a mobile device (e.g.iPhone)?
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    by jmcguckin 17y ago

    is there a way to 'save' articles (like on reddit)? Articles tend to scroll off the bottom pretty quickly.
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    by jmcguckin 17y ago

    In the 26 years I've been a California resident, the drama of drafting a budget has been a perennial event. In just a handful of years, when we enjoyed an unexpected windfall of taxes, is the budget enacted without gimmicks and raiding the