jmount

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Excel spreadsheets are hard to get right(win-vector.com)
13 points by jmount 12y ago|5 comments
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by jmount 12y ago
"typical Googler who received an average of about 450 emails per day" ick
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by jmount 12y ago
Programmers are pretty used to building mental models. And my point was that at least you can learn the git internals, but other "everything magic happens but we don't let you even reason how" source control systems are even
844.
by jmount 12y ago
This is why I eventually gave up on Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion (even after paying for both): they link way too much to the host machine (Fuse file systems, cross calling and so on). Now I just use Virtual Box. Most things I put i
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by jmount 12y ago
Oddly enough I think that is one of the reasons Git is popular: you are exposed early to a learnable mental model. (edit: it is a model of Git's storage interface, not a model of version control or a model of storage implementation)
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by jmount 12y ago
I agree (one of my articles in the same direction): http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2010/02/postels-law-not-sure-... ).
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by jmount 12y ago
The time complexity looks very bad (assuming I can read shell, which I am not sure about). First it appears it has the classic bug of passing items equal to the partition to sub-sorts (G in this case). This guarantees N recurses (and at le
848.
by jmount 12y ago
As I remember it the British spelling and pronunciation of Aluminum changed a number of times including using "Aluminum" for a while.
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by jmount 12y ago
Security bugs are just bugs. Use your own judgement on reporting. And do not make the mistake of violating the law in attempting to test on remote systems (that you may have limited access rights to). "So I personally consider securi
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by jmount 12y ago
I honestly had no strong opinion on the measure prior to the anti-campaign. I do think sugary drinks are a public health menace, but I did not think a tax is a good way to deal with them. Then: anti-E canvassers appeared at my door 3 time
851.
by jmount 12y ago
(not a lawyer) I think in the US (oops, probably should have said California) generally accrued vacation has to be paid off (as it is accounted for at the time it is earned, but there may also be a cap which causes some to disappear). But
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by jmount 12y ago
Is there even a legit/documented chain of custody on the metal patch?
853.
by jmount 12y ago
Nasty treatment. And in many places you can't even attempt to bank the sick-leave in the first place.
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Any idea what is going on in this LinkedIn web form?(plus.google.com)
2 points by jmount 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 12y ago
Are you producing anything other than Latex/PDF from this workflow?
856.
by jmount 12y ago
Typical "science" for hire. Materials supplied by Mars inc. Flavonols in question largely killed by "Dutch process" used to make chocolate. And how much Cocoa is in cheap chocolate anyway?
857.
by jmount 12y ago
And some cites have outlawed billboards in some areas: as they are blight.
858.
by jmount 12y ago
Permission for what? To see a single text ad? To see a series of gifs? To have an autoplay video start? To accumulate tracking cookies? To accumulate permanent flash storage? Permission to do some reverse lookup and call your phone? P
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by jmount 12y ago
Strongly agree. Ads (and even ads placed by primary distributors and authors) hijacked the internet without permission from browsers/surfers and routinely have additional negative consequences. The reader doesn't need permission
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by jmount 12y ago
I agree http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2010/02/postels-law-not-sure-... . Correct code remains correct under various compositions and transformations (that may happen in the future). Code that is working on
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by jmount 12y ago
I like Latex (Math/CS background), but I would definitely like to try some alternatives (like Asciidoc discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509062 ). The problem is I never can tell which Markdown/D
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by jmount 12y ago
Just a note: I think I was hoping (but didn't confirm) that I was downloading the key from GNU and the file from a mirror. So I thought I had the minor protection that I was at least safe from somebody who could only alter the mirror
863.
by jmount 12y ago
Then you can drink all the soda you want? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8488714 )
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by jmount 12y ago
True, I didn't find any notes on what key to use and the key I typed in is the one the signature itself said was missing (so it is in fact a bad choice). Your criticism is valid. Sorry if I misled anyone, I meant to fix that but I d
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by jmount 12y ago
Building on OSX Mavericks (assuming XCode and XQuartz already around) 1) Download from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ emacs-24.4.tar.gz emacs-24.4.tar.gz.sig 2) Confirm: gpg --keyserver pgp.mi
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by jmount 12y ago
The "interview" is an old fake/slander, but I still love it.
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by jmount 12y ago
I'll be "that guy." My guess: Reddit releases a small fraction of a new crypto currency (likely a simple BitCoin clone) to its users. Reddit recipient interest in the currency then supports a large price for what Reddit re
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by jmount 12y ago
I just checked in one possible R calculation of two-sided significance under a binomial model under the simple null hypothesis A and B have the same common rate (and that that rate is exactly what was observed, a simplifying assumption) her
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by jmount 12y ago
Also have to address "when these could be reduced by changes to the program." Though I have heard automobile controls are not optimized- but what became standard first.
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by jmount 12y ago
"shell scripts are not inherently buggy" not the week to argue that point.

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