johngalt

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by johngalt 12y ago
I'm not rocket scientist, but it seems like the author is calculating a decreasing spiral into the sun rather than an impact. Why not slingshot around a planet and barrel into the sun with all of the orbital velocity still intact.
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by johngalt 12y ago
It's a figure of speech, not a cultural reference. It's a term used for pragmatic openness between companies. Avoiding secrets. I prefer using the term 'lay your cards on the table'. Less charged.
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by johngalt 12y ago
If it isn't a bubble now, what criteria would make it a bubble? The opening paragraph creates an infallible criteria. It's true that many people thought instagram wasn't worth $1billion. Does that mean $35 billion is less ind
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by johngalt 12y ago
> you won't be kicking yourself a few months down the line as you baby your custom storage solution. Normally i'm the guy building stuff like this, but sometimes I would rather just sleep at night... "Even Southwest doesn&
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by johngalt 12y ago
If they say "we don't expect to use it everyday", that means they expect to use it every hour.
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by johngalt 12y ago
> not using a browser to access a website has been construed as hacking. Huh? I haven't heard that one before? The whole 'hacking tools' thing is just ignorance. As if wireshark and port scanners have no legitimate use. &
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by johngalt 12y ago
Seems like the barrel is a single point of failure. How is this better than simply carrying more than one pistol? Allowing complete fail-over in case of a malfunction. Pretty design, but the proprietary projectiles breaks compatibility with
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by johngalt 12y ago
If cars become more useful, they will be used more often and car companies will sell more cars not less. Obviously automakers that end up on the wrong side of this trend might struggle, but overall the industry will be larger. http:/&
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by johngalt 12y ago
The same reason you dont try to gouge out eyes. What happens when the other guy thinks he has to kill you or risk permanent disability?
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by johngalt 12y ago
"...and the second best time is today"
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by johngalt 12y ago
Everyone wants to take XMPP, but no one wants to give XMPP. The old Microsoft model of embrace and extend. What could stop this sort of behavior? Could standards be constructed in a way the punishes greedy 'compliance' while still
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by johngalt 12y ago
Still comparing apples to oranges. The most common job for women is secretary (which generated countless headlines). The most common job for men is truck driver not programmer. People always focus on CEOs and company founders being all men,
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by johngalt 12y ago
I agree that the park is beautiful, and perhaps development should consider better locations. However the Grand Canyon national park is huge. Something like 2000 square miles. Anyone claiming that there should be no development, or that thi
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by johngalt 12y ago
Anyone looking for more ideas on statistical anomaly detection. Check out this talk: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/conference-program/... Specifically the section about 20mins in where he talks abo
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by johngalt 12y ago
'A sea of pretenders piling on to get rich quick' is exactly how I would have described the dotcom bubble.
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by johngalt 12y ago
The 69% number is simply a census comparison of all men and women that work full time. It doesn't take into account position, education, experience, or even hours worked beyond 35hrs. When it later talks about 'the gap' remai
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by johngalt 12y ago
> Is the "keep the government in line" thing really a reason that anybody actually believes anymore? If they don't, they should (I'm not a gun owner or an NRA member). If you look at history, it is exceptionally rare
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by johngalt 12y ago
There are places where you order from a counter and tipping is not expected. You aren't going to find 'steakhouse quality' because people who want $50 steak from a counter is small.
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by johngalt 12y ago
Why do you go to a restaurant rather than buying food from a grocery store and eating at home? The service aspect is what you pay for when going out to eat vs just buying food. Tipping is about connecting the buyers and sellers of service
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by johngalt 12y ago
They have to report their tips for tax purposes. If the reported wages don't add up to minimum, then the restaurant can get in trouble from a whole host of government agencies. Even if the employee does nothing, the IRS will come calli
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by johngalt 12y ago
> He had no gps and took a wrong freeway change getting home. Yeah that was planned. He's trying to run up the meter. About 30-40% of cabbies will take you on the scenic route if you don't give them specific directions. You don
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by johngalt 12y ago
In general it was good for the industry. At the peak of the bubble there was about a 50:1 ratio of pretenders to experts. Easy money tends to scoop up a lot of people who don't really belong. The same way that suddenly everyone was inv
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by johngalt 12y ago
To paraphrase the problem: 'Lots of people are relying on volunteer created code running for free. How do we fund the development of useful tools and software collectively?' I'm not sure what the best mechanism is, but making
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by johngalt 12y ago
You can outrun your customer base pretty quickly. Regardless of how good your ideas and execution are, you are limited by how fast the status quo can change.
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by johngalt 12y ago
The quickest path to 'a job' is via operations. Sysadmin positions generally dont require CS degrees. Hobbyists will have enough general knowledge to useful with a fairly small amount of training.
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by johngalt 12y ago
> Life is an ongoing series of psychological crises. Exactly. Commonly we tell ourselves things to get through them. "I have to work late and miss johnny's soccer game; but someday I'll leave this crappy job and do better
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by johngalt 12y ago
A midlife crisis is simply when all your 'someday' bills are due. Someday I'll go back to school and get my masters, someday I will move to X place I'd prefer to live at, someday I will visit my old friends or relative,
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by johngalt 12y ago
A lush is someone who overindulges in alcohol enthusiastically, but doesn't rise to the level of being an alcoholic. It is commonly used to tease someone about their drinking without calling them a drunk.
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by johngalt 12y ago
Bank employees are instructed to file reports on people who deposit funds in ways that appear to be avoiding reporting requirements. Even inquiring about limits can trigger one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_a
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by johngalt 12y ago
In advance of the inevitable and one sided 'IT is crap' comments. Consider that your company may have different goals and expectations of IT. If a google engineer screws up or can't get his BYOD kit to work, it's not on

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