jonahrd

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by jonahrd 9y ago
Is this a case of Zipf's law? It looks like it to me, can someone confirm?
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You Draw It: Just How Bad Is the Drug Overdose Epidemic?(nytimes.com)
2 points by jonahrd 9y ago|0 comments
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by jonahrd 10y ago
Unfortunately I'm paid hourly and remotely, so while getting settled, checking an email or two, getting coffee, etc are all things I would do as part of a normal workday, I don't tend to log those hours or get paid for any of it
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by jonahrd 10y ago
Having read the Bible doesn't mean you must be religious
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by jonahrd 10y ago
It's insane. I need a drug that costs about $8k every two months in the US. However, I'm living in Canada right now, where it costs $4k. My US insurance company just decided they will no longer cover the drug in Canada, so instead
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by jonahrd 10y ago
The article isn't responsible for the recent re-purposing of the phrase "Nevertheless, she persisted", and I think it's a relevant connection to make. And I read the "Nevertheless, she coded" as more of a globa
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by jonahrd 10y ago
I feel lucky that in my high school days of excessive gaming, my game of choice was Garry's Mod, and I was really into modding it and creating new gamemodes for it. This meant that beyond the social connections that multiplayer gaming
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by jonahrd 10y ago
Except the world isn't run by some computer blindly following a strict set of rules. Obviously if someone orders a steak and lobster meal, they might not deserve the same treatment. If someone orders a vegetarian meal, or a kosher meal
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by jonahrd 10y ago
IMO a great game. Learned to code by making mods for it.
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by jonahrd 10y ago
> If you cut corners, it looks like Youtube crap. I wonder where series like Louie and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fit into this mix. They're pretty low budget and do look pretty Youtubey, especially the earlier seasons.
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by jonahrd 10y ago
I'm not sure "you can google quotes on topics easily" is true if you're looking for a specific quotation that captures a feeling you're trying to get across in writing. When you happen to stumble upon a quotation th
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by jonahrd 10y ago
I disagree strongly. If you from an engineering perspective are the only one who truly recognizes the implications of a management decision, you need to speak up about it.
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by jonahrd 10y ago
I think you're missing arh68's point. If it's supposed to find the magic number, and by definition the comment is allowed to contain the magic number, then this section of the code should (correctly) diagnose that this is not
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by jonahrd 10y ago
A few questions after playing around with this for a bit: After making a complicated selection, doing something else, I want to go back to that selection easily. Is there a selection history? A way to execute the last selection? I tried run
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by jonahrd 10y ago
The way the author addresses number 2 is by claiming that businesses need to focus on a different way of earning money than just clicks and page views. It's a sort of view that the web is already too inflated with unrealistic expectati
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by jonahrd 10y ago
And Nokia used to make rubber boots and elevator cables!
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by jonahrd 10y ago
My dad used to play a game with me where he'd start listing out a long series of operations ("two.....times three.....plus four......" etc) and I'd try to keep up in my head and then shout out the answer. Try that, it&#x
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by jonahrd 10y ago
Since everyone knows what they're getting into with a tech interview, I don't see why it's such a bad metric. Many companies purposefully give you a rubric/criteria to study. It's a good way of measuring whether a c
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by jonahrd 10y ago
Some of the most politically important events and eras were defined and made possible by the technology and engineering that came out of these periods. In the past, engineering has been taught as a separate entity, focusing on monetary and
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by jonahrd 10y ago
Then what exactly is it you're doing? Because to me it looks like you're trying to somehow excuse the way society is structured that keeps women and POC out of STEM, and push the wrong explanation that it's somehow their faul
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by jonahrd 10y ago
This is a painfully restrictive way to view the world. What's the harm in looking at this problem as a complex system that we can work on until we reach a solution? There are without a doubt societal pressure on women and people of col
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by jonahrd 10y ago
And all this time I thought I was _wasting_ time reading comments on hackernews.
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by jonahrd 10y ago
Loved this article! It reminds me of my middle school English teacher, who enforced a 'no-like zone' (in good humor). Every time anyone noticed the usage of like other than the old 'proper' usage, you'd get another
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by jonahrd 10y ago
It's in the last paragraph. I agree it was strange to leave it out of the rest of the article, emphasizing the "two" new usages of likes until a third was dropped in at the last moment.
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by jonahrd 10y ago
This is cool! But the bias slider isn't draggable for me on chrome on linux mint
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by jonahrd 10y ago
thermodynamics isn't instant like that, and you'd be dressing in layers. It's much different than a hole in a pressurized suit
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by jonahrd 10y ago
I'm in Quebec, so all of the Change.org controls appear to me in French. There is no option to change this unless I log in (never a problem on actual Canadian websites which typically have a language button in the corner) What a terrib
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by jonahrd 10y ago
If you just make self-driving cars look like normal cars instead of weird marshmallows than this isn't a very big problem.
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by jonahrd 10y ago
I'm currently an undergrad studying software engineering at a Canadian university, and I'm going to go through the whole Iron Ring ceremony when I graduate. The program here does seem to focus more on ethics, albeit in a somewhat
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by jonahrd 10y ago
Can't the same be said about other forms of media? You go to the movies to escape, but on the drive home you feel sad that your life isn't as fantastical as the movies. Similar things can be said about the way we use our smartphon

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