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by jordanpg 9y ago
When I read articles like this, I tend to assume that they are exaggerations written by people who feel burned because they didn't get the job they want and that the reason was unfair interview questions. In other words, I simply don&#
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by jordanpg 9y ago
Well said. I would also add: why did this bathroom thing even need to be pointed out? Is it not obvious that it and other moments in this movie were hollywood slices of a horrific, decades-long, deliberate campaign of dehumanization and o
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by jordanpg 10y ago
Carlin is entertaining to listen to at times, but the information density is quite low. He takes a long time to say not much, all the while sounding quite profound. I'd recommend the classic references instead/as well: * The Firs
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by jordanpg 10y ago
Yes, the prominent center, center-left, and leftish new outlets (NYT, WSJ, Economist, WP, etc.) have some bias in their writing. However, most of the authors and staff at those organizations are extremely professional and take their mandat
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by jordanpg 10y ago
Whatever you might think about their streaming listings, their DVD listings still contain virtually everything, and they stay there indefinitely. And yet I hear that their DVD business is hemorrhaging cash and has numbered days. This DVD b
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by jordanpg 10y ago
What about appearance? I'm a 37 year old self-taught backend dev (a fallen physicist) and I seem to be able to talk myself into a job with relative ease, both big and small companies. I worry sometimes that a significant factor in this
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by jordanpg 10y ago
Could you say more about what you mean by "clobbering each other" here? I run firefox/chrome under Xvfb and very frequently get unexplaine `Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055` from selenium, zombie firefox and c
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by jordanpg 10y ago
It's important to distinguish between cynicism/negativity and terseness. Good comments are just that: comments. They contain no emotional content at all and make a technical point. Nothing more, nothing less. Of course, some f
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by jordanpg 10y ago
The bellwether of a bad but possibly technically interesting HN comment is one that begins with a humblebrag: "One time a Fortune 500 company hired me to re-write their entire web tier using Django" or "last year, for fun, I
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by jordanpg 10y ago
A good reminder that the business model of the free-content internet is a pathetically weak house of cards. Between the trivial availability of ad-blockers and the laughable vapidity of the form taken by most ads, I think we are due for a c
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by jordanpg 11y ago
One of the reasons this kind of language bothers me is that it's both clickbait and a part of the general project of drumming up excitement about the sciences for the usual reasons. And while I suppose this drumming up of support is
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Longtime NYT solver here. The most interesting thing about this to me is that it belies the common impression that many have that the NYT crossword is "elitist". I mean, how can it be "elitist" if it's routinely co
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Non-repetitiveness is precisely what makes a crossword good. If you are seeing a lot of repetitiveness, you are doing the wrong puzzles.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
The CTRL+W thing was a bizzare decision, I agree. Just swap the CTRL+F4/CTRL+W and ALT+INS/CTRL+N bindings and IDEA behaves like every other piece of software in the world.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
About a year with eclipse and nearly two with IDEA now. In terms of overall usability, speed, and stability IDEA is incomparably better. Yes, there are a few minor things that eclipse does better/IDEA can't do (so I keep reading)
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Most of these things are considered features of homebrew, not bugs.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Same experience here. 1 MBP has outlasted (and is still working like new in most important respects, including battery life) the combined lifetimes of all 3 plastic garbage Windows laptops I've owned before getting this one. That&#x2
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Relevant: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-PC-equivalent-of-a-MacBook...
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Maybe, but only marginally so. In an age of cheap virtual environments of many flavors, this objection seems minor to me.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I've heard of Gordon before, and I've understood his important point to be less about innovation and productivity, and more about the remarkable historical and technological circumstances of post-war America and the associated eco
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Putting in a word for common sense, and Pollan's condensed advice: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." I have been astonished at how just not eating quite so much makes a difference.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
All of this is true, from a technical standpoint, but does any of it really matter in the modern world? This sounds a bit like a structural engineer designing an elegant, perfectly constructed shopping mall, and then complaining about the m
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Agreed 100 times over. My eyeballs are strained from rolling every time I read some very sage person on SO or HN reply to a well-phrased question or comment with a terse "it's all in the docs". As if 90% of use cases aren&#
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by jordanpg 11y ago
> But this zooming in demands evermore energy, and the difficulty and cost of building new machines increases exponentially relative to the energy requirement, Gross said. Part of the problem is, as Gross points out, that the cost of exp
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by jordanpg 11y ago
A semi-serious proposal: why don't we just stop caring about this? By "we", I mean those of us with the technological know-how to protect our own privacy if desired. I bring this up because laws like CISA are meant to deal w
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A Fight for the Soul of Science(quantamagazine.org)
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by jordanpg 11y ago
A productivity app that involves the camera? The slowest workflow on the phone? No thanks. The right answer is to get those receipts into a digital format some other way, not with the camera. I would have deleted this app after I tried wa
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by jordanpg 11y ago
It's also worth noting that the ability of Infocom/IF games to simulate real-world puzzles is fairly limited next to what can be done with two- and three-dimensional graphics, stereo sound, various input method, etc. There is some
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Oops! Err, I just made that assumption based on the ease I had in finding them. There are a variety of places to download them right off the web.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Earlier this year, when I realized that all of the old Infocom games were in the public domain, I spent some time playing Zork I, Border Zone, and HHGTTG -- the ones I played most often when I was younger. There was some sentimental fun to

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