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by jperras 8y ago
He'd probably have to restart his degree completely - many universities will not recognize credits for incomplete degrees past 5 years of their accrual (institution-dependent, of course). Considering he stopped ~6 years ago, he'd
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Sometimes. I studied physics at a well respected, internationally recognized university, and had made all the right connections to get into a masters/PhD programme for particle physics. I ended up not pursuing that path because at the
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by jperras 8y ago
That is my exact situation. I'm currently on 2-ish acres of land (we are renting), in 100+ year old brick farmhouse. My neighbours are 3 soy fields. You can hear coyotes not 50m away most nights. We have a dog, and he loves the space t
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by jperras 8y ago
iStat Menus ( https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ ) has this same functionality (and much more). It's a bit more expensive though. It's quite nice to be able to check if some app is downloading an update in
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by jperras 8y ago
> Why does GitHub need to be acquired at all? They raised a 250MM round a few years ago. You don't get to take that kind of money from VCs for a cut of yearly residuals.
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/1/17308508/amazon-web-servic... https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/18/17253784/google-domain-fr...
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by jperras 8y ago
The keys on the new MBPs are removable with a small amount of effort; I've done it a few times to remove a piece of dust that has lodged itself where it shouldn't without damaging the keyboard at all. From the comments here, you&#
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by jperras 9y ago
> Here's a super common workflow that's easy in BitKeeper and miserable in Git. I'm debugging an assert. I want to see who added the assert. I pop into the gui that shows me the per file graph and contents, search for the
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by jperras 9y ago
> Git has no file object, it versions the repo, not files. As someone who has used (in a professional setting) version control systems ranging from RCA to SVN to the current crop (git, mercurial, even darcs), the fact that git versions t
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by jperras 9y ago
As with nearly all recalls, it will most likely affect their stock price in the short term.
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You might be confusing a few things - older steering columns were very rigid (and thus "strong"), but were also a fairly major concern in frontal or rear collisions: they would essentially impale the driver if hit at the right ang
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by jperras 9y ago
> Try driving a car designed for power steering with a failed pump I do this fairly regularly - I race an early 90s Honda Civic in a wheel-to-wheel series where the power steering pump has been closed-looped on purpose (weight savings, o
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by jperras 9y ago
While disappointing and costly for Tesla, thankfully a power steering failure isn't typically a big deal, safety-wise. If you've never driven a vehicle without power steering: it's marginally harder to turn the wheel, which r
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by jperras 9y ago
> The capacity constrains on traditional geostationary consumer grade VSAT services result in terrible things (TDMA oversubscription that pushes latency to 1150ms during peak hours), and things like 20GB/month transfer quotas. That&
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by jperras 9y ago
If you read the article, it mentions that it would be the first US-based company to hit the four comma club. They even point out that the East India Trading company, when adjusted for inflation, was a 7.9T company.
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by jperras 9y ago
Ah, great list!
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by jperras 9y ago
Who said I'm outraged? If you read the post I made, and the emails I sent, I do believe I come across as measured. At most, slightly frustrated. This doesn't outrage me in the slightest. > Github don't owe you an explanat
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by jperras 9y ago
All good hypotheses. > Github has been served with a confidential court order, warrant etc that requires this. I thought of this, but figured since the account was essentially bare of public activity it was low probability. > Github h
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by jperras 9y ago
> And the answer arises from the question: the sets are based on a different criteria. Hopefully I'll soon find out what the criteria are, if this is the case!
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by jperras 9y ago
> This is almost certainly the answer. I agree. I just wanted to know! But, as the replies on this post have shown, the only thing you get for asking questions that you don't have the answer to is vitriol and ridicule on HN. I write
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by jperras 9y ago
Not really. I don't particularly care about the name "malware" at all, to be honest, so I'll probably go with something in a different direction.
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> Why would you ever want to name yourself malware, let alone to use it "with the intent of working on some new open source stuff"? Why not? What about the (currently in use) github user names such as `hacker` or `virus`? The w
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by jperras 9y ago
> Is it too much to ask the article's author to assume the bloody obvious? Their intentions are not obvious to me, and I have asked both publicly and privately (individuals that I know within github). > wondering if the article
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by jperras 9y ago
> Just one of several examples why they don't owe you a reason. Of course they don't owe me a reason; when does a corporation ever owe you a reason for most things it does? It doesn't stop us from asking for answers. >
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by jperras 9y ago
Oh, not a bad hypothesis! I hadn't thought about that.
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by jperras 9y ago
If my username is preventing them from creating a /malware page, I'd have no problem at all with that explanation; their lack of namespacing is convenient, but can cause these problems to occur. But why hide behind the shroud of &
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by jperras 9y ago
I can understand that. what I can't understand is why https://github.com/hacker is okay. Or why https://github.com/blackhat is also an account. Or https://github.com/virus . Unless each
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GitHub is forcing me to change my username, and will not tell me why(nerderati.com)
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by jperras 9y ago
Just because you've never dreamed up a situation where it might be useful doesn't mean that they don't exist.
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by jperras 9y ago
Taubes has degrees in aerospace engineering and journalism. Not to say that formal education is the marker for expertise, but it's at least a contributing factor. I'd hardly call him a "health expert" just because he wro

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