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by jzwinck 10y ago
You can get it back by making your bisect test function return "good" whenever it sees a commit with merge conflicts.
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Oh we are perfectly well aware of our encoding issues. In NumPy, one of the most important libraries in Python 2 or 3, strings always take one byte per character. And it's not going to change. So the built in csv module needs to suppor
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Companies with Python code are probably better off keeping their working, tested code than switching to an incompatible interpreter and set of libraries which among other things will print "b'Hello',b'World'" i
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You can probably get most of what you want by simply not using vowels. A few non-English ones will still get through like knnbccb and there's also shlt and so on....
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This article is a bit inside baseball. For the majority of you who will not be familiar with this national capital, it really is quite an unusual place. There are dozens of sprawling luxury resorts (and a dearth of budget accommodation, unl
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The thesis made semiclear on Page 2 is that DB previously was staid and very German, and in what would later become their own view, behind the times. > The bank's German clients were increasingly discovering the enterprising nature
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Logging is indeed a critical part of many processes, but it's very hard to do it in a way that pleases everyone. Most loggers don't even support renewable inputs like bamboo. Before you think this is a mere joke, consider that no
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I think you have reinforced my point. Whether my takeaways from 1984 are orthodox or not doesn't matter...not everyone sees the same thing in it. This reminds me how in software they say most users only use a fraction of an application
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Somewhere around age 27 I wanted the same thing. I think the answer is no, for two reasons. First, we already have blogs and newspapers. More importantly, the same material is interpretable in many ways. For example if you ask someone what
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Far from defunct, these flags (and some others) are the only way you will receive communication from officials during most sailboat races. Some key ones are here: http://abyc.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/04&
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Large parts of cities will be turned into roads for driverless cars to ferry themselves to and from the office 2x as many times to save the owner $10 on parking. Traffic will go slowly because driverless cars don't care about speed whe
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The way I remember the first iPhone, it was hilariously expensive, yet lacked appeal to business users who at the time were the key demographic for such expensive widgets. Relative to the benchmark of "People who can afford to buy a ho
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by jzwinck 10y ago
YAML or TSV depending on whether your configuration looks like a rectangular table. If you want extreme flexibility using C++ as the main language, take a look at my project: https://github.com/jzwinck/pccl It lets you
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You're right. I proved it to myself by reading the whole thing replacing AfrikaBurn with IBM. It really works; e.g.: > By sleight-of-hand and the wholesale and completely unnecessary import of an unwieldy American pop culture franch
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DRW | Singapore | ONSITE | Software Engineer, Quantitative Researcher, Network Admin | https://drw.com/ Software engineer? Pop quiz! http://proveit.drw.com/?code=hn382 (Takes less than 15 minutes, will be
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by jzwinck 10y ago
My friend went to Barcelona and ended up in the hospital with a whole lot of stitches after being mugged in a tourist area after dark. The place is also fairly well known for robberies of tourists in rental cars on the way to and from the a
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by jzwinck 10y ago
The more bizarre part is how the various federal agencies do not coordinate. For example, the "fear they will be unable to collect Social Security benefits they have paid into." This means these people are paying taxes to the IR
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Some back of the envelope math: 50% of total staff are at Mountain View. Of 60k staff, maybe 20-25k are engineers. So in the US it's probably 10-15k engineers total. In my experience, software engineer attrition is around 20% per yea
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It's not as simple as N+1. Who watches the watchers? With a lot of these "redundant" systems you eventually have some SPOF which "manages" the redundant components. For example, many years ago I used a network ser
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Which is better motivation for a police officer? Personal enrichment, or the chance to use weapons, violence, and deception for advantage--once common delights now so rare!
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Plumbers have to spend unbillable time driving from place to place. $130 per hour is great but if each job takes 1-2 hours it could magically halve. Ever walk into a half empty restaurant and get turned away because they're fully booke
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Typical service hours at a Singapore hawker stall would be either breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner--not all three. This particular one is open from 11 AM to 8 PM [1], which is perhaps one hour longer than typical. If the proprietor
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Stock trading accounts in the US are backed by the SIPC up to $500k (even for non-US persons). This protects you from an all-out insolvency of the institution, which would happen if somehow they had all their money stolen by hackers. But i
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If you have 1000 mid-level managers, how many of them can you get on board with a plan to end up with 300 mid-level managers? The ones who do not get on board are a huge cost that your competitors don't have to offset in their top line
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In some places you can negotiate for a sack of rice. A television. A taxi ride. A dress. When you live in such places you become used to the ebb and flow of negotiating, the give and take. If the only time you negotiate anything, it's
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Strangely Panasonic now also sells Eneloop branded batteries. I don't understand what this means...but Eneloop no longer means Sanyo: https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-BK-3MCCA4BA-Pre-Charged-Rec...
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I recently found out that Chicago doesn't offer any shop classes to most of its high school students anymore. I learned this from a former shop teacher who has been forced to switch into teaching computer courses like Microsoft Offi
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I never said I got an "out of town call center." I said the dispatcher was not a local. Obviously I couldn't tell you where the call center was (though another time I called, I was routed straight away to the NY State Polic
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Is this an American Chinese thing? I live in Asia and when I ask what's good they usually say something generic like "The rice dishes are good."
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In the US a lot of us grew up with the idea that when something really bad was happening you would dial 911 and people would appear very soon to help you. I don't know whether this myth was ever true, but it certainly is not true today

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