kchoudhu

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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Yeah, Hamilton really gets into world building. Often to the detriment of actual storytelling -- which on its day, is actually quite good. I'd still recommend these books though. Edit to add: Hamilton also wrote The Void Trilogy , s
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
And also destroying and redlining minority communities in NYC for decades to come. The man's legacy is decidedly mixed.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Fair enough! Apologies if I seemed flippant -- things are changing so quickly nowawdays that apart from a few core texts on algorithms and programming languages, I've pretty much stopped expanding my library. It seems to be stackexchan
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I actually start saying "no" well before my plate is full. Optionality is good, otherwise sometimes you have to say no even though you would very much like to say yes.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Is anyone actually still buying dead wood tech books?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I just said no one day. It got easier the day after that, and easier still the day after that.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
... since I don't poop where I eat, that percentage is always 0 for me. I don't think I'm cut out for the startup world.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The idea behind passive income is that it keeps coming . Since this is going to get shut down for abuse, it's not exactly passive.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I got the guided tour of this code from bwk back in... 2006?[1] I wasn't sure I wanted to deal with computers on a day to day basis when I took the course. The lecture blew my mind, and I started looking for programming jobs the next d
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
"The Forever War" was my first introduction to this form of time stretching. I actively search out authors who incorporate it into their storytelling, so I was thrilled when I stumbled across Alastair Reynolds' writing. I t
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
You're right: that is pedantic -- in the worst sense of the word.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I'm not sure it did. Major staples of British television nowadays appear to be eviction drama and lionizing debt collectors. My wife calls the genre "poverty porn" -- and I don't think people are watching these shows to
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Capital One lets online banking site remain insecure for 24 hours(twitter.com)
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
That's it? We had a chest freezer full of the stuff within two months of my daughter's arrival.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I preferred the original version :)
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Has this been edited since it was originally posted? I recall reading something about setting money on fire in the one version back in the day...
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The more I mess around with Rust, the more it seems to fit the bill as the new --C++.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
He was a blogger at DealBreaker back in the day. The archives are definitely worth mining for his content.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I guess. Of course, if you're using BitLocker to store anything of value...
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I don't get why they're doing this. WinRT is dead, the Surface RT is definitely dead; why bother screwing over people you've already screwed over?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Apparently you missed the leftpad drama a couple of months ago. (It was ridiculous then, and it is ridiculous now)
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I'm not sure complicated reporting is how banks are maintaining margins. They're diverting billions into complying with these requirements, for very little gain.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
These fines are fundamentally stupid: yes, Citi's IT fucked up, but the fault is with the regulators for having such braindead reporting requirements to begin with. Instead of something sensible like "you trade, you report",
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Oof.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I seem to recall hearing that the funding for this was contingent on there being a lander as well?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I understand the importance of this mission, but after the Curiosity skycrane, the Pluto flyby and the Rosetta orbiter, I'm really jonesing for something cool . What else is in the pipeline?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I've spent plenty of time waiting for my Uber as well: lots of "your car is 5 minutes away for 15 minutes". Uber isn't as brilliant as they want us to believe they are.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I don't want a barista to teach me to make coffee -- I want a barista to make me coffee.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Plenty of people are noping out of the rat race in their early 30s. It's one of the few joys of working in this lovely industry of ours.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Because dealing with their stupidity has allowed me to not pay for air travel over the last decade. Life is a series of tradeoffs, sadly.

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