kelseyfrancis

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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
I once had a major tech company tell me during negotiations that "you can't really put a price on free meals", which I thought was a truly absurd thing to say.
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
Motives aren't really relevant here. Reciprocation or replication by others does happen, regardless of motive, so caring for family and friends (or strangers for that matter) is very much in one's self interest. I took issue only
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
> Taking care of an ailing parent is in no way connected to maximizing one's returns on anything (except maybe fulfilling a sense of what you "ought" to do). Unless that act teaches your own children how to treat you later
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
Okay. "Patient's cancer is in fucking remission!", said excitedly and happily is nevertheless possibly indicative of generally unprofessional behavior, which was quite obviously the point. But I guess discussions bereft of pe
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
Agreed. Would you want to see that your doctor's written stuff like that in your chart (e.g., "Patient's got some really fucking bad gout!")? No? Then maybe it's unprofessional.
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
The state literally prints currency to facilitate commerce, so it is beyond unjust to then seize it from people who use it to conduct commerce regardless of whether there exist other means of doing so. I sold a car to someone on craigslist
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
"There are more methods in Java's Optional class, but they are irrelevant for the discussion in this article." This statement represents a bad misunderstanding of the point of Optional. The fact that is has map, flatMap, and
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
Most of it does seem pretty unnecessary. Things like shades that adjust automatically throughout the day definitely seem more like luxuries than even conveniences or necessities. I've gotten much use out of a simple remote control dimm
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
Georgia Tech considers "computational thinking" to be an important component of a liberal arts education, so much so that it used to require all majors to take the same intro CS class that CS majors took. It was a legit intro CS c
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
I've haven't experienced the whine myself, but I've seen those complaints too. GPU switching is the one thing I haven't really tried yet. I've stuck with the Intel chip. I've read that people have had success w
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
The Dell XPS 15 [1] weighs around 4.5 pounds, has a higher-resolution display than a Retina MacBook Pro, a comparable i7 quad-core, 16 gb ram, etc. It also has excellent Linux support (source: I have one that I installed Fedora 20 on and ev
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
> Gnome 3 is pretty close for HiDPI Until you connect a non-HiDPI external display, where everything will still be scaled up by a hilariously huge factor of 2.
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
> In all its forms, ... or J2EE enterprise deployment it always seems to be 10x harder than it should be. I might agree about desktop apps (the problem OP is trying to solve), but building a WAR or EAR and dropping it in a directory to d
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
Have you been able to successfully use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers? That's the only thing I've had any trouble with at all (on the XPS 15). Otherwise, it's a really great machine.
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
There's no official Linux version of the larger Dell XPS 15, but it's also a great choice if you need a little more power: quad-core i7, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd. I recently installed Fedora 20 on it with no problems. I except Ubuntu 1
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
>SpaceX is a start-up in Silicon Valley. SpaceX is based in Los Angeles.
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by kelseyfrancis 12y ago
As with most regulations like this, in the US it depends on the state. In Georgia, for example, you cannot cross the street outside of a crosswalk anywhere between two light-controlled intersections, but everywhere else is pretty much fine
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
Equally asinine: "plain old tarballs would be better than svn".
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
And even beyond that, some governments levy different taxes on different items (e.g., lower tax on groceries), while other nearby governments may levy the same tax on everything. Further, some governments charge tax on the pre-coupon/p
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
> They are paying you to do tasks the way they want them done. Maybe with respect to "code quality", but it would be unethical write code with blatant security flaws, even if the organization paying you says "that's j
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
Streampix ( http://www.comcast.com/streampix )
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
> The real outlier for the U.S. on this survey was the question about evolution... Which, the way the question was worded, could reasonably be attributed to people just affirming their belief in creation irrespective of their actual igno
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
> its hard to say if regex was appropriate or not I'd say it's never appropriate to parse XML with a regex. Even if you're just looking for something "inside a single tag", there are just too many gotchas like en
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
> If everyone works on making everybody better you can make the place better. I totally agree with this, but it requires active participation on everyone's part. It only works when people want to learn and actually want to produce h
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
It's still just too much boilerplate to define and use immutable types. Named parameters would help a lot. Something like Scala's case classes would help even more, and along with them, some kind of pattern matching.
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
Can you clarify your comment? I don't understand how those four types could be avoided with reified generics.
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
An answer to that question is necessary but not sufficient.
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
Yes. Constantly wasted effort and the lack of any real, defined "mission" are beyond demotivating. They're glimpses into the horrifying reality that you're probably just a cog in a huge jobs programs. The fact that many
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
> Also, the federal isn't a credit, it's a discount off of msrp. The state is a deduction, so you typically have to carry it a few years to see the full benefit. Just in case anyone is curious. To clarify, there _is_ a $7500 fe
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by kelseyfrancis 13y ago
Indeed. The $7500 federal + $5000 state tax credits combined with being able to drive solo in the HOV lane make it a pretty good buy (or lease).

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