krinchan

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by krinchan 10y ago
I missed the BBS phase. I vaguely remember sitting on the floor in my parents room playing with some sort of IBM-Compatible computer, but my real days were the DOS and Windows 3.1 days. I'm fairly certain I didn't hit the Interne
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by krinchan 10y ago
I can't tell you how true this is. A lot of my friends still in the startup world call me a "burn out" and accuse me of having "no ambition." Yeah, I have no ambition. Yet I can totally take a week off and head to
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by krinchan 10y ago
More like for the first time in a long time, serious negative economic impact is occurring. I sincerely wish this was a wake up call, but it won't be.
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by krinchan 10y ago
> Your last paragraph suggests that you have solutions to the problem. What are they? Right? I read that word soup and walked away with the paraphrase, "I'd tell you how to fix it, but I'm afraid you just aren't smar
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by krinchan 10y ago
Uh no. Your application can be completely shut down and push notifications will still arrive on the phone for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Once the app is open, you load the new bits of the conversation. Stuff in the background would
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by krinchan 10y ago
I'm about to die laughing at the hoops people are jumping through in the comments to claim they've never pulled up some porn and enjoyed themselves in front of their laptop. Ever. EVER
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by krinchan 10y ago
College is just all sorts of disgusting in the US right now. I support relief, but I'm sure that we're going to have to see a massive crash in the system before anything happens. I managed to go to a small public university after
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by krinchan 10y ago
Except Big-O was never intended to describe wall clock time. As soon as you try to use Big-O to describe a number of concrete units you'll fail. Big-O is purely a comparative measure, this algorithm vs. that algorithm. As it stands,
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by krinchan 10y ago
I always thought the Big-O notation was purely to compare one algorithm to another, not actually measure literal, real world performance. Trying to describe a hardware operation in Big-O notation then assert everyone should something other
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by krinchan 10y ago
Legally, all you have to do is post a job offering on some dark corner of the internet for your job that pays a fair market wage. If you can't hire anyone for a specific period, you get to look for an H1-B! The problem is that "f
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by krinchan 10y ago
Not exactly . Typically, iterating over a set is generally not what's intended when someone designs a set structure. This in turn becomes a problem in some languages. 95% of the time it simply doesn't matter. I mean, people it
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by krinchan 10y ago
Set is just sort of weird in other languages, I've never looked at set in the STL. I'm sort of surprised at the implementation in STL. Almost every other language's library tends to implement sets as a special case of a hash
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by krinchan 10y ago
> Just keep in mind that there is a huge variation, not every AD(H)D-er is the same. I covered this later on. The whole "sometimes medication is necessary" bit. > Then you should possibly contact your doctor, it shouldn&#x2
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by krinchan 10y ago
To be honest that's stereotypical of someone who was taking far, far more of their pills than prescribed. Most people, while they're prescribed a 30 day supply, skip pills on the weekends and vacations to maintain lower tolerance
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by krinchan 10y ago
Meh. So long as you don't graduate to a full blown cocaine or meth addiction, you should be fine for a long while. You'll have cardiovascular issues further down the line if you don't work out and/or smoke. I mean, all
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by krinchan 10y ago
I've observed this whole drama unfold first hand. Having been born in the early 80's, I grew up on Ritalin and most of my classmates did too. I actually do have ADHD, but I'm unmedicated for well over 15 years now. This i
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by krinchan 10y ago
Furthermore, lately IBM has literally bought Mainframe developers off of other companies. My employer several years ago pink-slipped their entire AS400 work force. Immediately, IBM showed up with job offers for all of them at a severe pri
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by krinchan 10y ago
My partner and I signed a pre-nup. I'd rate our chances of divorce at like...less than 5%. We've both been through a ton of crap together and we are totally committed to making our relationship last. The point is, we've bot
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by krinchan 10y ago
A lot of it has been studied and while there's some blue-light nonsense (not so much nonsense as heavily misinterpreted by the health blogosphere), there is evidence that a vast proportion of the human population is suffering from circ
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by krinchan 10y ago
We're sensitive enough that we preemptively scale as traffic "appears" to be increasing. So we add 5 EC2 instances, not at crisis levels of traffic, but "Hmmm...I feel a tingling in my extremities". We then remove
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by krinchan 10y ago
...so you run the servers you need for peak load 24/7? Ew. So much money just thrown away because "it's too complicated". We just scale based off of Network Out and only really spent a week finding the right threshold.
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by krinchan 10y ago
This is so weird. I hear this all the time. At my place of employment, we all have the ssh keys into our EC2 instances, but no one configures them. Ever. Period. Those ssh keys are purely for either validating changes in a test environ
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by krinchan 10y ago
I've found it really depends on the checkpoint-to-gate ratio of the airport. ATL is the absolute worst. There are three checkpoints for the entire domestic side of the airport, two of which are often closed. Wait times are normally 4
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by krinchan 10y ago
There's a lot of weird misunderstandings about how Twitter worked in the early days. I.E. "SMS encoded in 7-bit is 140 bytes." Something about native photo urls. A lot of this, I think, is because people lack context of wh
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by krinchan 10y ago
The function is not very long and it's sort of pointless. Besides, what do you name it? collectionInts? That's in the declaration, right there. candidates? As obtuse (and useless) as c. If you're grepping/ag'
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by krinchan 10y ago
> In Mercurial, I can mess with the file all day long after scheduling it for a commit OTOH, I find that behavior weird as I regularly add files to the index as I work. If a test breaks and I fix it, I can review the changes via git dif
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by krinchan 10y ago
You Must Build a Boat and it's predecessor 10000000 are games I still play forever and a day later even though I've maxed out 10000000 forever and a day ago.
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by krinchan 10y ago
"Every ship has three AI's. Due to the radiation and interference, all three suffer lapses in sanity. They're encased in lead, but the sensors are mostly wide open to radiation. Often, they 'hallucinate' from from
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by krinchan 10y ago
I keep saying this over and over and over to my more "the market will figure it out" co-workers and I just can't seem to get through to them. This is literally more than 20% unemployment in less than 5 years. Society will eit
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by krinchan 11y ago
https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/750020781733477/ You can send money in messenger. Not too hard to move from P2P payments to P2B payments.

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