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by kscaldef 16y ago
'ht' is Helen Tuck, the secretary at Caltech's Theory Group for many years; that mark indicates she typed the letter. I was there many years after Feynman passed away, but I have fond memories of Helen and some of the stories she had to te
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by kscaldef 16y ago
So that they can have the same congressional representation as the rest of the US.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> In other words, AT&T's towers are overwhelmed because AT&T didn't build enough capacity. That's not my fault and I shouldn't be paying for it. Who exactly is supposed to pay for it, if not the people using it?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
No, I guess I don't. Could you provide a link to the definition you have in mind or some discussion of the etymology of the term?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't believe the gay community has a monopoly on the use of the misspelling "boi", if that's what you're trying to suggest. It's certainly not the context in which I first saw it commonly used.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I feel like Philip had already been pushed out of the company before the university and the foundation shut down. But, it's been almost 10 years, my memory could be faulty.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> But having said that, I do think that the headline is link bait You realize the title of TFA is "Mea Culpa", right? The "link bait" headline was written by the HN submitter.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> I'd rather take greater risk and relax while I'm driving. I'm sure the rest of the people around you appreciate you making this risk assessment on their behalf as well.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I guess I'm just a social leper or something, but I don't have this problem. Nor do most of the people I know who aren't professional networkers. I have something in the neighborhood of 150 "friends" on FB. Only about 30 or so of them pos
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by kscaldef 16y ago
How does that affect where I want my keyboard relative to my monitor (i.e. positions of my eyes vs. hands)?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand how incorrect relative placement of the keyboard and monitor is any more or less an issue with a standing vs. sitting desk. Your upper body remains in the same position either way, so wouldn't you want both keyboa
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I turn off notifications on mail, Skype chat, IRC, etc. If it's not more important than the other things I might be doing, it doesn't get to interrupt me.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Absolutely... I think something like Growl is useful here to let you know "your compile is done" or "your tests are finished running".
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I think it's more interesting to look at what the crossing point is where it becomes useful to multitask. Surely, when on hold with some company listening to "your call is valuable to us; please do not hang up; the expected wait time is 45
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> And even if plenty of the code behind [scaling search] must be very interesting, the actual money is made in the adsense department, and though at that scale there are some interesting challenges, keyword advertising, statistics, repo
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't see the difficulty with compiling. Just get out your install disk, open up the optional installs, install XCode. You now have all the standard Unix developer tools (in addition to the XCode app, which you don't have to use).
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Maybe you don't talk to religious folks much, but that attitude hasn't changed all that much.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The (probably false) assumption there is that the oldest millennials will still feel the same when the youngest start working and they've got 15-20 years of work experience.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Something that annoys me both about this article and your comment is this idea that there's something unique about the current generational dynamic. Do you really think that every new college graduate hasn't said the same thing you're sayi
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm not sure that one guy who "specializes in strategy consulting for financial institutions" make me feel all that much more confident. Are there more members of the team missing from their "Team" page?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I would tend to agree, and I would also add that I'm pretty sure there's significantly more PHP programmers and jobs than either of Ruby or Python. Singling out Python as the article does seems a little bizarre to me.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
One of the primary virtues of b-trees is that they make efficient use of disk. Even if the full data structure is too large to fit in memory, because of the large branching factor you can usually fit all the interior nodes in memory. So,
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Typically, one expects a b-tree lookup to require at most 1 disk seek (for the leaf-nodes), and ideally your indices are fully in memory. So, color me skeptical that fragmentation of the index itself is to blame here.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
No, he does eventually get around to eliminating Ruby on those grounds: "So I am eliminating Python and Ruby, primarily for #2". I don't quite understand why you have to read so far into the article to get to that conclusion, though.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I have to admit that I'm still a little puzzled here. Why does MySQL need to retrieve the actual rows from disk at all? Since the query is just returning count(*), can't it be answered entirely from the index? Does the index not reflect
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't believe companies can legally discriminate based on family status, either in hiring or pay. However, they can, and do, make people with families pay substantially higher premiums for health care. At my company, a employee w/ famil
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The "decent neighborhoods" are fully built out in LA. New development is an hour drive (without traffic) from the interesting parts of the city. What priced me out of the housing market was a) extremely high demand in the areas of the cit
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I didn't leave California because of the taxes (I moved to another state with nearly identically high taxes). I left because, despite being in the 95th percentile of income nationally, I couldn't afford to buy a house in a decent neighborh
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by kscaldef 16y ago
No, “! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward)” is not intuitive. The example you give is one of the pleasantly surprising examples of a good error message from git. But, by and large, git's error messages are pretty awful.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> So I edit the file, fix the trivial conflict, and git commit filename. This is a bit vague, but I'm guessing you mean you open up the file in your text editor of choice and edit it directly. What I do these days, probably originally p

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