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by kscaldef 17y ago
> ‘‘It’s nice to know the lies are still coming,’’ read one post. ‘‘Is it really worth it?’’ read another. The relationship issue here has nothing to do with differing opinions on privacy, it's that someone is being passive-aggressive.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I have yet to see a Ruby "DSL" that didn't feel like Ruby. That is, unless you.talk :like => "this"
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I agree with you almost completely, except that I'm pretty sure that most people in this situation are, in fact, considering the consequences of declaring bankruptcy.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
This article is remarkably oversimplified. First, the obvious: once you ruin your credit rating by defaulting on your mortgage, it might not be so easy to just waltz right into a lower price rental. Not to mention that you'll be paying mor
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Most of Willamette is not very dense.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Well, the alternative view is that it's split by the Chesapeake Bay. It's a bit tough to tell whether it got Annapolis and the Bay Bridge, though.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
_Prenatal exposure to testosterone_, which is not exactly an obvious correlation.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think the mistake you're making is in thinking that git _has_ a model of development. It doesn't. It's an extremely flexible set of tools which you can build many development models and branching strategies from.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
When you're out on a job interview and they ask you "Are you interviewing with anyone else?" or "Do you have any other offers?" or "What's your current salary?", what are the answers you give? Would you always answer these questions comple
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by kscaldef 17y ago
No, really, sometimes it's "hard-work-discouraging-hard". I don't know anyone who thinks it's fun to pour through strace or tcpdump output trying to figure out obscure bugs at the OS or network layers. I've known a couple people who liked
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> "Bring up ageism and out comes it comes -- it's the one insult that's considered socially acceptable." > That and politics and weight, and attractiveness, and "white trash" / rednecks, and ... Not to mention that there's still an
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> To me it's odd that someone as accomplished as Dave Winer doesn't feel the same way. Then again, maybe it's just state of mind Keep in mind that Winer doesn't seem to be talking about ageism that's directly aimed at him. His examples
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted for this statement. It's true, the entirety of the "why" is in that sentence, which you'd think would be what this community was interested in.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Okay, but you could also say 19 = 20 - 1 then multiply by 1.6 20 -> 32 1 -> 1.6 and get the estimate 19mi = 30.4km, which is even closer and seems rather easier to me than figuring out a set of Fibonacci numbe
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Well, it is interesting, and occasionally practical for small numbers where you might have the Fibonacci sequence memorized. But, I also found it rather odd that the article seems to seriously suggest the technique of finding sums of Fibon
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by kscaldef 17y ago
"My interviewers were non-technical, and so after some prying I decided to save it for our next meeting." Separate from the question of whether you should talk to your predecessor, I'd think you'd want to talk to some of the current technic
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Yeah, the 1 in 20 number for attractiveness seemed a bit off. In fact, I'd wager that having unreasonable standards in this regard is probably the biggest thing hindering his dating success.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's not a tax, and it's not new. It has its basis in common law that goes back nearly a millenium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat . Also, DC is not the only state that follows this doctrine.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
There's two points in this article 1) Your req can disappear 2) Your candidate can disappear The latter has nothing to do with big company vs. little company. The former may be somewhat more of an issue in the face of large company politics
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Reads in MySQL are quite fast.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You think 95% of the population gets in 2 accidents a year? Scoble is either overstating his case, or he's a wretchedly bad driver.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
That may be, but I still look with suspicion on someone who says he would have gotten in 2 accidents in 11,000 miles had his car not saved him. In my experience, it's very, very rare for someone to just cut you off with no warning. I can a
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Reading this comment and your other comments in this discussion, I think you have some issues which have nothing to do with what version control system is being used. While you keep talking about "hiding code" and "hindering communication"
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by kscaldef 17y ago
This still feels like the sort of statement that comes from having not worked with a (D)VCS that does branching well. There is no "inherent organizational complexity" in me having a private branch that I share with no one and which is only
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Effective typing requires good tactile feedback, not being able to see your fingers.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think he was misled by the fact that the essay was reposted to HN a day or two ago. Or, maybe he simply takes a longer view than the average internet poo slinger :-).
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Personally, my take on the "unpredictable security measures" is that what's really being said is "things are pretty chaotic here and we don't really have a well-though-out plan in place, but we're going to try to cover that up by claiming t
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by kscaldef 17y ago
The comment to which you are replying is incorrect about what the "airborne fraction" means. Your point would be correct if that comment were correct. But, please see my correction to that comment.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You've misread the wikipedia article. What's remained constant is the fraction of (human) emitted CO2 which remains in the atmosphere and the fraction which is absorbed by oceans and other sinks. For what you've said to hold true would req
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by kscaldef 17y ago
That's very much my thought. Even though I live in an urban area, I get sketchy cell coverage in most of my house. If I want to have a reliable conversation on my cell phone, I can't leave my living room. Moreover, I appreciate having the

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