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by kscaldef 17y ago
Vigorous biking burns a ton of calories, and if you avoid junk food it can really be a chore to eat enough, in my experience. This spring I was riding about 100 miles a week, and I had to eat about 3300 calories a day to maintain my weight
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> Not only that, but gay guys can't even tell who else they could potentially date and who would be offended by them asking! Uh... the same is true for straight guys (and for women). The odds might be better, but not every woman wants
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if you're carrying around a second lock
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It's a bit hard to tell from the image shown, but contrary to the claim in the article, it doesn't look like it would be difficult at all to steal the front wheel of the bike.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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I came here to say exactly the opposite. I read a lot of code these days where people seem to think that descriptive variable and function names replace the need for any comments. But, even the most well written code is only going to make
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I had a very similar reaction. I rode a century (100mi) bike ride this spring, and telling people I was doing it was an important part of staying motivated. Also, because the ride was a charity fundraiser, once I had people sponsoring me
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You're missing the point, I think. Higher-level languages just reduce the number of lines before you start to hit the maintainability wall from poor design. So, while maybe it's >100K lines of C that's where it typically happens, it m
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Exactly. I was hired on as a Principal Engineer at a Rails shop despite having literally about 3 hours of experience using Rails. But, I'd worked with the rest of the senior technical staff before and they knew that just didn't matter. S
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> It's uncommon in industry, currently, because it is hard and most programs don't need to be reliable. But, if it were easy to guarantee correct code, it's something that everyone would want. Well, the sort of obvious reason we don't /
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In languages with manual memory management and an impoverished set of control structures (i.e. C), goto can occasionally be a tolerable tool for error handling. Once you have automatic memory management or try/catch, there's pretty much no
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Reliance on _any_ single service for life-critical things is just as you say.
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So, when Portland's Office of Emergency Management uses twitter to notify people of severe weather alerts, or the public transit system tweets about system breakdowns, that's not serious or important? Just because you assert it doesn't mea
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your C compiler will also throw an error on that if you're using -Wall -Werror. Which you are, right?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
In every company I've worked for (pre-money startups, post-money startups, small public companies, 10000+ behemoths), the HR tech recruiters actually interacted with the team frequently and had a good idea how they dressed and behaved.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I always tailor my cover letters to each company. On the other hand, I'm not shotgunning out 100s of resumes. But, my experience on the other side of the table is that I've never actually gotten a cover letter passed on from HR. Or, if HR
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And remember, you can always ask the HR rep setting up the interview what the typical dress at the company is.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's hard to go out for a beer with someone who isn't in the same place that you are. And people will definitely tell you stuff over a beer or two that they won't write about in their blog.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
But, that's his whole point! He's saying that it's incongruous and inadvisable to cheap out on the design and production of the receipt when it's one of, if not the, final impression a diner will take away from your restaurant.
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> I say OR because you should only do one or the other since (at least I can't figure it out) there is no filtering on Twitter. Therefore, following too many things becomes incredibly impractical. There are clients that do provide this
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> Our single <$5,000 box handles about 4M pageviews per day without moving the cpu above 5% steady state. That's the sort of baseline I'm used to from the Microsoft stack You realize how meaningless a statement like this is, right?
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I still say that's a remarkable claim. Modern computers are complicated (not to mention language runtimes and frameworks), and few applications admit straightforward algorithmic analysis.
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> I trust my code to be optimal, or I know where it isn't and leave it at that That's a pretty remarkable claim, unless you religiously profile all of your code.
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> e.g., employee tells boss, "I feel my talents are not being used" If you need a computer program to tell you this employee might quit, you're doing something wrong. > On the other hand, if you just want a raise, or more challengin
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It's not really the users' fault that Twitter hasn't deigned to think of a business model.
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Given that >60% of Twitter accounts are abandoned, 5% is a more significant fraction than it seems. And regardless, by that standard, virtually all options are "obscure". Most users will never go and look at the options that are avail
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Unless you signed up in the last day or two, you most certainly did have that option.
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The best hypothesis on the scaling explanation is that at the point where your tweet is injected into the message bus, they have your full friend-of-followers network available. With that information, they can reduce the number of follower
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It's not really an obscure option. The stream of tweets I see is dramatically different today than it was on Monday. And, it's also dramatically different for people who had the option set the other way. They've managed to come up with a
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by kscaldef 17y ago
The problem is that you must adopt a standard tab width for this to approach. Otherwise when you mix this with team members who use only spaces, things with become inconsistent. Also, as I pointed out, with languages like Python & Has

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