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by kscaldef 14y ago
Yeah, that was my reaction as well. My wife and I each drink a couple liters a day. Our Sodastream is one of the best purchases we ever made. We save money, we're not lugging bottles home from the store, and it's better for the environme
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I don't believe this satisfies the Condercet criterion either. Consider these rankings of preferences: 20% A ... 20% B ... 15% C ... 15% D C ... 15% E C ... 15% F C ... In a two-round run-off, one of A or B wil
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Your SSN was never intended to be a secret, and the fact that anyone ever treated it as such was a flawed idea.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Unless you actually randomly select the words, I'm fairly sure that the analysis of strength of that strategy is flawed. And if you do randomly select the words, I'm not sure how easy they are to recall. And, I'm really skeptical how easy
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I object to Facebook making this decision for me. I _didn't_ add too many friends. My newsfeed _wasn't_ overrun. Yeah, I had to hide a few annoying Apps, but no big deal. And then, one day, I stopped seeing posts from lots of people, inc
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I'm not sure why it should be, as there's no irony to be found. That sentence is neither contorted nor incomprehensible nor a muddle nor a disaster. One might argue on the issue of whether it's pretentious, but given the target audience o
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Have you tried LeechBlock?
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by kscaldef 14y ago
If your wife expects you to support her financially. Fortunately, such arrangements are no longer mandatory.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Off-hand the following categories occur to me: co-workers, classmates, random people at user groups you attend (or any other club-like group), family members. In all these cases, you don't have control over the complete set of people you i
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by kscaldef 14y ago
> Hmm, I'm not sure I like the idea of intentionally trying to steer the candidate off on a tangent. It feels like a trap. And, yet, it's quite a realistic model of what happens in meetings and presentations all the time. > In an in
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by kscaldef 14y ago
gerrit's permission system goes a good ways in the direction you're talking about. (Unfortunately, it's rather baroque and poorly documented.) You can specify who can submit patches, who can approve them, who can merge, whether a reposito
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Maybe they have private offices.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/poll_americans...
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Most co-working spaces that I've looked into had options for fixed desks. Even if they don't, it might be nice to think you can go get lunch or a coffee without someone taking your desk (or ethernet cable)
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by kscaldef 14y ago
A lot of this stuff is open to interpretation by auditors. SOX doesn't literally specify any of this sort of stuff. In my experience, SOX usually ends up meaning that developers don't have access to production systems, or significantly limi
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by kscaldef 14y ago
You could swap `book' and `author' with `code' and `programmer' and you get the open source model. Except that typically programmers write open source code which they then use directly themselves to do other things they want to do
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Personally, I'm willing to lose monotonicity. I mean, it's only Twitter. If I don't see every single message because I didn't scroll back far enough, I don't really care.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
TFA: "Herd immunity occurs when a few unvaccinated children are protected by the fact that almost everyone around is vaccinated and therefore cannot infect them. It's important for those for whom vaccines have not worked, those who have imm
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by kscaldef 14y ago
You're missing the point in two ways a) "Starbucks" serves in this situation as a generic term for an espresso drink of your choice. Like Kleenex or Xerox or what-have-you. When someone says "people will spend $4 on a coffee at Starbucks
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Much more extensive and detailed information is provided by https://github.com/hoxu/gitstats
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I think there's a plus and a minus to the class navigation features of IDEs. Undoubtedly they make it faster to find your way through a thread of code, helping you to avoid breaking concentration and flow. However, I also observe that man
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I'm glad that hosting dinners has worked well for you, but my experiences attempting the same almost exactly mirrored the descriptions in the NYT article. I.e., long and exhausting back-and-forths trying to find a day that works for all pa
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Many companies have a policy for bereavement leave. The amount may depend on your relationship to the deceased. For example, it might be a week for a parent, spouse, or child; 3 days for a grandparent; etc.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Hmm... I suppose policies may vary, but in my experience exactly the opposite tends to be true. Sick days and personal days vanish at the end of the year while vacation days generally accumulate (sometimes with a cap, though). It's fairly
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by kscaldef 14y ago
This is how people work and it will not change anytime soon. Everybody needs weekly check-in with the company (represented by the manager) to stay in course. I call bullshit. I have over a decade of experience in this industry an
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by kscaldef 14y ago
While many projects / companies work as you say, the linux kernel development model has always been much more like how github does forks. Git was designed to be truly distributed and de-centralized, although many people choose not to use i
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by kscaldef 14y ago
My double degree required completing 150 credits, rather than 120 credits for a single degree with double major (the equivalent of an addition year of courses). I can't recall at this point if there were any additional course requirements,
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Really? I think there's far, far more mocking and pity and criticism going the other way.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
Frankly, the most of the "parties" at most conferences _aren't_ good. Mostly, "party" just means an open bar and, if you're lucky, some light nibbles, either in the exhibit hall of the conference center or in a tacky hotel restaurant.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
I figured this was likely to explain almost all of it: Founding Team Composition: Silicon Valley founding teams are 34% more likely to be technical heavy than founding teams from NYC. Whereas NYC founding teams are almost 2x as likely

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