laaph

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by laaph 9y ago
Hello, I've done lots of computational and science programming, and have been a jack-of-all-trades programmer. I have worked in market research, oceanography, education, and other fields. Location: Oregon, USA. Remote: Yes, and I have
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by laaph 9y ago
> I guess "unique to the wealthiest" is rather strong, but the claim made is pretty specific. That seemed to be the claim, and I still state this claim is false. Forgive me for nitpicking more, but most places with famines tend
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by laaph 9y ago
I disagree with the second sentence in this assertion in the article you linked: "Perhaps less dramatically, anyone who lives in an urban center probably has friends or acquaintances who have chosen not have children, simply because th
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by laaph 9y ago
> On the first day of my Economics 101 class I was introduced to "economic man" or to make it more academic "Homo economicus." Of all criticisms you could make, this is pretty iffy. Did you complain in your physics c
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by laaph 9y ago
Considering how many laptops I've seen broken after going through checked-in luggage, it's annoying enough that I suspect you would lose a lot of people on that flight if you told them you had to check in the laptop.
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by laaph 9y ago
I had this with facebook. I'd like to see things in their original language, but I'm not perfectly fluent in two languages that I'd like to see in their original language, so I have the choice to "autotranslate" or
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by laaph 10y ago
Same here. It wasn't inspected, what ever extreme handling they did, all the packing I had for it did not allow it to survive, and it had a cracked case and something else no longer allowing it to turn on (it was a long time ago, I no
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by laaph 10y ago
I took Turkish airways from San Francisco to Istanbul. It was packed, though most were transferring to places further. Now I'm on the return trip, and the airplane is half full. I'm wondering if all the Indians and south Asians wi
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by laaph 10y ago
I always think these comments are jokes. Are people serious? I was thinking about skipping the Global Game Jam this year, and of all people, my girlfriend is the one who keeps saying that I should take the weekend off and do it anyway. Adm
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by laaph 10y ago
I can see how people might think of Trump supporters as misogynist racists. Some people have argued that it is taking things out of context, but every time I look the context is worst than I imagined. He denies rape by saying the accuser i
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by laaph 10y ago
Either you are lying, ignoring news, or are attempting to be too literal. He really did call for a ban on muslims in the US. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07... He did say m
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by laaph 10y ago
Can I ask what library you use for your roguelikes? Last time I was working with ncurses, I found it doesn't support unicode, and wncurses isn't well support on the Mac.
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by laaph 10y ago
> It turns out that many (most?) people prefer to live a more expensive lifestyle which requires more hours of work. I don't know that this is quite true. I have asked many employers for fewer hours and more vacation time in exchan
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by laaph 10y ago
Can I ask you what you are using to scrape with? I am finding that Amazon's anti-bot strategies change every so often, so unless I use phantom.js or Selenium, I have to change odd things like headers and various things every so often.
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by laaph 10y ago
I've never signed up for myspace, and yet it tells me one of my emails is compromised there. I'm not sure what to make of that information, since I know it's not a recycled email address.
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by laaph 11y ago
The people shamming the system have the ultimate incentives not to have income. If you are shown to be able to work, you have to pay back all the income you've ever received from it.
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by laaph 11y ago
> And it really was significantly harder for anyone except the government to listen in on phone conversations. This is absolutely not true. Outside everyone's house was a box, and by hooking two wires there you could easily monitor
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by laaph 11y ago
I love hackathons and game jams. I also don't run to win, and definitely finishing them is victory. I have to agree with some of the detractors here, though. If a major company sponsors a hackathon or game jam, I immediately get susp
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by laaph 11y ago
I think this is a poorly written essay that has all sorts of interesting things to say. I say that because I feel about half the comments here seem to miss the point and are focusing on nitpicks. I wish he had looked at the hamburger makin
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by laaph 11y ago
Many times I want to ask questions about the job details, and I'd like to see this feature as well. I always suspected it was to prevent people from talking about embarrassing things about the company. People are very good finding fau
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by laaph 11y ago
Can you tell me the talk show you are referring to and if it's accessible in the US? I'm trying to learn Turkish, and compared to when I was trying to learn Spanish, it feels like there are very little accessible resources.
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by laaph 13y ago
Partly because it is hard to operate in an economy that is far too nimble. One of the reasons that it is hard to sell to a large businesses as a small business is that it is quite likely that you will go out of business - and that will cos
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by laaph 13y ago
I've never been treated that much nicer at credit unions than banks. My last story with a credit union - I had been with them for years, but when I have a story as soon as I ran in to hard times. I was 62 days overdue on my credit ca
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by laaph 13y ago
Someone made a project called nbasic, but I would say it was closer to some macros around assembler (and allowed inline assembly!) more than any basic dialect I imagine many of us are familiar with. http://bobrost.com/nes&#x
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by laaph 13y ago
This is interesting, as I was recently asked to teach 6502 programming for the purpose of programming the NES (I never have programmed an NES, my (limited) background in assembly language was for the Apple II). After much searching, it seem
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by laaph 13y ago
While this sounds interesting, it seems like you are looking for a full time employee, not a freelancer. Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803764 is the thread you had meant to post in? If you are looking for a freelancer, I'
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by laaph 13y ago
I work in embedded software, but I've always been a bit weak on the hardware side of things (I know quite a bit about hardware, but I always had to drag out an electrical engineer for problems they deemed trivial). I took the MITx Electron
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by laaph 14y ago
I've known artist who have been using fundly to help pay cancer bills, which is life-threatening and totally personal. Here is an example, an artist who worked independently but his art is all over the place (on Magic the Gathering cards a
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by laaph 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - based in SF bay area, remote/travel is fine, not quite willing to move altogether Main skills - Matlab - Perl - C Other skills - Java/C++ - iOS/Objective-C - Linux system administration - Arduino programming My work experienc
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by laaph 14y ago
I certainly didn't pull off $145k after quitting my job either. :( It's not that easy and for those of us who are trying, are there pointers? Make everything snazzy, yes, but some days I spend so much time on polish it seems like it is fo

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