lazyant

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   by lazyant 10y ago

   if the deleted file is open 'df' doesn't show cleared space, 'du' does
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   Thanks for the effort. These type of questions are OK for a filter phone interview or entry-level Linux job imho as in they rely on "what is" questions (which can be memorized or replied without much experience) rather than "
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   > Doesn't everybody want to work hard and get rich? No, I dare to say most people in Europe and probably many other places in the world don't share this "American" view and they rather just work to live than live to w
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu... has a chapter on recommendation systems
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   by lazyant 11y ago

   Young, single, with no family obligations and wanting to work in media/comedy? seems the place to be. Also not everything needs to make financial sense short term, esp. in your twenties, go make your mistakes, who cares.
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   by lazyant 11y ago

   Not complaining, only stating that common questions can be trained and faked, diluting their value. Of course letting you explain yourself about what you are good at etc is better than narrow tricky questions, at the end there's only s
7. 667.▲
   by lazyant 11y ago

   So candidates where preparing for "what's your biggest weakness" and now they have to prepare for a twist of the also common "tell me about yourself"? again this question filters for people who practiced the questio
8. 668.▲
   by lazyant 11y ago

   Intersection of what looks like fun, that I can be good at, and good career or money-wise.
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   by lazyant 11y ago

   The "no meat on Fridays" rule is intended as a bit of a personal penance, which can be change for something else to give up or endure (former Catholic).
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    Right. Just for contrast, Christopher Reeve (most famous "Superman"actor) died in 2004 of complications of a _bed sore_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    Needs a bit of definition for levels, I take Level 1 is straight out of college, L2 is some (3-5 years) experience, kind of default, L3 "senior" (internal promotion, really good experienced candidates) and L4 super-senior?
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    The fact that Reagan (or his election people) negotiated with the enemy to keep the American hostages until literally the second he was president, I don't know how that's not treason. At least Carter tried.
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    Not sure if I understand the problem. You don't want in most cases to flush out file changes or dirty memory to disk, so you an batch those operations or write only final change and not all intermediary ones. You don't want to wai
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    To me that first sentence says more about the person writing it than the person described.
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    tidbit: alcohol is only a banned substance in target sports
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    This is exactly the same as in a Brain Games episode where the host had some college students draw a bike, only one got it right. http://natgeotv.com/ca/brain-games/about
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    If you automate sysadmin then you can make the case that sysadmin is dead, not the people who write the automation.
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    It depends where you want to stop the abstraction, you don't write assembly code or your own database/web server, you are just drawing an arbitrary line on products as a service (and I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment).
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    here's a diagram for Linux http://www.linuxfoundation.org/images/1/1c/Network_data_flow...
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    Can't believe this "don't have time to write a book. Hey, I had a brilliant idea you can dictate and outsource the rest, we are entrepreneurs!" is in the front page (or anywhere) in HN.
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    I must be stupid; with 2 hex chars (dir structure like 0a/7b/...) wouldn't we have 16*16 = 256 (edit: can't do math) entries per directory, not 96?
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    There doesn't seem to be much difference between the courses at "elite" universities and regular ones, difference is the student selection criteria. I'm surprise anybody will ask about your school if you've been mor
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    Unrelated: In the middle of your Performance book, wish I had studied it several years ago. For this tool I wonder what the observer's effect is.
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    They already have "fog catchers" in Atacama desert, see for example http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/05/150521_atrapaniebl...
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    I'll abstract that concept one step further: there can be no friendship if there's any (real or perceived) power difference, like in this case employer and employee.
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    I don't understand, TFSA max contribution for the year is 5.5k with current cumulative of 46.5k so how can you end up with a perpetual tax free account for more than that?
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    Validation (based on reputation etc) would make wonders, like (ex-)employees of a company could flag or vote up/down if a salary in that company seem legit or not.
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    From what I'm reading (OK, maybe I just watched it in a Brain Games episode) the inflexibility of the old brain is not as set as previously believed (you can teach an old dog new tricks).
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" comes to mind
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    by lazyant 11y ago

    One anecdote: I found something in the documentation that was outdated, I submitted a ticket and within hours two contributors were not only fixing it but discussing how to improve the underlying issue.