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by lurker14 15y ago
Oh, cop-speak preserve deep meaning. It clearly communicates the mindset of the speaker, which is an important part of language. When considered in context (not spoken by a cop), it telegraphs the mental illness of the speaker.
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They insert simulated images of contraband in the scanner monitors.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Can you run those numbers again, adding denominators for "number of adults encountered", and limiting to adults who have touched the child against the child's will, as happened in this case? You might find a hire rate of stranger-assault am
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by lurker14 15y ago
The TSA doesn't ask for your consent, they ask for you to understand what they are going to do. They pull out a little card and say "I am required to inform you that ..." It's obviously not sexual assault under law, since the searches are e
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by lurker14 15y ago
Only 535 Americans were invited to vote on the TSA.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Is that really why you quit, or an engaging PR backstory? As an entrepeneur, you'll have to deal with clogged sinks, office rentals, legal filings, and lots of other hassles similar to carrying around a piece of paper.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Picnik functionality is actually being folded into Picasa Web, er, "Google+ Photos", though.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Um, nice article? Title: FUCK THE CLOUD Headline: FUCK THE CLOUD Conclusion: Hell yeah, use the Cloud, blow whatever you want into the Cloud. The Internet’s a big copy machine, as they say. Blow copies into the Cloud. Nice backpedal. There'
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by lurker14 15y ago
But startups like Workday and Jobvite are mopping up customers from Peoplesoft/SAP....
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by lurker14 15y ago
That seems backwards. At a big company like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, engineers code all day and industry-leading problems. At a small company, there's a lot of setting up servers and customizing UI and evaluating 3rd-party software packag
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by lurker14 15y ago
Vitess https://code.google.com/p/vitess/ ? That's 1. A trivial number , if not a trivial system .
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by lurker14 15y ago
But in Google's framework, the only kinds of +1 are "your immediate friends" (those appear with profile pictures alongside) and "all the rest" which appear in the aggregate total "822,251 people +1'd this"
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by lurker14 15y ago
Good point... it's not even clear that donating the book is legal, unless O'Reilly wrote it off as a donation, and paid the royalty.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_sci...
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by lurker14 15y ago
To be precise. "ones" is not "recursively applied to itself". "ones" is not a function. "(:)" is a function. In actuality, "ones" is both an argument and a result of the (:) function (aka "cons"). This works in Haskell because "ones" is not
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by lurker14 15y ago
1. Another way to raise $28K is to move into a smaller apartment. 2. That $28K was almost certainly not legally reported to the IRS as income. Does anyone found a startup these days without breaking the law?
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by lurker14 15y ago
Giving the blog a name that is easily confused with "Window Steam Blog" says a lot about the team's understanding of how to build user-friendly interfaces.
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Nice job taking criticism in good spirits, responding to insults with charm, and working to improve.
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by lurker14 15y ago
That's incredibly not true. You are offended when your job offer is contingent on how well you interview, not how well you do real work? I am offended when a prospect declines a job offer or judged or culture based on how well I interview,
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that or nothing or someone else who can start 6 months earlier.
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[1] Dynamic Programming is a large part of computer science underlying efficient programming. It's not just academic trivia or irrelevant a company building software at the largest scale ever attempted.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630233 "Windows 7 Ink Input and Math Handwriting Recognition" Nice to see a version on the web. Weird to the web cloning naive software on a few years delay.
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by lurker14 15y ago
That wikipedia page has an apostrophe in its URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_t...
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by lurker14 15y ago
This post breaks line-wrapping for the whole page. I suspect that long string of italicized text is to blame. Please remove the italics (which also make the words hard to read).
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The middle version uses braces nicely to add whitespace to the function to help the reader flow through the code, instead of chasing matched-parens and wondering if each line is a continuation of the previous.
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by lurker14 15y ago
PowerShell is a shell, not a terminal. Yes, Windows default terminal is awful. Console2 fixes the problems.
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What's this about the HSA? I thought HSAs expire every year.
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Unsurprisingly, it's complicated. For example, at one hospital where my family member works as a therapist: The hospital receives federal funding for area X, so the clinic area Y must accept Medicare. in Area Y, medicare pays far less than
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They could put a paywall in front of it.
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Every conference room whiteboard should be paired with a mirror, so that lefties can write backwards. If you haven't tried it, writing backwards with your left hand is surprisingly easy when you first try it. (easier than writing forwards e

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