m-j-fox

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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Cube-farm vs. open are not the extremes. My father had an office the size of a studio apartment with a door and a couch and a detergent bottle he peed in to avoid running into co-workers in the bathroom. I've seen an SF startup where p
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
> Google Fiber for Business Maybe worth renting an office in Provo just to get the deal.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I wish I could just subscribe to news like I subscribe to Hulu. I'd happily pay $15/month ($22 ad-free) and then the papers I get access to can figure a fair way to divy it up. There's got to be a startup idea in there somewh
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Sounds like a death spiral. My father got a PhD in history so he could be a professor. If he couldn't expect that, he would have gone to business school, reducing the demand for history professors and so on until there's none left
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Why offer a degree when a BA in English isn't worth the paper it's printed on to employers? This is about knowledge, as you say. An affordable, liberal education, not a pipeline to Goldman Sachs. For those seeking ROI, boot camps
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Freeways also subsidize commuting. Would people sit in traffic every day if they had a choice? But if you suggest dynamiting a few stretches of interstate you get the same reaction from the public as you get when you suggest taking away pro
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Like the mortage-interest tax deduction, NIMBY zoning benefits so many people, once you do it, it's hard to undo without tanking the economy. It's a regressive tax, but so many voters benefit I doubt anything will ever change.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
> Why do people want to be landlords over others? Incentives. I'm a small time landlord. I was able to rent out my old house at a rate that covers the mortgage and a manager. When you factor appreciation, equity and tax breaks my ne
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Ghaa my eyes. It burns.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I can't understand the paradox that as tuition increased, tenured professor jobs became more scarce and other professor jobs lower paying. I guess fancy facilities and less gov't subsidy helps explain. It's gotten to the poin
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Not exactly language-agnostic, nor about programming per se, nor a book, but [Google Style Guides]( https://github.com/google/styleguide ) offer a lot of specific, opinionated, practical advice that you can apply immedia
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
The feature I'd suggest for any peer-to-peer application such as this is some kind of firewall punching. It generally requires a 3rd-party on the internet. To avoid running services for a low-bandwidth application like this, maybe it c
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Aren't cgroups a Linux thing? Don't know if Hurd has them.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Since most any language can be lowered to Scheme, Guile is not married to any particular syntax: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Other-La... If someone wants to write a python fronten
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I know this one. C++ looks good on paper. It has containers and types and generics. You come to find out that it's all based on meta-programming which is an interesting idea: Basically you're writing code to write code, and that c
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
You wouldn't like Saudi Arabia much. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_...
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Nature's PLL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-locked_loop
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Dang, you have a lot of rules that you enforce but don't write down. Any criticism could be called an attack and everyone is a person so you're being arbitrary. My stance is that I'm doing some guy who refers to "my engi
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
High-Cost Computing?
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
> Why didn’t I just travel the world, ride my motorcycle, tinker with my robots, hang out at my bakery with friends and family. Was Andy a douche before he got rich or is that the price of success?
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I'm farther from an expert than you. I tried (and failed) to find a less confusing way... One thing I see people doing when they have real gnarly type signature is to concentrate the horror in one place and paint a veneer of simplicity
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Thanks for making this. It reminds me of the day I fell in love with Haskell. I wanted to learn how a Verilog simulator works. There's a couple good open-source ones but I found the code impenetrable, so I went looking for something li
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Thanks, but I still don't get it. So SpockState m equals BlockChainState? So getState's type is m BlockChainState? (BlockChainState chain _ _) <- getState But it has to be anyway so, I guess I'm still confused. Is
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Nicely done. It reads like Ikea instructions. I didn't really know how blockchain worked until I read this code. If this was written as a teaching tool or a portfolio piece or even an art project, then I say its a big success. One ques
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Whatever you do, don't click the video at the bottom of the article unless you have a few hours to kill. Dr. James is an impossibly engaging and fun-to-watch youtuber and there goes my memorial day.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Cynical much?
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Looks sweet. May I ask: what did you find wanting in the other attempts (like Seaborne)?
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
> Honestly the big reason mobile radios are more reliable is that they're allowed to transmit at like 20x the power of devices in the ISM band. Yes and no. You can always go faster with more TX power, but if your neighbor can do the
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Yeah. If your neighbor has one 802.11b device and your router sees it on its channel then it has to get out of it's way, dragging your whole Network into the pits. If you detect anything older than 802.11n, change channels or start kno
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I used to work on the 4x4 mu-mimo chip. The way we tested was to connect coax cables from one board to another. You could get about 800MB/s out of the link that way. At home, I measured 100MB/s between two boxes in the same room a

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