makr17

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by makr17 8y ago
Contains carbon?
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by makr17 9y ago
American Full-Contact Hand "Ball"
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by makr17 9y ago
... in fur coats and diamond jewelry?
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by makr17 9y ago
A former coworker has a theory that you can accurately assess corporate morale by monitoring the volume of http requests to linkedin over time...
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by makr17 9y ago
Was talking with a JPL engineer at a party a few weeks back, he happened to mention that current state-of-the-art is the RAD750, essentially a radiation-hardened powerpc G3.
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by makr17 9y ago
You'd think, but at crowded platfroms people are still standing right in the middle of the yellow, and don't budge when the train arrives. :-(
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by makr17 9y ago
Doesn't need to be a skyscraper. Similar focus problems with the Disney Hall in Los Angeles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall#Refle...
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by makr17 10y ago
I don't use the account, but I was required to create one in order to get internet connectivity at home via AT&T...
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by makr17 10y ago
I have a fun memory of a lab in high school, must have been sophomore chem... Mix sodium bicarbonate and hydrochloric acid, it bubbles a lot, precipitate NaCl (table salt) out of the result. My lab partner and I finished that in about 3 m
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by makr17 10y ago
wasn't that the whole point behind http://f*ckedcompany.com/ back in the late 90s and early 00s?
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by makr17 10y ago
I've found that for me, "code so that I can comprehend it six months from now at 2:00am after several drinks" is a good motivator for "least brainpower".
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by makr17 10y ago
it was also in illustra, stonebraker's attempt to commercialize postgres in the 90s. every table had meta columns defining bounds for validity for this version of a given row. an update copied the row, applied changes, updated validit
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by makr17 11y ago
My recollection from the last time I played with it, some bits from core postgres are unsupported; things like sequences and recursive CTEs. Maybe all CTEs?
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by makr17 11y ago
exactly. my fear is that when Google says "Los Angeles" they really mean "Venice where a lot of our employees live and work", or at best "west of the 405"...
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by makr17 11y ago
Stupid Urban-assault Vehicle
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by makr17 11y ago
> "points" have no intrinsic value except in comparison to your classmates this would be true if the course was graded on a curve, but the article makes clear that > the course grades are not curved.
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by makr17 13y ago
> If its treated as property then the maximum is 20% of capital gains. if it is _long_ _term_ capital gains. short term gains are taxed at the same rate as regular income.
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by makr17 13y ago
I wore a watch in high school. Playing volleyball the summer after I graduated I went up for a block and came down minus the watch. When I showed up at college, there was a clock tower that chimed the quarter hour, and it turned out that
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by makr17 13y ago
I pasted the text of the Declaration of Independence. Boy was that fun... 9 of 46 sentences are hard to read. 19 of 46 sentences are very hard to read. 12 adverbs. Aim for 11 or less. 8 words or phrases can be simpler. 12 uses of passive v
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by makr17 13y ago
this! I can't begin to tell you the number of bad managers I've seen offer the competitive pay rise only _after_ they've been given notice. that just drives home how completely you've been screwing me up until this poi
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by makr17 13y ago
funny, I initially read it as gossip-oh, also not exactly positive....
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by makr17 13y ago
IIRC, they couched it with guidelines... 1 - I've heard of it ... 9 - literally wrote the book ... 10 - invented it so by that measure guido _should_ have rated himself a 10.
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by makr17 13y ago
+1 I really do wish they'd had something like this when I was growing up.
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by makr17 13y ago
> all corporations and CEO's are greedy except for Apple and Jobs (and probably Tesla/SpaceX/Musk). having had a negative run-in with musk in the mid-90s I have _never_ been under this illusion, at least wrt musk in partic
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by makr17 13y ago
of course, you can gpl-license your implementation of a patented algorithm. the copyright license under which software is offered and any patents associated with underlying algorithms are, I think, orthogonal.
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by makr17 13y ago
In all seriousness, it will depend on who runs against her, either in a Democratic primary or in the general election. She often seems stodgy and clueless, but I can imagine _much_ worse...
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by makr17 13y ago
interesting article. and after finishing it, the radio spots on my local npr affiliate pushing the car-donation angle make me a little bit sad. from the title, I was really hoping they would talk about what happens to the cars _after_ auct
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by makr17 13y ago
$ export HISTFILE=/dev/null
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by makr17 14y ago
> Isn't this part of peer-review? iirc, the paper wasn't published, let alone peer-reviewed. it was "discovered" and used as a justification by people who may or may not understand the deeper issues involved.