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by markbnj 7y ago
I remember hanging out with Tim back in the late 80's on Compuserve's GAMERS forum. He was doing shareware back then, under the Epic Megagames brand as I recall. There were a lot of people on that forum making shareware games, mys
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Great story, but I don't think it qualifies as a nightmare. It's just a really interesting and challenging puzzle. The fact that the author elected to work on it for free ("This is nerd war") clearly places it in that ca
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Same, except add nine years to the age. :). I actually did try management back in the late 90's and early 2000's, first at a startup I cofounded, then at a mid-size public company after the startup was acquired. I basically hated
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Why isn't streaming filling this void? I remember back when winamp made it easy to receive live streams from hundreds of broadcasters. Is that still a thing? Broadband wasn't very broad back then, either, so the tech should be per
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by markbnj 7y ago
> Sometimes you don't want to formally disperse some information but are happy to let people overhear what you think. I'm not disagreeing with your main point because remote work is not for everyone, and who am I to tell you wh
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by markbnj 7y ago
Agreed but having some backups on a different platform and a fallback plan for deploying somewhere else should be doable.
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>> Just remember to unblock sites you wish to support financially. The way ad networks function, is unblocking a site you want to support any different at all from unblocking everything?
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by markbnj 7y ago
I don't know, the first third of the list contained about ten things I don't think any programmer believes about search, so I gave up at that point.
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by markbnj 7y ago
A fun little thing to do if you want to play around with the new release: install prometheus, prometheus node_exporter, grafana, and grab the node_exporter full dashboard from the grafana site. In like 10 minutes you've got a pretty co
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by markbnj 7y ago
You already know it's wrong, as evidenced by your post. I'm not going to be the one to tell you to quit, because I don't know where you work, or who you work for, or how easy it would be for you to replace the check, how many
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by markbnj 7y ago
Sure you are. You're hurting all the developers who will have to jump through timed test hoops to prove they know how to do things because the prospective employer has been burned by engineers who lied on their resumes. If you're
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How is it an ad hominem attack to describe his attire? You could argue it's irrelevant, but you'd find such descriptions in nearly any piece of this sort.
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I worked at a pharma sales company for a bit that was losing money. This was shortly after a startup I cofounded back in the 90's was sold, and was my first (and only) "senior exec" position after that transaction (afterward
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by markbnj 7y ago
Timed programming puzzles are silly and self-defeating, for the simple reason that writing software is a creative process, not a production process. It's the same reason why kloc metrics were dumb and have been mostly and justly relega
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Yeah no doubt that is why it is even in those later CRPGs, as they inherited a great deal from D&D and MUDs.
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I always got a kick out of the way an 18th century charlatan's name made it's way into the fantasy role playing settings of games like Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot, in the form of "mesmerization" spells.
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by markbnj 7y ago
Very neat, but it seems to me the issue with all wink-wink schemes like this is that you're ultimately getting something that wasn't explicitly promised, and so might be taken away at any time. So while interesting you couldn&#x27
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From the project page: > sorry @ the guys from google internal forums who are looking at this
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I mean that's kind of a narrow view isn't it? Sure these are not fun jobs to have. I worked ten hour shifts at an injection molding company when I was in my 20's. Ten hours of open the door, remove the part, close the door, p
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by markbnj 7y ago
As a non mathematician I enjoyed David Berlinksy's "A Tour of the Calculus" when I first read it back in the late 90's. It's similar to this lecture in that it strives to provide an understanding to non-mathematical
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by markbnj 7y ago
Seems like a good intro and I plan to work through it later. I've been learning a lot from Michael Nielsen's book, available at http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/index.html . He doesn't shy away from th
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by markbnj 7y ago
> b) Mark does care about privacy, but if he doesn't grow the company, he'll be forced out and someone less good will take the helm. (good) Can he be? He owns twice as many shares as the next largest holder (Accel I think). I s
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by markbnj 7y ago
Preinstalled crapware is one of the main reasons I still build my own desktops. Back when I used to buy Dells or HPs for the kids I always began the relationship with a reformat and reinstall. That was easy for me at the time because I had
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by markbnj 7y ago
Yes of course you're correct. Any system of that kind is concurrent across its architecture. But the current context being considered is that of concurrency as a programming paradigm, which was established by the OP's observations
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> The only justification for such design I can think of is HA. I'm not trying to justify any particular design. I'm just saying that concurrency and distributed processing are different things. And I'm no expert, but I con
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> I fail to understand the use of python in a distributed environment while the language has such poor concurrency support (on top of the lack of a type system). You can make your application HA, but they are obviously not trying to sque
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> cooking temperatures are not nearly high enough to kill prions Are prions alive in that sense? Can you kill a protein?
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I live in North-central NJ and they literally wander down the middle of the road in herds.
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Seems like there are some interesting parallels with the 1001 Arabian Nights. Thanks for sharing it.
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> In WW2 the majority of casualties were civilians, which was new compared to previous conflicts I'd have to see data on that, not that I definitely disbelieve it. But it does seem to me that this was more often the case than not.

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