mbenjaminsmith

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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
Actually, if I'm reading wikipedia correctly, there are only 62 connections that need to be made. While that doesn't help with the error rate it seems feasible to make that many connections individually in a short period of time,
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
Yeah I caught that. I'm wondering more about the alignment problem. You wouldn't, for example, just glue a severed bundle of fiber optics back together without reconnecting each strand individually.
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
Can anyone here better explain the hand-wavy stuff about re-connecting the spinal cord? I (incorrectly or not) think of the spinal cord as bunch of wires, presumably that have to be connected to the correct counterpart individually. In the
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
I'll be a father in a couple of weeks but I've been working on a "life/work balance" for quite a while now. If it ever comes up with a client I remind them that we're running a marathon, not a sprint, and that
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
About your last comment, some people disagree with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter_in_animals#Dogs (I own a pretty happy dog myself but I'm not sure if I believe that dogs laugh.)
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
> The first paycheck/job you get greatly influences the overall wealth you're going to earn over your life. Bullshit. My first post-college job paid $550 per month. Deciding that this wasn't the best way to live my life I
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
There was significant unemployment among people I graduated with.
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
> Colleges cost less My college cost $16k per year plus living expenses. It's a long story why I was going there as opposed to a cheaper state school. My parents did pay for part of it though I had to take out $20k+ in student loans
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
I finished college in 1999.
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
Apart from people who are mentally ill (an immediate family member included) I have very little sympathy for young people who can't find their own way. I'm pushing 40 and have older siblings in their 50s. Only one of them went to
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
What's strange about that is they don't (at least the few methods that I looked at) define the behavior they're using for "combined" callbacks. Should you check for a non-nil NSError? Is an NSData parameter going to
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
I get what you're saying, thanks. I wouldn't ever do that personally, so I guess it's moot.
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
I appreciate that. I had never seen that. Of course I've never seen a case where checking for an NSError object failed either. > Although Cocoa methods that indirectly return error objects in the Cocoa error domain are guaranteed to
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
I was hoping to see an integrated completion and error block as I tend to wrap AFNetworking calls to achieve exactly that. I'm sure everyone has their preference but I really like getting everything back in one callback and being able
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
>> This candidate really has no idea what s/he was considering stepping into at a [small liberal arts college]. While s/he could have done the job just fine, working at a [small liberal arts college] is, above all, about col
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
> I don't like the metaphor or idea behind "you make the simple complicated". When I say simple things I mean what's obvious for someone who programs primarily in imperative languages, like top-down, line by line exec
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by mbenjaminsmith 12y ago
As a counterpoint I'll explain why I don't use Haskell. I like Haskell. I like it in theory and I like playing around with it. I like the discipline it requires having to re-think "everyday" things in order to solve th
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
> I and my team have probably reached out to tens of thousands of reporters If you said you put together a list of emails 10k in number I'd believe you, though I'd say a lot of those emails are worthless. I was a PR firm, or
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
Japanese toilet != bidet. The former are as sanitary and hands off as the process can get.
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
What, no mention of Japanese toilets? I live in Thailand where most toilets have a handheld sprayer next to them -- part bidet and part firehose. Awkward at first but it's hard to tolerate a paper-only cleansing after you get used to t
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119 We almost found out. As insane as that plan was, it was relatively sane compared to this, and similar, tests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
Recommended. Sure beats outdated/incomplete documentation + curl.
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
+1 I think I was on the $20/month plan. My overall impression of Dropbox was that it was always there when I didn't need it / never really there when I wanted it. 1. Most of the stuff I need to share with myself or others liv
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
That was the royal "you" and wasn't meant to be condescending. It used to scare the shit out of me as well. The point I was making is that talking or being in front of a group of people aren't terrifying by themselves. Y
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
I say just man (or woman) up and accept the fact that you are nervous. After a few packed conference rooms or board rooms you'll find it gets easier. Skip the drugs. It's valuable to realize why you are nervous. If you were asked
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
> Those "ratings" mean the sound will be distortion-free +/- 3dB over that range. No it doesn't. All speaker drivers act as bandpass filters. On the ends of their frequency ranges those +/-3dB points are generall
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
After studying guitar in high school for several intense years (was a Steve Vai fan as well) I was able to tune a guitar without a reference -- even playing all of the stings simultaneously and tuning each "through the noise". For
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
I had just eaten the last bit of an apple (I've been a core eater for years) when I saw the headline and thought A7 as well.
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
Off topic but apparently your site's cert has expired: https://www.cryptoseal.com/
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by mbenjaminsmith 13y ago
I never did get Demeteorizer to work so I can't compare them but yes the meteor bundle command gives you a Node.js app that can be deployed like any other. As I understand it the former was created before the meteor bundle command was

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