milesvp

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by milesvp 9y ago
I will add a point if enec-data. I live in Seattle, and have sun avoidance tendencies. I take 2000iu if D3 daily in pill form. I find that my depressive type moods tend to be highly correlated to when I've forgotten to take my D3 for d
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by milesvp 9y ago
Good enough? I find 100mb full duplex ethernet to be chaffing between my devices that don't support 1gbps. I rely on sneakernet a lot since I don't even have gb at work. But if you don't have a lot of data needs you can get b
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by milesvp 9y ago
There's throttling to consider, but there's also caching. It's been a long time since I've had conversations with any NetOps folks working for ISPs, but it used to be very important for the health of a network to do cons
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by milesvp 9y ago
I find it more troubling that someone would think they needed any of these patterns to implement php sessions. What you fail to grasp was the code was so completely unnecessarily complicated that it introduced a fuckton of subtle bugs that
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by milesvp 9y ago
Table top gaming. Board gamers are particularly keen to be around people while being totally engrossed in not talking to others. And there are some really good games that have proliferated in the last 2 decades. You may have to find a way t
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by milesvp 9y ago
But, but, but, then I'd have to touch the same code twice... /s There is definitely a poison in our profession, I definitely have to fight the urge to make sure no future changes will break something, instead of just budgeting tim
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by milesvp 9y ago
3. Ability: when google simply indexed the web and showed ads that others bid on there wasn't a lot to be evil with. As soon as you develop sophisticated tracking techniques and become the defacto leader in surveillance there is so muc
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by milesvp 9y ago
You may have been lucky. One of the worst messes I had to make work was nonsense a senior dev was working on up until he quit. It was a mess of object oriented wankery that soured me to even the term 'object' for years. He needed
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by milesvp 9y ago
Also disgusting. I tried a rinse aid on a new washer without a heating element, and instead of simply covered in water they were now also slick to the touch. They also stank with a headache inducing chemical smell. I'd end up having to
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by milesvp 9y ago
Normally you'd be correct, but in this case troll insurance actually produces a game theoretic reduction in trolls. Going to court costs trolls resources, time if not money. By guaranteeing that all trolls will be fought tooth and nail
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by milesvp 9y ago
I once read an article about the 'sport' of speedwalking that drove this point home to me. This is a sport, where pretty much the only rule is that one foot must always be touching the ground at all times. But in the age of video,
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by milesvp 9y ago
I actually still force myself type out anything that's important enough for me to know it or understand it. Text, code, doesn't matter. Some things I'll even write by hand if I really think it's important enough for me t
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by milesvp 9y ago
While I agree that it's sort of self congratulatory, I have a similar anecdote where I chose poorly. I'd been offered an internship with a CS prof when I was an undergrad, after doing what I thought was trivial extra credit on an
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by milesvp 9y ago
Forgive my ignorance, I really only have a passing familiarity with haskell, and I did a quick search before trying to lump it in with sql as declarative, but http://www.haskell.org states above the fold, "declarative, stat
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by milesvp 9y ago
I dunno, not being able to reason about performance is a pretty big deal. I've only ever fantasized about learning haskell, but I can tell you that this quality is what makes sql (or god forbid an ORM) a pain to deal with in production
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by milesvp 9y ago
You'd think so. When I looked at my mortgage paperwork a few years back in the US I looked for what I thought was standard "3 consecutive quarters of high interest rates" and couldn't find anything to imply my rates will
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by milesvp 9y ago
From what I know of Zimbabwe's inflation, anecdotally, I can't imagine worse inflation. Makes me wonder if technology made it more manageable than the earlier inflation of Hungary. I could imagine having bar code scanners and como
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by milesvp 9y ago
I believe it. Though my experience is that junior devs can be much faster at producing lines of code, and most of it's junk. Senior devs will always be faster at producing bug free lines of code, and certainly at catching more of the e
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by milesvp 9y ago
So you may be right about responding to @soandso, or even &here. The problem isn't responding to those, it's feeling the need to constantly be reading and responding to random conversations that should have actually been a sch
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by milesvp 9y ago
Can you really justify my contractor rates though? My time isn't cheap, and I don't work until the down payment has cleared. All a take home test does is eliminate your strongest candidates, since they generally won't bother.
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by milesvp 9y ago
I too was surprised to find out just how much variety and quality of plywood there is. I always thought it was a relatively cheap, kind of crappy alternative to good lumber. But since I've started following hobby laser cutting, I&#x27
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by milesvp 9y ago
Which is amusing, because in this context the bodybuilders are fundamentally doing science. They have experiments (aka, exercise and eating regiments) that, as I understand it, are repeatable, and consistently produce the desired outcome, a
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by milesvp 9y ago
From what I understand, much of what seems missing, and possibly broken in C comes primarily from the vast number of platforms it supports. It's actually surprisingly hard to build a language that supports both x86, and 4bit microcontr
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by milesvp 9y ago
I think you may he missing the parent's point, which is he's using the printer to speed up his design loop. This has heen one of the biggest driving forces I've seen in the commercial use of 3d printers. Sure you can outsourc
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by milesvp 9y ago
I totally agree with you. I am, however reminded of minecraft, and I wonder if there are any lessons to learn from there. Minecraft was an odd anomaly where Notch made it clear that he was going to keep increasing the game's price as i
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by milesvp 9y ago
You may also be missing the fact that VCs need big exits to be successful. It's very possible that the 2 businesses that are successful just didn't have the percieved potential to be unicorns. I keep hearing rumor that the term &#
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by milesvp 9y ago
My gut says that eventually prices will reflect a major player like this. Eventually it will get harder and harder for a government to borrow money to pump into other investment systems, or the other investments will get more and more expen
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by milesvp 9y ago
There is some danger here, to be sure, but I think time off is a tricky beast. People can get resentful it they think they have to shoulder the work burden for others who are taking too much time off. Also people tend not to take vacation f
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by milesvp 9y ago
My understanding is that, at least in the context of local polution emissions (mostly smog related?) is that the difference between emissions between electric and gas cars is dwarfed by the pollution effects of rubber and concrete particula
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by milesvp 9y ago
Not from my experience. In the US I personally know a couple of public defenders, and while their case loads are big, the reason they plead guilty so much is because that's the game that the prosecutors play. The prosecutors want a sla

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