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by mkelly 16y ago
If they're describing the Moody paper I'm thinking of, this is _Chains of Affection_. Here's a link (PDF!): http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.131...
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by mkelly 16y ago
I don't understand why mahmoudimus's comment (my sibling) was killed. I've been considering trying to re-map my muscle memory to use ^C or ^[ instead of escape in vi, largely because my capslock key is an extra control. Considering how much
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by mkelly 16y ago
And how many systems does a google sysadmin administer? :) (Answer: a lot.)
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by mkelly 16y ago
An important distinction that's missing in this discussion is that you can be either an SA-SRE or a SWE-SRE. You can figure out which is which from how the SRE job postings on google.com are phrased. SWE-SREs have to pass SWE interviews. I
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by mkelly 16y ago
It's kind of like a REPL for your search queries. Kinda.
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by mkelly 16y ago
One qualitative difference: the "I'm feeling lucky" button (which you can use if you hit right-arrow on a search suggestion) has actually become useful. You can start typing, scroll down to an entry you like, and check the snippet of the to
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by mkelly 16y ago
Some typical search engine strategies are on this page (and specifically in this subsection): https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Index_%28sear...
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by mkelly 16y ago
The interesting part, to me, was the difference in what "upstanding citizen" means, clothing-wise, depending on your position on the case. I hadn't thought about it much, and I was guilty of assuming more dressed-up was always better.
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by mkelly 16y ago
Your puzzlement is predicated on the assumption that dreadlocked hippie activists are automatically unclean.
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by mkelly 16y ago
I like this article. I wish, however, that it didn't include the little interpretations in the second half of each section. I think it would be more powerful, and honest, if they weren't there.
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by mkelly 16y ago
I think I first learned about Erdos when I learned a prof who taught one of my undergrad CS courses looked after Erdos for a while -- handling his finances, etc. He was the one who bet Erdos he couldn't quit amphetamines for a month (and tu
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by mkelly 16y ago
(This probably both offends both Perl people and C++ people. Here goes.) I think writing clean, readable, modern Perl is like writing clean, readable, modern C++: it's _all_ about what language features you avoid using. Writing good code is
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by mkelly 16y ago
I wasn't sure if they quoted that blog seriously, or as an example of bedbug infestations inciting xenophobia. (The xenophobia undoubtedly existed beforehand, but that, as they say, is neither here nor there.)
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by mkelly 16y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with this article, and the PG article that preceded it. I try very hard to avoiding owning more than I must. Big moves and traveling help tremendously with this. When I moved to New York city from southern California,
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by mkelly 16y ago
Well said. The point that Wall Street != New York is particularly important here, w.r.t Antonio's post. I've only been here a year, but I know New York is big , and it is not homogeneous. I don't think Antonio ever realized that. Also, k
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by mkelly 16y ago
The comment above (and piaw's reply) should be getting more attention. He's not talking about overall work experience. He's talking about promotion . In my experience so far, Google is not the kind of company that's going to come find you
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by mkelly 16y ago
Their strategy, as I recall, is to make sure the information remains available even when it's politically unpopular. E.g., they provided info about Kaupthing when some media in Iceland was gagged: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/
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by mkelly 16y ago
I'm always interested in potentially surprising stats, so I'd be interested in seeing the answer to this. That said, this link contains the phrase "forgot how many 0's"... draw your own conclusions about its reliability. :) [edit: tried to
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by mkelly 16y ago
What about the title "software engineer" offends you? Would you not be engineering software? Does your title matter to you?
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by mkelly 16y ago
"Isn't it rather like Microsoft used to be, when they can assume that their sweeping changes will be unquestioningly accepted by everybody, no matter what the final result is like? I thought open source freed us from that." The other reply
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by mkelly 16y ago
I also thought the same thing. I don't mind fully overlapping windows (a la tabs), but leaving a bunch of useless space, occupied by nothing more than a pretty picture, on my power-huntry monitor is what's inconceivable to me. I think I've
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by mkelly 16y ago
Can anyone enlighten me as to the notification he's receiving? I'm only a light user of github, and 'git pull' and 'git log | less' have always been all the 'notification' mechanism I've needed. I've not dealt with other people wanting to e
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by mkelly 16y ago
It's a fairly vanilla mutt+fetchmail+procmail setup. Complicated compared to an all-in-one email application, but not if you're used to separating MUAs (e.g., mutt) and MDAs (e.g., procmail). (EDIT: Oh, and I agree with my sibling about IMA
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by mkelly 16y ago
Does anyone have a model M from these folks (with or without APL keys)? Is it good? Any thoughts? I've been hankering for a buckling-spring keyboard for years now (ever since I used one at university), but I'm a little hesitant to put down
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by mkelly 16y ago
At first I wasn't sure if this submission was a joke or not. I'd be quite interested in any argument in favor of installing webmin. I'd never willingly install that piece of software on a machine connected to the internet.
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by mkelly 16y ago
A decision that inconveniences you isn't necessarily evil. I agree it's unnecessary.
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by mkelly 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. An embryo can afford to be good at engineering and have no understanding of the context, but anyone who's really excellent must understand how what they do fits into everything else.
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by mkelly 16y ago
I disagree that it's evil . If you're a company doing business with other big, powerful companies (telcos), you can't just attack their business model and expect to keep doing business with them unless you're in a really strong position. S
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by mkelly 16y ago
Meh, that's what I get for switching up my sentence in the middle. :) You're right -- should be: if it's better in the long run, it's totally worth the initial confusion.
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by mkelly 16y ago
UI is always a mix of usability and discoverability, I think. The color wheel is perfectly usable, but little changes might affect discoverability. That said, I think far too many UIs (window managers, etc) confuse the two. I'm only a newbi

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