mogrim

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by mogrim 13y ago
Watching it as an adult was always going to be a recipe for failure, I think you really need to have grown up with swapping Star Wars cards, playing with the figures, etc.
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by mogrim 13y ago
> I feel like there is a bigger lesson in this story: I've got to stop making people feel silly for not getting my Star Wars references, and they've got to understand that there's no logical reason I'd know anything about the big names
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by mogrim 14y ago
China still operates controls on rural to urban migration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system#Effect_on_rural_wo... It's not a complete block, but a discriminatory limitation of access to services.
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by mogrim 14y ago
I don't think that's forgotten, there's certainly no doubt in my mind that by removing a large chunk of the population it made it a lot harder for the suspect to get away. What I do doubt is the proportionality of the response.
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by mogrim 14y ago
> City wasn't shut down Fair enough, I wasn't there - and I'm sure that had I been there I'd have been sitting quietly in my residence. But right or wrong, the message I picked up from Twitter / CNN / BBC / Spanish news was of a city sh
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by mogrim 14y ago
Ok, the London IRA example wasn't identical - but the Madrid example was. (Presumably) islamic terrorism, perpetrators still at large, etc. No shutdown.
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by mogrim 14y ago
After the Madrid bombings they didn't shut the city down, and they weren't suicide bombers. They didn't shut London down during the IRA bombing attacks during the 80s either. And that's two examples I've lived through. TBH I find it hard to
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by mogrim 14y ago
I'm in Spain, and this is very much the case. Overtime is basically expected, in many places there's a real culture of not leaving before the boss.
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by mogrim 14y ago
> How does Google think they can tell people what products to sell on their own shops? They don't. They tell you that if you want to advertise with them then you can't sell that stuff. Big difference. The problem is that Google is headi
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by mogrim 14y ago
You're highlighting one of the most positive things about the course: it's functional programming with Scala, in that order. The Scala part is less important than the ideas behind FP. (And I, too, found the course very useful. It's certainl
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by mogrim 14y ago
Java the language, definitely. But Java the language + Spring or Android or whatever framework your project is based on? Not sure that "a few weeks" would be enough for that.
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by mogrim 14y ago
But doing the gruntwork online, and focussing on quality interaction with professors? I can see real-time lecturing dying out: that's time that could be more profitably spent doing the coaching and feedback that as you point out has much gr
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by mogrim 14y ago
> We are not heading to Mega City 1. Gutted, I need a Chopper style surf board!
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by mogrim 14y ago
I get the same impression, someone gets uptight about a bit of juvenile sexual humour, and complains. All seems a bit Victorian and silly to me, but then I'm not from the US and I've not got any major hang ups about the human body. Male or
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by mogrim 14y ago
In Spanish it's "una horquilla" (f.) when you're talking about git, "un tenedor" (m.) would be a fork used for eating. Not sure if that makes it better or worse :)
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by mogrim 14y ago
I've seen a lot of posts reflecting on the situation, including of course this page on reddit. Certainly it hasn't just been a "mass venting of anti-feminist attitudes", although that's certainly been present too.
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by mogrim 14y ago
I'd also add that a lot (most?) of the programmers outside of academia that started 20-30-40 years ago have been promoted out of coding jobs - the culture's changing, slowly, but previously the decent salaries were reserved for management,
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by mogrim 14y ago
Surely most people in that kind of situation would move to gmail/hotmail/yahoo or similar, though? I'm sure my ISP offers me a free email, but I can't say I've ever used it (or even asked after it...)
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by mogrim 14y ago
So how is your autonomous car going to receive traffic updates, for example? (OK, not 100% technically necessary, but commercially I'd say it's pretty essential...)
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by mogrim 14y ago
I've also noticed that even small amounts of alcohol at night can have a serious effect on quality of sleep, even just a couple of beers - nowhere near enough to cause a hangover, so you wouldn't necessarily notice the effect it's having un
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by mogrim 14y ago
> I've never understood it myself. Governments are funded by tax money, and the people involved in these companies that love overcharging the Government pay taxes. Congratulations on ripping yourself off. Any additional taxes are dilute
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by mogrim 14y ago
Madrid is, however, a long way above the sea - which will reduce any tunnelling costs by a huge amount. Cost of living is also considerably lower. (Not arguing with your basic premise that US costs are over-expensive, but a lot of that 30x
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by mogrim 14y ago
I could invest $100 in two competitors, assuming that one will fail, but the other will be worth $1000. Risky - of course. A third company might come along and I end up with nothing. But still a reasonable strategy.
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by mogrim 14y ago
Most of the supermarkets round here do it, whether in tokens (40% off your next milk purchase!) or points-based loyalty cards which can be exchanged for gifts when you've collected enough.
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by mogrim 14y ago
Certainly burns calories which you'll need to make up at some point, but it's a fairly short ride and I doubt you'd hit the wall if you didn't eat anything. I'm not saying you shouldn't eat it, everyone's body is different, and if I were i
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by mogrim 14y ago
I'm surprised you need to eat anything at all on a short ride like that, at such a low BPM, and certainly nothing like 2.5 bottles of glucose! Just water to avoid dehydration should be enough. I doubt the diet has anything to do with it. (I
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by mogrim 14y ago
When you say "runs so well" do you mean a straight Ubuntu install, or did you need to start playing around in the terminal and generally faffing about to get it going? (Nothing against the terminal, but a straight install is likely to be mo
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by mogrim 14y ago
Has to be said I cheated a bit on the Coursera course, I used Ruby to clean up some of the data. Seemed a lot easier, and it's a lot more likely I'd use some kind of scripting language (be it Perl, Ruby, Grep, ...) to do a first clean up th
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by mogrim 14y ago
Not convinced, the non-programmers on the discussion boards were having real problems... Certainly wasn't the best course I've done on Coursera, although it did "force" me to learn R, so in that sense it achieved its aim.
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by mogrim 14y ago
I had a similar experience, but working the other way round - I was using Ubuntu as the base system, and a Windows VM for MS Office stuff. It was a real pain, TBH: navigating in and out of the VM was clunky, moving files around, etc. In cas

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