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by mprovost 13y ago
A lot of older houses here (NZ) have the door handles about 3/4 of the way up the door, about chest height for an average adult. I always assumed it was to keep them out of reach of children. In modern times they've moved down to
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by mprovost 13y ago
So you would be fine with it if your job was Sun-Thurs and your partner/husband/wife worked Saturday-Weds? What about kids who still go to school M-F? When would you see them There is actually a benefit to society in having weeken
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by mprovost 13y ago
But why would you do that? (The only time I've ever used that is when benchmarking and you need a clean cache between runs). Otherwise the kernel will just empty it as needed when you run a program.
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by mprovost 13y ago
I doubt it affects recruiting very much because most people will be convinced that they'll be in the top 10%, or that they're being hired specifically to replace someone in the bottom 10%.
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by mprovost 13y ago
There is a project underway to try and declare countervailing duties on VFX work done overseas. But you have to have a US based firm to request them from the Dept of Commerce and whichever VFX company does that will probably never get anoth
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by mprovost 13y ago
Two of the top VFX companies, Pixar and Lucasfilm, were part of this same collusion with Apple, Google etc but they settled for $20 million in July. One of the problems that workers face in the VFX industry is that the studios operate globa
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by mprovost 13y ago
Just to clarify, in the UK osteopaths aren't physicians. Osteopathy is pretty clearly in the alternative healthcare camp.
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by mprovost 13y ago
It's less about forcing other people to make something newer and better (which happens all the time) as it is to force Disney to make something newer and better, instead of just continuing to cash in on their original idea. That gives
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by mprovost 13y ago
Hong Kong expired on the British. The point of copyright is to encourage the creation of new works (called content these days). If Disney can just keep making money off Mickey Mouse forever and use that money to crowd newer ideas out of the
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by mprovost 13y ago
The protocol may not but the drives themselves do so it's pretty much the same difference.
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by mprovost 13y ago
It's like how they keep the TSA x-ray readers at the airport from becoming too complacent, every once in a while you have to slip a gun through the scanner and see if they catch it. Otherwise you're just looking for (presumably) r
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by mprovost 13y ago
Dwarf Fortress is Turing complete. http://boingboing.net/2010/04/15/colossal-turing-mach.html
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by mprovost 13y ago
EIG's business model is to buy up smaller hosting companies pretty much just for the customer base and then migrate them all onto the same shared infrastructure. They keep the front end sites operating the same but it's all the sa
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by mprovost 13y ago
It's not doing it as a feature but as a fallback. If you don't install the whole redo program but just include a "do" script it doesn't do dependency tracking so it just rebuilds everything. If you install redo itse
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by mprovost 13y ago
Thinking like that leads down the same rabbit hole where autoconf/automake disappeared, only using bourne and m4 (!). Just in case you want to compile your code on a decade-old copy of HP-UX. Or I suppose some shiny new distro that is
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by mprovost 13y ago
I would say Kanban is the opposite of keeping your head down - you have to come up for air every time you finish something and priorities can change each time. Waterfall is the classic head-down approach, work on something for months/y
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by mprovost 13y ago
There is (if you call it fixing): http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollyw...
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by mprovost 13y ago
AKA Seagull Managers ("Fly in, make a lot of noise, shit on everything, fly out"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_manager
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by mprovost 13y ago
Of course there's a bit of urban legend around it but "several others" doesn't make for a good anecdote. I actually heard the story from Andy himself.
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by mprovost 13y ago
I always thought this was the largest food fraud, it almost brought down American Express. And they weren't forging the origin of the product but actually replacing it with water! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad
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by mprovost 13y ago
The story goes that Page and Brin had intended to name the company "Googol" after the number but Andy wrote it "Google" on the check and they had to incorporate under that name to cash it.
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by mprovost 13y ago
Here in NZ there's a minimum wage of $13.75 but there's also a starting out rate of $11 for people under 20 who are in training. So there is an incentive for companies to hire teens and get them started in the workforce.
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by mprovost 13y ago
I spent years typing vmstat into Solaris machines after reading Cockroft's "Sun Performance and Tuning" book. You would think there would be something better these days, Solaris at least moved on to dtrace. Now I use atop on
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by mprovost 13y ago
If you're still using sar have a look at atop instead. It's great, it's like top crossed with Time Machine, you can log your system's performance like sar but then look at it like top and rewind until you find the perfor
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by mprovost 13y ago
True but the H1B scheme is used by companies to drive salaries down across the board. I would argue that this is its primary goal. So if American workers want $60k for a position, but you have a stack of pending H1Bs, you can offer it at $5
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by mprovost 13y ago
State is inherent but loops where recursion helps are sadly in scarce supply in enterprise apps (at least the ones that I've seen). Many (most?) apps are pushing data around, many times strings, often from a database. Lots of if statem
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by mprovost 13y ago
Trademe, the local equivalent of Ebay in NZ, auto extends their auctions which has pretty much stopped sniping. It works really well. It's probably a question of who they're interested in keeping happy, the buyers or sellers. I im
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by mprovost 13y ago
This reminded me of a great article about ear plugs: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa... The author Nicholson Baker has written about writing with earplugs: "I’ve always been helpe
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by mprovost 13y ago
I have a corded electric one and it's quieter than a petrol model but probably not much. You still have to wear ear protection.
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by mprovost 13y ago
This was one of the best things about the recent HN front-pager A Dark Room. It felt like everyone was figuring it out at the same time.

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