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Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us?(motherjones.com)
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by msluyter 13y ago
I think IN is equally fast in Oracle, or at least it was when I was working with 10.2. In Postgres, it appears that this does the same thing as IN.
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by msluyter 14y ago
For me, it's hanging on the create account splash screen (using Chrome). The HN effect, perhaps?
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by msluyter 14y ago
A while ago I split my primary bank account into several different accounts with different purposes. One, that gets the bulk of my paycheck for bills/mortgage, gets autodrafted. I never do ATM withdrawals from this account. A certain amoun
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by msluyter 14y ago
At the company I worked at previously, the case was often made that java should be used because it's easy to find java programmers. That sounds plausible, but in practice we found it very difficult to find good java programmers. Perhaps t
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by msluyter 14y ago
Sort of tangential, but I'd be interested in seeing an OS based on Go, where Go::Go-OS as C::Unix. (And you could call it "Goose".) Given Go's awesome features, I would imagine it could be pretty interesting.
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by msluyter 14y ago
What if you didn't reject the passwords outright, but simply warned the user. I wonder if that would be considered a violation? Also the patent "Specifying a set of forbidden passwords" includes: "generating at least one symbolically equiva
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by msluyter 14y ago
I believe that 8% is not merely an assumption, but comes from the paper he references here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/04/tra...
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by msluyter 14y ago
I'm over 40; I started late (after studying music for over a decade) and then spent some time in QA, so technically I've only been doing "pure" development for 6 years or so, and thus perhaps haven't been doing this long enough to face the
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by msluyter 14y ago
I once struggled trying to create a notation for tap dancing, so I applaud the attempt and hate to shoot it down, but... My eyesight is pretty poor, even with glasses, and I find this difficult to read. I find traditional sharps and flats e
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by msluyter 14y ago
I like the default theme, although I always darken the background and change comments to green. I find the light grey on grey comments pretty painful.
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by msluyter 14y ago
Sweet! My guess was 6. I proceeded by estimating the number of pianos per person (my guess was 7000 in NYC), then by estimating the frequency of tuning. I came up with ~20 pianos/day needing tuning and guessing the average tuner could handl
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by msluyter 14y ago
This sounds outrageous, but one should remain skeptical. Most people, in retrospect, will describe themselves as being "polite" or "calm." "No, I didn't raise my voice at all!" But these sorts of self-reports are prone to all sorts of sub
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by msluyter 14y ago
The level of hate here seems unwarranted. I've posted a lot on this subject on HN, but ultimately this isn't something that needs to be debated. Anyone can experiment for themselves. Try eliminating grain (esp. wheat) from your diet for a m
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by msluyter 14y ago
Looks nice, but my first thought when I looked at the code example: 1 >>> l = ['spam', 'ham', 314, 23] was "wait, how are they assigning a list to the number 1? How is that possible? Oh... that's an l". (Not a fan of tha
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by msluyter 14y ago
Yes, IntelliJ handles this pretty nicely. For modified lines, you can mouse over to see what you changed. For all changes, you can click a context menu to revert any given change. (Of course, that does require touching a mouse... though I b
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by msluyter 14y ago
Incidentally, if you have an HSA account and can still afford to pay out of pocket, that basically allows your HSA money to continue to accrue over time. (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account ): "There is no deadline fo
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by msluyter 14y ago
On topic, from this morning's NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/business/economy/corporate...
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by msluyter 14y ago
Except that violent crime in America has actually been decreasing steadily since the 90s: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States Weird that we have we're getting mo
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by msluyter 14y ago
To clarify, you don't need to implement a hashing algorithm for this question. (Using hashCode() suffices). And you don't even have to implement a hash table. As I mentioned, a working linked list of key/values would probably be an above
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by msluyter 14y ago
Re: hash table. I've been asking candidates to basically implement HashMap (for java positions) (without simply using Hashtable). It's an ongoing experiment. Although I've been told that this is a common question, I've actually never seen a
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by msluyter 14y ago
Pretty sure casinos will ban these about... 5 seconds after they become generally available.
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by msluyter 14y ago
Tell that to the Inuits. ;) Actually, there's a lot of counterevidence to this "well-established" link between fat and heart disease. The classic on the subject is Gary Taube's "Good Calories, Bad Calories." But also, check out William Davi
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by msluyter 14y ago
As someone who's successfully lost a lot of weight on a low carb / no grain diet, this chart irks me. That a handful of almonds has the same calories as a certain amount of Captain Crunch is irrelevant. The latter will quickly convert to gl
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by msluyter 14y ago
Thought experiment: let's say we could implement this tomorrow. What would be the effect on our politics? My theory is that it would somewhat rectify our inherent rural bias[1]. [1] http://teachingwithdata.blogspot.com/2011/06/elections-an
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by msluyter 14y ago
I've been using Squirrel and it seems ok; fairly decent most of the time, actually. (Anyone else have any thoughts on Squirrel?) I've never used psql though. I'll look into it.
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by msluyter 14y ago
Hmm... I've actually tried this but Shift+down unselects the initial selection. However, selecting a single line is still often pretty useful. I'll mess around some more with the keymappings to see if I can work something out.
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by msluyter 14y ago
a) Not all keyboards have Home/End keys (macbooks for example). b) Even then, I find it more error prone to reach over for the Home key, hit shift, etc... c) 2+n is still 1 more than 1+n ([Ctrl] [l] [l] [l]). ;) It's admittedly a minor thin
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by msluyter 14y ago
It seems like there are lots of little things that are preferable. A few random ones off the top of my head: In my last job where we used Eclipse, we'd get a maven project and then run mvn eclipse:eclipse to generate the eclipse project. In
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by msluyter 14y ago
Yeah, I use that and I agree that it's useful. I just want a simpler way to select successive lines.

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