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by mwcremer 9y ago
But as kabdib has said many times, "You can't grep paper."
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by mwcremer 9y ago
Ahem. Xcode.
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by mwcremer 10y ago
Although I admit the distinction is exceedingly fine, I don't think that is what he actually said: How many times have we heard -- all of us, around the neighbourhood and elsewhere -- "but to be a Catholic like that, it's be
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by mwcremer 10y ago
An annuity may be preferable to lump sum. And I receive several courteous reminders to renew before my subscription runs out.
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by mwcremer 10y ago
I suspect shared lock performance is the sticking point. Personally, I agree with tlb: it seems simpler to generate one file per thread, and combine them at the end.
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Airbnb User Gets $180 Plumber Bill(nbcbayarea.com)
7 points by mwcremer 10y ago|0 comments
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by mwcremer 10y ago
Hmmm, I wasn't saying one shouldn't use coding style guides. Quite the reverse. My point is that it is not whether any particular guideline is "factual" or "opinion," but whether one can get teammates to abide
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by mwcremer 10y ago
I agree with the main thrust, that coding standards can help to make code readable, might help to highlight dubious or buggy code, and should be (machine) enforceable... ...but at the same time, I do not agree that rules can be neatly divid
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by mwcremer 10y ago
http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/18/google-is-bringing-custom-...
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by mwcremer 11y ago
Knuth taught at Stanford. He still lectures there occasionally: http://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html#lectures
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by mwcremer 11y ago
Imagine what it would be like if almost all the words were ones you "weren't familiar with," which is how it would seem if you had dyslexia and were learning to read.
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by mwcremer 11y ago
Click on the picture.
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by mwcremer 11y ago
Apple's Cray was purple, called "tma1" due its resemblance to the Monolith, and my understanding is that it was used for flow modeling of injection moulding for Macintosh II series cases.
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by mwcremer 11y ago
What about BITNET Relay? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET_Relay
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by mwcremer 11y ago
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398971/
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by mwcremer 11y ago
Wow, is this in the public domain now?
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by mwcremer 11y ago
"The hard drive is ON FIRE!"
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by mwcremer 12y ago
Conventional wisdom is that an employee costs the company twice their salary (insurance, facilities, etc.) So it's closer to $1 billion.
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by mwcremer 12y ago
From Multics: http://www.multicians.org/shell.html
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by mwcremer 12y ago
Ahem, meaning "manipulate crontab entries in a vfs" and not "store files in cron".
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by mwcremer 12y ago
I was about to say the same thing, since I know a fair number of people who experienced a "crisis of faith" at around 30. However, the second chart seems to correct for cohort effect, i.e. fewer people are becoming more religious
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by mwcremer 12y ago
In my experience, most of those complaining the loudest are upset that others have more than they do, not that they have more than others do. It's really more of a me-ritocracy.
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by mwcremer 12y ago
I read his advice as, "Don't be That Guy."
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by mwcremer 12y ago
In case you, like me, did not know what an IPython Notebook is: http://ipython.org/notebook.html
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Infinity is less than you think(youtube.com)
6 points by mwcremer 13y ago|0 comments
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by mwcremer 13y ago
I think the thinking here is that the sender may not be able to compute the byte size of the object a priori. Think HTTP chunked encoding.
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by mwcremer 13y ago
http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
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by mwcremer 13y ago
Somebody taped this on their door at work: The door to which they were taped was in IL2 and belonged to Mike Engber. He says, "The version on my door now is nicely laminated." The list itself was created be me some years prior w
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by mwcremer 14y ago
It seems less like coattails when you consider Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jack Welch, John Rockefeller, etc. In fact, anecdotally it seems being a "narcissistic asshole" is an asset rather than a hindrance.
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by mwcremer 14y ago
For those who would like to explore potential ramifications of legalization, consider http://the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1316

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