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by myelin 8y ago
+1. It's been a couple of decades since high school, but I remember making a genuine effort at homework being one of the critical differences between success and failure. I find it hard to believe that there's enough time for al
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by myelin 8y ago
Google's a bit more trusting of its employees. There's an expectation that you won't use non-Google services to store or transmit anything work-related, however. No code on laptops, no documents kept outside of G Suite, etc
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by myelin 8y ago
Nothing stopping them from ditching this method and making release 33+ just expect that all the fuses are blown. It's just a software check, so Nintendo has a ton of options to keep things going.
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by myelin 9y ago
Last time we deprecated something in App Engine, we made an "opt out" flag, that customers could manually flip to keep the old way working for another week. This was reset every 7 days, until the final switchoff date. This worke
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by myelin 9y ago
I've seen a few from US-based sellers on eBay, but most are in the UK. Pretty much everyone I've met in the USA with Acorn hardware grew up in the UK and moved here. I use an RGB-to-HDMI converter (this one -- https://
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by myelin 9y ago
For more background on the whole Second Processor system, see the "Acorn's Second Processors and the Tube - what, and why" thread at Stardot: http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14211
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by myelin 9y ago
I work at Google, and get pull requests from people on other teams fairly frequently. It's usually stuff like "I found this particular pattern results in a memory leak, and fixed it Google-wide", but sometimes it's &quo
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by myelin 10y ago
I work at Google, and can confirm that the process for open source contributions (as long as you're okay with assigning copyright for the work to Google) isn't particularly onerous in most cases. You just have to verify that the
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by myelin 10y ago
App Engine Flex just came out of beta today :) https://twitter.com/googlecloud/status/839901710948589568
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by myelin 12y ago
In practice, an "X hour work week" means employers are required to pay a multiple of the usual wage for hours worked past X. So you can allow/require employees to work longer, but it'll be cheaper to employ more people
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by myelin 14y ago
Are you warming up properly? I get the same stabbing pain in my elbows when I try to bench press anything over 115 lb, and an experienced powerlifter friend suggested it might be because I'm not adequately warming up my joints before I sta
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by myelin 14y ago
I second this -- if lifting heavy things makes you nervous, try lifting lighter things. There's a lot of small stabilizer muscles in your body that will be really weak if left unused, and lifting any free weight will help build them up.
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by myelin 14y ago
Kettlebells are compact, safe-ish, and pretty fun. I regularly work out with barbells now at the gym (roughly following Starting Strength), but before I started that, I spent a lot of time swinging a 35 lb kettlebell at home, which firmed
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by myelin 14y ago
My hometown in New Zealand has been working to ban open fires for over a decade, due to their contribution to the city's terrible winter-time air quality. (Not helped by a temperature inversion that causes the smoke to stay near the ground
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by myelin 14y ago
Boo -- someone changed it to the much less informative "The Next 1,000 Start-Ups" :( Mods, please prioritize informative versions of titles!
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by myelin 14y ago
Blast from the past! I worked on this project, mainly on the associated Facebook app, "Friends on Fire". The original crew has scattered around the place - several work at Twitter now, one is running a dev shop in Uruguay, one is freelanc
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by myelin 14y ago
The original title ("Light Table Playground released") was significantly more informative.
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by myelin 14y ago
I'm guessing it's a hacker status thing. We care a lot about seemingly trivial things, but not nearly as much about other things, that might appear more important. We're easily appeased entitled whiners :)
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by myelin 15y ago
Slight difference here. There are actually two types of errors in the Java code: 1. int foo = (int) Math.random() * some_max_value; The error here is assuming that the multiplication takes place before the truncation. This isn't happening
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by myelin 16y ago
I'm getting 404s on all the .exe files. Gone already?
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by myelin 16y ago
Ning - http://ning.com/ - Palo Alto, CA Looking for various types of hackers: - PHP/Javascript hacker, ideally pretty good with HTML/CSS also. This is the team I'm on -- remote working is a possibility. - Java hacker, good with web servi
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by myelin 16y ago
Note that the pie and the key are in the same order, so you can walk clockwise around the pie, starting at 12:00, and read the country names off the key, from top to bottom.
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by myelin 16y ago
Hah, I remember Andrey asking me this question in my Ning interviews :)
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by myelin 16y ago
I think I need an average of about 8-9. I can get by on 7 during the week if I make up for it in the weekend. If I really have to, I can survive for a few days on 5, but my body will punish me for it afterwards!
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by myelin 17y ago
If you speak good English (either as a native speaker, or have good scores in TOEFL or equivalent), and have qualifications and work experience in an field which has a short supply of qualified workers (engineering, medicine, software, soci
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From code to poetry - "A Poetic for Software Engineers"(jonaquino.blogspot.com)
1 points by myelin 17y ago|0 comments
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by myelin 18y ago
Too true; be careful. You're probably safe using company time to learn (as mentioned in the parent^2), which the company might not actually mind if you put your skills to use for them as well, but if you use it to create your own product
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by myelin 18y ago
Or, you could pick up a part time job doing what you're good at (hacking), earn as much money as a full time "mostly idle" type job, and use your actual free time for your projects. The jobs you mention can't pay much more than $1500/mont
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by myelin 18y ago
The danger here is that this will fall through to the falseaction if trueaction returns a false result ("", False, 0, None, [], {}, etc). For example, this will evaluate to "etc": True and "" or "etc" So people started doing this in
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by myelin 18y ago
I've been working through the CS229 (Machine Learning) notes - just the handouts, for now - and am finding them pretty uesful. There's a lot of good stuff in there that I didn't learn in Electrical Engineering at college.

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