nandemo

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by nandemo 12y ago
What does that have to do with being American? Do you realize the majority of the world's population believes in $deity?
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by nandemo 12y ago
Possibly Yegge was being a bit hyperbolic.
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by nandemo 12y ago
But... > Finally, we nd some evidence in line with the view that involuntary early retirement has a negative impact on health, but not necessarily voluntary early retirement. So I guess I'll keep my early retirement plans.
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by nandemo 12y ago
> I assume they intend for you to supplement it. That is true, but it provides a pretty good foundation. Most other methods don't focus enough on listening and pronunciation. > "I would like to order two beers." but CAN
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by nandemo 12y ago
So you're saying you're against beta releases?
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by nandemo 12y ago
I see it as just a way to out the guy without actually spelling out his name.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Thanks, that's a much more interesting review than Bill Gates'.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Your link is to a page with arguments against the dividend tax, which isn't the same thing. I think this one is more relevant to your comment: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/ending-corporate...
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by nandemo 12y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. It's no doubt a reference to Da Vinci's Last Supper.
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by nandemo 12y ago
I'm surprised that people are surprised. I'm male and I've heard variations of "you shouldn't ask for a raise/bigger salary" many times from my managers or hiring managers (when looking for a job). For exa
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by nandemo 12y ago
But apart from the most popular video hosting site, search engine, web browser, web email and maps, what has Google ever done for us?
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by nandemo 12y ago
Perhaps Tokyo<->Fukuoka is a better example. Shinkansen is ~250USD while fligths are ~150USD, and Fukuoka's airport is only 15min away from downtown by subway.
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by nandemo 12y ago
> Buy stocks that is being bought. Sell stocks that are being sold. Except that he first made his fortune by buying stocks that were being sold (due to an error of the other side, but still being sold).
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by nandemo 12y ago
Do you know about Modern Portfolio Theory and Capital Asset Pricing Model? Granted, they don't refer to "uncertainty" exactly, but rather about quantifiable risk in the form of volatility. Also, the key word is "returns&
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by nandemo 12y ago
A while ago I tried to port some of the Python code from the book Programming Collective Intelligence to Haskell, and I got stuck on the seemingly simple problem of reading and processing heterogenous collections (strings and numbers). What
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by nandemo 12y ago
Well, since you asked... "chestnut" is a literal but not faithful translation of "castanheira", it should really be "Brazil nut tree", which is somewhat more imposing than the run-of-the-mill chestnut tree: ht
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by nandemo 12y ago
Come on, let's not be too hard on ourselves. He went to a Brazilian federal university and then to IMPA, which is arguably a world class institution. Sure, he probably couldn't get where he got without moving abroad, but then most
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by nandemo 12y ago
Of course there is! After all, the majority of Japanese developers don't speak English. There's also a lot of offline activity: meetups, study groups and (less commonly) hackathons. For example, look at JAWS-UG (Japan AWS User Gro
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by nandemo 12y ago
In many countries (e.g. my home countries Brazil and Japan) you can get in law school like in any other major; no need to have a tertiary degree beforehand. The bar exams are still very hard, so it's not like lawyers aren't qualif
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by nandemo 12y ago
Nah. But apparently the author is -- or at least is quoting someone who is.
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by nandemo 12y ago
> the propensity to lie on the beach and watch girls. Wow. That's unexcusable.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Perhaps you mean "we software engineers in the USA". I live in Japan. I don't get attractive job offers thrown at me every single day.
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by nandemo 12y ago
"You can get much farther with a slightly wrong clock and a Scud than you can with a slightly wrong clock alone."
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by nandemo 12y ago
The correction is unclear... Since there are always exceptions, of course it's not the case that "dismissing a permanent employee (正社員) is always illegal". But there's in fact a (somewhat vague but broad) provision in la
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by nandemo 12y ago
Digital electronic computers were developed in the early 1940s. In the early 1970s we had microprocessors, and in the late 70s/early 80s we had affordable personal microcomputers. There's no single, landmark event in the history o
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by nandemo 12y ago
??? Japan's unemployment rate is only 3.9%. EU's rate is 10.9% and US' is 6.1%. And Japan's social welfare means mostly pension and national health insurance. There's unemployment insurance, but you have to pay into
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by nandemo 12y ago
"Fjord, F# programming language for the JVM." https://github.com/penberg/fjord It doesn't seem to be in active development, though.
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by nandemo 12y ago
> Should this article make a bigger deal... Probably no. 60 miles is about 100km. The radius of the evacuation area is 30km.
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by nandemo 12y ago
I could tell it was Google after reading this: > A suprisingly large fraction of the smartest programmers in the world do work here. In very large quantities. In fact, quantities so large that I wouldn't have thought that so many
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by nandemo 12y ago
I don't think it's possible to meaningfully take salaries into account unless they also have a database with salaries for each profession. In my opinion, it's much better to leave that adjustment to the user. E.g. if you com

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