nandemo

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by nandemo 15y ago
Yes. There was nothing especially wrong about the idea of selling pet food online then; another company started by selling books (a worse idea if you ask me) and they did go fairly well. That's not to say that it's a good idea to start an
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by nandemo 15y ago
Selling pet food.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Yes, you're right. Sorry, I misread it.
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by nandemo 15y ago
-- if formula is a null list, this clause will match: dpll (SolverState [] r) = return r -- otherwise this one will match: dpll (SolverState f r) = -- so it is never the case that null f is true here: if null
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by nandemo 15y ago
> I believe the company creation stuff has all been pretty straight-forward - certainly compared to visas for the (2, non-founder) UK employees we sent to the US. Hmm, I guess what OP and grand-parent comment are talking about is exactl
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by nandemo 15y ago
> that the schmoozers and bullshitters would always rise to the top The opposite of introvert is extrovert , not "schmoozer/bullshitter".
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by nandemo 15y ago
> This is why developers need explicit guidelines, No, this is a matter of security. Apps should not be able to access user data without explicit permission. It's not something you can rely on guidelines for. > Apple would never do
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Another possibility is that by pressing slightly harder, you cross the threshold of the paper's strength and wind up with an ugly hole. As you press harder, the paper gets more and more compressed. You can't go directly from 1mm thick
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by nandemo 15y ago
Exactly. You wrote what I meant to write in my comment, but much more concisely. (however, it's quite possible Ed has mentioned the problems in the process many times. At some point, people give up and concentrate on doing what they can.)
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by nandemo 15y ago
If it was 10 minutes to investigate and fix an urgent production bug, it would be OK. But he was asked time to join a teleconference in order to listen to a bug report! You can say "no" right there. A bug should be reported via a bug tracki
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Secondly, and more importantly, the reason the employer is making a counter-offer is not to entice you to stay, but to buy enough time to find someone else -- a loyal and qualified someone else -- to replace you. How does one decide t
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by nandemo 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what was the starting point? Wherever you start from, France and Helsinki sounds like an unusual route if you're on the way to Japan.
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by nandemo 15y ago
OK, thanks. I got it now (though personally I don't find it very interesting).
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by nandemo 15y ago
Whenever I read articles about the American university admission system, and the ensuing discussions about them, I feel like Gulliver visiting a weird country. It is so arcane and bizarre. If you want to major in CS or mathematics or engine
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by nandemo 15y ago
And if you miss one of the lines in your submission: 308 Resume Incomplete.
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by nandemo 15y ago
I have no idea what port "EDITD" is. Is that supposed to be trivial?
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by nandemo 15y ago
Hmm, not sure if we understand each other. To clarify, in Brazil we have "used auto fairs", a day-long event where a company provides a place where individuals can take their cars to sell. Individuals can go there and buy directly from the
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by nandemo 15y ago
Aren't you just describing used auto fairs?
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by nandemo 15y ago
Not exits. From pg's writeup linked above: > For 18 of the top 21 I used the postmoney valuation of the most recent funding round.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Well, for starters, "reduce distractions" isn't very actionable advice in this context. It's equivalent to saying "cheer up" to people who have clinical depression. I'd be glad to be shown data that better diet and exercise are effective
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by nandemo 15y ago
I don't think you have to prove that. In big cities like Tokyo and Osaka, most people use public transport to commute anyway. Although it's not mandatory, in practice every company will reimburse your commuting costs if you take public tran
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by nandemo 15y ago
Yes, I also think is intolerable that those people have to do grudge work for such low pay. Let's hope they become unemployed soon.
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Which class are functions in C? Economy class. :-) In general, how do you write functions that return functions without some form of anonymous function? For instance, how do you write a function that takes an int a and returns a fun
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by nandemo 15y ago
Exactly. It really means that he's a great copywriter who rarely gets it right in the first try. Which describes a lot of great fiction writers and programmers too.
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by nandemo 15y ago
The tweet: > "Hi Lewis. The mobile number in the HTML is linked to how the site determines that your browsing from a mobile device #O2Guru" Wow.
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by nandemo 15y ago
I don't think there's any existing programming language that does what OP wants. But Prolog is far from the last word on the subject. For one, it is basically untyped. There are dependently-typed programming languages that can express non-t
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Trying to create a declarative language is a way of making it extraordinarily opaque as to what the machine is actually going to do. It looks great in four lines, it crashes and burn on any real sized problem, Erlang, Haskell and Ocam
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by nandemo 15y ago
> so paying dividends would be sending money out to shareholders, it gets reduced by taxes, and then the shareholders have to figure out what to do with it that would return as much as Apple would. The best return would thus be likely r
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by nandemo 15y ago
To expand on what beagle said: 1) owning stocks gives you some legal rights; in particular, management cannot spend the earnings as they wish (though in practice interests are rarely well-aligned). Also, if you control enough shares you mig
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by nandemo 15y ago
In my opinion there are some positive effects but overall it's really bad. As you can see in the link in the sibling comment, the overhead of employing people in Brazil is quite big. Besides, there's also additional overhead due to a myriad

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