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by nessus42 14y ago
> What he is saying is that he believes it is Google's right to do that and it is irrelevant to the fact it is stupid. And what I'm saying is that it is NOT within Google's right to do this. Among other reasons, it is not within Googl
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by nessus42 14y ago
Did you really not get that the OP is a parody? The point is that this is obviously NOT the way to hire writers. The implication then being that it is also not the way to hire programmers, even though, sadly, hiring programers is typically
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by nessus42 14y ago
If you're hiring a senior engineer that claims he spent last 5 years coding Big Table at Google, you have to take his word for it. I find this assertion to be virtually nonsensical. I've never met a programmer who hasn't written some code
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by nessus42 14y ago
> If I don't want Initech Inc. to be associated with file sharing, fire arms, or even the Irish, that's entirely within my rights. I'd be far more aghast if companies were forced to take any comers. I'm rather aghast that any companie
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by nessus42 14y ago
The title of the article clearly states some of the problems this is trying to solve. E.g., "dust-immune". Also, they claim the heat sink to be relatively quiet (under 30dBa).
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by nessus42 14y ago
As someone who has had his ability to work saved due to anecdotal evidence, I could not disagree more with the OP. Well, sure, if someone has anecdotal evidence that the theory of gravity is wrong, or that 1 + 1 = 4, by all means downvote t
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by nessus42 14y ago
I never said that the letter didn't say what it intended to say. Nor did I say that it doesn't say what it intended to say well. My point is that it's not a message worth saying, just like the message, "Just say no" is not worth saying. It'
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by nessus42 14y ago
> But the article wasn't about cheating. It was clearly an allegory Oy.
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by nessus42 14y ago
I didn't gloss over any deeper meaning to the letter--it's not there. It's a very focussed and on-point sermon on remaining faithful. He barely even touches on why men sometimes cheat, other than to prove their manhood. But without addressi
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by nessus42 14y ago
I'm not as impressed by this letter as others seem to be. Reagan's only advice is don't cheat and say "I love you" every day? Who goes into a marriage expecting to cheat? And if you even have the slightest inkling of wanting to cheat at the
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by nessus42 14y ago
Well, my mother had a stroke due to low blood pressure, so it's certainly not the case that lower is always better.
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by nessus42 14y ago
Yes, that was the one! The two telescopes that I worked on that had no such problems were XTE (aka RXTE) and AXAF (aka Chandra). I only did a little bit of work for AXAF, but I worked on XTE for years. In addition to some other miscellaneou
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by nessus42 14y ago
As I understand it, the designated time arrived and the canister was supposed to be open, but wasn't. A latch had failed. One or more of the payloads inside the canister started deploying themselves anyway, wrecking themselves and everythin
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by nessus42 14y ago
Also, during the W administration much of the money for real science was redirected towards a manned mission to Mars. This caused terrible financial woes for the department I worked at at MIT for many years that does X-ray astronomy (The Ce
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by nessus42 14y ago
I have to second this. I worked on two NASA space telescopes (both X-ray telescopes), and although we had on the ground something like the telescopes that were flown, the equipment on the ground was not flyable, and if the launch rocket had
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by nessus42 14y ago
Wow, that's great too!
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by nessus42 14y ago
Wow, that's great!
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by nessus42 14y ago
There's a WiFi in my neighborhood called "It's us you hear having sex". Maybe I should name mine "I can hear you having sex" in response.
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by nessus42 14y ago
I mail ordered my girlfriend from Romania and she arrived in a box: http://gaffa.mit.edu/ydelivery/index.html
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by nessus42 14y ago
I find questions like the ping pong ball question rather trying, but I guess there's a long precedent for it. My understanding is that you're supposed to do a back-of-the-envelope calculation that gets you within an order of magnitude or so
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by nessus42 14y ago
> I actually don't think my life would be seriously negatively impacted by being deaf You couldn't be more wrong! Deafness is far worse a disability than blindness for most people in terms of integrating into and succeeding in society
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by nessus42 14y ago
An ex-girlfriend of mine moved to the US from Romania at the age of ten without any knowledge of English. As an adult she speaks completely fluent English with no hint of an accent. She claims that she learned English by watching TV. Though
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by nessus42 14y ago
We tend to call those "meetings" rather than "conversations".
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by nessus42 14y ago
Natural light in offices, lounges in center. A few nooks with natural light.
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by nessus42 14y ago
I've always had an office until the last few years. Now I work in a cubicle. My feeling is that communication was much easier for me in an environment with offices. The reason for this is that I could have in-depth conversation with others
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by nessus42 14y ago
I never pack my code like that without whitespace, as doing so is only readable when you have single-letter variables, which is not very common. I agree with the OP. CamelCase and underscores are both scourges.
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by nessus42 15y ago
> Do you have any helpful suggestions on how to solve this problem by other means? As others have mentioned, do the symlinks in the other direction. Or lobby Google to provide explicit configuration for syncing multiple folders. >
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by nessus42 15y ago
God, I hope that Google Drive doesn't start following symlinks. That behavior of Dropbox is completely broken and dangerous, and furthermore makes it impossible to use symbolic links for what they're supposed to be used for. When symlinks a
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by nessus42 15y ago
Boy, both of you have led sheltered lives if you think either that one has to make up stuff like this, or that stuff like this is hard to believe!
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by nessus42 15y ago
I just want to reiterate how completely a non-issue this is. It is so much of a non-issue, that it took me this long to even get the slightest inkling of what your worry is. The reason that it is a non-issue is how often do you need to impo

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