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by nol13 10y ago
"- Lack of self awareness and introspection. Not being able to give specific examples of times you've made a mistake and how you learned from it." I'd venture that not being able to answer this question and others like o
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by nol13 10y ago
Very very rarely, but have a few. Mostly just browser history, or I'll ddg it again as a fall-back. Doesn't work as well in Chrome (or im doing it wrong) but FF awesome bar seems to pull up the links I need within a few keystrokes
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by nol13 10y ago
Descendants of the first space farers will probably make up the majority of the genetic pool that goes on to dominate the galaxy. Ah well at least we got nature and stuff down here, for now at least. :/ Slightly extrapolating of course
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by nol13 10y ago
Sorry for being Unity h8ter :/ I mean I appreciate what you all were doing, but ya, I like MATE.
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by nol13 10y ago
I mean, I certainly can't recommend to everyone in the world in good faith to 100% ditch Windows, games/business software, whatever. The world is what it is, and other than the dark patterns and privacy issues Windows is actually
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by nol13 10y ago
Why should our reaction to using software that actively works against us be any different now than it was then? FOSS is important.
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by nol13 10y ago
Do it, don't look back. (and I'll take this opportunity to thank everyone who works on FOSS software, paid or otherwise)
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by nol13 10y ago
Guess I'll ask here, any non-brute force techniques to speed searching with such a metric? (specifically one that violates triangle inequality)
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by nol13 10y ago
Wish I disagreed with you more than I do.. Still I think mostly that's just what the system rewards. Hardworking and skilled people with disdain for office politics will either get exploited or never get their foot in the door in the f
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by nol13 10y ago
And don't think it should be overlooked, the feeling that one needs to take meth for cognitive enhancement in order to be useful enough to society to feed themselves, is a problem.
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by nol13 10y ago
Any reason to suspect that these regions aren't just much larger than the observable universe?
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by nol13 10y ago
Oh, ya not sure if I've ever even seen that. I live in an old (by American standards) 1950's apartment building with plaster walls, but pretty sure still hollow underneath. Seems like that would make it harder to frame a new subdi
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by nol13 10y ago
Possibly the difference he's noting is using wooden studs vs. metal studs? which definitely feel more hollow.
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by nol13 10y ago
so, so bad..
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by nol13 10y ago
"For example, contract janitors no longer receive the benefits or pay premium tied to a job at a big company. Their wages have been squeezed as their employers routinely bid to retain outsourcing contracts, a process ensuring that labo
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by nol13 10y ago
Nice! Had recently been playing a few skirmishes in 0 a.d. as well, (AOE clone).
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by nol13 10y ago
there's open source ra clone with active online servers!? well my day is bout wasted now
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by nol13 10y ago
The thing is, and this is the current state of email in general, aka not just google, using an email server other than from [big cloud], like say from my local ISP or a large shared hosting provider, you will run into issues. Usually fine,
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by nol13 10y ago
My instant takeaway: Does China have their own version of stack overflow or is it due to the firewall? That many more developers in India vs. China or is English just more commonly spoken in India?
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by nol13 10y ago
"Physical supermarkets can still be really terrible. It always seems to take me over an hour to do my grocery shopping." An accident, this is not.
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by nol13 10y ago
Virgin Galactic ain't out yet.
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by nol13 10y ago
You're assuming the CIA actually believed there were WMDs in Iraq.. Now did the CIA believe that Sadam would have re-built them the first chance he got? Very probably. (and ok i guess technically they could still be buried out in the d
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by nol13 10y ago
I mean at some level, completely understandable/expected that the community at news.ycombinator.com will have the corporate/VC dick up its ass to a degree. And not always a bad thing, even if I think this place could use a GNAA tr
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by nol13 10y ago
If there's an atom there, it's a 1?
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by nol13 10y ago
((ok so containers isn't exactly a 1 to 1 comparison/replacement (yet( but i do like it))
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by nol13 10y ago
Sweet, ty did not know about this. Will happily test pilot Containers and Tab Center! (and page shot prob useful too) Just enabled them instead of tab groups and tree style. So far fit my work flow very nicely, hope they make it into main.
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by nol13 10y ago
Extracting large .zip's of images to process before uploading, reading and writing large excel files. Basically to move as much processing client side as possible/reasonable so the server doesn't have to do it.
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by nol13 10y ago
Do not disagree necessarily.. Like I said I think it should be readily available to those who seek it out, without the threat of substantial punishment, it would just be a shit show if Johny H.S. Senior is able to pick up a sheet at 7-11. H
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by nol13 10y ago
Na I aint no lightweight.
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by nol13 10y ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb and blame google plus, wonder how much long term damage that did. Put off tons of people (aka me) from even trying these services during the time that they should have been gaining traction, and left everythi

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