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by nwatson 9y ago
> Usually the people who take a crap job like that simply don't spend that much time on intellectual pursuits to begin with. There are many who through circumstance or poor (or good?) choices ended up with the crap job but neverthel
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by nwatson 9y ago
The same motivation driving Southeast Asians to work in Qatar drives Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States to work as legal or illegal migrant workers ... some of the latter working independently, most working for a series of
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by nwatson 9y ago
Related to a current trending HN story about Coal in US Appalachia, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648018 .
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The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil(ft.com)
1 points by nwatson 9y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 9y ago
Apparently you're right, but I did hit a nerve and prompted some interesting discussion, and got by far the highest point-count for any HN comment I've made. Count me cynical, but my first and kind of unintentional foray into fak
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by nwatson 9y ago
Bards pre-literate-times in Greece purportedly could recite Homer's Odyssey themselves after one hearing. Writing destroyed that all. (Maybe I don't have a citation right off, but I've read that on the web or heard it in s
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by nwatson 9y ago
My prior startup tried to do a security product with backend in Mongo. It really needed transactions and to avoid N+1 issues. DB team insisted on writing "DAOs" that ended up pulling 1GB+ of data back from Mongo to merge in EACH
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by nwatson 9y ago
Many signs are written both in English and Spanish all over. Even in rural-ish North Carolina.
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by nwatson 9y ago
GP mentioned money-laundering in context of foreign cash. Buying US real estate with money from overseas bribery/graft is the perfect way to legitimize wealth. Nobody in the US is going to check the overseas origin very thoroughly,
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by nwatson 9y ago
In hammocks from Brazil you sleep diagonal to the "axis" of the hammock and your body is almost rod-straight. Your back will feel just fine after a night sleeping like this.
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by nwatson 9y ago
Except that the "hang" is all the malware downloading to your computer.
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by nwatson 9y ago
A high-school friend and I sold some GraFORTH animations to dealers of the MicroEngenho I [0] Apple II clone in Brasília in 1982/1983. They were crowd-pleasers and attracted lots of attention at trade shows. GraFORTH was awesome, I u
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by nwatson 9y ago
Governments can borrow in currency not their own. This becomes not only debt at adjustable rates, but debt at "adjustable principal" as well. Risky.
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Something Obama and the Koch brothers can agree on: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/koch-industries-brothe...
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by nwatson 9y ago
When Highway Community Church settled on taking over the failing Red Rock coffee shop in Mountain View CA in around 2007 or so (?) I thought it was an unconventional move and likely to fail. But such institutions aren't supposed to be
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by nwatson 9y ago
Don't go to this site on mobile android Chrome. Fake virus notice scam.
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by nwatson 9y ago
That works until your flight is overbooked or cancelled and you fly instead LAX -> DEN -> MIA.
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by nwatson 10y ago
I've worked mostly in enterprise software the past 24 years, and current and prior job have been in security companies. This is far from academia, and I've never seen Prolog or other logic-based approaches mentioned, or even LISP
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by nwatson 10y ago
I just can't get Jean-Luc Ponty out of my system. I read Chronicles of Narnia to JLP's Imaginary Voyage album in 1980 and have been hooked since. I listen to much else, and some of JLP's stuff gets a bit repetitive and form
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by nwatson 10y ago
apparently animals can be jerks too: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/animals-can-be-...
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by nwatson 10y ago
The Japanese government spent US $400 million in the '80's (a lot in those days) to try to jump ahead of "western" computer technology via its "5th Generation Project". https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by nwatson 10y ago
The choice of Prolog: The Japanese Fifth Generation project was a collaborative effort of the Japanese computer industry coordinated by the Japanese Government that intended not only to update the hardware technology o
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5th Generation Project in Japan ($400M and Prolog in the '80's)(sjsu.edu)
4 points by nwatson 10y ago|1 comments
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In Prolog you can "run your logic backwards". In Java you can declare a list "my_list" and then ask for its length as in "my_list.size()". You can do the same in Prolog. Given the above Prolog definitions, he
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by nwatson 10y ago
This has everything to do with regulation, certification, union relations, etc., issues in some ways similar to what an AirBnB, Uber, or other tech company will deal with when introducing innovations or different business models.
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Debugging a Docker Heisenbug in production(medium.com)
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UBI will prime the pump, entrepreneurs will make alternate reality enticing, value will be found there, new goods and services will sprout. Manufacturing and service working parents and grandparents will complain about the alternative work
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Someone working at an auto plant once told me they "worked on software", they were a "coder", because they loaded the chips into the machine and pressed the button to flash firmware to the chips. Others involved in &quot
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by nwatson 10y ago
The article and discussion regarding "Common Multithreading Mistakes in C# – Unsafe Assumptions" (HN 2017/02, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13704763 ) were good, and as others noted applies to a large d
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What Do You Do with InterruptedException (Java)? (2015)(yegor256.com)
2 points by nwatson 10y ago|1 comments

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