nwatson

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   by nwatson 10y ago

   Thanks for asking, and I'm not yet at "the end"! I'll say the first big fork was deciding to forego free EE education at Universidade de Brasília and living a Brazilian life in favor of going to my family's US stomp
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   by nwatson 10y ago

   I considered the nuclear navy program in 1986/1987 as a college junior, looked like an interesting opportunity. There were 3 tracks (not the official terms): + nuclear operator on a ship or submarine + nuclear school instruc
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   by nwatson 10y ago

   This used to compile and work just fine years ago (perhaps relying on undefined behavior): static void takes_null_reference_by_default(int& p = *((int*) nullptr)) { if (&p) ++p; } int main(int argc, char* argv
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   by nwatson 10y ago

   Why not just run PyCharm on your local box and tunnel-via-SSH-and-pydevd to remote-debug your programs on the target system? You get (a) a full IDE running on your local system (no need to install anything on target system); (b) full debug
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   by nwatson 10y ago

   Thanks for describing this and I really hope this improves for you over time. I had years of feeling like this too . I can't say I've really found my place but at 50, memories of that depression are from another life. I can'
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   by nwatson 10y ago

   the songs are mostly inane treacle.
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   by nwatson 10y ago

   50
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   by nwatson 10y ago

   Any C programmer working at large scale will need to rely on third-party libraries. That library code is an abstraction. When I write C++ the language magic is "just another library". If I'm uncomfortable I just step throug
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   by nwatson 10y ago

   I think North Carolina is similar to California wrt work on your own time not relaTed to employers line of work. I work remote for a large SF Bay Area firm from NC.
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    I think startups Trifacta and Paxata are doing this or some aspects of this ... see a comparison (from 2015): https://www.quora.com/How-does-Paxata-compare-to-Trifacta I don't know much about Paxata but I think Trifac
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    Where's the Sand Hill gang territory?
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    traceroute bad.horse

    29 points by nwatson 10y ago|13 comments
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    I'm convinced this page-jumps-as-you're-about-to-touch is a dark pattern to some clickbait time-waster sites use to get more mobile ad clicks. Just when I'm about to click 'Next' to see the 7th-of-53 stoopid-photos
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    Pragmatics(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by nwatson 10y ago|0 comments
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    Pragmatics ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    Lawn care is a religion in North Carolina. In the city, in the country. What's amazing is that when driving in any rural area, you'll see frequently small houses on five or ten acres of perfectly cultivated and mowed grass with
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    > KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech — not evolution — is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. It's time to read the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel o
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    Salesforce CEO told LinkedIn he would have paid much more than Microsoft(recode.net)

    9 points by nwatson 10y ago|2 comments
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    Maybe the number of people wanting to be yoga teachers has exploded with >> 20% Y.O.Y. growth.
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    probably derived from Asperger ... Asperger --> Asperger-ish --> Aspberger-ey --> 'spbergery --> spergy
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    I like this document: http://restful-api-design.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    An Angel investor ends up with Series A stock which typically costs more per share and has extended rights. The early-exercising employee buys cheaper Common shares. In an IPO the classes may end up with the same value, meaning the employee
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    The article completely mischaracterizes Subversion workflows, making the mistake of treating a Subversion repo just like developers typically use git repos ... one-repo-per-project. Subversion instead is a tree with projects as nodes toward
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    by nwatson 10y ago

    Global warming preachiness turned me off in this context ... so how many years of a typical American consumer's carbon footprint did the cruise emit? It's like traveling to watch the polar bears we're trying to save from glob
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    by nwatson 11y ago

    An easy fix in JDK5 and beyond is listed at the bottom of the article. Pretty much a non-issue these days.
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    by nwatson 11y ago

    The Beef / Chicken Jalfrezi at Shalimar (in Tenderloin SF or in Fremont) dish is a Pakistani take on Chinese food, one of the best things I've ever eaten. I try to time my flights back to the SF Bay Area so I can swing by the Ten
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    by nwatson 11y ago

    It's called RHEL.
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    by nwatson 11y ago

    The 'sshd' process on the target Linux apparently forks a process to handle each connection . . . with two SSH sessions the Linux target looks like this (pstree -p): |-sshd(1017)-+-sshd(5495)---sshd(5561)---bash(5562)
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    Blind fish that crawls on land holds clues to evolution(cbsnews.com)

    14 points by nwatson 11y ago|0 comments
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    by nwatson 11y ago

    Sorry for those that lost information, personally glad it didn't involve Atlassian Confluence-hosted Gliffy illustrations ... I have a lot of those and the tool is great for quick shareable embedded engineering sketches.