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by owyn 6y ago
This is basically the plot of Ender's Game and empathy with the enemy was also a big plot point...
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by owyn 6y ago
No questions but I just wanted to say thanks for this series and all the work that went into it! I did a digital logic course in college but haven't used any of it since, and we only ever built simple circuits in the lab. Seeing how th
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by owyn 6y ago
No major tax implications, it's just for 90 days... It's more like a concierge service + air bnb "experiences" and stuff like that, plus services for your family (like day care). If you wanted to apply for a longer stay
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by owyn 6y ago
Yeah, there's a cool project [1] that maps out all the historic streetcar routes in SF. There used to be a LOT of them, they all got ripped out to make more room for cars. There were rail tracks on the bay bridge! Those got ripped ou
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by owyn 6y ago
That's the joke. :) Key and Peele could totally play Cat and Lister. But I'm surprised they never did a red dwarf tribute sketch now that I think about it, that would have been... something for sure. I loved that show!
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by owyn 6y ago
Yeah, exactly... depends a lot on who is doing the firing and why too. I suppose if ALL companies did that then there might be some sort of fluid equilibrium state where most companies had some mix of mostly competent engineers who chose to
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by owyn 6y ago
Yep, that's a good trick. At a previous PHP shop we had a large amount of static XML configuration (well it was generated, but not that often). Converting it all to PHP arrays and including it was significantly faster than parsing the
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by owyn 6y ago
Ha yes I worked for a company that went public in 1996 with approx 75k of revenue for the previous year.
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by owyn 6y ago
Appointed, not elected, and this was the plan. I just sort of hoped that there was a layer of bureaucracy at USPS that might be able to resist this kind of blatant sabotage, but I guess not..
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by owyn 6y ago
Really? Can you name the company? I had some "is this a good idea for a start up" conversations with someone like 5 years ago who had a similar idea but didn't pursue it and I'd love to be able to point to a company that
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by owyn 6y ago
Wow. Pretty sure I learned to read through phonics (also in California). I think the tricks of quickly skimming words and just inferring words from context are things that I do when I'm not deeply engaged in a text and just want to pic
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by owyn 6y ago
wow, interesting. I'm male but recently discovered I'm allergic to nickel after 30 years of playing guitar (electric guitar strings are usually nickel composite materials) but I didn't realize it was that common. I kinda self
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by owyn 6y ago
Facebook also pays 1/3 so.... ? https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2019/0...
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by owyn 6y ago
How about the opposite thesis? "Stop sabotaging your career with long stints". Very few developers are CEOs/CTOs. Even fewer have founded a successful startup or gotten acquired. Very rarely can one get a promotion or a rais
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by owyn 6y ago
Using range() in php it takes about 1.3 seconds. The PHP docs imply that it's a generator now but I'm not positive about that. I wrote an equivalent php function just using for loops and calling strval($x) 20 million times and on
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by owyn 6y ago
In this case I think cobblestone is correct? They tested natural stones (Merriam Webster: cobblestone - "a naturally rounded stone larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder") vs the hand made stones for this particular task.
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by owyn 7y ago
Every news article I've read (even articles published this morning) says that they "plan to walk out" on Monday, but have they actually started to do that? Instacart is still letting me place orders (estimated delivery Thurs
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by owyn 7y ago
I think it's also because if you're a company that wants to make money doing real estate related activity, it's easier and more profitable to just buy existing buildings and sit on them than build new ones. This is a recent t
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by owyn 7y ago
I'd be really interested to know the economics here too. Forestry is something that can be done for a profit, but what if it takes 1000 years to make sand?
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by owyn 7y ago
Wikipedia describes a bit of this saga [1], and the conclusion was that they were ordered to settle with the FTC and issue rebates and then: Syncronys eventually filed for bankruptcy in July 1998 after releasing other poorly received tools
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by owyn 7y ago
I poked around a bit to figure out why this was even posted and there was a new release 1.6.0 on November 22nd which adds support for jdk 11, among other minor things. ABCL provides a java class which can load/eval lisp code, and the a
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by owyn 7y ago
From the document... Across ~12,000 locations they put the majority of restaurants in a range but they do have the numbers pretty well crunched. Average profit margin 26-28% Average gross sales 2.2 - 2.6M Average operating income before re
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by owyn 7y ago
Yeah, I just found the post you are referring to [1] and wow it's depressing. At the age of 30 the first real vacation he's ever had is an unpaid 10 week vacation where he had to be prepared to quit-or-else AND pay his own health
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by owyn 7y ago
I used a Cray Y-MP back then but you're still right... My iPhone is faster than that hardware now, which is pretty neat. It wasn't so much "thumb twiddling" though, there was a lot of work being done on systems which wer
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by owyn 7y ago
Not necessarily. It seems to incentivize more buying. If real estate prices keep going up and actually building anything new is too much work why bother?
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by owyn 7y ago
My personal business cards looked like that when I was doing more web dev work. Oh wait, I still have an old (2009) copy: https://www.obscure.org/~owend/BizCard.jpg
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by owyn 7y ago
agree. read a lot. especially other people's source code.
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by owyn 7y ago
So your solution for homelessness is ... shooting random homeless people? Even "self defense" carries with it a test for proportional response.
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by owyn 7y ago
A similar disaster is playing out in Bangalore: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/bengaluru-is-facing-a-te...
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by owyn 7y ago
Right, implicit but unsaid was the thought that the federal gov't could cover that funding gap so that all schools got the same budget regardless of the local conditions. Of course given the political forces that created the current l

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