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by pacaro 7y ago
FWIW I think fountain soda costs less than $0.25 a serving, the restaurant markup on soda is way bigger than most people realize
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by pacaro 7y ago
This isn't an honesty thing. Many cultures (both in terms of social culture and work culture) have a strong aversion to saying no. Some languages barely have a word for it. Even when those aren't issues yes/no questions rarel
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by pacaro 7y ago
And coriander leaves (uk) are cilantro (us)
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by pacaro 7y ago
In the final two years of secondary education — UK Sixth Form (college), roughly equivalent to US Junior and Senior years — I was in a selected math(s) class of just 12 students. Certainly the group of kids in the class all excelled academi
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by pacaro 7y ago
I used to fold origami in meetings, people got used to it, over time meeting rooms accumulated cats[1] and rats[2] [1] Jose Anibal Voyer's cat https://www.scribd.com/document/357841157/Anibal-Voyer-cat-p... [
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by pacaro 7y ago
Perfect
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by pacaro 7y ago
Indeed, so then you resubmit your request with evidence. Then a committee is formed, with sub committees to investigate each alternative. Then reports are delivered, deliberated on, discussed, disseminated, dissected I'm sorry what was
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by pacaro 7y ago
I did the same with my mum's stacks of paper tape PL/I programs. At one point I tried to build an automated reader that would interface with my BBC B, but that took me longer than transcribing by hand did. I remember being surpris
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by pacaro 7y ago
Ok I'm gonna try and hijack this thread! My mother was a programmer in the mid to late 60s, as was my father. As am I [edit: currently! I'm obviously not a programmer in the 60s] I'm curious as to the size of the population t
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by pacaro 7y ago
Yeah, I think that the general addendum is that it works if you have good reason to believe that you would have gotten permission had you asked for it. In a bureaucracy you avoid asking permission because it is expensive, it doesn't ne
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by pacaro 7y ago
I have a label in my Gmail with tens of thousands of unread autogenerated email bug reports from a long abandoned Windows Phone app. Before it was abandoned they were useful enough without much more parsing than can be applied with a gmail
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by pacaro 7y ago
It's a useful maxim in an organizational or bureaucratic setting for sure, but is not generaly good advice in personal relationships
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by pacaro 7y ago
This is somewhat random, and I have no idea what OPs motivations are for the timing of this, but as a general rule, in the US at least, you should always try and arrange for your last day to be the first of the month. That way you get a mon
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by pacaro 7y ago
I was fortunate enough to work with Guido, albeit briefly, during my time at Dropbox. He was always a great co-worker. But you definitely didn't have to work directly with him to get to know him, because of his commute choices he was a
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by pacaro 7y ago
IIRC the camel book cautions about excesses in each of these "virtues. I've always been amused by the concept of "excessive hubris"
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by pacaro 7y ago
The same is true for TV in most places, shows are/were carefully constructed to maximize the odds that you wouldn't change channel during the commercial break
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by pacaro 7y ago
Thank whoever put the website up! The text is pulled verbatim from the camel book[1]. I somehow assume that "everyone" has used or had access to a well thumbed copy of the camel book, but realize that it's a product of place
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by pacaro 7y ago
This is exactly where writing docs epitomises Larry Wall's "laziness" virtue. http://threevirtues.com/
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by pacaro 7y ago
I'm curious, when I was a kid we were taught about the active/dormant/extinct distinction, but my understanding has been that more modern thinking doesn't really go for the dormant label, because dormant on a human tim
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by pacaro 7y ago
This presumably depends on what your water source is. If you are desalinating groundwater, then yes the brine is going to be an issue, for seawater less so
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by pacaro 7y ago
Somewhat off topic, but is there any other stick-and-ball game (other than baseball and it's derivatives) where the fielders use a mitt/glove? The other related sports (including baseball's origin sport 'rounders')
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by pacaro 7y ago
TFA is most likely set in Germany, where different rules apply
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by pacaro 7y ago
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time." An actual Bill Gates quote
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by pacaro 7y ago
If you haven't encountered the phrase before, "I resemble that remark" is absolutely a play on the similarity between resemble and resent, suggesting in a light hearted fashion that the speaker has (perhaps) mild resentment,
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by pacaro 7y ago
Hey! I'm a self taught programmer and I resemble that remark. I think that you're painting with a little too broad a brush, the inverse is true too, I've seen way too much blind application of GoF patterns by professional e
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by pacaro 7y ago
The dymaxion projection works well for this too
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by pacaro 7y ago
Yeah, it's an interesting trend, back in the day (day 10 years ago) it was conventional wisdom that moving to Amazon was a good move (financially) for more junior levels, but that more senior levels (64+) did better at MS. From persona
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by pacaro 7y ago
You could probably make a bottle jack press for step 5, this is probably the most obvious limiting step for size without access to industrial equipment though
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by pacaro 7y ago
I agree that it's a relatively low signal question, its basically a fizzbuzz for bit twiddling. That being said "Its the sort of thing that is used infrequently and you can look it up online" pretty much describes interview c
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by pacaro 7y ago
Yeah, creating constant time code is its own challenge, if a candidate were to bring that up it could take the interview down a very different path

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