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by pacaro 10y ago
Last night, while reading about planets before bed, my 2 1/2 year old said "get dressed, put shoes on, go to Mars"
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Could the world's most expensive spice help farmers in Vermont?(bbc.com)
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by pacaro 10y ago
Ironically, my only problem with individual offices is that people then seem to think it's ok to not use headphones, and to use speaker phone. The sound isolation between neighbouring offices is rarely good enough to allow this. The wa
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by pacaro 10y ago
This idea that Barista is an unskilled job is the discriminating factor between coffee shops I want to go to and coffee shops that I don't want to go to.
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by pacaro 10y ago
Just in case you are missing the reference, this is from Stanislaw Lem' "Cyberiad" This particular sally can be found at http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Trurl...
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by pacaro 10y ago
It's always difficult to produce hard and fast rules with English. But there are often two words (or stems) for things, one from the Germanic roots and one from Latin (either via Norman French, or from later scientific etc. addition) w
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by pacaro 10y ago
Well the word Octopus was invented from the whole cloth by Linnaeus, presumably inspired by applying the prefix for eight, to the Ancient Greek work for an octopus which was "polypous"
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by pacaro 10y ago
In her book "Animals make is human" - Temple Grandin makes the argument (among many others, this is not the main thesis of the book) that we can have a symbiotic relationship with animals, wherein we provide secure food supply, pr
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by pacaro 10y ago
Pedantic mode here: linguistically it should be octopodes (but nobody who isn't speaking Greek would say that); by usage it should be octopuses; octopi or octopii are just wrong (it's not a second declension noun, despite the &#x2
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by pacaro 10y ago
Their equivalent. Neither gives a detailed enough signal to be useful for anything other than posturing. My experience with competitive coders has been just as mixed as with the rest of the candidate pool. I've observed a strategy of p
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by pacaro 10y ago
This happened within Microsoft too, a lot of engineers who aspired to be Dave Cutler thought that they should start by acting like him.
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by pacaro 10y ago
Conceptually, any sufficiently motivated and well funded organization could do already be doing this. Whether that's nation state actors, organized crime syndicates, model railway enthusiasts, etc.
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by pacaro 10y ago
I don't disagree with this, but in the long haul, life is richer and more complex. I have a bachelors degree in "The History and Philosophy of Science" and w.r.t. CS am completely self taught. My first job (20 years before bo
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by pacaro 10y ago
I think just a mangling. In context it may simply be as close as a drunk can get.
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by pacaro 10y ago
While YMMV there is an interesting difference to policing in the UK and the USA. In the UK, the officer calls you "sir" or "ma'am" and you call then whatever you want to ("occifer" and "cuntstable&quo
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by pacaro 10y ago
For odd size squares, simply duplicate the center row and column before rotating, then deduplicate after.
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by pacaro 10y ago
A recurring theme in Larry Niven's writing
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by pacaro 10y ago
Is a software company founded in 2000 really "venerable"? I would have thought that would be more appropriate for software companies founded 40+ years ago — around longer than most careers
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by pacaro 10y ago
I'm a fan. It would be nice if there was more support. I can use it on gmail, github, and dropbox. I'm not aware of any other online services that support it (that I use)
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by pacaro 10y ago
We had exchanged messages on okcupid and had progressed to gchat. At the time she was in New York and I was in Seattle
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by pacaro 10y ago
When I first started chatting online with the woman to whom I'm married, she told me that she had a single tattoo, and that it was of an equation. I immediately guessed Euler's identity and wrote "$e^{i\pi}+1=0$" That wa
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by pacaro 10y ago
I agree. If you're handling objects of that size in single requests, then you're already in footgun territory. Step carefully.
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by pacaro 10y ago
This. Absolutely. Those applications that already aren't robust to this (I sadly assume that is most) aren't going to be helped by cancellation
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by pacaro 10y ago
Herein lies the rub. So I cancel my GET request, all is fine with the world. I cancel my POST, and now I have no idea at which layer it was cancelled, if at all. Certainly the cancel doesn't propagate to the server. I've used canc
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by pacaro 10y ago
Would it be worth faking parts you haven't gotten to yet? Have boards with the correct connectors for higher level components and simulate using off the shelf microcontrollers. This would allow system level testing, and get to a workin
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by pacaro 10y ago
Which reminds me of this classic http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt
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by pacaro 10y ago
Ok let me take a stab at it. Variables are imagined as containers. Those variables/containers exist within a scope. Let's take an example where a room is the scope. That room is in an apartment, which is in turn in an apartment bu
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by pacaro 10y ago
I wonder if closures are easier to understand in languages with clearer (or tighter) scoping rules. I notice that the author doesn't have an analogy for scope on his article
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by pacaro 10y ago
Leptospirosis is seriously nasty. I know kayakers who've had doctors not take their risk level seriously ("Hi doc, I was kayaking in this nasty canal and now I have flu like symptoms, please check for leptospirosis", "Na
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by pacaro 10y ago
Shame that the article doesn't mention how we know so much about long term survival rates of people with no spleen. IIRC During the Second World War (aka WWII) large numbers of injured soldiers had their spleens removed in passing, thi

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