pacaro

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   by pacaro 11y ago

   I use buildyourownjeans.com for this. They are somewhat spammy, quality control is dodgy (I've gotten a zipper when I ordered buttons), the website is a joke, but... The price is right ~$75 They offer things I cant easily get elsewhere
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   by pacaro 11y ago

   I feel this. Also a couple of years out of MS and finally calming down about the review system... My 2¢ is that in principle the review system was never too bad, self review + manager review + calibration -> pay + stock. The biggest prob
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   by pacaro 11y ago

   From the article... 'Darcy K. Leach summarized them briefly as: "Bureaucracy happens. If bureaucracy happens, power rises. Power corrupts."' -- how does this not also apply to corporations? This is a super pertinent ques
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   World Giving Index 2015(vertical-leap.cartodb.com)

   3 points by pacaro 11y ago|0 comments
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   by pacaro 11y ago

   While this isn't common any more, I used to work in an environment where people smoked at their desks... A smoker's keyboard can become a truly horrifying thing.
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   by pacaro 11y ago

   This is a tricky answer. The default random function in many environments is poor (see other examples given above and below), if you are generating a unique id using a PRNG and think in terms of the birthday paradox, then you should also be
7. 967.▲
   by pacaro 11y ago

   Isaac Newton
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   by pacaro 11y ago

   There isn't that much difference between 1435 mm and 4 ft 8½
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   by pacaro 11y ago

   just one little quote that caught my eye “It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain
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    JRR Tolkien: 'I never expected a money success' (1968)(telegraph.co.uk)

    20 points by pacaro 11y ago|15 comments
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    Just guessing, but the label probably became an address on compilation, so one branch of the fork would return in the usual way, the other would jump to the label/address
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    This. I found it amazing that the article didn't mention the role that the credit agencies play in this. Almost all the time you are asked for your SSN, certainly in commercial transactions, it's so a credit check can be run. The
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    I understand the spirit of exploration and fun that this was done with, however the author talks of using this in "production". This scares me. These types are not interchangeable. I would love to see a disclaimer and/or a di
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    On older versions of Windows, it was possible to write a utility that would emulate focus follows pointer, by installing a global message hook. More recent versions prevent messing around with focus across applications for obvious security
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    I graduated in '93 - I loved the course, but definitely butted heads (to the detriment of grades) with the Marxist tendency of the faculty I have found the History and Philosophy of Science, to be s great preparation for a career as a
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    Articles like this help me relax a little. My programmer brain wants punctuation to be held to some absolute standard, with immutable rules. The rest of me needs the encouragement to chill out about it.
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    I too love Feyerabend, and would recommend his autobiography "Killing Time"[1], apart from his great writing, it also puts a great deal of context onto his work, and especially onto his relationships with his contemporaries; most
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    Also worth reading Peter Lipton's "Inference To The Best Explanation" [1] then :) Peter Lipton was my advisor for an undergraduate thesis in HPS at Cambridge, sadly he died quite young [1] http://www.amazon.com&#x2
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    A Gaming Platform to Engage Your Dog's Brain(kickstarter.com)

    3 points by pacaro 11y ago|0 comments
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    Aargh, I'm now having bad flashbacks about writing for GEOS, they used a very weird preprocessor to bolt an OOP system onto C. Run, don't walk, away from .goc and .goh files...
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    Smoking ‘may play schizophrenia role’(bbc.com)

    4 points by pacaro 11y ago|1 comments
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    World's Tallest Masts for Sailing Superyacht Delivered(marineinsight.com)

    3 points by pacaro 11y ago|0 comments
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    Yeah, I had similar thoughts svgcandy.com is available, which would convey much of the same idea
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    For example, your review history follows you, after a certain point poor promotion velocity is used to justify not promoting...
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    This. I worked at Microsoft for nearly 14 years. I had the privilege of working on 4 very different teams (microBrowser, Palladium/Bitlocker, Robotics, Midori) So in many respects it was like working at 4 different companies, in that r
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    I wish that I knew the name, but this reminds me of the banknote sequence 1 2 5 10 20 50 100 ...
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    I have a real soft spot for LOGO, so I'm always enchanted by projects like this. I do find that turtle 🐢 graphics can be a distraction from some of logo's less appreciated features, for example, the REPL doesn't just provide
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    It's hard not to agree with the advice, I like to think of his observations about humility in terms of not being so ego attached, both in terms of how much I know, and in terms of ownership
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    Barratry [1] should be more broadly treated as either a crime or grounds for disbarment [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_(common_law)
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    by pacaro 11y ago

    ii, jj, and kk, are easier to search for (although I have jj mapped to <ESC> in vim...) index, jndex, and kndex, are preferred, obviously.