paulrademacher

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by paulrademacher 13y ago
According to wikipedia, either "dudette" or "dudess." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Ah, but the servant waits...
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
You guys are funny. Half of you are voting this stuff onto the frontpage, and the other half commenting on how awful it is. Let's get it together, people! :-)
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Why do we waste our clicks upvoting this crap?
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
The head of household with major medical issues shouldn't be working at a tiny barely-funded startup.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I presume you're talking about self-driving tech?
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I saw that movie too!
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
You seem to be suggesting one of two things. Either: 1) The heads of these companies had a conference call this morning and agreed on a 4-paragraph format, with specific points for each paragraph. Or 2) The federal government instructed ea
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Pronounced "deny."
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Weird, I did this exact thing , down to the numbers, but I was young and irresponsible with my money and just wound up buying $15K worth of Radio Shack batteries that I haven't been able to unload.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Pitch is encoded by location on the staff, and also by the shape of the glyph. Isn't redundancy necessarily bad in any notation?
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
> Some former friends of Arrington’s, including Jason Calacanis and Loren Feldman have come forward this week to support her general claim, saying they have heard similar rumors. Any number of people can hear the same rumor, without it
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Any evidence to back that up? I haven't observed this at all.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
In my experience, the "cowboy coder" is sometimes indeed disruptive (large unannounced refactors, e.g.), but almost always they are the most productive people on the team, the ones who contribute the best and most code.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
That's just the tiniest tip of the iceberg. Doesn't get into formal specs, verification, validation, etc. This article is often referenced for NASA's software practices, although it's now almost 20 years old: http://www.fastcompany.com/28
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Fun story, but I'm gonna guess that the things he thought he learned on that job, he already had inside him. It was the first time he got to really apply his natural drive.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Also in the article, Goldman Sachs notes that these documents are a decade old. How could you trust (or even care about) a document from that long ago?
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
You should write an article!
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Group theory can be taught and appreciated without the geometric approach, but instead as a pure abstract concept. Different textbooks reflect this: Herstein is very abstract, Dummit and Foote uses probably more geometric examples, and Fra
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Driving over an IED. A mortar round headed your way at midnight. Gunfire. Running out of blood.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
I would prefer that these were not titled "Airbnb Tech Talk: xxx." I always click on them thinking I'm going to learn about Airbnb infrastructure, which is not the case, and the title then feels like just recruiting/advertising for the com
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Question for the legal experts: We've been reading potential jail time of 50 or 30 years, plus $millions+ in fines. Realistically, had he taken a plea bargain or gone to trial, what would he likely have wound up with?
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
> unable to appeal openly to us for the financial help he needed to fund his defense, at least without risking the ire of a district court judge Can someone explain this statement? Can a person not raise a defense fund from the public?
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
But you don't know that these were to satisfy investors, against the wishes of the company leadership.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Ugh, that's still protection money. It just went to a different lawyer.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
It is an implicit ad hominem attack: here comes the unkept weirdo with his weird ideas!
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Of course it is. My rhymes and my records they don't get played / because my records and rhymes, they don't get made / 'cause when you rap like me you don't get paid / and when you roll like me you don't get laid.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
You could have compared to iTunes instead of Hulu, though. Using that analogy, one company is distributing the vast catalogs of well-established creators, while another is building a studio from the ground up.
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
Mind you, this was prompted by a question from Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks. You know, the company that endlessly confuses people with the words Tall, Grande, and Venti :-) But while an industry outsider may be unfamiliar with the term
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by paulrademacher 14y ago
I recommend Nigel Warburton's "Philosophy: Basic Readings". It's a collection of short selections and essays (5-30 pages each) from different philosophers, writers, political activists, and more. Every essay contains some interesting core i

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