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by pfarrell 5y ago
I can confirm I had issues flying for about the first four years post 9-11. The first flight I took, there was kind of a panic and security showed up. Every time I flew, there was always some kind of issue and a call for assist, though eac
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I definitely don’t disagree with what you said. It reminded me of the second Democratic debate in 2007. Candidate Mike Gravel said something that stuck with me [0] You only see $3. Just watch those wheels turn. There's another $4,
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Use the source[0], Luke... 0: https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/bundles/72f7c09a3e8485...
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I misread your original comment and can see that now. I don’t like the slow degrade of the twitter experience for non-users and would like to see them get pushback from turning twitter into a Pinterest-like walled garden. But this isn’t th
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Is that different from posting a link to a webpage you found?
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I’ve always liked this Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon as a reminder to get out of ruts. https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722
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by pfarrell 5y ago
2006-10-09. Using the “past” link doesn’t include dates around this time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28816110 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I take it you’ve never watched “The Wire”
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I really like Psych as well, but its formula is to always have them think they’ve solved the case quickly in act 2 only to find that person dead at the end of act 3. That being said, I don’t care. Just the chemistry and comedic timing of Se
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by pfarrell 5y ago
There’s a great episode with Donald Pleasance that Falk even went on Johnny Carson to promote. I got the same feeling you describe. Falk was an actor’s actor and fun and satisfying to work with.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I cofounded a startup a few years ago that ended in an acquihire. If I could redo it, I realize we didn’t front load a killer feature. We spent too much time on table stakes so we’d look like competitors, there wasn’t much that set us apart
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by pfarrell 5y ago
See the text of the comment: "12/12/91". The `git blame` is likely due to not having imported the previous history as commits when the original import to the git repo happened. I worked at a company that moved from VSS
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by pfarrell 5y ago
For me: Slashdot, though the peak days were behind it Digg, which would be fun for a while still Blogs like the old new thing, and Joel Spolsky Del.icio.us and Stumbleupon and (I’ll admit it) Fark
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And now she's working on a prototype "Holophonor".
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They do so much stupid stuff in the crossword (REBUS, missing letters, un-ordered phrases) Those are the meta game puzzles which generally happen on Wed or Thu. They can be frustrating, but the “aha!” moment, when you discover what’
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Papa Johns probably replaces one of those. Just not sure whether it’s LC or PH. Edit: tried to look it up, I think your original list is accurate
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There are other uses if your flagging system is not "all or nothing". They can be very useful if they support directing a subset of users, customers, or traffic to new code/infra. The bigger a team gets, the more value you
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I believe they are called “word ladders” [0]. Coincidentally, I was listening to Genesis’s song “Supper’s Ready”, yesterday. It includes 2 word ladders in its lyrics. Mum to mud to mad to Dad and Dad to dam to dum to Mum http
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by pfarrell 5y ago
git reset: unstage a change git revert: create a commit that reverses a previous commit git restore: you got me. I can't remember
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Poe's Law is getting me on your comment. If it wasn't sarcasm, what's an example of a weakness? IMHO, there's a learning curve to using git and especially getting to the point where you can be your team's go-to pe
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by pfarrell 5y ago
“The Little Schemer”, by Daniel Friedman, takes a different tack, but, like LoL, is entertaining while teaching you the scheme language using the Socratic method.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Ardy bekko. Inyo. See far ogle. That had always stuck in my head since seeing it. Good movie.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
> I can imagine building a SAAS app where each customer has a “workspace” each as a single SQLite db I did just that at my (now defunct) startup a few years ago. We were building a collaborative database query tool. The software we bui
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Totally. It's amazing how much complexity arises from something so simple. Just like in the game itself :). We lost someone special when we lost John Conway.
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Wayback Machine link if you get resource limit errors https://web.archive.org/web/20211220184240/https://blog.haym...
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In one interview I had, I was asked, "What are you good at?". I said, "Pretty good with SQL stuff". This was _literally_ the question they asked. It was a good jumping off point for them to probe how much I knew. I l
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by pfarrell 5y ago
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. - Alan Perlis
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I have no idea if this is current info, but Don Knuth's website describes what happened. He now issues checks from the fictional Bank of San Serriffe [0]. This line is classic Knuth: only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've s
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Sure... If your company is so attractive that the investors will go along with it. IMHO, Facebook's history is an outlier. Most startups aren't positioned with the leverage they had when raising money. I don't know enough
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by pfarrell 5y ago
The GP is a reference to the anecdote about IBM’s Thomas Watson not firing a executive who had made an error costing the company a substantial amount of money.

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